Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 2015?

716 of the people we track were surely alive in 2015. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 2015: Günter Grass, Kuan Yew Lee, Christopher Lee, Helmut Schmidt, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, John Forbes Nash, Tomas Tranströmer and Terry Pratchett.

  1. Barack Obama54
  2. Donald Trump69
  3. Vladimir Putin63
  4. George W. Bush69
  5. Joe Biden73
  6. Elizabeth II89
  7. Bill Gates60
  8. Jimmy Wales49
  9. Pope Francis79
  10. Shakira38
  11. Lionel Messi28
  12. Corbin Bleu26
  13. Bill Clinton69
  14. Basshunter31
  15. Angela Merkel61
  16. François Hollande61
  17. Cristiano Ronaldo30
  18. Volodymyr Zelenskyy37
  19. Fidel Castro89
  20. Mikhail Gorbachev84
  21. Stephen Hawking73
  22. Elon Musk44
  23. Jimmy Carter91
  24. Benedict XVI88
  25. Emmanuel Macron38
  26. Hillary Clinton68
  27. Lady Gaga29
  28. George H. W. Bush91
  29. Nicolas Sarkozy60
  30. Madonna57
  31. Kamala Harris51
  32. Xi Jinping62
  33. Naruhito55
  34. Noam Chomsky87
  35. Bob Dylan74
  36. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan61
  37. Pelé75
  38. Muhammad Ali73
  39. J. K. Rowling50
  40. Justin Bieber21
  41. Kofi Annan77
  42. Taylor Swift26
  43. Lech Wałęsa72
  44. Charles III67
  45. Kim Jong-un31
  46. Diego Maradona55
  47. Eminem43
  48. Beyoncé34
  49. Selena Gomez23
  50. Leo XIV60
  51. Narendra Modi65
  52. Rafael Correa52
  53. Aung San Suu Kyi70
  54. Steven Spielberg69
  55. Michael Schumacher46
  56. Angelina Jolie40
  57. Benjamin Netanyahu66
  58. Tenzin Gyatso80
  59. Dmitry Medvedev50
  60. Anna Netrebko44
  61. Mark Zuckerberg31
  62. Silvio Berlusconi79
  63. Shinzō Abe61
  64. Tim Berners-Lee60
  65. Mahathir Mohamad90
  66. Ali Khamenei76
  67. Jackie Chan61
  68. Jacques Chirac83
  69. Guillermo Lasso60
  70. Céline Dion47
  71. Roger Federer34
  72. Lana Del Rey30
  73. Alexander Lukashenka61
  74. Woody Allen80
  75. Tony Blair62
  76. Rihanna27
  77. Neymar23
  78. Malala Yousafzai18
  79. Scarlett Johansson31
  80. Rafael Nadal29
  81. Greta Thunberg12
  82. Ban Ki-moon71
  83. Arnold Schwarzenegger68
  84. David Cameron49
  85. Linus Torvalds46
  86. Brigitte Bardot81
  87. Novak Djokovic28
  88. Umberto Eco83
  89. Boris Johnson51
  90. Jair Bolsonaro60
  91. Bashar al-Assad50
  92. Paul McCartney73
  93. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva70
  94. Anggun41
  95. Leonardo DiCaprio41
  96. Agnez Mo29
  97. Stephen King68
  98. Theresa May59
  99. Johnny Depp52
  100. Brad Pitt52
  101. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad59
  102. Britney Spears34
  103. Sean Connery85
  104. Zinedine Zidane43
  105. Henry Kissinger92
  106. Bhumibol Adulyadej88
  107. Emma Watson25
  108. Nicolás Maduro53
  109. Justin Trudeau44
  110. Rishi Sunak35
  111. Miley Cyrus23
  112. Ariana Grande22
  113. Warren Buffett85
  114. Bernie Sanders74
  115. Richard Stallman62
  116. Robert Mugabe91
  117. Alain Delon80
  118. Robert De Niro72
  119. Michael Jordan52
  120. David Beckham40

The 120 best known of 716 are listed.