Famous People Born in 1948

Charles III

King of the United Kingdom since 2022, previously the longest-serving Prince of Wales and a long-time environmental campaigner

Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms. Charles is the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

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Al Gore

US Vice President under Bill Clinton who narrowly lost the 2000 election and won the Nobel Peace Prize for his climate campaigning

Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American former politician, businessman, and environmentalist who served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton.

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Hassan Rouhani

Iranian cleric and moderate who served as president from 2013 to 2021 and agreed the 2015 nuclear deal

Hassan Rouhani (born Hassan Fereydoun, 12 November 1948) is an Iranian politician who served as the president of Iran from 2013 to 2021. He is also a sharia lawyer ("Wakil"), academic, former diplomat and Islamic cleric.

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Svetlana Alexievich

Belarusian writer of Voices from Chernobyl and The Unwomanly Face of War, whose oral histories won the Nobel Prize

Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich (born 31 May 1948) is a Belarusian author, investigative journalist, and oral historian who writes in Russian. She was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time".

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George R. R. Martin

American author of A Song of Ice and Fire, the fantasy series adapted into HBO's Game of Thrones

George Raymond Richard Martin (born George Raymond Martin, September 20, 1948), also known by the initials GRRM, is an American author, screenwriter, and television producer.

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Ozzy Osbourne

Lead singer of Black Sabbath and heavy metal icon

John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (3 December 1948 – 22 July 2025) was an English singer, songwriter, and media personality. Dubbed the "Prince of Darkness", he co-founded the heavy metal band Black Sabbath in 1968 and rose to prominence in the 1970s as their lead vocalist.

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Yoshihide Suga

Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister

Yoshihide Suga (菅 義偉, Suga Yoshihide; born 6 December 1948) is a Japanese former politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2020 to 2021.

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Terry Pratchett

English author famous for the Discworld series of fantasy novels

Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author, humorist, and satirist, best known for the Discworld series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983 and 2015, and for the apocalyptic comedy novel Good Omens (1990), which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman.

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