List of Famous people who born in 1948

Robert Keith Rae is a Canadian diplomat, lawyer, negotiator, public speaker, and former politician at both the federal and provincial level, the latter of which included a term as Premier of Ontario. On July 6, 2020, his appointment as Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations was announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Mikhail Iosifovich Veller is a Russian writer of Ukrainian Jewish extraction. He holds a dual citizenship of Russia and Estonia.

Thomas McMahon is a former volunteer in the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), and was one of the IRA's most experienced bomb-makers. McMahon was convicted of the murder of Lord Louis Mountbatten and three others off the coast of Mullaghmore, County Sligo, in the west of Ireland.

Barbara Hershey is an American actress. In a career spanning more than 50 years, she has played a variety of roles on television and in cinema in several genres, including westerns and comedies. She began acting at age 17 in 1965 but did not achieve much critical acclaim until the latter half of the 1980s. By that time, the Chicago Tribune referred to her as "one of America's finest actresses".

Colleen Atwood is an American costume designer.

Kenneth Michael Conaway is an American politician who was the U.S. Representative for Texas's 11th congressional district from 2005 to 2021. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district Conaway represented is located in West Texas and includes Midland, Odessa, San Angelo, Brownwood, and Granbury. Conaway led the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections after the Intelligence Committee chair, Devin Nunes, recused himself. Conaway indicated in July 2019 that he would not be seeking reelection.

Robert Rudolph Remus, best known by his ring name Sgt. Slaughter, is an American professional wrestler who is currently signed to WWE in the ambassador program.

Waldemar Hartmann is a German sports journalist.

David Cay Boyle Johnston is an American investigative journalist and author, a specialist in economics and tax issues, and winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting.

Christopher John Chittell is an English actor, known for his role as Eric Pollard in the ITV soap opera, Emmerdale, since 1986, making him the longest-serving cast member in the soap's history.