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Born in 1947

The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.

Top 100 baby names of 1947

Girls
  1. Linda
  2. Mary
  3. Patricia
  4. Barbara
  5. Sandra
  6. Carol
  7. Nancy
  8. Susan
  9. Sharon
  10. Donna
  11. Kathleen
  12. Judith
  13. Karen
  14. Judy
  15. Carolyn
  16. Margaret
  17. Betty
  18. Diane
  19. Shirley
  20. Joyce
  21. Brenda
  22. Janice
  23. Janet
  24. Cheryl
  25. Elizabeth
Boys
  1. James
  2. Robert
  3. John
  4. William
  5. Richard
  6. David
  7. Michael
  8. Thomas
  9. Charles
  10. Larry
  11. Ronald
  12. Gary
  13. Donald
  14. Joseph
  15. Kenneth
  16. George
  17. Dennis
  18. Paul
  19. Edward
  20. Jerry
  21. Stephen
  22. Daniel
  23. Frank
  24. Steven
  25. Roger
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Dorothy
  2. Gloria
  3. Pamela
  4. Marilyn
  5. Joan
  6. Beverly
  7. Martha
  8. Cynthia
  9. Virginia
  10. Bonnie
  11. Jane
  12. Phyllis
  13. Helen
  14. Frances
  15. Jean
  16. Ann
  17. Peggy
  18. Connie
  19. Ruth
  20. Christine
  21. Catherine
  22. Alice
  23. Diana
  24. Gail
  25. Elaine
  26. Jo
  27. Rebecca
  28. Suzanne
  29. Paula
  30. Kathryn
  31. Joanne
  32. Marie
  33. Doris
  34. Jacqueline
  35. Rita
  36. Ellen
  37. Deborah
  38. Lois
  39. Kathy
  40. Rose
  41. Wanda
  42. Sherry
  43. Charlotte
  44. Sue
  45. Sally
  46. Darlene
  47. Evelyn
  48. Sheila
  49. Laura
  50. Lynn
  51. Katherine
  52. Lynda
  53. Geraldine
  54. Maria
  55. Rosemary
  56. Marcia
  57. Norma
  58. Dianne
  59. Lorraine
  60. Theresa
  61. Jeanne
  62. Patsy
  63. Marsha
  64. Joann
  65. Roberta
  66. Eileen
  67. Anna
  68. Sarah
  69. Anita
  70. Anne
  71. Glenda
  72. Sylvia
  73. Maureen
  74. Louise
  75. Constance
Boys
  1. Terry
  2. Raymond
  3. Gerald
  4. Bruce
  5. Wayne
  6. Douglas
  7. Lawrence
  8. Gregory
  9. Walter
  10. Harold
  11. Peter
  12. Jack
  13. Arthur
  14. Danny
  15. Carl
  16. Anthony
  17. Willie
  18. Joe
  19. Jimmy
  20. Alan
  21. Henry
  22. Mark
  23. Roy
  24. Johnny
  25. Ralph
  26. Billy
  27. Timothy
  28. Patrick
  29. Harry
  30. Albert
  31. Fred
  32. Philip
  33. Steve
  34. Eugene
  35. Bobby
  36. Ronnie
  37. Howard
  38. Dale
  39. Louis
  40. Mike
  41. Jeffrey
  42. Stanley
  43. Barry
  44. Russell
  45. Leonard
  46. Glenn
  47. Samuel
  48. Allen
  49. Phillip
  50. Ernest
  51. Bill
  52. Jim
  53. Frederick
  54. Tommy
  55. Eddie
  56. Norman
  57. Andrew
  58. Earl
  59. Francis
  60. Melvin
  61. Don
  62. Tom
  63. Clarence
  64. Marvin
  65. Martin
  66. Keith
  67. Lee
  68. Craig
  69. Rodney
  70. Brian
  71. Alfred
  72. Ray
  73. Leroy
  74. Curtis
  75. Bernard
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1947.

