List of Famous people who born in 1948

Scott Hale Reiniger, Harlan Sahib Bahadur, Prince of Ghor is an American actor. He is best known as one of the stars of the 1978 classic horror film Dawn of the Dead.

Naoya Makoto , born Seigo Furukawa is an actor from Japan. He started his career in local cinema in 1971.

Aluf Uzi Dayan is a former general in the Israel Defense Forces and an Israeli politician. He is currently a member of the Knesset for Likud.

Joseph Henry "T Bone" Burnett III is an American record producer, musician, and songwriter. Burnett rose to fame as a guitarist in Bob Dylan's band during the 1970s. He has received multiple Grammy awards for his work in film music, including for O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) Cold Mountain (2004), Walk the Line (2005), and Crazy Heart (2010); and won another Grammy for producing the studio album Raising Sand (2007), in which he united the contemporary bluegrass of Alison Krauss with the blues rock of Robert Plant.

Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who is the former President of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Previously she was a biological researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who studied the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosome. In 1984, Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere, with Carol W. Greider. For this work, she was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing it with Greider and Jack W. Szostak, becoming the first Australian woman Nobel laureate. She also worked in medical ethics, and was controversially dismissed from the Bush Administration's President's Council on Bioethics.

Paola Severino was Italy's minister of justice in the Monti cabinet from November 2011 to April 2013. She is the first woman appointed minister of justice in Italy. On 3 October 2016, she was nominated rector of Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli.