List of Famous people who born in 1988

Benedikt Höwedes is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender. He spent the majority of his playing career for Schalke 04, which he captained for six seasons, and represented the Germany national football team from 2011 to 2017. At international level, Höwedes won the World Cup with Germany in 2014, and was one of only three players to play every single minute of the tournament. Höwedes described himself as a 'multi-functional player' in the defence, who can play in the centre or as both a left or right-sided full back.

Thiago Heleno Henrique Ferreira, known as Thiago Heleno, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Athletico Paranaense as a central defender.

Katherine Clare Timpf is an American libertarian columnist, television personality, reporter, and comedian. She has been a starring cast member on Fox News Channel's Gutfeld! since 2015, and frequently appears on other Fox News shows. Since the cancellation of TBS' Full Frontal with Samantha Bee in mid-2022, she has been the most-watched female late-night comedian in the United States. In 2017, Timpf co-hosted Fox News Specialists alongside Eric Bolling and Eboni Williams. As of June 2019, she hosts the Fox Nation show Sincerely, Kat.

Metin Akdülger is a Turkish actor. Akdülger, who took part in amateur plays and made short films during his youth, attended acting classes at his school due to his interest in acting while continuing his education at Koç University. He continued to take part in amateur theatre plays at the university. He joined the Craft Theatre team in 2012. His professional theatre career began in 2012 with his role in the play Tape. In 2013, he entered television, and began starring in the popular TV series Medcezir. In the same year, he made his cinematic debut with the movie Bensiz, in which he portrayed a footballer who suffers a stroke. After this experience, Akdülger returned to theatre by joining the cast of Mary, which went on stage in 2014 at Didaskali Theatre. In 2015, he starred in the period series Analar ve Anneler.

Zhang Jike is a Chinese table tennis player.

Anna Diop is a Senegalese-American actress and model. She is currently starring as DC Comics alien princess and superheroine Starfire on the series Titans since 2018. Diop also starred in the series The Messengers (2015) and 24: Legacy (2017), and appeared in the horror film Us (2019).

Teresa Ruiz López is a Mexican actress.

Vanessa Hessler is an Italian model and actress. A model since she was 15, Hessler has appeared in many publications throughout Italy, Germany and France.

James Alston Paxton, nicknamed "The Big Maple", is a Canadian professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners from 2013 to 2018 and New York Yankees from 2019 to 2020.

Anderson Vital da Silva, commonly known as Dedé is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a centre back.