List of Famous people who born in 1937

Jean Lorrah is a science fiction and fantasy author. She has produced several Star Trek novels, frequently with her writing and business partner Jacqueline Lichtenberg. Her most recent work with Lichtenberg is on the Sime~Gen Universe. Her fantasy series The Savage Empire, from the 1980s, is mostly solo work.

Nestorius Timanywa was a Tanzanian Roman Catholic bishop.

Gary Leon Burrell was an American electrical engineer, businessman, and philanthropist. He was the co-founder, with Min Kao, and chairman emeritus of Garmin, makers of popular Global Positioning System devices.

Filipe Samuel Magaia was a Mozambican politician, guerrilla leader and Secretary of Defense for the Mozambican FRELIMO organisation during the Mozambican War of Independence. After a number of years fighting, Magaia was assassinated by a Frelimo soldier in the employ of the Portuguese.

Peter Kenez is a historian specializing in Russian and Eastern European history and politics. He was born in Hungary and is a Holocaust survivor. He also teaches courses on Soviet cinema and an interdisciplinary course on the Holocaust with literature professor Murray Baumgarten. He has taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz since 1966, where he is currently Professor Emeritus. He received his PhD from Harvard where his advisor was Richard Pipes.