1947 births

Michel Chion (born 1947) is a French film theorist and composer of experimental music.

Jean-Jacques Blairon (9 August 1947 – 14 July 2020) was a Belgian musician active in the 1980s under the name J. J. Lionel.

Gérard Blanc (8 December 1947 – 24 January 2009) was a French singer, guitarist and actor.

Francis Huster (born 8 December 1947) is a French stage, film and television actor, director and scriptwriter.

Jean Jouzel (born 5 March 1947) is a French glaciologist and climatologist. He has mainly worked on the reconstruction of past climate derived from the study of the Antarctic and Greenland ice.

ORLAN is a French multi-media artist who uses sculpture, photography, performance, video, video games, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and robotics as well as scientific and medical techniques such as surgery and biotechnology to question modern social phenomena.
She has said that her art is not body art, but 'carnal art,' which lacks the suffering aspect of body art.

Henri Sannier (born 7 September 1947) is a French sports journalist and television presenter.

Jean-Claude Ellena (born 1947, Grasse, France) is a French perfumer and writer, he served as the in-house perfumer at Hermes from 2004 and 2019, prior to the appointment of incumbent Christine Nagel

Ingrid Steeger (German: [ˈɪŋ.ɡʁiːt ˈʃteː.gɐ] ; 1 April 1947 – 22 December 2023) was a German actress and comedian. From 1966 to 2006 she appeared in front of the camera in around 100 film and television productions.

François-Marie Banier (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa maʁi banje]) (born 27 June 1947) is a French novelist, playwright, artist, con man, actor and photographer. He is particularly known for his photographs of celebrities and other public figures and for his friendships with members of high society. In a prominent legal case, in 2016 he was convicted of 'abuse of weakness' of the elderly billionaire Liliane Bettencourt.