List of Famous people who died in 1937

Erkki Melartin was a Finnish composer. He was a pupil of Martin Wegelius from 1892 to 1899 in Helsinki and of Robert Fuchs from 1899 to 1901 in Vienna.

Felix Teodor Hamrin was a Swedish politician. He was the leader of the liberal Freeminded People's Party and served as Prime Minister of Sweden from August to September 1932.

Erik Teodor Marks von Würtemberg was a Swedish friherre, jurist, and politician. He served as Foreign Minister of Sweden 1923–1924 representing the General Electoral Union.

Gaetano Trentanove was an Italian and American sculptor.

Geoffrey Cecil Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 18th Baron Saye and Sele was an English soldier and Liberal politician from the Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes family. He served as Comptroller of the Household between 1912 and 1915.

Sir George Jefford Fowler was an English solicitor who served as Chief Magistrate for Kingston upon Thames for thirty years.

Captain George Sitwell Campbell Swinton, CBE DL was a long-serving Scottish politician and officer of arms.

Elihu Thomson was an English-born American engineer and inventor who was instrumental in the founding of major electrical companies in the United States, the United Kingdom and France.

Walter Burley Griffin was an American architect and landscape architect. He is known for designing Canberra, Australia's capital city and the New South Wales towns of Griffith and Leeton. He has been credited with the development of the L-shaped floor plan, the carport and an innovative use of reinforced concrete.