List of Famous people who died in 1947

Roy Chadwick, CBE, FRSA, FRAeS was an aircraft design engineer for the Avro Company.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Claude Edward Marjoribanks Dansey, KCMG, also known as Colonel Z, Haywood, Uncle Claude, and codenamed Z, was the assistant chief of the Secret Intelligence Service known as ACSS, of the British intelligence agency commonly known as MI6, and a member of the London Controlling Section. He began his career in intelligence in 1900, and remained active until his death.

Sidney Chapman Wagner was an American cinematographer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Cinematography for the films Northwest Passage and Dragon Seed. Wagner died in April 1947, after he felt ill, in Hollywood, California, at the age of 47. He was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

Édouard Chatton was a French biologist who first characterized the distinction between the prokaryotic and eukaryotic cellular types. Chatton coined the terms and published them first in his 1937 paper "Pansporella perplex: Reflections on the Biology and Phylogeny of the Protozoa."

Prof William Whitehead Watts FRS HFRSE FGS FMS LLD was a British geologist.

Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins was an English biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929, with Christiaan Eijkman, for the discovery of vitamins, even though Casimir Funk, a Polish biochemist, is widely credited with discovering vitamins. He also discovered the amino acid tryptophan, in 1901. He was President of the Royal Society from 1930 to 1935.

Air Vice-Marshal Abdul Halim Perdanakusuma, better known as Halim Perdanakusuma, was an Indonesian airman and National Hero of Indonesia.

Maurice Chabas was a French Symbolist painter.