List of Famous people who are 72

Babasaheb Neelkanth Kalyani is an Indian businessman who served as the chairman and managing director of Bharat Forge, the Flagship company of the Kalyani Group and the world's second-largest forgings manufacturer after ThyssenKrupp of Germany.

Aleksandr Anatolevich Mindadze is a Russian scriptwriter and director. He has won many of the most important Russian and Soviet film awards.

Dr Marie-France Hirigoyen is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and psychotherapist specialising in mobbing, a form of bullying. Her interest in stress led her in the mid-1980s into victimology, a branch of criminology. She later turned her attention to workplace stress generated by mobbing behaviour.

John Stuart Agnew is a British farmer and politician. He served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East of England region for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2009 until 2019, when UKIP dropped to seventh position with 3.42% of the regional vote.

Glen Shigeru Fukushima is an American business leader and former public servant. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C.

Edward David Joseph Lyon-Dalberg-Acton FRHistS is a British academic and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia. His title from birth is The Honourable but is never referred as such professionally or on the University website.

Michael Francis Middleton is a British businessman. He is the father of Catherine, Princess of Wales, Philippa Matthews and James Middleton.

Vladimir Alexandrovich Torlopov is a Russian politician, who was the president of the Komi Republic, a federal subject of Russia. In December 2001, he won elections with 40% of the vote, defeating incumbent President Yury Spiridonov resulting in Spiridonov becoming one of few incumbent administrative division leaders in Russia to be defeated between the period 1991-2005 when these leaders were directly elected. Torlopov took office in January 2002 and left on 15 January 2010.

Rudolf Jozef Krol is a Dutch former professional footballer who was capped 83 times for the Netherlands national team. Most of his career he played for his home town club, Ajax, and he became a coach after retirement. Regarded as one of the best defenders of all time, Krol mainly played as a sweeper or left-back, however he could play anywhere across the back line, or in midfield as a defensive midfielder, due to his range of passing with both feet, temperament, tactical intelligence, and ability to start attacking plays after winning back the ball.