List of Famous people who are 97

Alexandre José Maria dos Santos is a Roman Catholic Mozambican cardinal. He was the first native cardinal of Mozambique.

Leslie Samuel Phillips is an English actor known for his work in the Carry On, Doctor in the House and Harry Potter film series, as well as the long-running BBC radio comedy series The Navy Lark. With the death of Heather Chasen on 22 May 2020, Phillips is now the only surviving regular cast member from the latter series, and following the death of Barbara Windsor and Rosalind Knight in December 2020, Phillips, Jim Dale, Valerie Leon, Julian Holloway, Hugh Futcher, Anita Harris, Kenneth Cope, Amanda Barrie, Patricia Franklin and Bernard Cribbins are the last surviving recurring cast members of the Carry On series.

Esther Béjarano, along with Anita Lasker Wallfisch, is one of the last survivors of the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz.

Lyubov Shevtsova was a Soviet partisan and a member of the Young Guard, an underground anti-Nazi organization in Krasnodon during World War II.

Major Shaitan Singh Bhati, PVC was an Indian Army officer and recipient of the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest military decoration. Singh was born in Rajasthan. On completing his graduation, Singh joined the Jodhpur State Forces. He was transferred to the Kumaon Regiment after the princely state of Jodhpur was merged into India. He took part in operations in the Naga Hills and also in the 1961 Indian annexation of Goa.

Guy Môquet was a young French Communist militant. During the German occupation of France during World War II, he was taken hostage by the Nazis and executed by firing squad in retaliation for attacks on Germans by the French Resistance. Môquet went down in history as one of the symbols of the French Resistance.

Madeleine Riffaud, is a French poet, journalist, war correspondent and previously a member of the French Resistance.

Gail Russell was an American film and television actress.

Antony Hewish is a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 for his role in the discovery of pulsars. He was also awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1969.

Friederike Mayröcker is an Austrian poet.