List of Famous people born on March 8th

Keita Baldé Diao, commonly known as Keita, is a Spanish-born Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a winger for Serie A side Sampdoria, on loan from Monaco. Born in Spain, he decided to represent Senegal, his father's country of origin.

Cheah Liek Hou is a Malaysian para-badminton player. He is an 11-time winner of the BWF Para-Badminton World Championships. He won the gold medal in the men singles SU5 event of the 2020 Summer Paralympics, making him the first Malaysian athlete to win a medal in para-badminton. He is also the first-ever Paralympic champion in para-badminton.

Gustav Kleikamp was a German naval officer, and a Vizeadmiral in Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine.

Hines Edward Ward Jr. is a South Korean-American football coach and former wide receiver who is an offensive assistant for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at the University of Georgia and was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the third round of the 1998 NFL Draft. Ward played his entire professional career for the Steelers and he became the team's all-time leader in receptions, receiving yardage and touchdown receptions. Ward was voted MVP of Super Bowl XL and upon retirement was one of eleven NFL players to have at least 1,000 career receptions.

Temirkhan Myngaydaruly Dosmukhanbetov was a Kazakhstani politician, who served as the Minister of Tourism and Sports in the Government of Kazakhstan since Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev appointed him on 27 March 2006. Prior to that he served as the Mayor of Astana. Nazarbayev appointed him mayor, replacing Adilbek Jaksybekov, on 16 June 2006. Jaksebekov then became the Minister of Trade and Industry.

Ren Zhiqiang is a Chinese former real estate tycoon and a blogger on Sina Weibo with more than 37 million followers. Nicknamed "Big Cannon Ren", he is known for his outspoken criticism of the Party. He disappeared on 12 March 2020 after criticizing Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping over the handling of China's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In September 2020 he was sentenced to eighteen years' imprisonment on corruption charges, after a one-day trial.

Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko is a Russian billionaire industrialist and philanthropist.

Genki Sudo is a Japanese politician who serves as a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan in the House of Councillors since 2019. Between 1999 and 2006, Sudo was a professional athlete and then was in the entertainment industry from 2006 to 2019.

Rodrigo Rey is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Argentine Primera División club Gimnasia.

Claude Malhuret is a French politician. He represents the department of Allier in the French Senate. Previously, Malhuret served as the mayor of Vichy, France.