List of Famous people who are 97

Sir Eric James Neal, is a retired Australian businessman and public officer. He is a former Governor of South Australia (1996–2001), Commissioner of Sydney (1987–1988), and Chancellor of Flinders University (2002–2010).

Dinah Washington was an American singer and pianist, who has been cited as "the most popular black female recording artist of the '50s". Primarily a jazz vocalist, she performed and recorded in a wide variety of styles including blues, R&B, and traditional pop music, and gave herself the title of "Queen of the Blues". She was a 1986 inductee of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.

Sunder Deodhar is a female badminton player from India. She is the daughter of India's cricket player D. B. Deodhar.

Roger Charles Louis Guillemin is a French-American neuroscientist. He received the National Medal of Science in 1976, and the Nobel prize for medicine in 1977 for his work on neurohormones, sharing the prize that year with Andrew Schally and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow.

Carole Cook is an American actress of musical theatre, film, and television.

Rear Admiral John Oliver Roberts is a former Royal Navy officer who served as Flag Officer, Naval Air Command.

Dale Edward Wolf is an American businessman and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He is veteran of World War II, and a member of the Republican Party, who served for three weeks as the 70th governor of Delaware. As of 2021, he remains the most recent Republican governor of Delaware.

José Manuel Martín Pérez is a Spanish retired film and television actor, radio broadcaster, and screenwriter. He was a popular character actor in Spanish cinema during the 1950s and 60s, best remembered for playing villainous henchmen, appearing in more than 100 film and television productions.