List of Famous people who are 80

Polly James is an English actress with a career in theatre, film, television and radio.

Carole Mallory is an American author, actress, former model, teacher and critic who appeared in the films Looking for Mr. Goodbar and The Stepford Wives. She was the nine-year companion of writer Norman Mailer and kept notes and her writings with his edits, selling them to Harvard University in 2008, after his death.

Mel Winkler was an American actor, voice actor, stage performer, and dancer, perhaps best known as the voice of Aku Aku in the Crash Bandicoot video games, from Crash Bandicoot: Warped to Crash Twinsanity.

Lyman Ward is a Canadian actor.

Paul Edward Theroux is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best-known work is The Great Railway Bazaar (1975). He has published numerous works of fiction, some of which were adapted as feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Mosquito Coast, which was adapted for the 1986 movie of the same name.

Clifford Luyk Diem is an American-born former basketball player and coach, who played professionally in Spain and Europe from 1962 to 1978. He played college basketball for the University of Florida. He was drafted by the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA), but never played a regular season game in the NBA. He signed with the Spanish professional team Real Madrid, helped Real Madrid become the dominant European basketball team of the 1960s, and is remembered for his trademark, old-school hook shot.

Joseph Roger Brown, MBE is an English entertainer. As a rock and roll singer and guitarist, he has performed for more than six decades. He was a stage and television performer in the late 1950s and has been a UK recording star since the early 1960s. He has made six films, presented specialist radio series for BBC Radio 2, appeared on the West End stage alongside Dame Anna Neagle and has written an autobiography. In recent years he has again concentrated on recording and performing music, playing two tours of around 100 shows every year and releasing an album almost every year.

Sisir Kumar Adhikari is Member of Parliament in Lok Sabha from Bharatiya Janata Party who represented Kanthi from 2009 till 2021. He is a former Union Minister of State for Rural Development in the Manmohan Singh government. He recently changed his political affiliation from All India Trinamool Congress to Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah on 21st March 2021 on the backdrop of 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.

Mao Yuanxin, also known as Li Shi, is a former Chinese politician. As the nephew of Chairman Mao Zedong, he acted as the liaison between Mao and the Communist Party's Central Committee in Mao's ailing years, when he was no longer able to regularly attend political functions. He was considered an ally to the radical political faction known as the Gang of Four. He was arrested soon after Mao's death after a political struggle ensued, and was sentenced to prison.

Danièle Mazet-Delpeuch is a French chef perhaps best known for her stint as the first female chef for the President of France.