Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 2003?

818 of the people we track were surely alive in 2003. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 2003: Greta Thunberg.

Died in 2003: Katharine Hepburn, Johnny Cash, Idi Amin, Gregory Peck, Charles Bronson, Leni Riefenstahl, Heydar Aliyev and Edward Said.

  1. Barack Obama42
  2. Donald Trump57
  3. Michael Jackson45
  4. Vladimir Putin51
  5. Ronald Reagan92
  6. Nelson Mandela85
  7. George W. Bush57
  8. Joe Biden61
  9. Elizabeth II77
  10. Bill Gates48
  11. Jimmy Wales37
  12. Pope Francis67
  13. Shakira26
  14. Steve Jobs48
  15. Lionel Messi16
  16. Corbin Bleu14
  17. Bill Clinton57
  18. Basshunter19
  19. Angela Merkel49
  20. Neil Armstrong73
  21. François Hollande49
  22. Cristiano Ronaldo18
  23. Volodymyr Zelenskyy25
  24. Margaret Thatcher78
  25. John Paul II83
  26. Gabriel García Márquez76
  27. Fidel Castro77
  28. Mikhail Gorbachev72
  29. Stephen Hawking61
  30. Elon Musk32
  31. Jimmy Carter79
  32. Benedict XVI76
  33. Emmanuel Macron26
  34. Hillary Clinton56
  35. Lady Gaga17
  36. George H. W. Bush79
  37. Nicolas Sarkozy48
  38. Madonna45
  39. Kamala Harris39
  40. Xi Jinping50
  41. Naruhito43
  42. Noam Chomsky75
  43. Hugo Chávez49
  44. Muammar Gaddafi61
  45. Sung Jae-gi36
  46. Bob Dylan62
  47. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan49
  48. Pelé63
  49. Muhammad Ali61
  50. J. K. Rowling38
  51. Justin Bieber9
  52. Kofi Annan65
  53. Taylor Swift14
  54. Osama bin Laden46
  55. Lech Wałęsa60
  56. Charles III55
  57. Kim Jong-un19
  58. Gerald Ford90
  59. Diego Maradona43
  60. Eminem31
  61. Beyoncé22
  62. Selena Gomez11
  63. Leo XIV48
  64. Narendra Modi53
  65. Rafael Correa40
  66. Naguib Mahfouz92
  67. Aung San Suu Kyi58
  68. Steven Spielberg57
  69. Michael Schumacher34
  70. Angelina Jolie28
  71. Saddam Hussein66
  72. Benjamin Netanyahu54
  73. Tenzin Gyatso68
  74. Dmitry Medvedev38
  75. Anna Netrebko32
  76. Mark Zuckerberg19
  77. Silvio Berlusconi67
  78. Shinzō Abe49
  79. Tim Berners-Lee48
  80. Ingmar Bergman85
  81. Mahathir Mohamad78
  82. Boris Yeltsin72
  83. Ali Khamenei64
  84. Robin Williams52
  85. Jackie Chan49
  86. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn85
  87. Jacques Chirac71
  88. Guillermo Lasso48
  89. Céline Dion35
  90. Roger Federer22
  91. Lana Del Rey18
  92. Marlon Brando79
  93. Alexander Lukashenka49
  94. Woody Allen68
  95. Tony Blair50
  96. Rihanna15
  97. Neymar11
  98. Malala Yousafzai6
  99. Scarlett Johansson19
  100. Yasser Arafat74
  101. Rafael Nadal17
  102. Greta Thunbergborn
  103. Ban Ki-moon59
  104. Arnold Schwarzenegger56
  105. David Cameron37
  106. Linus Torvalds34
  107. Brigitte Bardot69
  108. Novak Djokovic16
  109. Hebe Camargo74
  110. Umberto Eco71
  111. Boris Johnson39
  112. Benazir Bhutto50
  113. Jair Bolsonaro48
  114. Bashar al-Assad38
  115. Paul McCartney61
  116. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva58
  117. Anggun29
  118. Leonardo DiCaprio29
  119. Agnez Mo17
  120. Stephen King56

The 120 best known of 818 are listed.