List of Famous people who are 73

Nancy Ann Lynch is a mathematician, a theorist, and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering in the EECS department and heads the "Theory of Distributed Systems" research group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Calvin Jerome Murphy is an American retired professional basketball player who played as a guard for the National Basketball Association's San Diego/Houston Rockets from 1970 to 1983, and is a current member of the Houston Rockets' AT&T SportsNet TV broadcast team. Standing at a height of 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m), Murphy has the distinction of being the shortest NBA player inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, and to play in an NBA All-Star Game.

Byron Kurt Lichtenberg, Sc. D. is an American engineer and fighter pilot who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a Payload Specialist. In 1983, he and Ulf Merbold became the first Payload Specialists to fly on the shuttle.

Philippe Hersant is a French composer. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris.

Sir Christopher Antoniou Pissarides is a Cypriot economist. He is the School Professor of Economics & Political Science and Regius Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, and Professor of European Studies at the University of Cyprus. His research focuses on topics of macroeconomics, notably labour, economic growth, and economic policy. In 2010, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, jointly with Peter A. Diamond and Dale Mortensen, "for their analysis of markets with theory of search frictions."

Andreas von Schoeler is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He served as the Parliamentary State Secretary for the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community from 1976 to 1982 and later as the Mayor of Frankfurt between 1991 and 1995. Von Schoeler was the last mayor to serve before the introduction of direct elections in 1995.

Patricia Hope Hewitt is an Australian-born British Labour politician, who served in the Cabinet until 2007, most recently as Secretary of State for Health.