List of Famous people who born in 1947
Gareth Edwards
Sir Gareth Owen Edwards, CBE is a Welsh former rugby union player who played scrum-half and has been described by the BBC as "arguably the greatest player ever to don a Welsh jersey".
Peter Burroughs
Peter Burroughs is a British television and film actor, the director of Willow Management. He is the father-in-law of actor and TV presenter Warwick Davis.
Motoo Hayashi
Motoo Hayashi is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). He has been a member of the House of Representatives in the national Diet since 1993 and currently represents the Chiba 10th district; he has previously represented the Southern Kanto proportional representation block and the pre-1996 Chiba 2nd district.
Ertuğrul Özkök
Ertuğrul Özkök is a Turkish journalist and a daily columnist. Between 1990 and 2010, he was the editor-in-chief for Hürriyet, a daily newspaper published in Turkish in Turkey and some European countries. Özkök is known for advocating modernization of Turkey, globalization, women's rights and Turkey's European Union accession. He is also known for his strong relationships with Turkey's and Europe's top politicians, journalists and business people.
Andrew Cockburn
Andrew Myles Cockburn is a London-born journalist and the Washington, D.C., editor of Harper's Magazine.
Janet T. Mills
Janet Trafton Mills is an American politician and lawyer serving as the 75th governor of Maine since January 2019. She previously served as the Maine Attorney General on two occasions.
David Nahmad
David Nahmad is a Monegasque billionaire and former fine art dealer. A descendant of a Syrian Jewish art family residing in Monaco, he and his relations are perhaps the single biggest buying force in fine art.
Glen Morgan
Glen Morgan is an American television producer, writer and director. Most recognized for his work on The X-Files and the Final Destination franchise, Morgan has worked on many other projects including Amazon's Lore and New Line Cinema's Willard. In 2017, he was an executive producer on season eleven of The X-Files which premiered in 2018 on Fox. He also serves as an executive producer on The Twilight Zone reboot by Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw Productions.
Billy Conigliaro
William Michael Conigliaro was an American baseball outfielder who played five seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the Boston Red Sox, Milwaukee Brewers, and Oakland Athletics from 1969 to 1973. He batted and threw right-handed, and was the younger brother of Tony Conigliaro, with whom he was teammates on the Red Sox from 1969 until 1970.
Larry Wilcox
Larry Dee Wilcox is an American actor best known for his role as California Highway Patrol officer Jonathan "Jon" Baker in television series CHiPs, which ran from 1977 to 1983.