List of Famous people who born in 1937

Thomas McInerney is a political commentator and a retired United States Air Force Lieutenant General, who served in top military positions under the President of the United States and Secretary of Defense.

Wolfgang Götze was a German theoretical physicist.

Fanene Leifi Pita Maivia was a Samoan-American professional wrestler better known as Peter Maivia. He is the maternal grandfather of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. He was also part of the famous Anoa'i family and was a promoter for the National Wrestling Alliance in Hawaii.

Felipe Cazals was a Mexican film director, screenwriter, and producer. His parents were from France but he is registered as born in Mexico, D.F. His wife was Rosa Eugenia Báez de Cazals.

Lidiya Gavrilovna Ivanova is a retired Russian artistic gymnast and international referee. She competed at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events. In 1956, she won a team all-around gold medal and a bronze medal in the now-defunct team portable apparatus exercise. In 1960, she finished within the first eight in all events, earning her second gold medal in the team all-around competition.

Robert C. McNair was an American businessman, philanthropist, and the owner of the National Football League (NFL)'s Houston Texans.

André Glucksmann was a French philosopher, activist and writer. He was a leading figure of the new philosophers.

Richard Klinkhamer was a Dutch murderer, who went on to write a book about how he could have committed the crime. In 2000, he was sentenced to seven years in prison for manslaughter after killing his wife and hiding her body.

Yoshirō Mori is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan between April 2000 and April 2001. Described as having "the heart of a flea and the brain of a shark," he was unpopular in opinion polls during his time in office. He also served as the President of the Japan Rugby Football Union as well as the Japan-Korea Parliamentarians' Union. In 2014, he was appointed to head the organizing committee for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Izabella Akhatovna Akhmadulina was a Soviet and Russian poet, short story writer, and translator, known for her apolitical writing stance. She was part of the Russian New Wave literary movement. She was cited by Joseph Brodsky as the best living poet in the Russian language. She is known in Russia as "the voice of the epoch".