Born in 1937
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1937
Girls
- Mary
- Barbara
- Patricia
- Shirley
- Betty
- Carol
- Nancy
- Dorothy
- Joan
- Margaret
- Joyce
- Helen
- Marilyn
- Beverly
- Ruth
- Virginia
- Elizabeth
- Janet
- Frances
- Carolyn
- Donna
- Doris
- Jean
- Martha
- Janice
Boys
- Robert
- James
- John
- William
- Richard
- Charles
- Donald
- David
- Thomas
- George
- Ronald
- Joseph
- Edward
- Kenneth
- Paul
- Larry
- Jerry
- Frank
- Raymond
- Gerald
- Harold
- Billy
- Jack
- Bobby
- Joe
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Sandra
- Phyllis
- Alice
- Lois
- Ann
- Peggy
- Gloria
- Norma
- Judith
- Marie
- Evelyn
- Dolores
- Anna
- Rose
- Marlene
- Sharon
- Jane
- Mildred
- Geraldine
- Elaine
- Annie
- Catherine
- Louise
- Linda
- Sylvia
- Joanne
- Ruby
- Eleanor
- Patsy
- Wanda
- Carole
- Marjorie
- Joann
- Sally
- Arlene
- Kathleen
- Irene
- Loretta
- Bonnie
- Sarah
- Roberta
- Charlotte
- Delores
- Rita
- Jacqueline
- June
- Darlene
- Jo
- Edna
- Juanita
- Diane
- Yvonne
- Thelma
- Kay
- Wilma
- Florence
- Josephine
- Lorraine
- Lillian
- Audrey
- Gladys
- Pauline
- Ethel
- Emma
- Jeanette
- Judy
- Anne
- Anita
- Grace
- Theresa
- Edith
- Susan
- Lucille
- Gail
- Clara
Boys
- Walter
- Michael
- Carl
- Gary
- Henry
- Arthur
- Willie
- Eugene
- Ralph
- Fred
- Roger
- Albert
- Lawrence
- Daniel
- Roy
- Harry
- Howard
- Norman
- Wayne
- Jimmy
- Louis
- Anthony
- Earl
- Marvin
- Melvin
- Don
- Peter
- Ernest
- Clarence
- Francis
- Leroy
- Stanley
- Leonard
- Dale
- Alfred
- Gene
- Philip
- Dennis
- Bill
- Herbert
- Samuel
- Russell
- Frederick
- Johnny
- Bruce
- Ray
- Jimmie
- Bernard
- Douglas
- Gordon
- Allen
- Franklin
- Lee
- Andrew
- Floyd
- Bob
- Eddie
- Jim
- Tommy
- Leon
- Theodore
- Martin
- Edwin
- Glenn
- Clifford
- Lloyd
- Stephen
- Clyde
- Patrick
- Harvey
- Vernon
- Leo
- Phillip
- Alvin
- Jerome
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1937.
Famous people born in 1937
Dyan Cannon · American film and television actressJanuary 4
Shirley Bassey · Welsh singerJanuary 8
Boris Spassky · Russian chess playerJanuary 30
Vanessa Redgrave · British actress and activistJanuary 30
Philip Glass · American composerJanuary 31
Suzanne Pleshette · American actressJanuary 31
Roberta Flack · American singerFebruary 10
Harald V · King of NorwayFebruary 21
Abdelaziz Bouteflika · President of Algeria from 1999 to 2019March 2
Olusegun Obasanjo · Nigerian president and military leaderMarch 5
Valentina Tereshkova · Russian cosmonaut and pilot, first woman to have flown in spaceMarch 6
Juvénal Habyarimana · 2nd President of RwandaMarch 8
Angelo Badalamenti · American composerMarch 22
Warren Beatty · American actor and filmmakerMarch 30
Colin Powell · American general and diplomatApril 5
Merle Haggard · American country music songwriter, singer, and musicianApril 6
Billy Dee Williams · American actorApril 6
George Takei · American actor, author and activistApril 20
Jack Nicholson · American actor and filmmakerApril 22
Sandy Dennis · American actressApril 27
Saddam Hussein · Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003April 28
Ahmed Yassin · Palestinian political and religious leaderMay 1
Dick Dale · American surf rock guitaristMay 4
Thomas Pynchon · American novelistMay 8
George Carlin · American stand-up comedianMay 12
Madeleine Albright · United States Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001May 15
Robert B. Wilson · American economist and Nobel laureateMay 16
Mengistu Haile Mariam · Former General Secretary of the Workers' Party of EthiopiaMay 21
Morgan Freeman · American actor and producerJune 1
Sally Kellerman · American actressJune 2
Hélène Cixous · French philosopher and writerJune 5
David Mumford · British/American mathematicianJune 11
Robin Warren · Australian microbiologist and Nobel LaureateJune 11
Vladimir Arnold · Russian mathematicianJune 12
Waylon Jennings · American country musicianJune 15
Erich Segal · American writerJune 16
Simeon II · Bulgarian politician and royalJune 16
Martti Ahtisaari · President of Finland from 1994 to 2000June 23
Robert Coleman Richardson · American physicistJune 26
Tom Stoppard · Czech–English playwrightJuly 3
Thomas Nagel · American philosopherJuly 4
Queen Sonja of Norway · Queen of Norway, from 1991 to 2026July 4
Ned Beatty · American actorJuly 6
David Hockney · Painter, printmaker, set designer, photographerJuly 9
Bill Cosby · American actor and comedianJuly 12
Yoshirō Mori · Prime Minister of Japan from 2000 to 2001July 14
Hunter S. Thompson · American journalist and authorJuly 18
Roald Hoffmann · Polish-American Nobel laureate chemist and playwrightJuly 18
Daniel McFadden · American economistJuly 29
Dustin Hoffman · American actorAugust 8
Jared Diamond · American scientist, historian, and authorSeptember 10
Renzo Piano · Italian architectSeptember 14
Robert Lucas Jr. · American economistSeptember 15
Mario Capecchi · Molecular geneticist and Nobel laureateOctober 6
Bobby Charlton · English association football player and managerOctober 11
Lenny Wilkens · American basketball player and coachOctober 28
Ridley Scott · English filmmakerNovember 30
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga · 6th President of LatviaDecember 1
Connie Francis · American singer and actressDecember 12
Mitsuo Kamata · Japanese association football playerDecember 16
John Kennedy Toole · American novelistDecember 17
Jane Fonda · American actress and activistDecember 21
Anthony Hopkins · Welsh–American actor and directorDecember 31
Avram Hershko · Israeli biochemistDecember 31