List of Famous people who are 72

Justine Wright is a film editor from Wellington, New Zealand.

Ken Kobayashi is a Japanese businessman and current chairman of Mitsubishi Corporation. He previously served as President and CEO from April 2010 to April 2016. He has held a position with the company since 1971. Kobayashi received his degree from Tokyo University in 1971.

Sam Kahamba Kutesa is a Ugandan politician and lawyer. He is the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet of Uganda, a position he has held since 13 January 2005 and maintained through three cabinet reshuffles. He is also the elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Mawogola County in Sembabule District. He was the President of the United Nations General Assembly during its 69th session in 2014–2015.

Vasyl Semeniuk is the eparch of the Eparchy of Ternopil - Zboriv, an eparchy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The eparchy is in the ecclesiastical province of Kyiv-Halych.

Bill W. Benton is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for two more in the same category. He has worked on more than 110 films since 1980.

Leonidas John Guibas is the Paul Pigott Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where he heads the geometric computation group and is a member of the computer graphics and artificial intelligence laboratories.

Phil Ford is a British television writer and producer. He was head writer and co-producer from the second series of The Sarah Jane Adventures, broadcast in 2008, co-wrote with Russell T Davies "The Waters of Mars", one of the 2009 special episodes of Doctor Who, and wrote the majority of the 2010s video game series Doctor Who: The Adventure Games.

Peter Young is a set decorator. He has won two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction for the films Batman and Sleepy Hollow.