List of Famous people who born in 1908

Alexandru "Elek" Schwartz was a Romanian professional footballer and coach of the Netherlands national team. With S.L. Benfica he won the national Championship and Cup trophies of 1965 and led the club into the final of the European Champion Clubs' Cup.

Gerhard Krüger was a Nazi Party student leader and later a leading figure within the neo-Nazi movement.

Philip Childs Keenan was an American astronomer.

Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. The constitution of meaning in human experience was his main interest and he wrote on perception, art, politics, religion, psychology, psychoanalysis, language, nature, and history. He was the lead editor of Les Temps modernes, the leftist magazine he established with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in 1945.

Raymond Dancel Gary was an American politician who served as the fifteenth Governor of Oklahoma and the first Governor to be born in Oklahoma since statehood.

Kristjan Palusalu was an Estonian heavyweight wrestler and Olympic winner. Palusalu became the first and only wrestler in Olympic history ever to win both the Greco-Roman and freestyle heavy weight events.