List of Famous people who are 72

Amy Gutmann is an American academic who is the eighth president of the University of Pennsylvania. In November 2016, the school announced that her contract had been extended to 2022, which will make her the longest-serving president in the history of the University of Pennsylvania.

Paulette Guinchard-Kunstler was a French politician. She served on the National Assembly representing Doubs's 2nd constituency as a member of the Socialist Party.

Morio Kazama is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 2nd Yokohama Film Festival for Shiki Natsuko and Yūgure made and at the 6th and 7th Japan Academy Prizes.

Jiro Dan is a Japanese actor, singer and model best known for his role as Hideki Go (Ultraman The Return of Ultraman. His real name is Hideo Murata. He was born in Kyoto and graduated from Heian High School.

Angela Maria Diniz Gonçalves, best known by the stage name Angela Ro Ro, based on an onomatopoeia of her laughter, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter influenced by her idols Ella Fitzgerald, Maysa Matarazzo and Jacques Brel.

Guido Mantega is an Italian Brazilian economist, and politician who was Brazil's Finance Minister. Mr Mantega served as Brazil's Finance Minister for more than eight years, being the longest-serving Finance Minister in the history of Brazil.

Junzō Okudaira , born February 2, 1949 in Shimonoseki, was one of the three Japanese Red Army (JRA) members who attacked the French embassy in The Hague in 1974 and was the person who detonated a car bomb in front of a USO club in Naples in 1988.

Eduardo Jorge Martins Alves Sobrinho is a Brazilian public health physician and politician. He is best known for creating federal laws on family planning, voluntary sterilization, the production of generic drugs, regulation of asbestos use, and linking budgetary resources for the Brazilian public health system.

Linda Gail Arrigo is an American political activist, human rights activist, and academic researcher in Taiwan. She formerly served as the international affairs officer of Green Party Taiwan.

Mustafa Karasu also known as Huseyin Ali is a Deputy Chairman of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a Kurdish rebel group fighting an armed insurgency against the government of Turkey for an independent Kurdistan. The group is recognised as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and EU. Along with Cemil Bayık and Duran Kalkan he is viewed as one of the hardliners among the PKK's leadership and is alleged to have links to Iran. He is the leader of the Alevi Shi'a groups within the PKK. His name was on the list of 248 PKK members of which Turkey wished extradication from Iraq on July 10, 2010.