List of Famous people who are 85

Samuel Chao Chung Ting is an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in 1976, with Burton Richter, for discovering the subatomic J/ψ particle. He is the founder and principal investigator for the international $2 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment which was installed on the International Space Station on 19 May 2011.

Émile Jamil Lahoud is a Lebanese politician who served as the 16th president of Lebanon from 1998 to 2007.

Guy Camberabero is a former French rugby union footballer. His position was fly-half.

Thamir bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was a member of the House of Saud. He died young and therefore, held no important cabinet position.

Kazumi Kurigami is a commercial and fine art Japanese photographer.

Françoise Moréchand is a French TV personality in Japan and an author. Moréchand was one of the first foreigners to appear as foreign tarento on Japanese TV in 1964.

Toshio Kagami is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of The Oriental Land Company, and the representative director, chairman and CEO of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Japan.

Ekan Ikeguchi is a Shingon Buddhist priest, currently the High Priest of Saifukuji in Kagoshima. He holds a doctorate in medicine from Yamaguchi University and is an expert in the goma fire ritual. He has spoken at Harvard University and performed a ritual at the World Trade Center site in October 2001. Ikeguchi recently returned to the United States in November 2012 to preside over the goma fire ritual in Los Angeles to commemorate Koyasan Buddhist Temple's 100th anniversary.

Alan Jay Heeger is an American physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry.

Manfred Schoof is a German jazz trumpeter.