List of Famous people who died in 1972

Robert Moor was a French actor.

Ralph Cook Craig was an American athlete, winner of the sprint double at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Hans Multhopp was a German aeronautical engineer/designer. Receiving a degree from the University of Göttingen, Multhopp worked with the famous designer Kurt Tank at the Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG during World War II, and was the leader of the team responsible for the design of the Focke-Wulf Ta 183 lightweight jet fighter, which was the winner of the 1945 Emergency Fighter Competition. Emigrating to the United Kingdom after the war, he assisted in the advancement of British aeronautic science before moving to the United States, where his work for Martin Marietta on lifting bodies provided aerodynamic experience that proved instrumental in the development of the Space Shuttle.

Lucian Bernhard was a German graphic designer, type designer, professor, interior designer, and artist during the first half of the twentieth century.

Louis Wolff was an American cardiologist. He described the eponymously named Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome with Doctors John Parkinson (1885–1976) and Paul Dudley White (1886–1973).

Mahmoud El Materi was a Tunisian physician and politician. He was the first president and one of the founders of the Neo Destour.