List of Famous people who born in 1947

Isaac Burton Tigrett is an American businessman, best known as the co-founder of Hard Rock Café and House of Blues.

Halil Berktay is a Turkish historian at Ibn Haldun University and was columnist for the daily Taraf.

Mohamed Bolkiah is a member of the royal family of Brunei. He is the second son of Omar Ali Saifuddien III, the 28th Sultan of Brunei, and Raja Isteri (Queen) Pengiran Anak Damit. He is the Head of the Brunei’s Viziers. After Brunei’s independence in 1984, he became the country’s first foreign minister, serving from 1984 until 22 October 2015. He served in the cabinet as the Minister of the Brunei's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade alongside the second Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Lim Jock Seng.

Chien Tai-lang is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Secretary-General of the Executive Yuan from 2015 to 2016.

Charlie is a Hungarian rock and soul singer. In 1978, he married Katalin, with whom he has a son called Ákos.

David Alan Mamet is an American playwright, film director, screenwriter and author. He won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for his plays Glengarry Glen Ross (1984) and Speed-the-Plow (1988). He first gained critical acclaim for a trio of off-Broadway 1970s plays: The Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and American Buffalo. His plays Race and The Penitent, respectively, opened on Broadway in 2009 and previewed off-Broadway in 2017.