Celebrities born on July 27

J. Jewels is an American hip hop artist, actor, rapper, songwriter and music producer based in Boston, Massachusetts. In 2015, he was cast for the film Central Intelligence staring Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart. His debut single Itty Bitty Bum Bum from upcoming album J. Jewels Presents went viral after the release.

Joslyn Fox is the stage name of Patrick Allen Joslyn, an American drag performer.

Ernest Gary Gygax (/ˈɡaɪɡæks/ GHY-gaks; July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008) was an American game designer and author best known for co-creating the pioneering tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gary Gygax, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Florence Gill was an English actress and voice actress. For Disney, she provided the voices of Walt Disney's Clara Cluck and The Wise Little Hen. She also provided the clucking sound effects of the condors, chickens, hens, and roosters in a number of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Chip and Dale, Pluto, and Silly Symphonies cartoons. She even appeared in live-action in the film, The Reluctant Dragon alongside Clarence Nash to cluck an operatic duet as Clara alongside Nash's Donald, most likely for Mickey's Grand Opera. Her interment was located at Chapel of the Pines Crematory in Los Angeles, California.

François Barbeau CM (July 27, 1935 – January 28, 2016) was an award-winning Canadian costume designer. He was a professor at the National Theatre School of Canada and the Université du Québec à Montréal who worked on over 700 productions in Quebec and around the world. After taking sewing in high school, he began his career in the 1950s at the theatre The Caravan of Paul Buissonneau. He afterwards worked as a designer at the Théâtre du Rideau Vert. Among the films he worked on are Léolo (1992), for which he won the Genie Award for Best Costume Design, and Laurence Anyways (2012), sharing the Genie with Xavier Dolan. In film, Barbeau mentored fellow-costume designer and Genie winner Louise Jobin. In 1996, he received the Governor General's Award, and in 2000 he joined the Order of Canada. He died on January 28, 2016. Dolan's 2016 film It's Only the End of the World is dedicated to him. Source: Article "François Barbeau" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Pierre Christin (born 27 July 1938) is a French comics creator and writer. Christin was born at Saint-Mandé in 1938. After graduating from the Sorbonne, Christin pursued graduate studies in political science at SciencesPo and became a professor of French literature at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. His first comics story, Le Rhum du Punch, illustrated by his childhood friend Jean-Claude Mézières, was published in 1966 in Pilote magazine. Christin returned to France the following year to join the faculty of the University of Bordeaux. That year he again collaborated with Mézières to create the science-fiction series Valérian and Laureline for Pilote. The first episode was Les Mauvais Rêves (Bad Dreams). In addition to the ongoing Valerian, Christin has written several other comics one-shots, including The City That Didn't Exist (La Ville qui n'existe pas), The Black Order Brigade (Les Phalanges de l'ordre noir) and The Hunting Party (Partie de chasse) (all illustrated by Enki Bilal). Among the many European comics artist he has collaborated with are Enki Bilal, Jacques Tardi, Alexis, Raymond Poïvet, Jijé, Annie Goetzinger, Daniel Ceppi, and François Boucq. He has also written screenplays and science-fiction novels. Source: Article "Pierre Christin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Leem Chae-young (임채영) is a South Korean actress.

Tony Tanner (27 July 1932 – 8 September 2020) was a British stage, film and television actor and a Tony-nominated theatre director and choreographer. In the early part of his career, he made numerous appearances in plays and variety shows on British television. He most notably took over the role of Littlechap in Stop the World - I Want to Get Off in London's West End; taking over from the shows star and author Anthony Newley in 1962. His excursions into film were rare, but he did make an impression in 1966 in Warner Brothers' film version of Stop the World - I Want to Get Off when Newley declined the role. The film was a disappointment both critically and financially and thereafter Tanner focussed mostly on the theatre.

Vito Schnabel is known for Before Night Falls (2000), The Beach Bum (2019) and The Trainer (2023).