Famous people born in 1947

David Bowie · English musician and actorJanuary 8
Martin Chalfie · American biochemist, cell biologist, and university teacherJanuary 15
Takeshi Kitano · Japanese film directorJanuary 18
Megawati Sukarnoputri · 5th President of Indonesia and 8th Vice President of IndonesiaJanuary 23
Michio Kaku · U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and authorJanuary 24
Linda B. Buck · American biologistJanuary 29
Jonathan Banks · American actorJanuary 31
Farrah Fawcett · American actressFebruary 2
Paul Auster · American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriterFebruary 3
Melanie · American musicianFebruary 3
Dan Quayle · Vice president of the United States from 1989 to 1993February 4
Yukio Hatoyama · Prime Minister of Japan from 2009 to 2010February 11
John Adams · American composerFebruary 15
Edward James Olmos · American actorFebruary 24
Alan Guth · American theoretical physicist and cosmologistFebruary 27
Rob Reiner · American filmmaker and actorMarch 6
Dick Fosbury · American athletics competitor, high jumperMarch 6
Florentino Pérez · Spanish businessman, president of Real MadridMarch 8
Kim Campbell · 19th Prime Minister of Canada in 1993March 10
Mitt Romney · American politician and businessmanMarch 12
Ry Cooder · American guitarist, singer and composerMarch 15
Glenn Close · American actressMarch 19
Ali Abdullah Saleh · President of North Yemen and YemenMarch 21
James Patterson · American authorMarch 22
Elton John · British singer, songwriter and musicianMarch 25
Camille Paglia · American feminist academic and criticApril 2
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo · Filipino politician, president of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010April 5
Robert Kiyosaki · American finance author and investorApril 8
Tom Clancy · American authorApril 12
David Letterman · American comedian and television hostApril 12
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar · American basketball playerApril 16
James Woods · American actorApril 18
Iggy Pop · American musicianApril 21
Roger D. Kornberg · American biochemistApril 24
Josep Borrell · Catalan-Spanish diplomat and politicianApril 24
Johan Cruyff · Dutch footballer and managerApril 25
Richard Jenkins · American actorMay 4
Martha Nussbaum · American philosopherMay 6
H. Robert Horvitz · American biologistMay 8
Michael Levitt · Biophysicist and Professor of Structural biologyMay 9
Michael Porter · American engineer and economistMay 23
Laurie Anderson · American artist and musicianJune 5
Eric F. Wieschaus · American geneticistJune 8
Salman Rushdie · Indian-born English and American novelistJune 19
Shirin Ebadi · Iranian lawyer, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipientJune 21
Octavia E. Butler · American science fiction writerJune 22
Peter Weller · American actorJune 24
Richard Lewis · American stand-up comedianJune 29
Larry David · American comedian, writer and actorJuly 2
Gyanendra of Nepal · Nepalese politician, former king of NepalJuly 7
O. J. Simpson · American football player and actorJuly 9
Queen Camilla · Queen consort of the United Kingdom since 2022July 17
Brian May · British musicianJuly 19
Gerd Binnig · German physicistJuly 20
Albert Brooks · American actor and comedianJuly 22
Don Henley · American rock musicianJuly 22
Arnold Schwarzenegger · Austrian and American actor, bodybuilder, and politicianJuly 30
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi · French virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIVJuly 30
Richard Griffiths · British actorJuly 31
Mohammad Najibullah · 4th General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of AfghanistanAugust 6
Sofia Rotaru · Ukrainian singer, songwriter and actressAugust 7
Anwar Ibrahim · Prime Minister of Malaysia since 2022August 10
Paulo Coelho · Brazilian lyricist and novelistAugust 24
Anne Archer · American actressAugust 24
Temple Grandin · American doctor of animal science, author, and autism activistAugust 29
Mario Draghi · Italian economist, academic, banker and politicianSeptember 3
Sam Neill · New Zealand actorSeptember 14
Stephen King · American novelist and writerSeptember 21
Meat Loaf · American singer and actorSeptember 27
Sheikh Hasina · Prime Minister of BangladeshSeptember 28
Aaron Ciechanover · Israeli physician and biochemist, Nobel LaureateOctober 1
France Gall · French singerOctober 9
Kevin Kline · American actorOctober 24
Hillary Clinton · American politician and diplomatOctober 26
Richard Dreyfuss · American actorOctober 29
Herman Van Rompuy · Belgian politicianOctober 31
Joe Mantegna · American actor, producer, and directorNovember 13
Michel Sogny · French pianistNovember 21
David Mamet · American playwright, filmmaker and authorNovember 30
Geoffrey Hinton · British-Canadian computer scientist and psychologistDecember 6
Thomas Cech · American chemist, biochemistry professorDecember 8
Dilma Rousseff · 36th President of Brazil, 3rd President of the New Development BankDecember 14
John Mearsheimer · American political scientistDecember 14
Wes Studi · American actorDecember 17
Mykola Azarov · Ukrainian politicianDecember 17
Ted Danson · American actorDecember 29

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