List of Famous people who are 72

Kyoko Mizuki is one of the pen names of Keiko Nagita . She is a Japanese writer who is best known for being the author of the manga and anime series Candy Candy.

Kléber Fonseca de Souza Leite, commonly known as Kléber Leite is a former president of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo.

Susan Hendrickson is an American explorer and fossil collector. Hendrickson is best known for her discovery of the remains of a Tyrannosaurus rex in South Dakota on August 12, 1990. Her discovery was one of the most complete skeletons of Tyrannosaurus known to science. This skeleton is now known as "Sue" in honor of her discovery. It is on display at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois. She has also found other important fossils and artifacts around the world.

Shing-Tung Yau is an American mathematician and the William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University.

Hryhoriy Surkis is a Ukrainian businessman, one of five vice-presidents of UEFA since 24 May 2013. Surkis was the president of Football Federation of Ukraine till September 2012.

Robert Holzmann is an Austrian economist¹ and the current Governor of Austria’s central bank, the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB).^2,3 His term of appointment runs from September 1, 2019, to August 31, 2025.

Abdullah (al) Senussi is a Libyan national who was the intelligence chief and brother-in-law of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. He was married to Gaddafi's sister-in-law.

Barbara Nielsen is a Polish actress.

Susana María del Carmen Villarán de la Puente is a centre-left politician in Peru, a former presidential candidate, and in municipal elections in 2010 became the first woman to be elected Mayor of Lima.

Graco Luis Ramírez Garrido Abreu is a Mexican left-wing politician affiliated with the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) who was Governor of Morelos for the 2012–2018 term. He served in the upper house of Congress as senator representing the State of Morelos (2006–2012).