List of Famous people who born in 1972

Scott Michael McClain is a former Major League Baseball third baseman who is a scout in Nippon Professional Baseball.

Rahima Banu Begum is the last known person to have been infected with naturally occurring Variola major smallpox, the more deadly variety of the disease.

Marcos Aurélio Galeano,, known as just Galeano, is a former Brazilian footballer at the positions of midfielder and defender. In April 2010, Galeano returned to Palmeiras, club where he spent most of his career, as a staff member.

Fabrício Carpi Nejar or Fabricio Carpinejar is a Brazilian writer. He was born in Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul. His father is the poet Carlos Nejar.

Abdullah Zeydan is a Turkish politician of Kurdish descent and a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (HDP).

Chiu Chih-wei is a Taiwanese politician and a member of the Legislative Yuan. A Hakka descent, he is a member of the Democratic Progressive Party. He has a Ph.D. degree from the National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU). He served as Kaohsiung's chief of bureau of civil affairs between 2007 and 2011. He was elected into the Legislative Yuan representing Kaohsiung 2nd district since 2012. He was reelected in 2016.

Yuichi Nishimura is a Japanese football referee. He has refereed in the Japanese J. League Division 1 since 1999 and has been a full international referee for FIFA since 2004. He refereed the opening game in the 2014 FIFA World Cup between hosts Brazil and Croatia, and also the second leg of the 2014 AFC Champions League final.