List of Famous people who born in 1948

Sitiveni Ligamamada Rabuka, OBE, MSD, OStJ, is best known as the instigator of two military coups that shook Fiji in 1987. He was later democratically elected as Prime Minister of Fiji, serving from 1992 to 1999. He went on to serve as Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs, and later served as Chairman of the Cakaudrove Provincial Council from 2001 to 2008. He was elected to this position on 24 May 2001 and re-elected for another three-year term on 13 April 2005. On 24 June 2016, Rabuka was elected as leader of the Social Democratic Liberal Party, succeeding Leader of the Opposition Ro Teimumu Kepa, who publicly disapproved of Rabuka's nomination to replace her. On 26 November 2018, Rabuka was appointed as the leader of the Opposition to Parliament, following the 2018 election defeat. Rabuka was the only nomination for the position and his nomination was moved by Ro Teimumu Kepa and seconded by Biman Prasad. On 28 November 2020 he was ousted as SODELPA leader by Viliame Gavoka in a leadership contest. On 7 December 2020 Rabuka had resigned from parliament citing that he will no longer be an obstacle to the bipartisan approach to be taken by the leaders of Fiji to create harmony and progress and unity in Fiji.

Graça Morais GOIH is a Portuguese artist. A member of the Academia Nacional de Belas-Artes of Portugal, she was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Prince Henry in 1997. She is married to the musician Pedro Caldeira Cabral.

Carl Sören Harry Cratz is a Swedish former football manager. As a manager of Hammarby IF, he won the 2001 Allsvenskan.

Jamie Paulson is a Canadian former badminton player who won national and international titles from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s.

Wolfgang Nešković is a German politician, former judge at the German Federal Court of Justice and an independent member of the German Federal Parliament, representing Cottbus – Spree-Neiße. He was a representative of the party The Left, and prior to that, Bündnis '90/Die Grünen as well as the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

Chester Greenough Atkins is a former member of the United States House of Representatives. He is a Democrat from Massachusetts.

Herbert Wagner is a German politician.

Cary Bates is an American comic book, animation, television and film writer. He is best known for his work on The Flash and Superman.