List of Famous people who born in 1933

Palden Gyatso was a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Arrested for protesting during the Chinese invasion of Tibet, he spent 33 years in Chinese prisons and labor camps, where he was extensively tortured, and served the longest term of any Tibetan political prisoner. After his release in 1992 he fled to Dharamsala in North India, in exile. He was still a practicing monk and became a political activist, traveling the world publicizing the cause of Tibet up until his death in 2018. His autobiography Fire Under the Snow is also known as The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk. He was the subject of the 2008 documentary film Fire Under the Snow.

Hans Hollmann is a theatre director and actor. He has also worked as a university lecturer and has a doctorate in jurisprudence. Despite having been born in Austria, for many years Hollmann has lived with his family in Basel, Switzerland.

Nancy Colbert Friday was an American author who wrote on the topics of female sexuality and liberation. Her writings argue that women have often been reared under an ideal of womanhood, which was outdated and restrictive, and largely unrepresentative of many women's true inner lives, and that openness about women's hidden lives could help free women to truly feel able to enjoy being themselves. She asserts that this is not due to deliberate malice, but due to social expectation, and that for women's and men's benefit alike it is healthier that both be able to be equally open, participatory and free to be accepted for who and what they are.

René Felber was a Swiss politician. He was a member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1987 to 1993. In 1992, he served as the President of Switzerland.

Stanley Anderson was an English football player and manager.

Kevin Thomas Duffy was an American lawyer and United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

John Boorman, is a British filmmaker who is best known for his feature films such as Point Blank, Hell in the Pacific, Deliverance, Zardoz, Exorcist II: The Heretic, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory, The General, The Tailor of Panama and Queen and Country.

Laura Soveral was a Portuguese actress. She has performed in more than seventy films since 1966.

Draga Olteanu Matei was a Romanian actress. She performed in more than thirty films from 1967 to 2006. She received a star on the Romanian Walk of Fame in Bucharest on 29 October 2011.

Fernando Suárez González is a Spanish politician and jurist. He is the last living minister who served in Francisco Franco's regime.