List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1972

List of Guggenheim Fellowship winners for 1972, have been awarded annually since 1925, by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts."

United States and Canadian fellows

 * Allan Wilson, Biochemistry – Molecular biology
 * Kenneth Josephson (1932) – Photography

Latin American Fellows

 * Constantino Reyes-Valerio – art historian
 * Fernando Krahn – animator/cartoonists