List of Famous people who are 85

Marlies Krämer is a feminist and politician. In 1996 she was a force in initiating the renaming of low-pressure areas in Germany, from formerly female names to a new naming system. Since 1998 these have been given female names one year and the following year male names are used instead.

Akiko Kojima is a Japanese model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 1959, making her the first Japanese and Asian woman to win the title.

Elisabeth Kopp is a Swiss politician and the first woman elected to the Swiss Federal Council (1984–1989).

Alain Corbin is a French historian. He is a specialist of the 19th century in France and in microhistory.

Igor Mironovich Guberman is a Russian writer and poet of Jewish ancestry; since 1988 lives in Israel. His poetry has received a great deal of acclaim primarily because of his signature aphoristic and satiric quatrains that he called "gariki" in Russian. . These short poems always feature an a-b-a-b rhyme scheme, employ various poetic meters, and cover a wide range of subjects including antisemitism, immigrant life, anti-religious sentiment, and the author's love-hate relationship with Russia.

Philippe Laudenbach is a French actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films since 1963.

Vladimir Ilyich Gendlin was a Russian commentator and boxing expert, a two-time TEFI award winner. He was the founder of professional boxing telecasts on Russian television. Gendlin's program Bolshoi Ring was considered the best program about boxing in the world by the World Boxing Union in 1995.

Chiang Hsiao-chang is the only daughter of Chiang Ching-kuo, the President of the Republic of China in Taiwan from 1978 to 1988. Her mother is Faina Ipatyevna Vakhreva, also known as Chiang Fang-liang. She had one older brother, Hsiao-wen, and two younger brothers, Hsiao-wu and Hsiao-yung. She is the only living member of Chiang Ching-kuo's legitimate children, and was the only one among the siblings who could converse in Russian with their mother. She also has twin half-brothers, Winston Chang and John Chiang, with whom she shares the same father. She attended Mills College and was featured in LIFE during her college years. She was married to Yu Yang-ho until his death in 2010; he was the son of former Taiwan defense minister Yu Ta-wei. She and Yu have one son, Theodore Yu Tsu-sheng.

Frédy Girardet is a Swiss chef who cooks in the French tradition. Often considered one of the greatest chefs of the 20th Century, his self-named restaurant in Crissier, Switzerland earned three Michelin stars and before Girardet's retirement in 1996 was often called the greatest restaurant in the world.

Teresa Gimpera Flaquer is a Spanish film and television actress and former model who was married to U.S. actor Craig Hill. Hill was born in Los Angeles, California. After a steady career in the motion picture industry, his acting career in the U.S. began to wane. He moved to Barcelona, Spain where he found work in Spaghetti Westerns, as well as other films, where he met model/actress Teresa Gimpera. They continued to reside and work in Barcelona, and remained married until Hill's death in April 2014.