List of Famous people who are 72

Sandy Martin is an American actress, playwright, theater director, and producer. She is best known for her roles in the film Napoleon Dynamite and the TV series Ray Donovan, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and Big Love.

Jean-François Voguet was a member of the Senate of France, representing the Val-de-Marne department. He was a member of the Communist, Republican, and Citizen Group.

Mary Jesse Walton is an American actress, best known for her role as Kelly Harper in CBS soap opera Capitol and as Jill Abbott on the CBS soap opera, The Young and the Restless. Also she starred in the 2018 movie Christmas with a View.

Sharon Taylor is a Canadian actress.

Mónica González Mujica is a Chilean writer and journalist. She won the Maria Moors Cabot Prize in 2002, the Dan David Prize in 2006 and UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2010. From 2005-2006 she was editor of es:Diario Siete, a daily paper in Santiago de Chile which ran for a year.

Valentin Inzko is an Austrian diplomat currently serving as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, a role which he assumed on 1 March 2009. Between 2009 and 2011, he served also as the 4th European Union Special Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina. Inzko is a member of the Slovene minority.

Ala Abdessaheb al-Alwan was Minister of Education in the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council in September 2003, and Minister of Health in the Iraqi Interim Government.

Thomas "Slab" Murphy is an Irish republican, believed to be a former Chief of Staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. His farm straddles County Armagh and County Louth on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. In December 2015, Murphy was found guilty on nine counts of tax evasion following a lengthy investigation by the Criminal Assets Bureau of the Republic of Ireland. In February 2016, Murphy was jailed and sentenced to 18 months in prison. One of three brothers, Murphy is a lifelong bachelor who lived on the Louth side of his farm before his imprisonment.

Nigel Bennett is an Anglo-Canadian actor/director/writer who has been based in Canada since 1986. He is best known for playing the vampire patriarch Lucien LaCroix in the TV series Forever Knight, for which he won the Canadian Gemini Award for best supporting actor in a dramatic series.

Robert Donald Kilpatrick Jr., better known as Patrick Kilpatrick, is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, journalist, international entertainment speaker and teacher. He has appeared in over 180 films and television series.