List of Famous people who born in 1947

Raven De La Croix is an American actress and stripper known for her lead role in the 1976 Russ Meyer film Up!. When Meyer first discovered her at Joe Allen's, a hangout in West Hollywood, California, she had no acting experience. In 2011, Owen Gleiberman wrote that she "...may be [Meyer's] most spectacular siren". She is the granddaughter of aviation pioneer Lieutenant William Knox Martin.

Jerónimo Carvalho de Sousa is a Portuguese politician who has been General Secretary of the Portuguese Communist Party since the 17th Congress of the Party in November 2004.

Elli Robert Fitoussi, better known as F. R. David, is a French singer. He is best known for his 1982 hit single "Words".

Peter Due is a Danish competitive sailor and Olympic medalist. He won a silver medal in the Tornado class at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow along with Per Kjærgaard Nielsen.

Helena Vondráčková is a Czech singer whose career has spanned five decades.

William Atherton Knight is an American actor, best known for portraying Richard Thornburg in Die Hard and its sequel and Walter Peck in Ghostbusters.

Gerhart Holzinger is an Austrian jurist, educator, and career civil servant. He was appointed to the Austrian Constitutional Court in 1995, serving as its president from 2008 until his retirement in 2017.

Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun, known by his pseudonym of Viktor Suvorov, became known as a Russian non-fiction author after he defected to the United Kingdom in 1978. Of Russian-Ukrainian ancestry, Suvorov attended Russian military schools, was a veteran of the armed forces, and had worked as a Soviet military intelligence officer in the Soviet Union.

Hiroshi Miyauchi is a prolific Japanese actor from Chiba Prefecture. Miyauchi graduated from Nihon University. In 1969, he singed with Toei Company and made his film debut with Nagasaki Blues. He first attracted attention after landing a role in a television series, in Key Hunter on TBS.

Oscar Castro Ramírez,, was a Chilean playwright, actor and director of the Aleph Theater.