2008 People in the News
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
