List of Famous people who died in 1948

Thomas Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood, PC, KC, known as Sir Hamar Greenwood, Bt, between 1915 and 1929 and as The Lord Greenwood between 1929 and 1937, was a Canadian-born British lawyer and politician. He served as the last Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1920 and 1922. Both his sons died unmarried, so that the title of Viscount Greenwood became extinct in 2003.

Joost Schmidt was a teacher or master at the Bauhaus and later a professor at the College of Visual Arts, Berlin. He was a visionary typographer and graphic designer who is best known for designing the famous poster for the 1923 Bauhaus Exhibition in Weimar, Germany.

Walther Heinrich Alfred Hermann von Brauchitsch was a German field marshal and the Commander-in-Chief of the German Army during World War II. Born into an aristocratic military family, Brauchitsch entered army service in 1901. During World War I, he served with distinction on the corps- and division-level staff on the Western Front.

Prof Frederick Orpen Bower FRSE FRS was an English botanist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1891. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society in 1909 and the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society in 1938. He was president of the British Association in 1929–1930.

Sir Clarence Henry Kennett Marten KCVO was the Provost of Eton and the private tutor of Queen Elizabeth II.

Milton Horace West was a seven-term Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives representing Texas's 15th congressional district from 1933 until his death in 1948.

Dr Clara Latimer Bacon was a mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at Goucher College. She was the first woman to be granted a PhD in mathematics from Johns Hopkins University.