List of Famous people who born in 1927

James Henry Kinmel Sangster was a British screenwriter and director, most famous for his work on the initial horror films made by the British company Hammer Films, including The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and Dracula (1958).

Wolfgang Ludwig Walter was a German mathematician, who specialized in the theory of differential equations. His textbook on ordinary differential equations became a standard graduate text on the subject at many institutions.

Arigo Padovan is a retired Italian professional road bicycle racer, who won stages in both the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia.

James Clifford Timlin is an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Scranton from 1984 to 2003. During his tenure as bishop, he reassigned a priest who had raped a girl and arranged for her family to be paid to remain silent on the matter.

Friedrich Hans Beck was a German physicist. His research interests were focused on superconductivity, nuclear and elementary particle physics, relativistic quantum field theory, and late in his life, biophysics and theory of consciousness.

Edmond Richard was a French cinematographer.