Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 2002?

820 of the people we track were surely alive in 2002. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 2002: Astrid Lindgren, Camilo José Cela and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

  1. Barack Obama41
  2. Donald Trump56
  3. Michael Jackson44
  4. Vladimir Putin50
  5. Ronald Reagan91
  6. Nelson Mandela84
  7. George W. Bush56
  8. Joe Biden60
  9. Elizabeth II76
  10. Bill Gates47
  11. Jimmy Wales36
  12. Pope Francis66
  13. Shakira25
  14. Steve Jobs47
  15. Lionel Messi15
  16. Corbin Bleu13
  17. Bill Clinton56
  18. Basshunter18
  19. Angela Merkel48
  20. Neil Armstrong72
  21. François Hollande48
  22. Cristiano Ronaldo17
  23. Volodymyr Zelenskyy24
  24. Margaret Thatcher77
  25. John Paul II82
  26. Gabriel García Márquez75
  27. Fidel Castro76
  28. Mikhail Gorbachev71
  29. Stephen Hawking60
  30. Elon Musk31
  31. Jimmy Carter78
  32. Benedict XVI75
  33. Emmanuel Macron25
  34. Hillary Clinton55
  35. Lady Gaga16
  36. George H. W. Bush78
  37. Nicolas Sarkozy47
  38. Madonna44
  39. Kamala Harris38
  40. Xi Jinping49
  41. Naruhito42
  42. Noam Chomsky74
  43. Hugo Chávez48
  44. Muammar Gaddafi60
  45. Sung Jae-gi35
  46. Bob Dylan61
  47. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan48
  48. Pelé62
  49. Muhammad Ali60
  50. J. K. Rowling37
  51. Justin Bieber8
  52. Kofi Annan64
  53. Taylor Swift13
  54. Osama bin Laden45
  55. Lech Wałęsa59
  56. Charles III54
  57. Kim Jong-un18
  58. Gerald Ford89
  59. Diego Maradona42
  60. Eminem30
  61. Beyoncé21
  62. Selena Gomez10
  63. Leo XIV47
  64. Narendra Modi52
  65. Rafael Correa39
  66. Naguib Mahfouz91
  67. Aung San Suu Kyi57
  68. Steven Spielberg56
  69. Michael Schumacher33
  70. Angelina Jolie27
  71. Saddam Hussein65
  72. Benjamin Netanyahu53
  73. Tenzin Gyatso67
  74. Dmitry Medvedev37
  75. Anna Netrebko31
  76. Mark Zuckerberg18
  77. Silvio Berlusconi66
  78. Shinzō Abe48
  79. Tim Berners-Lee47
  80. Ingmar Bergman84
  81. Mahathir Mohamad77
  82. Boris Yeltsin71
  83. Ali Khamenei63
  84. Robin Williams51
  85. Jackie Chan48
  86. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn84
  87. Jacques Chirac70
  88. Guillermo Lasso47
  89. Céline Dion34
  90. Roger Federer21
  91. Lana Del Rey17
  92. Marlon Brando78
  93. Alexander Lukashenka48
  94. Woody Allen67
  95. Tony Blair49
  96. Rihanna14
  97. Neymar10
  98. Malala Yousafzai5
  99. Scarlett Johansson18
  100. Yasser Arafat73
  101. Rafael Nadal16
  102. Ban Ki-moon58
  103. Arnold Schwarzenegger55
  104. David Cameron36
  105. Linus Torvalds33
  106. Brigitte Bardot68
  107. Novak Djokovic15
  108. Hebe Camargo73
  109. Umberto Eco70
  110. Boris Johnson38
  111. Benazir Bhutto49
  112. Jair Bolsonaro47
  113. Bashar al-Assad37
  114. Paul McCartney60
  115. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva57
  116. Anggun28
  117. Leonardo DiCaprio28
  118. Agnez Mo16
  119. Stephen King55
  120. Theresa May46

The 120 best known of 820 are listed.