List of Famous people who born in 1927

José Balmes Parramón was a Spanish-born painter based in Chile. He received Chile's National Prize for Plastic Arts in 1999.

Yuri Ivanovich Kayurov is a Soviet and Russian actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1979). Winner of two USSR State Prizes. One of the most famous performers of the role of Lenin in film and on stage.

Enrique Eduardo Lafourcade Valdenegro was a Chilean writer, critic and journalist from Santiago.

Karl Stotz was an Austrian football player from Vienna.

Roy Chiao was a Hong Kong-based Chinese actor most famous in the United States for playing the minor villain Lao Che in the 1984 movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Leïla Menchari was a Tunisian designer and decorator.

Thomas "Toivi" Blatt was a Jewish-American Holocaust survivor, writer of mémoires, and public speaker, who at the age of 16 escaped from the Sobibór extermination camp during the uprising staged by the Jewish prisoners in October 1943. The escape was attempted by about 300 inmates, many of whom were recaptured and killed by the German search squads. Following World War II Blatt lived in the Soviet-controlled Poland until the Polish October revolution. In 1957, he emigrated to Israel, and in 1958 settled in the United States.

Franz Weber was a Swiss environmentalist and animal welfare activist.

Gloria Valencia de Castaño was a Colombian journalist and television presenter, best known as the "first lady" of Colombian television. She was born in Ibagué and died in Bogotá.

Walter Kohut was an Austrian film, television and theatre actor.