List of Famous people who born in 1948

Manuel José Macário do Nascimento Clemente, GCC, officially Manuel III, is a Portuguese prelate of the Catholic Church. He has been the Patriarch of Lisbon since 18 May 2013 and a cardinal since 14 February 2015. He has been a bishop since 1999 and was Bishop of Porto from 2007 to 2013.

Toujan al-Faisal is a human rights activist and a former TV journalist, who was Jordan's first female member of parliament.

Mohamed El Jem is a Moroccan theater, TV and film actor and comedian.

Raimundo Nonato Sodré, is a Brazilian musician known for working in rootsy styles of music outside of the mainstream. He was raised by his mother, filha-de-santo in a terreiro of candomblé Angola outside of Ipirá run by her mãe-de-santo sister. It was in this house of candomblé that Sodré learned to drum. He later learned to play guitar, taught at first by his mother.

Gladys Veronica Li, QC, SC, is a former Barrister in England, a Senior Counsel at the Hong Kong Bar with a constitutional law and human rights practice, and a founding member of the Hong Kong Civic Party.

Rita Brantalou, stage name of Jacques Pradel, was a French humorist and musician.

Fahad Maziad Al Rajaan was born on 23 December 1948 in Kuwait. From 1992 to 2015, Fahad Al Rajaan served as Company Director of Ahli United Bank (UK) Plc. Al Rajaan was sentenced in absentia in a Kuwait court for life for embezzling public funds and hiding them in accounts abroad.

Kao Cheng-yan is an activist and founding chair of the Green Party Taiwan and a member of the Taiwan Environmental Protection Union. He was a Taiwan independence activist during his student years in the United States. He ran for the Legislative Yuan on a Green Party ticket in 1998 and 2001 but failed to gain a seat.

Yoko Komiyama is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Shibuya, Tokyo and graduate of Seijo University, she worked at the public broadcaster NHK from 1972 to 1998. She was elected to the House of Councilors for the first time in 1998 and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in April 2003. In September 2011 she was appointed Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in the cabinet of newly appointed prime minister Yoshihiko Noda.