List of Famous people who born in 1948
Philippe Garrel
Philippe Garrel is a French director, cinematographer, screenwriter, film editor, and producer, associated with the French New Wave movement. His films have won him awards at Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival.
Erdal Özyağcılar
Erdal Özyağcılar is a Turkish actor. He has appeared in films, on the stage and on television.
José Piñera Echenique
José Piñera Echenique is a Chilean economist, one of the famous Chicago Boys, who served as minister of Labor and Social Security, and of Mining, in the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. He is the architect of Chile's private pension system based on personal retirement accounts. Piñera has been called "the world's foremost advocate of privatizing public pension systems" as well as "the Pension Reform Pied Piper". He is now Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank based in Washington, President of the International Center for Pension Reform based in Santiago, Senior Fellow at the Italian libertarian think tank Istituto Bruno Leoni, and member of the Advisory Board of the Vienna-based Educational Initiative for Central and Eastern Europe. He has a master's degree and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. Piñera is a Board Member in Chile and an active supporter of SOS Children's Villages, the largest orphan and abandoned children's charity in the world. Today, Piñera is director of the magazine Economía y Sociedad, that was relaunched in November 2016.
Linda Calvey
Linda Calvey is an English murderer and armed robber, jailed for killing her lover Ronnie Cook in 1990. She was known as the "Black Widow" because all of her lovers ended up either dead or in prison.
Gabriele Seyfert
Gabriele "Gaby" Seyfert is a German former figure skater. She is a two-time World champion, and the 1968 Olympic silver medalist.
Tasso Jereissati
Tasso Ribeiro Jereissati is federal senator of Brazil. He is a former governor of Ceará from 1987 to 1991 and again from 1995 to 2002.
Gregorio Pérez
Gregorio Elso Pérez Perdigón is a retired Uruguayan footballer. In December of 2019, he was announced as the new manager of Peruvian side Universitario de Deportes. He is widely reputed in his country due for his respectful approach toward the game and general sportsmanship. He is known as "Don Gregorio".
Roy Evans
Roy Quentin Echlin Evans is an English former footballer who played as a defender for Liverpool. He eventually rose through the coaching ranks to become the team manager. While predominantly applying his trade for Liverpool, he had a short loan spell at Philadelphia Atoms and later went on to manage Liverpool, Fulham and Swindon.
Ellen Gracie
Ellen Gracie Northfleet is a Brazilian judge. She is the first woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court of Brazil and the Court's first female president.
Tony Iommi
Anthony Frank Iommi is a British guitarist, songwriter, and producer. He was lead guitarist, co-founder and leader of heavy metal band Black Sabbath, and was the band's primary composer and sole continuous member for nearly five decades. Iommi was ranked number 25 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".