List of Famous people who born in 1947

Riyad Nassan Agha is a former minister of culture of Syria. He served as Syria's ambassador to Oman and the United Arab Emirates. He holds a PhD. degree in philosophy from the University of Damascus.

Monsignor Camille Moubarak is a Lebanese political scientist, political activist, philosopher, scholar, researcher, poet, writer, and a Maronite Priest. He is best known for his social and political doctrines conferred in Lebanon, for the maintenance of peace and social cohesion in a country torn by tensions and intercommoned strife. He has lectured about peace, held interviews on TV, radio, social networks, and newspapers to spread awareness for all the people around, sparing them from risks of civil war and bringing a sense of democracy, awareness, accepting and tolerating each other.

Zhao Hongzhu is a retired Chinese politician and previously a member of the Communist Party of China's national leadership. Zhao served as the Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the Communist Party's anti-corruption agency, as well as a Secretary of the Central Secretariat.

Peng Tso-kwei is a Taiwanese politician who served as head of the Council of Agriculture from 1997 to 1999.

Oei Hong Leong is a Singaporean billionaire businessman.

Chen Chien-nien is a former Taiwanese politician. Born in Taitung, Chen entered politics in 1981 as a Taitung councillor representing the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT). He served as County Magistrate of Taitung from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Puyuma tribe, he is the only indigenous politician to have served as a county magistrate in Taiwan. In 2002, Chen quit the KMT to accept the cabinet-level Minister of Council of Aboriginal Affairs post in Chen Shui-bian's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration. He resigned in 2005 due to a vote-buying charge, whilst continuing to maintain his innocence. Following a failed appeal to the Supreme Court in 2012, he was sentenced to nine months in jail.