List of Famous people who died in 1947

William Johnston Tupper, was a politician and office holder in Manitoba, Canada. He served as the province's 12th Lieutenant Governor from 1934 to 1940.

Leo Stein was an American art collector and critic. He was born in Allegheny City, the older brother of Gertrude Stein. He became an influential promoter of 20th-century paintings. Beginning in 1892, he studied at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for two years.

Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs was a British colonial governor, who was once the Governor of Hong Kong. He caused controversy while Governor of Ceylon over the Bracegirdle Incident.

Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Baronet was an English landowner, best known for his restoration of the country house at Stourhead in Wiltshire, following a fire in April 1902. Prior to his death he donated the house and gardens to the National Trust.

Henry George Charles Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood, was a British soldier, peer, and a landowner. He was the husband of Mary, Princess Royal, and thus a son-in-law of King George V and Queen Mary and a brother-in-law to Edward VIII and George VI.

Ove Vilhelm Paulsen was a Danish botanist.

Alice Frederica Keppel was a British society hostess and a long-time mistress and confidante of King Edward VII.

Sir Cyril John Deverell was a British Army Field Marshal, who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff from 1936 to 1937. He fought in the Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War and the First World War and later advised the Government on the importance of maintaining the capability to mount an Expeditionary Force for operations on mainland Europe.