List of Famous people who are 80

Jürgen Piepenburg is a former German footballer who played in the DDR-Oberliga as a forward.

Vladimir Alekseevich Belinski is a Russian and Italian theoretical physicist involved in research in cosmology and general relativity. He worked at Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics from 1968 to 1989 and got his Habilitation degree at this Institute in 1980. As of 2016, he holds the permanent professor position at International Network of the Centers for Relativistic Astrophysics (ICRANet), Italy.

Wilfrid Augustine Hodges, FBA is a British mathematician, known for his work in model theory.

Anthony J. W. Hilton is a British mathematician specializing in combinatorics and graph theory. His current positions are as emeritus professor of Combinatorial Mathematics at the University of Reading and Professorial Research Fellow at Queen Mary College, University of London.

Shinichiro Kurimoto and is a Japanese author and a politician. He is also an economic anthropologist and a philosopher who introduced the ideas of Karl Polanyi and his younger brother Michael Polanyi to Japan. He was a professor at universities such as Meiji University and Northwestern University.