List of Famous people who are 72

Flávio José Galvão de França better known in Brazil as Flávio Galvão is a Brazilian actor. He also worked with dubbing, with their work better known in the area and the second voice of Major Nelson in I Dream of Jeannie.

Josephine Hannah Chaplin is an American actress and the daughter of filmmaker Charlie Chaplin and his fourth wife, Oona O'Neill. She had a featured role in Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Canterbury Tales (1972) as May, the adulterous wife of the elderly Sir January.

Blair Parry-Okeden is an American-born Australian billionaire heiress and philanthropist. According to Forbes Asia, she was Australia's richest person by net worth in 2016. Parry-Okeden is an heiress to the Cox Enterprises.

Khaled bin Sultan Al Saud is a former Saudi deputy minister of defense and a member of the House of Saud.

Mariano Barbacid Montalbán is a Spanish molecular biochemist who discovered the first oncogene.

Paul D. Eaton is a former United States Army officer most known for his command of operations to train Iraqi troops during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Eaton served in that capacity between 2003 and 2004, and then returned to the US to become Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Training, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Monroe, Virginia. He previously served as Senior Adviser to the now-defunct National Security Network, a progressive Washington, D.C.-based think tank that focused on foreign policy and defense issues.

Jack Philip Barsky is a German-American author, IT specialist and former sleeper agent of the KGB who spied on the United States from 1978 to 1988. Exposed after the Cold War, Barsky became a resource for U.S. counterintelligence agencies and was allowed to remain in the United States. His autobiography, Deep Undercover, was published in 2017, and he frequently speaks on his experiences and as an expert on espionage.

Don Nelson Page,, is an American-born Canadian theoretical physicist at the University of Alberta, Canada.

Antonia Santilli is a former Italian actress and model. Born in Spigno Saturnia, Lazio, she began modelling and acting in theatre productions while enrolled at the Sapienza University of Rome. In 1971, she appeared in an issue of the adult magazine Playmen. She appeared in twelve films between 1971 and 1974. Her final film role was in the comedy Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (1974), shot in the Soviet Union.

Colonel Thomas Jakob Peter Karremans was the commander of Dutchbat troops in Srebrenica at the time of the Srebrenica massacre during Bosnian War. Dutchbat had been assigned to defend the Bosniak enclave made the U.N. "safe area", but it failed to prevent the Serbs from taking the city.