List of Famous people who born in 1937
Issam Fares
Issam Michael Fares is a Lebanese businessman, a former member of the Lebanese Parliament and Deputy Prime Minister of Lebanon.
Etienne Saqr
Étienne Saqr, also known by his kunya "Abu Arz”, is a Lebanese nationalist leader and founder of the Guardians of the Cedars militia and political party. Adams and his militia participated in the Lebanese Lore War facing the Palestinians and the Syrians in the 1970s and 1980s, and remained militantly active until he was expelled from the country with the flight of the South Lebanon Army, of which he was not a member, in May 2000.
Hussein el-Husseini
Sayyid Hussein El-Husseini is a Lebanese politician and former speaker of the Lebanese parliament, whose efforts in brokering and fathering the Taif Agreement led to the end of the Lebanese Civil War in 1990. El-Husseini, as co-founder of the Amal Movement, is regarded as one of the founders of the Lebanese resistance. He succeeded Musa al-Sadr as leader of the Amal Movement, but resigned from his position in 1980 as he was opposed to Amal becoming increasingly more involved in the civil war.
Jeanne Mandagi
Police Brigadier General Jeanne Mandagi was the first Indonesian woman to become a general in the Indonesian National Police. She also served as an expert consultant at the Indonesian National Narcotics Agency and was active in dealing with drug eradication in Indonesia.
Abdullah Sungkar
Abdullah Sungkar founded and led Jemaah Islamiyah, an Islamist terrorist and separatist organization. He was of Hadhrami Arab descent.
Hu Fuguo
Hu Fuguo is a Chinese politician currently serving as president of China Association of Poverty Alleviation & Development. He was Communist Party Secretary, Governor and CPPCC chairman of his home province Shaanxi.
Mouna Noureddine
Mouna Noureddine, is a Tunisian actress.
Zaid Kilani
Zaid Kilani was a Jordanian physician specializing in obstetrics and gynecology and founder and director of Farah Maternity Hospital in Amman, and a member of the Jordanian Senate. He died on November 9, 2019.
Ted Wong
Ted Wong was a martial arts practitioner best known for studying under Bruce Lee.
Elizabeth Wong
Elizabeth "Libby" Wong Chien Chi-lien is a former civil servant and politician from Hong Kong, born in Shanghai, China. Wong holds New Zealand citizenship, and is currently residing in Sydney. She is now a popular fiction writer. Her novels in English and Chinese are Rainbow City and its sequel Flower Mountain. Elizabeth's husband is third generation Chinese New Zealanders, Elizabeth settled in Australia some years ago.