List of Famous people who born in 1937

Dieter Seebach is a German chemist known for his synthesis of biopolymers and dendrimers, and for his contributions to stereochemistry. He was born on 31 October 1937 in Karlsruhe. He studied chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) under the supervision of Rudolf Criegee and at Harvard University with Elias Corey finishing in 1969. After his habilitation he became professor for organic chemistry at the University of Giessen. After six years he was appointed professor at the ETH Zurich where he worked until he retired in 2003.

Michael Hayden Armacost is a retired American diplomat and a fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute. He was the president of the Brookings Institution from 1995 to 2002.

Dato' Ng Boon Bee is a former badminton player from Malaysia who excelled from the 1960s through the early 1970s. His success in doubles earned him recognition as one of greatest doubles players in badminton history.

Norbert Miller is a German scholar of literature and art. He was professor of literary studies at the Technische Universität Berlin from 1973 and retired in 2006.

Mizban Khadr al-Hadi was a general and politician in Ba'athist Iraq. He served as a member of the Revolutionary Command Council from 1991 to 2001.

Senator Vladimir Petrovich Lukin sometimes Lokin is a Russian politician who served as Human Rights Commissioner of Russia from February 2004 to March 2014. He is the President of the Russian Paralympic Committee. He was the Russian Ambassador to the United States from 1992 to 1994.

Olaf Feldmann was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and former member of the German Bundestag.