List of Famous people who are 72

Raymond Martin is a former French road bicycle racer. In the 1980 Tour de France he finished third overall and won the mountains classification. He also competed in the individual road race at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Andrew B. Heyward is the former Chairman and CEO of DIC Entertainment, an animation production company. He is currently CEO of Genius Brands International.

Albert Sacco Jr. is an American chemical engineer who flew as a Payload Specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia on Shuttle mission STS-73 in 1995.

Daniel Tsai is a Taiwanese billionaire businessman. He and his brother Richard Tsai run Fubon Financial Holding Co., founded by their father Tsai Wan-tsai. On the Forbes 2016 list of the world's billionaires, Daniel Tsai was ranked #722 with a net worth of US$2.4 billion.

Jeremy Strong is a British writer credited with over 100 children's books. He previously worked in a bakery, where his job involved putting jam into doughnuts. He also worked as caretaker, a strawberry-picker and in an office for British Rail.

Elizabeth Montoya de Sarria was allegedly an emissary from the Colombian drug-trafficking Cali Cartel to then-Colombian President. Ernesto Samper's 1994 presidential campaign. Her husband, Jesus Amado Sarria Agredo, was convicted of drug trafficking and a former police officer accused of having ties with the cartel. De Sarria was implicated in accusations of illegal funding to Samper's campaign after tapes of two phone calls between her and Samper and campaign treasurer Santiago Medina were published by the Bogota magazine Semana. Jesus Sarria was later found innocent after further investigation and absolved of all accusations.