List of Famous people who born in 1908

Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). He described the class of MHD waves now known as Alfvén waves. He was originally trained as an electrical power engineer and later moved to research and teaching in the fields of plasma physics and electrical engineering. Alfvén made many contributions to plasma physics, including theories describing the behavior of aurorae, the Van Allen radiation belts, the effect of magnetic storms on the Earth's magnetic field, the terrestrial magnetosphere, and the dynamics of plasmas in the Milky Way galaxy.

Julian Heward Bell was an English poet, and the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell. The writer Quentin Bell was his younger brother and the writer and painter Angelica Garnett was his half-sister. His relationship with his mother is explored in Susan Sellers' novel Vanessa and Virginia.

Carlo Romano was an Italian actor, voice actor and screenwriter.

Jan Kreczmar was a Polish theatre and film actor.

Boris Nikolaevich Polevoy was a Soviet writer. He is the author of the book Story of a Real Man about Soviet World War II fighter pilot Aleksey Maresev.

John "Jack" Milburn was an English footballer who played 408 games for Leeds United. He was also a football manager.

James Turner, 1st Baron Netherthorpe, was a British peer.