List of Famous people born on April 27th

Basil Alexander Paterson, a labor lawyer, was a State Senator from Harlem, and Secretary of State under Hugh Carey. Paterson's son David Paterson served as Governor of New York, from 2008 to 2010.Paterson's father was Carriacouan.

Boris Ivanovich Shavyrin was a Russian artillery and rocket engineer who developed the first air-augmented rocket, Gnom, or Gnome, as well as many other Soviet mortars and rockets.

Hans Hartwig von Beseler was a German colonel general.

Catherine Webb is a British author, educated at the Godolphin and Latymer School, London, and the London School of Economics. She was 14 years old when she completed Mirror Dreams, which was written during her school holidays. Her father is author and publisher Nick Webb and he suggested she should send the manuscript to an agent he knew, who eventually offered to represent her. The book was published in 2002 by Atom Books, part of Time Warner, and Webb was named Young Trailblazer of the Year by the magazine CosmoGirl UK. She has published eight young adult novels, all with Atom Books, and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, from which she graduated in 2010.

John Eric Hillman is a former Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher.

Eugene Rabinowitch (1901–1973) was a Russian-born American biophysicist who is known for his work in photosynthesis and nuclear energy. He was a co-author of the Franck Report and a co-founder in 1945 of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a global security and public policy magazine, which he edited until his death.