List of Famous people who born in 1947

David Chiang Tai-wai is a Hong Kong actor, director and producer. A well-known martial arts actor formerly from Shaw Brothers Studio in the 1970s, he has appeared in over 130 films and 30 television series.

Li Lanjuan, also romanized as Lan-Juan Li, is a Chinese epidemiologist and hepatologist. She is a professor at Zhejiang University School of Medicine, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and serves as the director of the State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases. She developed Li-NBAL, an artificial liver support system that is used to sustain the lives of people suffering from acute liver failure, and won multiple national awards for her roles in combatting the SARS, H1N1, and H7N9 epidemics.

Joan Ribó i Canut is a Spanish politician who has been the mayor of Valencia since 13 June 2015. Ribó is member of Compromís.

Jan Niklas is a German film and television actor. He is best known for appearing in TV films such as Peter The Great, Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna and Anne Frank: The Whole Story. He won a Golden Globe Award for his appearance in the TV miniseries Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna. He also played in the Hungarian film Colonel Redl which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Teru Miyamoto is a Japanese author.

Didier Flamand is a French actor and theatre director. He has appeared in more than 150 films and television shows since 1973. He starred in Raúl Ruiz's 1978 film The Suspended Vocation.

Liu Cheng-hung is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Magistrate of Miaoli County from 20 December 2005 until 25 December 2014.

Sayyid Al-Qemany is an Egyptian secular writer and thinker. His works emphasize the importance of critical thinking, and he is an opponent of Islamic fundamentalism, supporting separation of religion and state, and tolerance. In 2009, he won the Egyptian Culture Ministry's prize for achievement in the social sciences, a cash award of 200,000 Egyptian pounds. A judicial and media campaign was launched calling for the prize to be withdrawn by those who claimed Al-Qemany was a heretic who has harmed Islam and Muslims with his writings.

Hiroshi Aramata is a Japanese author, polymath, critic, translator and specialist in natural history, iconography and cartography. His most popular novel was Teito Monogatari, which has sold over 5 million copies in Japan alone.

Farid Khayrullovich Mukhametshin is a Tatar politician and a former Prime Minister of Tatarstan. He is an ethnic Tatar.