List of Famous people who are 88

Gregory III Laham, B.S., Emeritus Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, of Alexandria and Jerusalem, is the former spiritual leader of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. He was elected on November 29, 2000, succeeding Patriarch Maximos V Hakim. He retired on May 6, 2017.

Juan Sandoval Íñiguez is a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, and served as Archbishop of Guadalajara.

James Howard Meredith is an American civil rights movement figure, writer, political adviser, and Air Force veteran. In 1962, he became the first African-American student admitted to the theretofore segregated University of Mississippi, after the intervention of the federal government, an event that was a flashpoint in the civil rights movement. Inspired by President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address, Meredith decided to exercise his constitutional rights and apply to the University of Mississippi. His goal was to put pressure on the Kennedy administration to enforce civil rights for African Americans.

Hiroki Kosai is a Japanese astronomer with the Kiso Observatory. He is best known for helping to popularize astronomy in Japan and for his observations of comets and asteroids, most notably with his co-discovery the comet 1976 XVI. He is credited by the Minor Planet Center (MPC) with the discovery of nearly 100 asteroids.

Armando Pellegrini is an Italian racing cyclist. He won stage 4 of the 1959 Giro d'Italia.

János Németh was a Hungarian jurist, lawyer, and professor. He was President of the Faculty of Law of the Eötvös Loránd University for several decades. He was chairman of the National Election Office from 1990 to 1997 and was President of the Constitutional Court of Hungary from 1998 to 2003.