List of Famous people who born in 1947

Stephen Allen Schwarzman is an American businessman, investor and philanthropist. He is the chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group, a global private equity firm he established in 1985 with former chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers and US Secretary of Commerce Peter G. Peterson. His personal fortune is estimated at $19 billion as of October 2020, ranking him at 64th on the World's Billionaires list. Schwarzman briefly served as Chairman of President Donald Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum.

The Honourable Dame Mary Claire Hogg, DBE, is a British lawyer and former High Court judge. She is the daughter of Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, and his wife, Mary Evelyn Martin, and is the sister of Douglas Hogg.

William Francis "Bo" Ryan Jr. is an American former college basketball coach and player. He was the head coach of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Badgers men's basketball team from 2001 to December 2015. Ryan served as the head men's basketball coach at the University of Wisconsin–Platteville from 1984 to 1999 and at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee from 1999 to 2001. His overall collegiate coaching record was 747–233. Ryan was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2017.

Lee Edward Evans is an American Olympian from the 1968 Summer Olympics where he ran track and was part of the boycott and black power movement.

Urs Siegenthaler is a former Swiss footballer, turned manager. Since 13 May 2005 he is Chiefscout and Analyser for the German national team.

Tadaaki Otaka, CBE is a Japanese conductor.

Liu Yunshan is a retired Chinese politician. He was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, the de facto top decision-making body of China, between 2012 and 2017; he was broadly tasked with the work of the party's secretariat, overseeing propaganda and ideological indoctrination, as well as party organization, in addition to serving as President of the Central Party School.

Gerhard Ludwig Müller is a German cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) from his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012 until 2017. He was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 2014.

Alexandre Arcady is a French actor, film director, producer and screenwriter.

Chiyo Okumura is a popular Japanese pop singer, and former fashion model who debuted in the 1960s.