Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 2009?

769 of the people we track were surely alive in 2009. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 2009: Michael Jackson, Corazon Aquino, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Paul Samuelson, Kim Dae-jung and John Updike.

  1. Barack Obama48
  2. Donald Trump63
  3. Michael Jackson50 †
  4. Vladimir Putin57
  5. Nelson Mandela91
  6. George W. Bush63
  7. Joe Biden67
  8. Elizabeth II83
  9. Bill Gates54
  10. Jimmy Wales43
  11. Pope Francis73
  12. Shakira32
  13. Steve Jobs54
  14. Lionel Messi22
  15. Corbin Bleu20
  16. Bill Clinton63
  17. Basshunter25
  18. Angela Merkel55
  19. Neil Armstrong79
  20. François Hollande55
  21. Cristiano Ronaldo24
  22. Volodymyr Zelenskyy31
  23. Margaret Thatcher84
  24. Gabriel García Márquez82
  25. Fidel Castro83
  26. Mikhail Gorbachev78
  27. Stephen Hawking67
  28. Elon Musk38
  29. Jimmy Carter85
  30. Benedict XVI82
  31. Emmanuel Macron32
  32. Hillary Clinton62
  33. Lady Gaga23
  34. George H. W. Bush85
  35. Nicolas Sarkozy54
  36. Madonna51
  37. Kamala Harris45
  38. Xi Jinping56
  39. Naruhito49
  40. Noam Chomsky81
  41. Hugo Chávez55
  42. Muammar Gaddafi67
  43. Sung Jae-gi42
  44. Bob Dylan68
  45. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan55
  46. Pelé69
  47. Muhammad Ali67
  48. J. K. Rowling44
  49. Justin Bieber15
  50. Kofi Annan71
  51. Taylor Swift20
  52. Osama bin Laden52
  53. Lech Wałęsa66
  54. Charles III61
  55. Kim Jong-un25
  56. Diego Maradona49
  57. Eminem37
  58. Beyoncé28
  59. Selena Gomez17
  60. Leo XIV54
  61. Narendra Modi59
  62. Rafael Correa46
  63. Aung San Suu Kyi64
  64. Steven Spielberg63
  65. Michael Schumacher40
  66. Angelina Jolie34
  67. Benjamin Netanyahu60
  68. Tenzin Gyatso74
  69. Dmitry Medvedev44
  70. Anna Netrebko38
  71. Mark Zuckerberg25
  72. Silvio Berlusconi73
  73. Shinzō Abe55
  74. Tim Berners-Lee54
  75. Mahathir Mohamad84
  76. Ali Khamenei70
  77. Robin Williams58
  78. Jackie Chan55
  79. Jacques Chirac77
  80. Guillermo Lasso54
  81. Céline Dion41
  82. Roger Federer28
  83. Lana Del Rey24
  84. Alexander Lukashenka55
  85. Woody Allen74
  86. Tony Blair56
  87. Rihanna21
  88. Neymar17
  89. Malala Yousafzai12
  90. Scarlett Johansson25
  91. Rafael Nadal23
  92. Greta Thunberg6
  93. Ban Ki-moon65
  94. Arnold Schwarzenegger62
  95. David Cameron43
  96. Linus Torvalds40
  97. Brigitte Bardot75
  98. Novak Djokovic22
  99. Hebe Camargo80
  100. Umberto Eco77
  101. Boris Johnson45
  102. Jair Bolsonaro54
  103. Bashar al-Assad44
  104. Paul McCartney67
  105. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva64
  106. Anggun35
  107. Leonardo DiCaprio35
  108. Agnez Mo23
  109. Stephen King62
  110. Theresa May53
  111. Johnny Depp46
  112. Brad Pitt46
  113. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad53
  114. Britney Spears28
  115. Maya Angelou81
  116. Sean Connery79
  117. Zinedine Zidane37
  118. Henry Kissinger86
  119. Václav Havel73
  120. Bhumibol Adulyadej82

The 120 best known of 769 are listed.