List of Famous people who are 80

Barry Edward Le Va was an American sculptor and installation artist. Trained in his native California, he lived and worked in New York City. Le Va was among the leading figures of post-studio and process art to have emerged in the late 1960s. His abstract sculptures, installations, drawings, and editioned works are featured in major art collections around the world.

Catherine Ribeiro, born in Lyon in 1941, is a French singer. Ribeiro is an experimental folk and avant garde performer. With her band Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes she released several albums in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Catherine Ribeiro & 2Bis 1969, No.2 in 1970, Paix in 1972 and has continued to perform and release records ever since. Among her biggest fans is the French mathematician Cédric Villani.

Yaichi Tanigawa is a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. A native of Nagasaki and high school graduate he was elected to the Diet for the first time in 2005 after serving in the assembly in Nagasaki Prefecture from 1999 to 2003.

Václav Klaus is a Czech economist and politician who served as the second president of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013. From July 1992 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in January 1993, he served as the second and last prime minister of the Czech Republic while it was a federal subject of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic, and then as the first prime minister of the newly independent Czech Republic from 1993 to 1998.

Thelma Biral is an Argentine actress working in cinema, television and theatre.

Óscar Arias Sánchez is a Costa Rican activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He was President of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2010. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his efforts to end the Central American crisis. He was also a recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism and a trustee of Economists for Peace and Security. In 2003, he was elected to the board of directors of the International Criminal Court's Trust Fund for Victims.

Josip Skoblar is a Croatian former professional football player and manager. He was primarily a forward, and also capable of playing on both wings.

Marilena de Souza Chaui is a Brazilian philosopher and Professor of Modern Philosophy in the University of São Paulo. She is a scholar of Baruch Spinoza and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Chaui is one of the founding members of Workers' Party and an assiduous critic of the capitalist model.

Peter Hartz, was the human resources executive at the German public company Volkswagen AG (VW). Twenty percent of Volkswagen's shares are owned by the state of Lower Saxony. Hartz became notable as adviser to German chancellor and former Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, Gerhard Schröder, with whom Hartz developed the so-called Hartz-reforms of the German labour market and job agencies - the German welfare benefit, 'Hartz IV', is named after the fourth stage of his reforms.

Heidi Mittermaier is a German alpine skier. She competed in two events at the 1964 Winter Olympics.