List of Famous people who born in 1972

Cristina Sánchez de Pablos is a Spanish bullfighter who gained prominence during the 1990s for being one of the first female bullfighters. She is the first woman to complete her alternativa in Europe.

Sophia Kokosalaki was a Greek fashion designer based in London.

Brett Alan Tucker is an Australian actor and singer. He was a series regular in The Saddle Club, McLeod's Daughters, and Mistresses. He is also known for his role as Daniel Fitzgerald in Neighbours. He played Seattle Fire Chief Lucas Ripley on ABC's TV series Station 19.

Bae Yong-joon is a South Korean businessman and former actor. He has starred in numerous television dramas, including, notably, Winter Sonata which became a major part of the Korean Wave. Bae retired from acting after 2007, but remains active as the chairman of management agency KeyEast.

Bridget Everett is an American comedian, actress, singer, writer, and cabaret performer. She has performed stand-up on Inside Amy Schumer on Comedy Central. Everett has described herself as an “alt-cabaret provocateur.”

Conor Burns is a British Conservative Party politician and former public relations executive serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bournemouth West since 2010.

Maggie O'Farrell is an Irish-British novelist. Her debut novel After You'd Gone received international acclaim and won the Betty Trask Award. Her later novel The Hand That First Held Mine won the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She has twice been shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award - for Instructions for a Heatwave in 2014 and This Must Be The Place in 2017. She appeared in Waterstones' 25 Authors for the Future. Her memoir I am, I am, I am: Seventeen Brushes with Death reached number one in the Sunday Times Bestseller list. Her novel Hamnet won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020.

Andrea Wulf is a British historian and writer who has written books, newspaper articles and book reviews.

The death of Joe Cinque occurred in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory on 26 October 1997. Cinque's coffee was laced with rohypnol, a sedative, at a dinner party, after which he was injected with a lethal dose of heroin by his girlfriend Anu Singh, who was a law student at the Australian National University at the time. Singh was convicted in 1999 of manslaughter. She was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, but was released early in 2001. Since her release, she has undertaken criminology research. The crime was portrayed in Helen Garner's non-fiction book Joe Cinque's Consolation (2004), which was later adapted into a film of the same name.

Bibian Mentel-Spee was a Dutch three-fold Winter Paralympics gold-medalist, and five-times world champion para-snowboarding athlete. Bibian Mentel won the paralympic gold medal in the snowboard cross discipline in the 2014 and 2018 Paralympic Winter Games, as well as in the banked slalom in 2018, despite battling cancer nine times since the beginning of the century. She won her 2018 medals at age 45.