List of Famous people who born in 1927

Edward Paul Abbey was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and criticism of public land policies. His best-known works include Desert Solitaire, a non-fiction autobiographical account of his time as a park ranger at Arches National Park considered to be iconic work of nature writing and a staple of early environmentalist writing, the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which has been cited as an inspiration by environmentalists and groups defending nature by various means, also called eco-warriors, his novel Hayduke Lives, and his essay collections Down the River (1982) and One Life at a Time, Please (1988).

Sir David Akers-Jones was a British colonial administrator. He was the Chief Secretary of Hong Kong from 1985 to 1987, and was briefly Acting Governor of Hong Kong.

Pascal Bentoiu was a Romanian modernist composer.

Jacques Puisais was a French oenologist and taste philosopher born in Poitiers.

Kurt Karl Stephan Semm was a German gynecologist and pioneer in minimally invasive surgery. He has been called "the father of modern laparoscopy".

Dominique Frelaut was a French politician. A member of the French Communist Party, Frelaut was mayor of Colombes from 1965 to 2001, and elected to the National Assembly between 1973 and 1986, and again from 2001 to 2002.

Tadeusz Mazowiecki was a Polish author, journalist, philanthropist and Christian-democratic politician, formerly one of the leaders of the Solidarity movement, and the first non-communist Polish prime minister since 1946.

Ibrahim Ferrer was a Cuban singer who played with Los Bocucos for nearly forty years. He also performed with Conjunto Sorpresa, Chepín y su Orquesta Oriental and Mario Patterson. After his retirement in 1991, he was brought back in the studio to record with the Afro-Cuban All Stars and Buena Vista Social Club in March 1996. He then toured internationally with these revival groups and recorded several solo albums for World Circuit before his death in 2005.

Sudharmono was an Indonesian politician and military officer, who served as the 5th Vice President of Indonesia under President Suharto, from 1988 until 1993. Previously, he served as a general in the army and the chairman of Golkar from 1983 until 1988.

Stefan Lorenz Radt was a Dutch historian, author and academic specializing in ancient Greek geography.