List of Famous people who born in 1972

Aoi Nanase is a Japanese manga artist.

Princess Louise de Merode is a Kenyan paleontologist and anthropologist. She conducts research and field work on human fossils in Eastern Africa.

Johannes Nicolaas Maria ("Jeroen") Straathof is a retired Dutch racing cyclist and speed skater. Straathof was the first, and still the only, athlete in the world to represent his country at the Summer Olympics, the Winter Olympics and the Paralympics.

Malte Herwig is a German-born author, journalist, and literary critic. His articles have appeared widely in U.S., British and German publications, including The New York Times, The Observer, Vanity Fair, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He studied German Literature, History and Politics at the universities of Oxford, Harvard, and Mainz, and is a former Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. In 2008, Herwig was the first to publish some of Vladimir Nabokov's original index cards from the author's last unfinished novel The Original of Laura. In the accompanying article, Herwig concluded that "Laura", although fragmentary, was "vintage Nabokov". He is the author of several books, among them a biography of Austrian poet Peter Handke and a study of the greatest Nazi cover-up in post-war Germany, "Die Flakhelfer", which will be published in English in 2014.

Rosana Andrea Bertone is an Argentine politician and the former Governor of Tierra del Fuego Province, serving from 2015 to 2019. Since 2019 she has been a National Deputy representing Tierra del Fuego.

Nadja Maleh is an Austrian actress, singer, cabaret artist and director.

Ekaterina Karsten is a Belarusian rower, a seven-time Olympian, a two-time Olympic champion and six-time World Champion in the single scull.

Roxana Díaz Burgos is a Venezuelan television actress. She participated in Miss Venezuela 1992 and has worked in countless novels, series and movies.

Maki Ikeda is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. Ikeda represents Hokkaido through the Hokkaido PR block.

Ruben Aganbegyan is a Russian economist, the President of Micex. Son of the famous Soviet economist Abel Aganbegyan.