List of Famous people who are 88

Henio Zytomirski was a Polish Jew born in Lublin, Poland, who was murdered at the age of 9 in a gas chamber at Majdanek concentration camp during the German Nazi occupation of Poland. Henio became an icon of the Holocaust, not only in Lublin but all over Poland. His life story became a part of the curriculum taught in the general education system in Poland. The "Letters to Henio" project has been held in Lublin since 2005. Henio Zytomirski is one of the heroes of "The Primer" permanent exhibition at barrack 53 of the Majdanek Museum, an exhibition dedicated to children held in the camp.

Michael Heltau is a German actor and singer. He was born in Ingolstadt, Germany, and now lives in Austria.

Paul Jozef Crutzen was a Dutch atmospheric chemist. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995, he was known for work on the ozone layer and climate change, and for popularizing the term Anthropocene to describe a proposed new era when human actions have a drastic effect on the Earth.

Malika Gaïd (1933–1957) was an Algerian nurse who joined the National Liberation Army (ALN) to care for the wounded and to fight for independence from the French during the Algerian War in 1955. In June 1958, she was shot dead by a French soldier while defending the wounded in a cave near M'Chedallah. Gaïd is now remembered as one of the heroic martyrs of Algerian independence. Along with other martyrs, she was commemorated in a series of postage stamps in 2019.

Richard Robert Ernst is a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel Laureate.

Jean Tulard is a French academic and historian, specialising in the history of cinema, of the French Consulate and the First French Empire. He is a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques since 1994.

James Lloydovich Patterson is a Russian writer, naval officer and child actor of African American and Ukrainian descent.

Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono is a Maltese physician, psychologist, author, inventor, philosopher and consultant. He originated the term lateral thinking, wrote the book Six Thinking Hats and is a proponent of the teaching of thinking as a subject in schools.

Álvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira, GOSE, GCIH, GCIP, is a Portuguese architect, and architectural educator. He is internationally known as Álvaro Siza and in Portugal as Siza Vieira.

Yoshishige Yoshida , also known as Kijū Yoshida, is a retired Japanese film director and screenwriter.