List of Famous people who are 75

Michael James Radford is an Indian-born English film director and screenwriter. He began his career as a documentary director and television comedy writer before transitioning into features in the early 1980s. His best-known credits include the 1984 film adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four starring John Hurt and Richard Burton, the Shakespeare adaptation The Merchant of Venice, the true crime drama White Mischief, and the 1994 Italian-language comedy drama Il Postino: The Postman, for which he won the BAFTA Awards for Best Direction and Best Film Not in the English Language, and earned Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Hanan Daoud Mikhael Ashrawi is a Palestinian leader, legislator, activist, and scholar who served as a member of the Leadership Committee and as an official spokesperson of the Palestinian delegation to the Middle East peace process, beginning with the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991. In 1996, Ashrawi was appointed as the Palestinian Authority Minister of Higher Education and Research. Prior to that, she was Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Birzeit University and head of its Legal Aid Committee since the mid-1970s.

Suphi Saatçi is a Turkish senior architect, restorator and academician of Iraqi Turkmen background.

Ma Kai was one of the four Vice Premiers of China (Fourth-ranked). He was formerly a State Councilor and Secretary General of the State Council of China.

Ertuğrul Yalçınbayır is a Turkish politician and lawyer who served as the Deputy Prime Minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Abdullah Gül between 2002 and 2003 as a member of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). He left it before the 2007 general election.

Zhu Qingshi FRSC is a Chinese physical chemist and writer. He is the former president of the University of Science and Technology of China (1998-2008), and the founding president of Southern University of Science and Technology (2009-2014).