List of Famous people who are 80

Alfredo Coto is a prominent Argentine businessman.

Tété-Michel Kpomassie is an explorer and writer from Togo, and the author of An African in Greenland.

Rauf Rashid Abd al-Rahman is the replacement chief judge of the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal's Al-Dujail trial of Saddam Hussein in 2006, when he sentenced Saddam and some of his top aides to death by hanging.

Masayoshi Shimizu is the mayor of Ōta, Gunma, Japan. As of 1 July 2010, he is also the chairman of the Gunma Kokusai Academy school in Ōta.

Annie Le Brun is a French writer, poet and literary critic.

Alain Krivine is a French Trotskyist leader. He is a member of the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire (LCR), which is the French section of the reunified Fourth International. He was a member of the LCR's political bureau until March 2006, when he resigned from that committee. He was a member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2004.

Aqel Biltaji is the former mayor of Amman. He was appointed by the government mayor of the Greater Amman Municipality in September 2013 until August 2017. He has occupied several positions over the course of his life, in Royal Jordaian Airlnes and most famously as Minister of Tourism and tourism adviser to King Abdullah II and as chief of Aqaba's city council. From 2002 to 2004 he was the first Chief Commissioner of the newly-created Aqaba Special Economic Zone.

Michael Naumann is a German politician, publisher and journalist. He was the German secretary of culture from 1998 until 2001. He is married to Marie Warburg, daughter of Eric Warburg and granddaughter of Max Warburg.

Venezuelan anthropologist Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, former wife of the French philosopher Régis Debray, was the editor of Rigoberta Menchú's controversial autobiography I, Rigoberta Menchú. She was director of the Maison de l'Amerique Latine in Paris and of the Institut Cultural Français in Seville.

Celso Lafer is a Brazilian jurist, full professor of Philosophy of Law at University of São Paulo, twice former foreign minister and a former commerce minister.