List of Famous people who died in 1972

Winifred Geraldine Ramsey Beamish was an English tennis player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.

Américo Castro y Quesada was a Spanish cultural historian, philologist, and literary critic who challenged some of the prevailing notions of Spanish identity, raising controversy with his conclusions that (1) Spaniards didn't become the distinct group they are today until after the Islamic conquest of Hispania of 711, an event that turned them into an Iberian caste coexisting among Moors and Jews; and (2) the history of Spain and Portugal was adversely affected with the success in the eleventh to fifteenth centuries of the "Reconquista" or Christian reconquest of the Iberian peninsula and with the Spanish expulsion of the Jews (1492).

Frances Lloyd George, Countess Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, was the mistress, personal secretary, confidante and second wife of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George.

Marie Wilson was an American radio, film, and television actress. She may be best remembered as the title character in My Friend Irma.