List of Famous people who born in 1947

Sandro Petraglia is an author and screenwriter. He has over 40 writing credits to his name, most famously the 400-minute epic La Meglio Gioventù.

Stomu Yamashta, born Tsutomu Yamashita , is a Japanese percussionist, keyboardist and composer. He is best known for pioneering and popularising a fusion of traditional Japanese percussive music with Western progressive rock music in the 1960s and 1970s.

Terry Alexander is an American actor, who is best known for his role as John in George A. Romero's 1985 film Day of the Dead. He had a regular role on the soap opera One Life to Live in the early 1990s, as police chief Troy Nichols. He has also had numerous small roles in films and television shows, along with ads, most notably an AIDS PSA.

William A. "Bill" Stanton is a retired United States career diplomat. Since his retirement, he has been a professor at National Tsinghua University and at National Taiwan University in Taiwan. He is currently Vice President of National Yang Ming University in Taiwan.