List of Famous people who are 74

Heidemarie Ecker-Rosendahl is a retired German athlete who competed mainly in the pentathlon and long jump. She set a world record in the long jump at 6.84 m in 1970 that stood for almost six years.

Marylise Lebranchu is a French politician. She served as Minister of the Reform of the State and of Decentralisation under Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault.

Heigo Hamaguchi is a Japanese retired professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Animal Hamaguchi . During his career he was recognized as a talented tag team wrestler despite his small size for a heavyweight, and today he is recognized as a trainer in both professional and amateur wrestling. He is the father of freestyle wrestler Kyoko Hamaguchi.

Ryland Peter Cooder is an American musician, songwriter, film score composer and record producer. He is a multi-instrumentalist but is best known for his slide guitar work, his interest in roots music from the United States, and his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries.

Alexander Briley is an American singer who was the original "G.I." in the disco recording act Village People. Briley was born and raised in Harlem, New York, and later Mount Vernon, New York. A minister's son, he sang in church from an early age and studied voice at the University of Hartford.

Robert Hays is an American actor, best known for his roles in film as pilot Ted Striker in Airplane! and its sequel, and for his role as Robert Seaver in Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993). In television, he starred as the title character in 22 episodes of the science fiction series Starman (1986–1987) and as the voice of Tony Stark on Iron Man (1994) and as Bud Hyde on That '70s Show (2000).

Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur or Mohtashami was an Iranian Shia cleric who was active in the 1979 Iranian Revolution and later became interior minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He is "seen as a founder of the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon" and one of the "radical elements advocating the export of the revolution," in the Iranian clerical hierarchy.

Joseph Leonidovich Raihelgauz is a Soviet and Russian theater director, teacher; People's Artist of Russia (1999), professor of the Russian University of Theatre Arts (GITIS), founder and artistic director of the Moscow theater School of Modern Drama. Member of the Public Council of the Russian Jewish Congress.

Michel Seydoux is a French businessman and film producer. He also serves as the president and chairman of the French association football club Lille OSC.

Ricardo Magnus Osório Galvão is a prominent Brazilian physicist and engineer, formerly the Director-General of the National Institute for Space Research. He is a full Professor of the Institute of Physics of the University of São Paulo, member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, fellow of the Institute of Physics and councilman of the European Physical Society. Galvão has occupied major positions within the Brazilian Physics community such as the presidency of the Brazilian Physical Society (2013–2016) and the directorship of the Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (2004–2011).