List of Famous people who born in 1937

Anthony Mabron Burton was an American actor, and boxer. He was known for his role as Tony "Duke" Evers in the Rocky films.

Charles Revet was a French politician who was a member of the Senate of France, representing the Seine-Maritime department. He was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.

Farooq Abdullah is an Indian politician and chairman of Jammu & Kashmir National Conference. He has served as the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir on several occasions since 1982, and as the union minister for New and Renewable Energy between 2009 and 2014. He is the father of former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah.

Jean-Pierre Maurice Georges Beltoise was a French Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and Formula One driver who raced for the Matra and BRM teams. He competed in 88 Grands Prix achieving a single victory, at the 1972 Monaco Grand Prix, and a total of eight podium finishes.

Heidi Hetzer was a German entrepreneur and rally driver. In obituaries, she was referred to as an "intrepid globetrotter."

Miriam, Lady Hogg,, known professionally by her former married name Miriam Stoppard, is an English medical doctor, author, television presenter and advice columnist.

Gennady Fyodorovich Shpalikov was a prominent Soviet Russian poet, screenwriter and film director.

Buford Hayse Pusser was the Sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee, from 1964 to 1970 and Constable of Adamsville from 1970 to 1972. Pusser is known for his virtual one-man war on moonshining, prostitution, gambling, and other vices along the Mississippi–Tennessee state line. His efforts have inspired several books, songs, movies, and a TV series. He was also a wrestler known as "Buford the Bull" in the Mid-South.

Ryutaro Hashimoto was a Japanese politician who served as the Prime Minister of Japan from 1996 to 1998. He was the leader of one of the largest factions within the ruling LDP through most of the 1990s and remained a powerful back-room player in Japanese politics until scandal forced him to resign his leadership position in 2004. Disgraced, he chose not to stand in the general election of 2005, and effectively retired from politics. He died on 1 July 2006 at a Tokyo hospital.

Nicole Heesters is a German actress. Nicole comes from a family of actors; her parents are Johannes Heesters, a Dutch German actor, and Louise Ghijs, a Belgian stage actress. Her husband was movie director Pit Fischer and one of her children, daughter Saskia Fischer, is also an actress. Nicole's older sister Wiesje (1931) is a pianist in Vienna, Austria.