1972 births

Belgian singer

American professional wrestler and actor

Jerrel "Jimmy" Floyd Hasselbaink is a professional football manager and former player who is now an assistant coach for the Suriname national team.

American actor (born 1972)

Prime Minister of Dominica

Moroccan association football player

First Vice President of Afghanistan from 2020 to 2021

Maya Khabira Rudolph is an American actress and comedian. In 2000, she became a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL). During her tenure on the show, she appeared in supporting roles in the films 50 First Dates (2004), A Prairie Home Companion (2006), and Idiocracy (2006).

Brazilian association football player

Indian politician

Mozambican athlete

Belgium musician

Czech ice hockey winger

Armenian-American drummer

Paraguayan association football player

Vietnamese math professor

American actor (born 1972)

German association football player and manager

American actor (born 1972)

English association football player (born 1972)

Uzbek businesswoman and social activist, daughter of the former president

American musician and record producer

American actress

Jamaican politician; 9th Prime Minister of Jamaica

Australian actress

English writer, critic, and activist (born 1972)

French film actress and film producer

American actress and former model

American actress (born 1972)

Croatian singer

Mexican-American singer who gained fame in Montreal, Canada

Argentine association football player

Latvian-Spanish chess player (born 1972)

British writer

American actor, comedian, and television personality

Andy Weir is an American novelist. His 2011 novel The Martian was adapted into the 2015 film of the same name directed by Ridley Scott. He received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2016. His 2021 novel Project Hail Mary was a finalist for the 2022 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and has also been adapted into a film, released in March 2026.

Zubeen Garg was an Indian musician, composer, singer, songwriter who primarily worked and sang in the Assamese, Bengali, and Hindi-language films and music industries. He also sang in 40 other languages and dialects, including Bishnupriya Manipuri, Adi, Boro, Dimasa, English, Goalpariya, Gujarati, Kannada, Karbi, Malayalam, Marathi, Mising, Rabha, Garo, Nepali, Bhojpuri, Odia, Sadri, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Tiwa and Urdu.

Indian civil rights activist

American basketball player and executive

British actor

Estonian footballer and coach (born 1972)

Swedish tennis coach and retired tennis player

Ethiopian athletics competitor

French actress

David Lindon Lammy is a British politician who has served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Secretary of State for Justice, and Lord Chancellor since September 2025. He previously served as Foreign Secretary from July 2024 to September 2025. A member of the Labour Party, he has been member of Parliament (MP) for Tottenham since 2000. Lammy previously held various junior ministerial positions under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown between 2002 and 2010.

American film director

Azerbaijani footballer

British actress (born 1972)

Australian pop singer

American country musician (born 1972)

Kenyan and Danish middle distance runner

Japanese football referee

Canadian singer, guitarist and record producer

Kenyan marathon runner and Olympic medalist

American rapper and actor (born 1972)

Puerto Rican rapper and singer

American actor and writer

American basketball player

Australian cyclist

American singer (born 1972)