List of Famous people who are 80

Bertrand I. Halperin is an American physicist, former holder of the Hollis Chair of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy at the physics department of Harvard University.

Ann McLaughlin Korologos, formerly known as Ann Dore McLaughlin, was the United States Secretary of Labor from 1987 to 1989.

Shannon Farnon is a Canadian actress. She is best known as being the first actress to voice Wonder Woman in a Hanna-Barbera production.

Philippe Busquin is a Belgian politician.

David Lorge Parnas is a Canadian early pioneer of software engineering, who developed the concept of information hiding in modular programming, which is an important element of object-oriented programming today. He is also noted for his advocacy of precise documentation.

Leslie B. Lamport is an American computer scientist. Lamport is best known for his seminal work in distributed systems, and as the initial developer of the document preparation system LaTeX and the author of its first manual. Leslie Lamport was the winner of the 2013 Turing Award for imposing clear, well-defined coherence on the seemingly chaotic behavior of distributed computing systems, in which several autonomous computers communicate with each other by passing messages. He devised important algorithms and developed formal modeling and verification protocols that improve the quality of real distributed systems. These contributions have resulted in improved correctness, performance, and reliability of computer systems.

Luciano Maiani is a Sammarinese physicist best known for his prediction of the charm quark with Sheldon Lee Glashow and John Iliopoulos.

Francisco Javier Rupérez Rubio, Born he is a Spanish politician, diplomat and writer, was born in Madrid on 24 April 1941. He holds degrees in law (1962) and journalism (1975) from the Complutense University of Madrid. Since 2006 he has held the rank of full Ambassador within the Spanish Diplomatic Service, which he joined in 1967.