List of Famous people who born in 1908

Paul Herget was an American astronomer and director of the Cincinnati Observatory, who established the Minor Planet Center after World War II.

Renzo Rossellini was an Italian composer, best known for his film scores.

Emil Staiger was a Swiss historian, writer, Germanist and Professor of German Studies at the University of Zurich.

Leslie Howard Talbot Cliff was a British pair skater who competed with his wife, Violet Cliff. The couple finished seventh at the 1936 Winter Olympics. That same year, they won the silver medal at the European Figure Skating Championships and the bronze at the World Figure Skating Championships. They won another bronze at the 1937 World Championships.

Enzo Fiermonte, sometimes credited as William Bird, was an Italian actor and boxer.

Sir George Grenfell-Baines was an English architect and town planner. Born in Preston, his family's humble circumstances forced him to start work at the age of fourteen. Both George and his younger brother, Richard (Dick), were prodigiously gifted mathematicians and draughtsmen. Grenfell-Baines left a secure, but limiting, job in the Lancashire County Architect's Office to work for the prestigious private firm of Bradshaw Gass & Hope in Bolton in 1930.

Luigi Barzini Jr. was an Italian journalist, writer and politician most famous for his 1964 book The Italians, delving deeply into the Italian national character and introducing many Anglo-Saxon readers to Italian life and culture.