Famous people born in the year 1947

Dennis Cutler Blair is the former United States Director of National Intelligence and is a retired United States Navy admiral who was the commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific region. Blair was a career officer in the U.S. Navy and served in the White House during the presidencies of both President Jimmy Carter and President Ronald Reagan. Blair retired from the Navy in 2002 as an Admiral. In 2009, Blair was selected as President Barack Obamas first Director of National Intelligence, but afte....
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Dennis DeYoung is an American singer, songwriter, musician and producer best known for being a founding member of the rock band Styx as lead vocalist and keyboardist, a tenure that lasted from 1970 until June 1999. DeYoung has been credited as the writer of more Styx songs than any other Styx member.....
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Emmylou Harris is an American singer and songwriter. She has released many popular albums and singles over the course of her career, and as of 2016 she has won 13 Grammys as well as numerous other awards.....
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Gerald Gerry Rafferty was a Scottish singersongwriter best known for his solo hits Baker Street, Right Down the Line and Night Owl, as well as Stuck in the Middle with You recorded with the band Stealers Wheel.....
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Clarence Eugene Sasser is a former United States Army soldier and a recipient of the U.S. militarys highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Vietnam War.....
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Dennis Phillip Zine is a politician. He served on the Los Angeles City Council representing the 3rd district from 2001 to 2013. He was elected to City Council in 2001 and reelected in 2005 and 2009. He was a member of the Republican Party but changed his registration to Decline to State in 2011. ....
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Endriartono Sutarto is a retired army general . The graduate of Indonesian Armed Forces Academy of 1971 Class is a former Indonesian Military chief from 20022006.....
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Gilles Duceppe is a Canadian politician, proponent of the Qubec sovereignty movement and former leader of the Bloc Qubcois. He was a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada for over 20 years and has been the leader of the sovereigntist Bloc Qubcois for 15 years in three stints 1996, 19972011 and in 2015. He is the son of a wellknown Quebec actor, Jean Duceppe. He was Leader of the Official Opposition in the Parliament of Canada from March 17, 1997, to June 1, 1997. He resigned as....
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Eric Robin Bell is a Northern Irish rock and blues musician, best known as a founder member and the original guitarist of the rock group Thin Lizzy. After his time in Thin Lizzy, he briefly fronted his own group before joining The Noel Redding Band in the mid1970s. He has since released several solo albums and performs regularly with a bluesbased trio, the Eric Bell Band.....
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Barnaby Kemp Graham Miln is a British social activist and former magistrate. He was the first lay person to come out as gay in the General Synod of the Church of England and thereby the most publicly gay magistrate in England and Wales.....
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Herman Achille, Count Van Rompuy born 31 October 1947 is a Belgian politician, who formerly served as Prime Minister of Belgium and then as the first President of the European Council.....
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Foad Rafii M.Arch. Architect AAA, AIBC. FRAIC is a Canadian architect.....
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Richard Douglas Fosbury is an American retired high jumper, who is considered one of the most influential athletes in the history of track and field. Besides winning a gold medal at the 1968 Olympics, he revolutionized the high jump event, inventing a unique backfirst technique, now known as the Fosbury Flop, adopted by almost all high jumpers today. His method was to sprint diagonally towards the bar, then curve and leap backwards over the bar, which gave him a much lower center of mass in fli....
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Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton h l r i d a n r d m k l n t n is an American politician and a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 2016 election. She served as the 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, the junior United States Senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, First Lady of the United States during the presidency of Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001, and First Lady of Arkansas for twelve years.....
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Franoise BarrSinoussi is a French virologist and director of the Regulation of Retroviral Infections Division at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France. Born in Paris, France, BarrSinoussi performed some of the fundamental work in the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus as the cause of AIDS. In 2008, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with her former mentor, Luc Montagnier, for their discovery of HIV. She mandatorily retired from active research ....
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Ian Scott Anderson, MBE is a Scottishborn musician, singer, songwriter and multiinstrumentalist best known for his work as the lead vocalist, flautist and acoustic guitarist of British rock band Jethro Tull. Anderson plays several other musical instruments, including keyboards, bass guitar, bouzouki, balalaika, saxophone, harmonica, and a variety of whistles. His solo work began with the 1983 album Walk into Light, and since then he has released another five works, including the sequel of Jethr....
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Jacqueline Ruth Jacki Weaver, AO is an Australian theatre, film, and television actress. She is known internationally for her performances in Animal Kingdom and Silver Linings Playbook , both of which earned her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.....
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Alain Aspect born 15 June 1947 is a French physicist noted for his experimental work on quantum entanglement.....
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Alain Lipietz is a French engineer, economist and politician, a former Member of the European Parliament, and a member of the French Green Party. He has, however, been suspended from the party since 25 March 2014 and is an elected local politician in Val de Bivre, Paris, France.....
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Digvijaya Singh is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha. He is also currently a General Secretary of the Indian National Congress partys All India Congress Committee. Previously, he had served as the 9th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, a central Indian state, for two terms from 1993 to 2003. Prior to that he was a minister in Chief Minister Arjun Singhs cabinet, during 198084.....
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