Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 2001?

823 of the people we track were surely alive in 2001. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 2001: Billie Eilish.

Died in 2001: Douglas Adams, George Harrison and Léopold Sédar Senghor.

  1. Barack Obama40
  2. Donald Trump55
  3. Michael Jackson43
  4. Vladimir Putin49
  5. Ronald Reagan90
  6. Nelson Mandela83
  7. George W. Bush55
  8. Joe Biden59
  9. Elizabeth II75
  10. Bill Gates46
  11. Jimmy Wales35
  12. Pope Francis65
  13. Shakira24
  14. Steve Jobs46
  15. Lionel Messi14
  16. Corbin Bleu12
  17. Bill Clinton55
  18. Basshunter17
  19. Angela Merkel47
  20. Neil Armstrong71
  21. François Hollande47
  22. Cristiano Ronaldo16
  23. Volodymyr Zelenskyy23
  24. Margaret Thatcher76
  25. John Paul II81
  26. Gabriel García Márquez74
  27. Fidel Castro75
  28. Mikhail Gorbachev70
  29. Stephen Hawking59
  30. Elon Musk30
  31. Jimmy Carter77
  32. Benedict XVI74
  33. Emmanuel Macron24
  34. Hillary Clinton54
  35. Lady Gaga15
  36. George H. W. Bush77
  37. Nicolas Sarkozy46
  38. Madonna43
  39. Kamala Harris37
  40. Xi Jinping48
  41. Naruhito41
  42. Noam Chomsky73
  43. Hugo Chávez47
  44. Muammar Gaddafi59
  45. Sung Jae-gi34
  46. Bob Dylan60
  47. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan47
  48. Pelé61
  49. Muhammad Ali59
  50. J. K. Rowling36
  51. Justin Bieber7
  52. Kofi Annan63
  53. Taylor Swift12
  54. Osama bin Laden44
  55. Lech Wałęsa58
  56. Charles III53
  57. Kim Jong-un17
  58. Gerald Ford88
  59. Diego Maradona41
  60. Eminem29
  61. Beyoncé20
  62. Selena Gomez9
  63. Leo XIV46
  64. Narendra Modi51
  65. Rafael Correa38
  66. Naguib Mahfouz90
  67. Aung San Suu Kyi56
  68. Steven Spielberg55
  69. Michael Schumacher32
  70. Angelina Jolie26
  71. Saddam Hussein64
  72. Benjamin Netanyahu52
  73. Tenzin Gyatso66
  74. Dmitry Medvedev36
  75. Anna Netrebko30
  76. Mark Zuckerberg17
  77. Silvio Berlusconi65
  78. Shinzō Abe47
  79. Tim Berners-Lee46
  80. Ingmar Bergman83
  81. Mahathir Mohamad76
  82. Boris Yeltsin70
  83. Ali Khamenei62
  84. Robin Williams50
  85. Jackie Chan47
  86. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn83
  87. Jacques Chirac69
  88. Guillermo Lasso46
  89. Céline Dion33
  90. Roger Federer20
  91. Lana Del Rey16
  92. Marlon Brando77
  93. Alexander Lukashenka47
  94. Woody Allen66
  95. Tony Blair48
  96. Rihanna13
  97. Neymar9
  98. Malala Yousafzai4
  99. Scarlett Johansson17
  100. Yasser Arafat72
  101. Rafael Nadal15
  102. Ban Ki-moon57
  103. Arnold Schwarzenegger54
  104. David Cameron35
  105. Linus Torvalds32
  106. Brigitte Bardot67
  107. Novak Djokovic14
  108. Hebe Camargo72
  109. Umberto Eco69
  110. Boris Johnson37
  111. Benazir Bhutto48
  112. Jair Bolsonaro46
  113. Bashar al-Assad36
  114. Paul McCartney59
  115. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva56
  116. Anggun27
  117. Leonardo DiCaprio27
  118. Agnez Mo15
  119. Stephen King54
  120. Theresa May45

The 120 best known of 823 are listed.