List of Famous people who born in 1908

Prince Alexander Golitzen (Golitsyn), was a Russian-born American production designer who oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies.

Giovannino Oliviero Giuseppe Guareschi was an Italian journalist, cartoonist and humorist whose best known creation is the priest Don Camillo.

Egon Vogel (1908–1993) was a German stage, television and film actor. A character actor he amassed over a hundred credits during his career, some of them in minor parts.

Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the mother of the current King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf. A member of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Sibylla became a Swedish princess by marrying Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, who did not live to ascend the Swedish throne.

Hans Vollenweider was a Swiss criminal. He was the last person to be sentenced to death by a civilian court in Switzerland and executed shortly after.

André Eugène Fouché was a French actor.

Boris Gorbatov (1908–1954) was a Soviet Russian novelist. Born in the Donbass region in the Ukraine, he moved to Moscow at the age of 18 and joined the Communist Party in 1930. He was a military correspondent during World War Two.

Sir Geoffrey Wedgwood Harrison was a British diplomat, who served as the United Kingdom's ambassador to Brazil, Iran and the Soviet Union. Harrison's tenure in Moscow was terminated in 1968, when he was recalled to London after his admission to the Foreign Office that he had an affair with his Russian maid, later revealed as a KGB "honey trap" operation.

Jean Effel, real name François Lejeune was a French painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist. Mostly he considered himself to be a journalist and political commentator. His pseudonym is created by his initials F. L.

Yousuf Karsh, was an Armenian-Canadian photographer known for his portraits of notable individuals. He has been described as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century.