List of Famous people who born in 1937

Curtis Cokes was a boxer from Dallas, Texas, United States. Cokes was the World Welterweight Champion, and he was famous for his training regimen, which he also imposed on other boxers training with him.

Antonio Franco is a Vatican diplomat.

Takehisa Matsubara is the 20th mayor of Nagoya City in Aichi Prefecture (愛知県), Japan. A native of Owariasahi (尾張旭市), also in Aichi Prefecture, and graduate of Aichi University of Education (愛知学芸大学). He was first elected in April 1997.

Willem "Wim" Alfred Udenhout was the military-installed Prime Minister of Suriname from February 1984 to July 1986. He had previously been a teacher and, for a time, a Black Power activist. As an academic he had a PhD in English literature from Leiden University. He later served as an ambassador to the United States. He did not favor investigating the military's murder of civilians or of Maroon people. He is most recently the Chairman of the Suriname Conservation Foundation.

Lev Valdemarovich Nussberg is a Russian painter, and founder of Russian kinetic art.