List of Famous people who born in 1972

Hitoshi Morishita is a former Japanese football player and manager.

Françoise Fong-Wa Yip is a Canadian actress. She first became known for her performances in Hong Kong films, before later also starring in North American films and television shows. She is best known to international audiences for her roles in action films opposite Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

Alexei Shirov is a Latvian and Spanish chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1990. Shirov was ranked number two in the world in 1994.

Valentyn Mykhaylovych Reznichenko, is a Ukrainian government official who is since 11 December 2020 Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. He had already served as Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast from March 2015 until June 2019. Reznichenko was the Governor of Zaporizhzhia Oblast before being appointed as the Dnipropetrovsk governor.

Iván René Valenciano Pérez is a Colombian former footballer who played as forward. He is the second top goalscorer of all-time in the Colombian Primera A with 217 goals, behind Argentine Sergio Galván Rey, who surpasses him with 224 goals.

Saïd Razzouki is a member of the so-called Mocro Mafia, a gang of Moroccan-Dutch criminals. As of 8 February 2020, he is thought to be the adjutant of Ridouan Taghi. As of 8 February 2020, he is suspected of involvement in several murders. One of these was the murder of Derk Wiersum. The Netherlands offered €100,000 for information on his whereabouts, an amount equal to that got information on his boss Taghi. This was the highest amount ever offered by the Dutch government for such information.

Anders Thomas Jensen is a Danish screenwriter and film director. His film Election Night won the 1998 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.

Maggie Nelson is an American writer. She has been described as a genre-busting writer defying classification, working in autobiography, art criticism, theory, scholarship, and poetry. Nelson has been the recipient of a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship, a 2012 Creative Capital Literature Fellowship, a 2011 NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction. Other honors include the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and a 2007 Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant.

Colonel Moussa Sinko Coulibaly is the Minister of Territorial Administration, of Decentralization and of Territorial Planning of Mali since 24 April 2012.

Masaaki Sakata , is a Japanese former rugby union player who played as hooker.