List of Famous people who are 72

Ahmedbhai Mohammedbhai Patel was an Indian politician and Member of Parliament from the Indian National Congress. He was the political secretary to Congress President Sonia Gandhi.

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as Carlos the Jackal, is a native Venezuelan convicted of terrorist crimes, and currently serving a life sentence in France for the 1975 murder of an informant for the French government and two French counter-intelligence agents. While in prison he was further convicted of attacks in France that killed 11 and injured 150 people and sentenced to an additional life term in 2011, and then to a third life term in 2017.

Jean-Michel Antoine Aulas is a French businessman. He is the founder and CEO of Cegid and serves as the owner and president of French football club Olympique Lyonnais which he has owned since 1987. Since January 2020, Aulas is also the chairman of OL Reign.

Elizabeth Estensen is a retired English actress, known for portraying the role of Diane Sugden on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale from 1999 to 2021. She has also made appearances in various British television series, including The Liver Birds, T-Bag and Coronation Street.

Kadir İnanır is a Turkish film actor and director.

John Cooper Clarke is an English performance poet, who first became famous as a "punk poet" in the late 1970s. In the late 1970s and early 1980s he released several albums. Around this time he performed on stage with several punk and post-punk bands, and continues to perform regularly.

Wolfgang Reitzle is a German business executive.

Ottavia Piccolo is an Italian actress.

Irina Vadimovna Muravyova is a Russian film, television and stage actress, who is most well known for her performances in Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1979), Karnaval (1981), The Most Charming and Attractive (1985) and her work in Maly Theatre of Moscow. She was awarded with USSR State Prize, Order of Merit for the Fatherland and Order of Honour.

Philippe Marie Jean Joseph Le Jolis de Villiers de Saintignon, Viscount de Villiers, known as Philippe de Villiers, is a French entrepreneur, politician and novelist. He is the founder of the Puy du Fou theme park in Vendée, which is centred around the history of France. Appointed Secretary of State for Culture in 1986 by President François Mitterrand, De Villiers entered the National Assembly the following year and the European Parliament in 1994.