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See also:	Other events of 1972 History of Malaysia  • Timeline  • Years

This article lists important figures and events in Malaysian public affairs during the year 1972, together with births and deaths of notable Malaysians.

Incumbent political figures

Events

• 31 January – Pacific Area Tourist Association Conference was held in Kuala Lumpur.
• 1 February – Kuala Lumpur was accorded city status. Tan Sri Dato' Lokman Yusof became the first Mayor of Kuala Lumpur (Datuk Bandar Kuala Lumpur).
• February – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom made her first official visit to Malaysia. She visited General Hospital at Kota Kinabalu. The hospital was then renamed in her honour (Hospital Queen Elizabeth). It is the only hospital in Malaysia named after her.
• March – Lee Kuan Yew's first visit to Malaysia after Singapore's separation from Malaysia on August 9 1965.
• 18 April – The Rajang Area Security Command (RASCOM) was established during the Sarawak Communist Insurgency.
• 19 June – TV Pendidikan, Malaysia's first and only educational TV network was officially launched.
• 2–11 August – Malaysia competed for the first time at the Summer Paralympics in Heidelberg, West Germany, with a team of four.
• 13 September – About 27 people were killed in a river ferry disaster on Kerian River at the Perak-Kedah border.

Births

• 18 January – Eja (Siti Shahrizah bt Saifuddin) – Malaysian model and actress
• 26 February – Victor Wong – Malaysian Chinese singer
• 10 July – Rosnah Shirlin, Malaysian politician
• 27 July – Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor – first Malaysian angkasawan (Cosmonaut)
• 28 November – Kazim Elias – Malaysian preacher and Islamic consultant

Deaths

• 15 May – Tan Sri Dato' Lokman Yusof – first Lord Mayor (Datuk Bandar) of Kuala Lumpur,

See also

• 1972
• 1971 in Malaysia | 1973 in Malaysia
• History of Malaysia