List of Famous people who born in 1937

Jared Mason Diamond is an American geographer, historian, anthropologist, ornithologist, and author best known for his popular science books The Third Chimpanzee (1991); Guns, Germs, and Steel ; Collapse (2005), The World Until Yesterday (2012), and Upheaval (2019). Originally trained in biochemistry and physiology, Diamond is known for drawing from a variety of fields, including anthropology, ecology, geography, and evolutionary biology. He is a professor of geography at UCLA.

Tsutomu Kawara was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party.

Yuriy Mikhaylovich Poyarkov was a Ukrainian volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1964 Summer Olympics, in the 1968 Summer Olympics, and in the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Paul Mackintosh Foot was a British investigative journalist, political campaigner, author, and long-time member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP).

Charles-Marie Christian de Chergé, O.C.S.O, was a French Roman Catholic Cistercian monk. He was one of the seven monks from the Abbey of Our Lady of Atlas in Tibhirine, Algeria, kidnapped and believed to have been later killed by Islamists. He was beatified with the eighteen others Martyrs of Algeria on December 9, 2018.

Fleet Admiral Feliks Nikolayevich Gromov was a Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy. Gromov was married and had a daughter and a son.

Eddy Ko Hung is a Hong Kong television and film actor who has worked on the TV stations RTV, TVB, and ATV.

Georges Bœuf was a French composer, musician, and saxophonist. He composed operas and film scores, among others.

Brooke Hayward is an American stage, film and television actress. She is the author of Haywire, a best-selling memoir about her family.

Mohamud "Adde" Muse Hersi (Somali: Maxamuud Muuse Xirsi Cadde, Arabic: محمد موسى حرسي‎; 1 July 1937 – 8 February 2017) was a Somali politician. He was the President of the Puntland region of Somalia from 8 January 2005 to 8 January 2009.