List of Famous people who born in 1948

Jack E. Wagner is an American Democratic politician from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He served as Pennsylvania Auditor General, and previously served in the State Senate and Pittsburgh City Council.

Urs Allemann is a Swiss writer and journalist.

Michel Foret is a Belgian politician and lawyer. A member of the Reformist Movement, he is the current governor of Liège Province since 11 February 2004.

Alain Prochiantz is a neurobiology researcher and professor at the Collège de France, of which he became director from 2015 to 2019.

Martin Grötschel is a German mathematician known for his research on combinatorial optimization, polyhedral combinatorics, and operations research. From 1991 to 2012 he was Vice President of the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB) and served from 2012 to 2015 as ZIB's President. From 2015 to 2020 he was President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW).

Rick Wohlhuter is a retired American middle-distance runner.

William Daniel Phillips is an American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1997, with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji.