List of Famous people who born in 1948

Deanna Wallace, also known as Dee Wallace Stone, is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Mary, the mother, in the 1982 blockbuster film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. She is also known for her starring roles in several horror films including The Hills Have Eyes (1977), The Howling (1981), Cujo (1983) and Critters (1986), which earned her the title of "scream queen".

Toru Muranishi is an innovative and controversial director of Japanese adult videos (AV). Known in Japan as the "Emperor of Porn", he has been credited as one of the creators of the quasi-documentary style found in Japanese AVs, a genre which has remained popular throughout the history of the adult industry in Japan. He was called "the dirtiest of the industry’s dirty old men" in a 1992 Tokyo Journal article by Kjell Fornander. Sometimes his posts on Twitter arouse criticism because those are considered as discriminatory remarks against women.

Gyles Daubeney Brandreth is an English writer, broadcaster, actor, and former politician. Educated at the University of Oxford, he subsequently began a career in media. On television, he worked as a presenter for TV-am in the 1980s, and has been regularly featured on Countdown. On radio, he has made frequent appearances on the BBC Radio 4 programme Just a Minute.

Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan is the current de jure president of the United Arab Emirates, the emir of Abu Dhabi, the supreme commander of the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces and the chairman of the Supreme Petroleum Council. Sheikh Khalifa is also chairman of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, which manages $875 billion in assets, the largest amount managed by a nation's head of state in the world. Collectively, the Al Nahyan family is believed to hold a fortune of $150 billion.

Glenn Cartman Loury is an American economist, academic, and author. In 1982, at the age of 33, he became the first African American tenured professor of economics in the history of Harvard University.

Beatrice Richter is a German TV actress, comedian, cabaret artist and jazz singer.

Diane B. Allen is an American journalist, nightly news anchor, and Republican politician who represented the 7th legislative district in the New Jersey Assembly from 1996 to 1998 and New Jersey Senate from 1998 to 2018.

Winfried Kretschmann is a German politician serving as Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg since 2011. A member of the Alliance '90/Greens, he was President of the Bundesrat and ex officio deputy to the President of Germany from 2012 to 2013. He is the first member of the Greens to serve in these offices. Identifying himself as a green conservative, Kretschmann has been associated with both culturally and economically liberal policies.

Anita Marie Pointer is an American singer–songwriter, best known as a founding member of the vocal group the Pointer Sisters.

Devlet Bahçeli is a Turkish politician who has been the chairman of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) since 6 July 1997.