Who Was Alive

Ellen DeGeneres

American comedian, television host, actress, and writer

Born 26 January 1958 · living, 68 as of September 2026

Who was alive at the same time as Ellen DeGeneres?

  1. Winston Churchill
  2. Pablo Picasso
  3. Charlie Chaplin
  4. Mao Zedong
  5. Salvador Dalí
  6. Ronald Reagan
  7. John F. Kennedy
  8. Nelson Mandela
  9. Elizabeth II
  10. Marilyn Monroe
  11. Che Guevara
  12. Martin Luther King Jr.
  13. Pope Francis
  14. Joe Biden
  15. Donald Trump
  16. George W. Bush
  17. Vladimir Putin
  18. Steve Jobs
  19. Bill Gates
  20. Ellen DeGeneres
  21. Michael Jackson
  22. Barack Obama
  23. Jimmy Wales
  24. Shakira
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When Ellen DeGeneres was born, Donald Trump was 11, Vladimir Putin was 5, Ronald Reagan was 46, Nelson Mandela was 39 and George W. Bush was 11.

Born during Ellen DeGeneres’s lifetime: Barack Obama, Michael Jackson, Jimmy Wales, Shakira, Lionel Messi, Corbin Bleu, Basshunter and Cristiano Ronaldo.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler died 13 years before Ellen DeGeneres was born, Albert Einstein died 3 years before Ellen DeGeneres was born, Mahatma Gandhi died 10 years before Ellen DeGeneres was born and Joseph Stalin died 5 years before Ellen DeGeneres was born.

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  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  4. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  5. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. George W. Bush born 1946
  8. Joe Biden born 1942
  9. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  10. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  11. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  12. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  13. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  14. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  15. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  16. Bill Gates born 1955
  17. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  18. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  19. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  20. Shakira born 1977
  21. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  22. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  23. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  24. Lionel Messi born 1987
  25. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  26. Bill Clinton born 1946
  27. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  28. Basshunter born 1984
  29. Angela Merkel born 1954
  30. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  31. François Hollande born 1954
  32. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  33. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  34. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  35. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  36. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  37. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  38. John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  39. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  40. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  41. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  42. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  43. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
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  45. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
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  50. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
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  52. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
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  54. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  55. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
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  57. Lady Gaga born 1986
  58. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  59. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  60. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  61. Madonna born 1958
  62. Kamala Harris born 1964
  63. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  64. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  65. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  66. Xi Jinping born 1953
  67. Naruhito born 1960
  68. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
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  70. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
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  73. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  74. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  75. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  76. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
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  78. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  79. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  80. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  81. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  82. Justin Bieber born 1994
  83. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  84. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  85. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  86. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  87. Taylor Swift born 1989
  88. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  89. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  90. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  91. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  92. Charles III born 1948
  93. Kim Jong-un born 1984
  94. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  95. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  96. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  97. Eminem born 1972
  98. Beyoncé born 1981
  99. Selena Gomez born 1992
  100. Leo XIV born 1955
  101. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  102. Narendra Modi born 1950
  103. Rafael Correa born 1963
  104. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  105. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
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  107. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  108. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  109. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  110. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  111. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  112. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  113. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
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  115. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  116. Anna Netrebko born 1971
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  119. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  120. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  121. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
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  123. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  124. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  125. Shinzō Abe 1954 – 2022
  126. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
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  128. Isaac Asimov 1919–1920 – 1992
  129. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  130. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
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  133. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  134. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  135. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  136. Jackie Chan born 1954
  137. Kim Il-sung 1912 – 1994
  138. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  139. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  140. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  141. Céline Dion born 1968
  142. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  143. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  144. Roger Federer born 1981
  145. Lana Del Rey born 1985
  146. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  147. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  148. Alexander Lukashenka born 1954
  149. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
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