1972 in Malaysia

Incumbent political figures

Federal level

• Yang di-Pertuan Agong: Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah
• Raja Permaisuri Agong: Sultanah Bahiyah
• Prime Minister: Tun Abdul Razak
• Deputy Prime Minister: Tun Dr Ismail
• Lord President: Mohamed Azmi Mohamed

  State level

• Sultan of Johor: Sultan Ismail
• Sultan of Kedah: Tengku Abdul Malik
• Sultan of Kelantan: Sultan Yahya Petra
• Raja of Perlis: Tuanku Syed Putra
• Sultan of Perak: Sultan Idris Shah II
• Sultan of Pahang: Sultan Abu Bakar
• Sultan of Selangor: Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah
• Sultan of Terengganu: Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah
• Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan: Tuanku Jaafar
• Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Penang: Tun Syed Sheikh Barabakh
• Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Malacca: Tun Haji Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Majid
• Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Sarawak: Tun Tuanku Bujang Tuanku Othman
• Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Sabah: Tun Pengiran Ahmad Raffae

  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 .
• 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. 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 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 – Malaysian model and actress
• 26 February – Victor Wong – Malaysian Chinese singer
• 27 July – Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor – first Malaysian angkasawan
• 28 November – Kazim Elias – Malaysian preacher and Islamic consultant

  Deaths

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