Biographies: 2008 People in the News

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

2008 People in the News

A—E | F—L | M—Q | R—Z

A—E

• Adiga, Aravind, writer
• Biden, Joseph, U.S. Senator
• Brady, Tom, American football player
• Brown, Gordon, British Prime Minister
• Bryant, Kobe, NBA player
• Bush, George W., president of the U.S.
• Castro, Fidel, former president of Cuba
• Castro, Raul, president of Cuba
• Chavez, Hugo, president of Venezuela
• Clemens, Roger, major-league baseball player
• Clinton, Bill, former president
• Clinton, Hillary Rodham, presidential candidate
• Coughlin, Natalie, U.S. Olympic swimmer
• Downey Jr., Robert, actor
• Edwards, John, political figure

F—L

• Federer, Roger, tennis player
• Ford, Harrison, actor
• Giuliani, Rudolph, political figure
• Huckabee, Mike, political figure
• Karadzic, Radovan, former Bosnian leader
• Kerviel, Jerome, French banker
• Kilpatrick, Kwame, mayor of Detroit
• Kucinich, Dennis, political figure
• Ledger, Heath, actor
• Lochte, Ryan, U.S. Olympic swimmer

M—Q

• Madoff, Bernard, business personality
• Marcos, Imelda, former first lady of The Philippines
• McCain, John, political figure
• Medvedev, Dmitry, Russian president
• Morales, Evo, president of Bolivia
• Mugabe, Robert, president of Zimbabwe
• Musharraf, Pervez, president of Pakistan
• Nadal, Rafael, tennis player
• Nobel Prize Winners, 2008
• Obama, Barack, political figure
• Padilla, Jose, prisoner
• Palin, Sarah, Governor of Alaska
• Parker, Sarah Jessica, actress
• Paul, Ron, political figure
• Phelps, Michael, Olympic swimmer

R—Z

• Romney, Mitt, political figure
• Ryan, Kay, poet
• Rushdie, Salman, writer
• Saakashvili, Mikheil, president of Georgia
• Sarkozy, Nicolas, president of France
• Spears, Britney, singer
• Spitzer, Eliot, New York Governor
• Stevens, Ted, U.S. Senator
• Torres, Dara, American swimmer
• Vesco, Robert, financier and fugitive
• Woods, Tiger, golfer