List of Famous people who are 72

Marielle Gallo is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the Île-de-France constituency.

María Teresa Fernández de la Vega Sanz is a Spanish politician and magistrate of the Socialist Party. She currently serves as President of the Spanish Council of State since 2018. From 18 April 2004 to 20 October 2010, she was the first deputy prime minister, minister of the Presidency and cabinet spokesperson in the government of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. She is the first female deputy prime minister and president of the Council of State in Spanish history.

Roger-Pol Droit is a French academic and philosopher. Alumnus of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, he has written numerous books, most notably 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life, which has been translated into twenty-two languages. For 25 years, he has studied the way the East is seen in Western philosophy.

Milivoj Petković is a Bosnian Croat army officer who is among six defendants convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), in relation to the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia during the Bosnian War. He was sentenced to 20 years in jail but only served four.

Amy Hānaialiʻi Gilliom is an American vocalist and songwriter.

Jorge Luis Velosa Ruiz, better known as Jorge Velosa, is a Colombian veterinary physician singer-songwriter born in the small town of Ráquira in the Boyacá Department, widely famous in his country for being the creator of the folk musical genre known as carranga.

İbrahim Adnan Saraçoğlu is a Turkish chemistry professor, biochemist, microbiologist and researcher.

Luís Filipe Ferreira Vieira is a Portuguese real estate businessman who is the 33rd president of sports club S.L. Benfica since 2003. He is also president of the club's SAD board of directors.

Jean-Loup Hubert is a French director and screenwriter.

Alexandre Taillefer is a Canadian entrepreneur from Quebec. He is the founder and managing partner of XPND Capital, a private equity firm.