List of Famous people who born in 1972

Melissa Ng Mei-hang is a retired American Hong Kong television actress born in China. She had been under contract to the television station TVB since 1996 after coming second in the Miss Chinese International Pageant, retiring from acting in 2007. Ng speaks fluent English with an American accent, Cantonese, and Mandarin. She currently resides in Hong Kong.

Vladimir Stanislavovich Milov is a Russian politician and the former chairman of the Russian political party Democratic Choice. From May to October 2002, he served as Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation. He was a member of the Federal Political Council of the democratic movement Solidarnost (2008-2010) and one of the founders of the coalition "For Russia without Lawlessness and Corruption". He was also the president of the Institute for Energy Policy, a Moscow-based independent think tank until 2013.

Manoj Punjabi is an Indian-Indonesian film and television producer and owner of the biggest production house in Indonesia.

Thomas Glavinic is an Austrian writer. With Kathrin Röggla and Daniel Kehlmann, he is among other contemporary Austrian authors being perceived as significantly shaping the literary discussion in Austria.

Luis Cembranos Martínez is a Spanish retired professional footballer who played as a right midfielder, and the manager of CD Leganés B.

Dmitry Alexandrovich Zavadsky or Dzmitry Alyaksandravich Zavadski was a Belarusian journalist who disappeared and was presumably murdered in 2000. Zavadsky worked as journalist and cameraman for Russian Public Television Channel One (ORT). From 1994 to 1997, he was the personal cameraman of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.

Francesca Cristiana Conti is a female water polo goalkeeper from Italy, who won the gold medal with the Women's National Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

Guilherme Weber is a Brazilian actor, director and author.

Mohammad Rasoulof is an Iranian independent filmmaker. He studied sociology in Tehran. Currently he lives in Tehran and in Hamburg.

Viktor Kharitonin is a Russian billionaire. He made his fortune from the pharmaceutical firm Pharmstandard, co-founded with Roman Abramovich. He and another partner, Egor Kulkov, listed the firm on the London Stock Exchange in 2008, but then took it back into private hands in 2016. He resides primarily in Moscow. He graduated from Novosibirsk State University.