List of Famous people who born in 1948

Paul Kennerley is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer working in the American contemporary country music industry.

Dennis Joseph Slamon, is an American oncologist and chief of the division of Hematology-Oncology at UCLA. He is best known for his work identifying the HER2/neu oncogene that is amplified in 25-33% of breast cancer patients and the resulting treatment trastuzumab.

Luis Angel Caffarelli is an Argentine mathematician and luminary in the field of partial differential equations and their applications.

Calvin Jerome Murphy is an American retired professional basketball player who played as a guard for the National Basketball Association's San Diego/Houston Rockets from 1970 to 1983, and is a current member of the Houston Rockets' AT&T SportsNet TV broadcast team. Standing at a height of 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m), Murphy has the distinction of being the shortest NBA player inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, and to play in an NBA All-Star Game.

Ronald Wright is a Canadian author who has written books of travel, history and fiction. His nonfiction includes the bestseller Stolen Continents, winner of the Gordon Montador Award and chosen as a book of the year by The Independent and the Sunday Times. His first novel, A Scientific Romance, won the 1997 David Higham Prize for Fiction and was chosen a book of the year by the Globe and Mail, the Sunday Times, and the New York Times.