* 1937 – Don Wilson, England cricketer

By 1937 Wilson separated from the Oxford Group.

Karon was born in Lenoir, North Carolina, in 1937, as Janice Meredith Wilson.

* 1937 – Michael Wilson, Canadian politician

* 1937 – Olly Wilson, American composer, pianist, and bassist

Wilson's disease is named after Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson ( 1878 – 1937 ), the British neurologist who first described the condition in 1912.

The disease bears the name of the British physician Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson ( 1878 – 1937 ), a neurologist who described the condition, including the pathological changes in the brain and liver, in 1912.

* Shelby Wilson ( born 1937 ), American wrestler and 1960 Olympic gold medalist

Riley J. Wilson, who held Louisiana's 5th congressional district seat from 1915 to 1937, resided in Harrisonburg, where he was principal of Harrisonburg High School and then an attorney, district attorney, and state district court judge prior to his election to Congress.

Dramatist Lanford Wilson was born in Lebanon in 1937.

* Gordon Crooks Wilson ( 1872 – 1937 ), Conservative and Unionist Party member of the Canadian House of Commons

* Robert B. Wilson ( born 1937 ), American economist and professor at Stanford University

* Don Wilson ( cricketer ) ( 7 August 1937 – 21 July 2012 ) England and Yorkshire cricketer

* Messent, Claude John Wilson, The Weather Vanes of Norfolk & Norwich, Norwich, Fletcher & son, limited, 1937

His married his second wife, Florida state senator Lori Wilson ( b. 1937 ), in 1973.

* William H. Wilson ( 1877 – 1937 ), U. S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1935 – 1937

* Maj-Gen Sir Alexander Wilson, ( 1858 – 1937 ) former Colonel of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and Lieutenant Governor of Jersey ( 1916 – 1920 )

* George Wilson ( SJMA 1933 ) was an NFL end with the Chicago Bears ( 1937 – 46 ).

According to Mooney Gibson's nephew, George Lambourn, a noted baseball historian in his own right, the residence at 25 Wilson Avenue was the home of the park's cranky caretaker, Jakey Butts, which was destroyed by the Thames River flood of 1937.

* Nancy Wilson ( jazz singer ) ( born 1937 ), American jazz singer and actress

Nancy Wilson ( born February 20, 1937 ) is an American singer with more than 70 albums, and three Grammy Awards.

On February 20, 1937, Nancy Wilson was the first of six children born to Olden Wilson ( iron foundry worker ) and Lillian Ryan ( domestic worker ) in Chillicothe, Ohio.

They also collaborated on a story that combined Moore ’ s signature characters, Northwest Smith and Jirel of Joiry: " Quest of the Starstone " ( 1937 ).

Other leading films included Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ( 1936 ), Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), You Can't Take It With You ( 1938 ), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Meet John Doe ( 1941 ), Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 ) and State of the Union ( 1948 ).

* Joe Smith ( musician ) ( 1902 – 1937 ), jazz trumpeter

Filters were introduced by Henri Cartan in 1937 and subsequently used by Bourbaki in their book Topologie Générale as an alternative to the similar notion of a net developed in 1922 by E. H. Moore and H. L. Smith.

* April 15 – Bessie Smith, American blues singer ( d. 1937 )

Sport: In the first half of the twentieth century, before Major League Baseball was racially integrated, dark-skinned and dark-complexion players were nicknamed Nig ; examples are: Johnny Beazley ( 1941 – 49 ), Joe Berry ( 1921 – 22 ), Bobby Bragan ( 1940 – 48 ), Nig Clarke ( 1905 – 20 ), Nig Cuppy ( 1892 – 1901 ), Nig Fuller ( 1902 ), Johnny Grabowski ( 1923 – 31 ), Nig Lipscomb ( 1937 ), Charlie Niebergall ( 1921 – 24 ), Nig Perrine ( 1907 ), and Frank Smith ( 1904 – 15 ).

* Richard Harrison Smith ( born 1937 ), choral conductor, arranger and composer

* Richard Smith ( silent film director ) ( 1886 – 1937 ), American silent film director

" Moore and Henry Kuttner also have Northwest Smith hum the song in their 1937 short story " Quest of the Starstone ," which quotes several lines of lyrics.

* c. 1937: Joe Keyes, Buck Clayton, Carl Smith, George Hunt, Dan Minor, Caughey Roberts, Herschel Evans, Lester Young, Jack Washington, Claude Williams, Walter Page, Jo Jones.

* William Ramsay Smith ( 1859 – 1937 ), Australian anthropologist

* Willie Smith ( American football ) ( born 1937 ), former American football player

* Mysterious Billy Smith ( 1871 – 1937 ), Canadian boxer

* William Smith ( Scottish cricketer ) ( 1902 – 1937 ), Scottish cricketer

* Bill Smith ( cricketer ) ( born 1937 ), former English cricketer

* William Smith ( field hockey ) ( 1886 – 1937 ), British field hockey player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics

He started his career playing in clubs and speakeasies, but his big break came on the Kate Smith radio show in 1937.

A United States Post Office was opened in 1937 by Mable Smith.

Street & Smith entered into a new broadcasting agreement with Blue Coal in 1937, and that summer Gibson teamed with scriptwriter Edward Hale Bierstadt to develop the new series.

* George Bundy Smith ( born 1937 ), New York State Supreme Court Justice

* George Smith ( second baseman ) ( 1937 – 1987 )

Other Capra-directed hits followed, including the original version of Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), with Ronald Colman, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), which made James Stewart a major star.

* From U-boat to Pulpit, including an Appendix From Pulpit to Prison by Henry Smith Leiper ( Chicago, New York: Willett, Clark, 1937 ).

* Topper ( film ), a 1937 film based on the novels by Thorne Smith