List of Famous people who born in 1937

Hitomi Nozoe was a Japanese actress popular in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Cheng Yen (Chinese: 證嚴法師; pinyin: Zhèngyán Fǎshī; Wade–Giles: Chêng⁴ Yen² Fa³-shih¹; born Chin-Yun Wong; 14 May 1937) is a Taiwanese Buddhist nun (bhikkhuni), teacher, and philanthropist. She is the founder of the Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation, ordinarily referred to as Tzu Chi, a Buddhist humanitarian organization based in Taiwan. In the West, she is sometimes referred to as the "Mother Theresa of Asia".

Lau Kong (劉江) is a Hong Kong actor who worked on the network TVB.

Iba Der Thiam, also known as I. D. Thiam, was a Senegalese writer, historian, and politician. He served in the government of Senegal as Minister of Education from 1983 to 1988; later, he was First Vice-President of the National Assembly of Senegal from 2001 to 2012.

Françoise Claustre, was a French archeologist who was taken hostage by a group of Chadian rebels, led by Hissène Habré, on 20 April 1974, at Bardaï, in the Tibesti Mountains of northern Chad. At the same time, the rebels also seized a German doctor, Christophe Staewen, and Marc Combe, who was an assistant of Claustre's husband, Pierre.

Ibrahim Maraachli or Meraachli was a Lebanese television, radio and stage actor and comedian. He took part in a great number of plays on Lebanese television and stage for three decades. He was best known for Lebanese made TV series such as Al mouaallima wal oustaz, "Ibrahim Afandi" and "Captain Bob".

Charles Raymond Henwood was a Welsh-born New Zealand actor. He was the father of New Zealand comedian Dai Henwood.

Charly Antolini is a Swiss jazz drummer.

Yoshikichi Furui was a Japanese author and translator. He has won the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, and the Yomiuri Prize, among other literary awards.

Otto Martin Pfister is a German football manager and one of Germany's most successful coaching exports, voted Africa's Manager of the Year in 1992. He is formerly the manager of the Afghanistan national team.