List of Famous people who born in 1908

Hélène Boucher was a well-known French pilot in the early 1930s, when she set several women's world speed records, including one which was also a world record for either sex. She was killed in an accident in 1934.

Eduard Roschmann was an Austrian Nazi SS-Obersturmführer and commandant of the Riga ghetto during 1943. He was responsible for numerous murders and other atrocities. As a result of a fictionalized portrayal in the novel The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth and its subsequent film adaptation, Roschmann came to be known as the "Butcher of Riga".

Mohamad Ibnu Sayuti, known as Sayuti Melik was an Indonesian typist. He was a typist for the copy of the proclamation of independence, which was proclaimed by Sukarno on August 17, 1945. He was the husband of Soerastri Karma Trimurti, a journalist and activist in the women's and Indonesian independence movements.

John Bernard Lee, known as Bernard Lee, was an English actor, best known for his role as M in the first eleven Eon-produced James Bond films. Lee's film career spanned the years 1934 to 1979, though he had appeared on stage from the age of six. He was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Lee appeared in over one hundred films, as well as on stage and in television dramatisations. He was known for his roles as authority figures, often playing military characters or policemen in films such as The Third Man, The Blue Lamp, The Battle of the River Plate, and Whistle Down the Wind. He died of stomach cancer in 1981, aged 73.

Nikolay Pavlovich Firyubin was a Soviet diplomat.

Luis Escobar y Kirkpatrick, 7th Marquess of Marismas del Guadalquivir, was a Spanish nobleman who succeeded to the title in 1954 upon the death of his brother, José Ignacio Escobar.

Meng Xiaodong was a Chinese actress of Peking opera who specialized in old sheng (male) roles.

İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil was a Turkish politician, being a member of the Justice Party. He also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs three times in the 1960s and 1970s and as the Acting President of Turkey.

Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson, was an English actress, whose career included stage, television and film known for her roles in the films In Which We Serve (1942), This Happy Breed (1944), Brief Encounter (1945) and The Captain's Paradise (1953). For Brief Encounter, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. A six-time BAFTA Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969).

Robert Bernardis was an Austrian resistance fighter involved in the attempt to kill German dictator Adolf Hitler in the 20 July Plot in 1944.