List of Famous people born on April 27th

Mathieu Criquielion is a Belgian former cyclist. His father Claude was also a professional cyclist.

Gilbert Sorrentino was an American novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, professor, and editor.

Reinhard von Schorlemer is a farmer, landowner and German politician for Christian Democratic Union of Germany.

Douglas William Freshfield was a British lawyer, mountaineer and author, who edited the Alpine Journal from 1872 to 1880. He was an active member of the Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club and served as President of both organizations. He was also the first President of the Geographical Association, being one of the people at the first meeting where the Association was founded. He served from 1897–1911, the longest serving President in the history of the Association.

Stanisław Jan Dziwisz is a Polish prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Kraków from 2005 until 2016. He was created a cardinal in 2006. He was a long-time and influential aide to Pope John Paul II, a friend of Pope Benedict XVI, and an ardent supporter of John Paul II's beatification.

Frederick Jagiellon was a Polish prince, Archbishop of Gniezno, Bishop of Kraków, and Primate of Poland. He was the sixth son and ninth child of Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, and his wife Elizabeth of Austria, known as 'Matka Jagiellonow'.

Gian-Carlo Rota was an Italian-American mathematician and philosopher. He spent most of his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked in combinatorics, functional analysis, probability theory, and phenomenology.