List of Famous people who born in 1947

James Carter Pankow is an American trombone player, songwriter and brass instrument player, best known as a founding member of the rock band Chicago.

Domenico "Italian Dom" Cefalù, also known as "Greaseball", "Dom and Cheese" and "Dom from 18th Avenue", is currently the reputed boss of the Gambino crime family and influential leader of the organization's Sicilian faction.

Burton Lorne Cummings, is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter.

Dwight Schultz is an American television, film and voice actor. He is known for his roles as Captain "Howling Mad" Murdock on the 1980s action series The A-Team and as Reginald Barclay in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, and the film Star Trek: First Contact. He is also known in animation as the mad scientist Dr. Animo in the Ben 10 series, Chef Mung Daal in the children's animated series Chowder, and Eddie the Squirrel in CatDog.

Linda Thorson is a Canadian actress, known for playing Tara King in The Avengers (1968–69).

Takashi Kako is a Japanese pianist and composer, who works in both jazz and art-music idioms.

Kanjeng Raden Ayu Soemarini Soerjosoemarno, now known as Abdullah Burhan Marini or simply Marini or Marini Sardi is an Indonesian singer and actress who has performed on stage and TV screens since the 1960s. She was born to Indonesian father Kanjeng Raden Mas Arjo Soetarjo Soerjosoemarno and Dutch mother Dolly Zegerius. She has recorded dozens of albums, both recorded in Indonesia and abroad for Polydor, Philips and EMI.

Yūki Meguro is a Japanese actor. He is the son of jidaigeki actor Jūshirō Konoe and had an older brother Hiroki Matsukata. He was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series for his work in Shōgun in 1981's Emmy award.

Anatoliy Ivanovych Polivoda is a retired Ukrainian basketball player who played for the Budivelnyk of Kiev and the Soviet Union. He trained at VSS Avanhard in Kiev.

Ian Lovett O'Brien is an Australian breaststroke swimmer of the 1960s who won the 200 metre breaststroke at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in world record time. He won five Commonwealth Games gold medals and claimed a total of nine individual and six relay titles at the Australian Championships, before retiring at the age of 21 due to financial pressures.