List of Famous people who born in 1948

Susanna Kaysen is an American author, best known for her 1993 memoir Girl, Interrupted.

Michael John Dobbs, Baron Dobbs is a British Conservative politician and author, best known for his House of Cards trilogy.

Nicholas Eustace Haddon Ferguson CBE is a British businessman, the chairman of BskyB plc and former chairman of SVG Capital plc.

Alexander (Lex) Schrijver is a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist, a professor of discrete mathematics and optimization at the University of Amsterdam and a fellow at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam. Since 1993 he has been co-editor in chief of the journal Combinatorica.

Ezio Mauro is an Italian journalist. He has been editor-in-chief of the newspaper la Repubblica from 1996 to 2016.

Emily Richard is a British actress and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

George Edward "Ed" Logg is a retired American arcade video game designer, first employed at Atari, Inc. and later at Atari Games. He currently resides in Los Altos, California.

Gary Giddins is an American jazz critic and author. He wrote for The Village Voice from 1973; his "Weather Bird" column ended in 2003. In 1986 Gary Giddins and John Lewis created the American Jazz Orchestra which presented concerts using a jazz repertory with musicians such as Tony Bennett.

David William Cowens is an American former professional basketball player and NBA head coach. At 6'9", he played the center position and occasionally played power forward. Cowens spent most of his playing career with the Boston Celtics. He was the 1971 NBA Rookie of the Year and the 1973 NBA Most Valuable Player. Cowens won NBA championships as a member of the Celtics in 1974 and 1976. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1991. Cowens has also held numerous coaching positions inside and outside the NBA.