List of Famous people born on March 8th

William Bramwell Booth, CH was the first Chief of Staff (1881–1912) and the second General of The Salvation Army (1912–1929), succeeding his father, William Booth.

Lin Kun-sheng is a Taiwanese baseball catcher who plays with the Fubon Guardians in the Chinese Professional Baseball League.

Yayoi Matsumoto is a Japanese swimmer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed for the national team in the Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay, finishing in 7th place in the final. She also competed in the women's 50m freestyle, finishing with a time of 25.73 seconds in 35th place in the heats, and the 4 x 200 m freestyle relay. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she competed in the 50 m freestyle, finishing in 43rd, and was part of the Japanese women's 4 x 100 m freestyle team.

Louis Claude Frédéric Masson was a French historian.

Eric Robert Russell Linklater CBE was a Welsh-born Scottish poet, writer of novels, short stories, military history, and travel books. For The Wind on the Moon, a children's fantasy novel, he won the 1944 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book by a British subject.

Hannah Van Buren was the wife of the eighth President of the United States, Martin Van Buren. She died in 1819, before Martin Van Buren became president. He never remarried and was one of the few presidents to be unmarried while in office. During his term, his daughter-in-law, Angelica, performed the role of hostess of the White House and First Lady of the United States.

Charles James Stanley Howard, 10th Earl of Carlisle, DL, styled Viscount Morpeth from 1889 to 1911, was a British soldier, peer, and Liberal Unionist politician.