Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1997?

837 of the people we track were surely alive in 1997. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1997: Malala Yousafzai and Max Verstappen.

Died in 1997: Mother Teresa, Diana, Princess of Wales, Deng Xiaoping, Toshirō Mifune, Jacques Cousteau, James Stewart and Allen Ginsberg.

  1. Barack Obama36
  2. Donald Trump51
  3. Michael Jackson39
  4. Vladimir Putin45
  5. Ronald Reagan86
  6. Nelson Mandela79
  7. George W. Bush51
  8. Joe Biden55
  9. Elizabeth II71
  10. Bill Gates42
  11. Jimmy Wales31
  12. Pope Francis61
  13. Shakira20
  14. Steve Jobs42
  15. Lionel Messi10
  16. Corbin Bleu8
  17. Bill Clinton51
  18. Basshunter13
  19. Angela Merkel43
  20. Neil Armstrong67
  21. François Hollande43
  22. Cristiano Ronaldo12
  23. Volodymyr Zelenskyy19
  24. Margaret Thatcher72
  25. John Paul II77
  26. Gabriel García Márquez70
  27. Fidel Castro71
  28. Mikhail Gorbachev66
  29. Stephen Hawking55
  30. Elon Musk26
  31. Mother Teresa87 †
  32. Jimmy Carter73
  33. Benedict XVI70
  34. Emmanuel Macron20
  35. Hillary Clinton50
  36. Lady Gaga11
  37. George H. W. Bush73
  38. Nicolas Sarkozy42
  39. Madonna39
  40. Kamala Harris33
  41. Xi Jinping44
  42. Naruhito37
  43. Noam Chomsky69
  44. Hugo Chávez43
  45. Muammar Gaddafi55
  46. Sung Jae-gi30
  47. Bob Dylan56
  48. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan43
  49. Pelé57
  50. Muhammad Ali55
  51. J. K. Rowling32
  52. Justin Bieber3
  53. Kofi Annan59
  54. Taylor Swift8
  55. Osama bin Laden40
  56. Akira Kurosawa87
  57. Lech Wałęsa54
  58. Charles III49
  59. Kim Jong-un13
  60. Gerald Ford84
  61. Diego Maradona37
  62. Eminem25
  63. Beyoncé16
  64. Selena Gomez5
  65. Leo XIV42
  66. Narendra Modi47
  67. Rafael Correa34
  68. Naguib Mahfouz86
  69. Aung San Suu Kyi52
  70. Steven Spielberg51
  71. Michael Schumacher28
  72. Angelina Jolie22
  73. Saddam Hussein60
  74. Benjamin Netanyahu48
  75. Tenzin Gyatso62
  76. Dmitry Medvedev32
  77. Anna Netrebko26
  78. Mark Zuckerberg13
  79. Silvio Berlusconi61
  80. Shinzō Abe43
  81. Tim Berners-Lee42
  82. Ingmar Bergman79
  83. Mahathir Mohamad72
  84. Boris Yeltsin66
  85. Ali Khamenei58
  86. Robin Williams46
  87. Jackie Chan43
  88. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn79
  89. Jacques Chirac65
  90. Guillermo Lasso42
  91. Céline Dion29
  92. Stanley Kubrick69
  93. Roger Federer16
  94. Lana Del Rey12
  95. Marlon Brando73
  96. Alexander Lukashenka43
  97. Woody Allen62
  98. Tony Blair44
  99. Rihanna9
  100. Neymar5
  101. Malala Yousafzaiborn
  102. Scarlett Johansson13
  103. Yasser Arafat68
  104. Rafael Nadal11
  105. Ban Ki-moon53
  106. Arnold Schwarzenegger50
  107. David Cameron31
  108. Linus Torvalds28
  109. Brigitte Bardot63
  110. Novak Djokovic10
  111. Hebe Camargo68
  112. Umberto Eco65
  113. Boris Johnson33
  114. Benazir Bhutto44
  115. Jair Bolsonaro42
  116. Diana, Princess of Wales36 †
  117. Bashar al-Assad32
  118. Paul McCartney55
  119. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva52
  120. Anggun23

The 120 best known of 837 are listed.