* 1947 – The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.

* 1947 – John Ratzenberger, American actor

* 1947 – Mike Worboys, British mathematician

* 1947 – André Weinfeld, French and American Film Director / Producer

* 1947 – Alex Briley, American singer ( Village People )

* 1947 – Tom Clancy, American author

* 1947 – Woody Johnson, American businessman and philanthropist

* 1947 – Antonin Kratochvil, Czech-American photographer

* 1947 – Dan Lauria, American actor

* 1947 – David Letterman, American comedian and talk show host

* 1947 – Wayne Northrop, American actor

* 1947 – In Nevada, the Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam a second time.

* 1947 – Leslie Grantham, English actor

* 1947 – Finn Kalvik, Norwegian singer and composer

* 1947 – Tom Køhlert, Danish footballer

* 1947 – Manousos Manousakis, Greek director and producer

* 1947 – Mats Odell, Swedish politician

* 1947 – Barbara Bach, American actress

* 1947 – Peter Krieg, German director, producer, and writer ( d. 2009 )

* 1947 – John Morrison, New Zealand cricketer

* 1947 – Gavin Pfuhl, South African cricketer ( d. 2002 )

* 1947 – Harry Reems, American actor

* 1947 – Tony Dell, Australian cricketer

* 1874 – Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan composer and conductor ( d. 1947 )

* 1947 – Roy Hodgson, English footballer and manager

* 1947 – Alan Ward, English cricketer

* 1947 – Alan Guth, American physicist and cosmologist

* 1947 – Alan Thicke, Canadian actor and songwriter

* 1947 – Alan Sugar, English businessman

* 1947 – Alan Wakeman, English saxophonist ( Soft Machine )

The grassroots world federalist movement in the US, led by people such as Grenville Clark, Norman Cousins, Alan Cranston and Robert Hutchins, organized itself into increasingly larger structures, finally forming, in 1947, the United World Federalists ( later renamed to World Federalist Association, then Citizens for Global Solutions ), claiming membership of 47, 000 in 1949.

Beecham's second recording of the work, in 1947, " led the way towards more truly Handelian rhythms and speeds ", according to the critic Alan Blyth.

After divorcing Kaye, in 1947 Lambert married the artist Isabel Delmer ; after his death, she married Alan Rawsthorne.

Russell later appeared in the more popular films Calcutta ( 1947 ) with Alan Ladd and the two with John Wayne, Angel and the Badman ( 1947 ) and Wake of the Red Witch ( 1948 ).

" In 1947, the day after producing a concert by Slim, Broonzy, and Williamson at New York City's Town Hall, folklorist Alan Lomax brought the three musicians to the Decca studios and recorded with Slim's on vocal and piano.

* Alan Leeds ( born 1947 ), American music executive

Robert Alan Edwards ( born May 15, 1947 in Louisville, Kentucky ) is a Peabody Award-winning member of the National Radio Hall of Fame.

Judd Alan Gregg ( born February 14, 1947 ) served as the 76th Governor of New Hampshire and was a United States Senator from New Hampshire, who served as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee.

Alan Michael Sugar, Baron Sugar ( born 24 March 1947 ) is a British business magnate, media personality, and political advisor.

Alan Harvey Guth ( born February 27, 1947 ) is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist.

Alan Guth was born on February 27, 1947 in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Alan Yentob ( born 11 March 1947 ) is a British television executive and presenter who has worked throughout his career at the BBC.

In the theater Erdman had choreographed a production of Jean-Paul Sartre's The Flies ( 1947 ) for the Vassar Experimental Theatre, the Broadway production of Jean Giraudoux's The Enchanted ( 1950 ) and collaborating with writer William Saroyan and composer Alan Hovhaness, she directed and choreographed Otherman or The Beginning of a New Nation ( 1954 ) at Bard College.

Rivers moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1947, where he studied at the Boston Conservatory with Alan Hovhaness.

* Alan Haberman 1947, supermarket executive credited with popularizing the barcode

Prime examples include Ella Raines in Phantom Lady ( 1944 ), Lucille Ball in both The Dark Corner ( 1946 ) and Lured ( 1947 ), Alan Ladd in the aforementioned The Blue Dahlia, George Raft in Johnny Angel ( 1945 ), June Vincent and Dan Duryea in Black Angel ( 1946 ), Humphrey Bogart in Dead Reckoning ( 1947 ), and Dick Powell in Cry Danger ( 1951 ).

Davies describes computer projects at the U. K. National Physical Laboratory, from the 1947 design work of Alan Turing to the development of the two ACE computers.