List of Famous people who born in 1937

Fuad Ricardo Char Abdala is a Senator of Colombia serving his fifth term in Congress, albeit not all consecutively. He is the founder of Grupo Empresarial Olímpica, the second biggest company in the Colombian Caribbean coast after Reficar.

David Meltzer was an American poet and musician of the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance. Lawrence Ferlinghetti described him as "one of the greats of post-World-War-Two San Francisco poets and musicians". Meltzer came to prominence with inclusion of his work in the anthology, The New American Poetry 1945–1960.

Radu Gabrea was a Romanian film director and screenwriter. He directed more than twenty films between 1969 and 2016. He showed his first film in the Locarno Festival.

Hiromasa Yonekura was a Japanese businessman. He was chairman of Sumitomo Chemical and was also the chairman of the Japan Business Federation.

Yılmaz Onay was a Turkish author, theatre director and translator.

Hideo Murota was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 100 films. He won the Best Supporting Actor award at the Yokohama Film Festival for his role in Shinde mo ii.

Pery Ribeiro was a Brazilian singer of bossa nova, MPB and jazz, active as a singer from 1959 until shortly before his death.

Rudolfo Anaya was an American author. Noted for his 1972 novel Bless Me, Ultima, Anaya was considered one of the founders of the canon of contemporary Chicano literature. The themes and cultural references of the novel, which were uncommon at the time of its publication, had a lasting impression on fellow Latino writers. It was subsequently adapted into a film and an opera.

João Castelo Ribeiro Gonçalves was a Brazilian politician and lawyer. He served as Governor of Maranhão from March 15, 1979, to May 15, 1982.

Vadim Alekseyevich Kuzmin was a Russian theoretical physicist.