Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 2012?

750 of the people we track were surely alive in 2012. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 2012: Neil Armstrong, Hebe Camargo, Whitney Houston, Wisława Szymborska, Ray Bradbury, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Oscar Niemeyer and Ravi Shankar.

  1. Barack Obama51
  2. Donald Trump66
  3. Vladimir Putin60
  4. Nelson Mandela94
  5. George W. Bush66
  6. Joe Biden70
  7. Elizabeth II86
  8. Bill Gates57
  9. Jimmy Wales46
  10. Pope Francis76
  11. Shakira35
  12. Lionel Messi25
  13. Corbin Bleu23
  14. Bill Clinton66
  15. Basshunter28
  16. Angela Merkel58
  17. Neil Armstrong82 †
  18. François Hollande58
  19. Cristiano Ronaldo27
  20. Volodymyr Zelenskyy34
  21. Margaret Thatcher87
  22. Gabriel García Márquez85
  23. Fidel Castro86
  24. Mikhail Gorbachev81
  25. Stephen Hawking70
  26. Elon Musk41
  27. Jimmy Carter88
  28. Benedict XVI85
  29. Emmanuel Macron35
  30. Hillary Clinton65
  31. Lady Gaga26
  32. George H. W. Bush88
  33. Nicolas Sarkozy57
  34. Madonna54
  35. Kamala Harris48
  36. Xi Jinping59
  37. Naruhito52
  38. Noam Chomsky84
  39. Hugo Chávez58
  40. Sung Jae-gi45
  41. Bob Dylan71
  42. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan58
  43. Pelé72
  44. Muhammad Ali70
  45. J. K. Rowling47
  46. Justin Bieber18
  47. Kofi Annan74
  48. Taylor Swift23
  49. Lech Wałęsa69
  50. Charles III64
  51. Kim Jong-un28
  52. Diego Maradona52
  53. Eminem40
  54. Beyoncé31
  55. Selena Gomez20
  56. Leo XIV57
  57. Narendra Modi62
  58. Rafael Correa49
  59. Aung San Suu Kyi67
  60. Steven Spielberg66
  61. Michael Schumacher43
  62. Angelina Jolie37
  63. Benjamin Netanyahu63
  64. Tenzin Gyatso77
  65. Dmitry Medvedev47
  66. Anna Netrebko41
  67. Mark Zuckerberg28
  68. Silvio Berlusconi76
  69. Shinzō Abe58
  70. Tim Berners-Lee57
  71. Mahathir Mohamad87
  72. Ali Khamenei73
  73. Robin Williams61
  74. Jackie Chan58
  75. Jacques Chirac80
  76. Guillermo Lasso57
  77. Céline Dion44
  78. Roger Federer31
  79. Lana Del Rey27
  80. Alexander Lukashenka58
  81. Woody Allen77
  82. Tony Blair59
  83. Rihanna24
  84. Neymar20
  85. Malala Yousafzai15
  86. Scarlett Johansson28
  87. Rafael Nadal26
  88. Greta Thunberg9
  89. Ban Ki-moon68
  90. Arnold Schwarzenegger65
  91. David Cameron46
  92. Linus Torvalds43
  93. Brigitte Bardot78
  94. Novak Djokovic25
  95. Hebe Camargo83 †
  96. Umberto Eco80
  97. Boris Johnson48
  98. Jair Bolsonaro57
  99. Bashar al-Assad47
  100. Paul McCartney70
  101. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva67
  102. Anggun38
  103. Leonardo DiCaprio38
  104. Agnez Mo26
  105. Stephen King65
  106. Theresa May56
  107. Johnny Depp49
  108. Brad Pitt49
  109. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad56
  110. Britney Spears31
  111. Maya Angelou84
  112. Sean Connery82
  113. Zinedine Zidane40
  114. Henry Kissinger89
  115. Bhumibol Adulyadej85
  116. Emma Watson22
  117. Nicolás Maduro50
  118. Justin Trudeau41
  119. Rishi Sunak32
  120. Miley Cyrus20

The 120 best known of 750 are listed.