List of Famous people who born in 1937

José Luis Fidalgo Veloso was a Spanish footballer who played as a striker.

Kenneth Colley is an English film and television actor whose career spans 50 years. He came to wider prominence through his role as Admiral Piett in the Star Wars films The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.

Peter Wen-shiung Huang is a Taiwanese activist for democratization and human rights.

Robert "Bootsie" Barnes was an American jazz tenor saxophonist from Philadelphia.

Johan Jakob Jakobsen was a Norwegian politician, member of the Norwegian Centre Party.

Cliff Osmond was an American character actor and television screenwriter best known for appearing in films directed by Billy Wilder. A parallel career as an acting teacher coincided with his other activities.

Ralph Gerald Backstrom was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and later a coach, entrepreneur and hockey executive. He played in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens, Los Angeles Kings, and Chicago Black Hawks between 1956 and 1973. He also played in the World Hockey Association with the Chicago Cougars, Denver Spurs/Ottawa Civics, and New England Whalers from 1973 to 1977. With the Canadiens, he won the Stanley Cup six times, and won the Calder Memorial Trophy as the NHL's rookie of the year in 1959. After retiring he served as head coach of the University of Denver Pioneers for several years in the 1980s.

Michel Rabreau was a French politician.

Hamadjoda Adjoudji was a Cameroonian politician. He served in the government of Cameroon as Minister of Animal Husbandry, Fishing, and Animal Industries from 1984 to 2004. Most recently he was a Deputy Secretary-General of the Central Committee of the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (RDPC).

Yoshio Taniguchi is a Japanese architect best known for his redesign of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City which was reopened November 20, 2004.