Born in 1927
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1927
Girls
- Mary
- Dorothy
- Betty
- Helen
- Margaret
- Ruth
- Doris
- Virginia
- Shirley
- Barbara
- Mildred
- Frances
- Elizabeth
- Jean
- Evelyn
- Anna
- Alice
- Patricia
- Lois
- Marie
- Irene
- Gloria
- Rose
- Martha
- Marjorie
Boys
- Robert
- John
- James
- William
- Charles
- Richard
- George
- Donald
- Joseph
- Edward
- Thomas
- Frank
- Paul
- Harold
- Raymond
- Jack
- Walter
- Kenneth
- Henry
- Eugene
- David
- Arthur
- Albert
- Ralph
- Harry
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Norma
- Louise
- Florence
- Phyllis
- Ruby
- Catherine
- Lillian
- Eleanor
- Dolores
- Joyce
- Annie
- Gladys
- Thelma
- Josephine
- Edna
- Joan
- Pauline
- June
- Lorraine
- Lucille
- Marilyn
- Ethel
- Edith
- Bernice
- Grace
- Marion
- Theresa
- Hazel
- Rita
- Juanita
- Nancy
- Beverly
- Geraldine
- Ann
- Jane
- Sarah
- Audrey
- Clara
- Esther
- Emma
- Wanda
- Beatrice
- Wilma
- Elaine
- Donna
- Willie
- Elsie
- Katherine
- Marian
- Charlotte
- Julia
- Vivian
- Gertrude
- Eva
- Bertha
- Agnes
- Laura
- Kathleen
- Ida
- Jeanne
- Rosemary
- Maxine
- Bessie
- Vera
- Kathryn
- Anne
- Eileen
- Ellen
- Lillie
- Jessie
- Peggy
- Alma
- Ella
- Carolyn
- Bonnie
Boys
- Carl
- Willie
- Howard
- Louis
- Joe
- Billy
- Clarence
- Earl
- Roy
- Fred
- Francis
- Lawrence
- Gerald
- Norman
- Leonard
- Ernest
- Herbert
- Anthony
- Stanley
- Alfred
- Daniel
- Marvin
- Melvin
- Samuel
- Bernard
- Leroy
- Michael
- Floyd
- Russell
- Leo
- Andrew
- Edwin
- Lloyd
- Peter
- Ray
- Elmer
- Theodore
- Ronald
- Frederick
- Clifford
- Alvin
- Wayne
- Clyde
- Bill
- Herman
- Vernon
- Gene
- Calvin
- Gordon
- Philip
- Glenn
- Vincent
- Leon
- Warren
- Charlie
- Dale
- Lewis
- Lester
- Chester
- Roger
- Lee
- Martin
- Milton
- Jesse
- Don
- Bobby
- Cecil
- Jerry
- Harvey
- Allen
- Wallace
- Arnold
- Victor
- Gilbert
- Bob
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1927.
Famous people born in 1927
Vernon L. Smith · American economistJanuary 1
Sydney Brenner · South African-British biologistJanuary 13
Eartha Kitt · American singer and actressJanuary 17
Antônio Carlos Jobim · Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitaristJanuary 25
Edward Abbey · American author and essayistJanuary 29
Olof Palme · Swedish Prime MinisterJanuary 30
Stan Getz · American jazz saxophonistFebruary 2
Leontyne Price · African-American sopranoFebruary 10
Sidney Poitier · Bahamian and American actor and diplomatFebruary 20
Harry Belafonte · American singer, actor and civil rights activistMarch 1
Gabriel García Márquez · Colombian writer and Nobel laureateMarch 6
Gordon Cooper · American astronautMarch 6
Raúl Alfonsín · Argentine politicianMarch 12
Vladimir Komarov · Soviet cosmonautMarch 16
Hans-Dietrich Genscher · German politician and member of the Free Democratic PartyMarch 21
Mstislav Rostropovich · Soviet and Russian cellist and conductorMarch 27
Cesar Chavez · Mexican-American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activistMarch 31
Ferenc Puskás · Hungarian association football playerApril 1
Marshall Warren Nirenberg · American biochemist and geneticistApril 10
Alan MacDiarmid · New Zealand chemistApril 14
Pope Benedict XVI · 265 th pope of the Catholic ChurchApril 16
Chandra Shekhar · Prime Minister of IndiaApril 17
Samuel P. Huntington · American political scientistApril 18
Phil Hill · American racing driverApril 20
K. Alex Müller · Swiss physicistApril 20
Coretta Scott King · American author, activist, and civil rights leaderApril 27
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala · German-born British-American authorMay 7
Manfred Eigen · German biophysical chemistMay 9
Robert Ludlum · American novelistMay 25
Jerry Stiller · American actor and comedianJune 8
Bob Fosse · American choreographer, dancer, and directorJune 23
Martin Lewis Perl · American scientistJune 24
F. Sherwood Rowland · American chemistJune 28
Gina Lollobrigida · Italian actress, photojournalist, and politicianJuly 4
Neil Simon · American playwright, writer, and academicJuly 4
Janet Leigh · American actressJuly 6
Simone Veil · French politicianJuly 13
Harry Mulisch · Dutch writerJuly 29
Marvin Minsky · American cognitive scientistAugust 9
Daniel Keyes · American authorAugust 9
Ann Blyth · American actressAugust 16
Rosalynn Carter · First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981August 18
Harry Markowitz · American economistAugust 24
Althea Gibson · American tennis playerAugust 25
John McCarthy · American computer scientist and cognitive scientistSeptember 4
Peter Falk · American actorSeptember 16
R. D. Laing · Unorthodox Scottish psychiatristOctober 7
Turgut Özal · 8th President of the Republic of TurkeyOctober 13
Roger Moore · English actorOctober 14
Günter Grass · German novelistOctober 16
George C. Scott · American actor, film director and producerOctober 18
Lawrence Kohlberg · American psychologistOctober 25
Steve Ditko · American comics artistNovember 2
Patti Page · American country-pop singerNovember 8
Eldar Ryazanov · Soviet and Russian film directorNovember 18
Estelle Parsons · American actressNovember 20
Andy Williams · American singerDecember 3
Bhumibol Adulyadej · Former King of ThailandDecember 5
Robert Noyce · American physicistDecember 12
Kim Young-sam · President of South Korea from 1993 to 1998December 20
Ram Narayan · Indian classical sarangi playerDecember 25