Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 2017?

685 of the people we track were surely alive in 2017. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 2017: Helmut Kohl, Liu Xiaobo, Chuck Berry, Chester Bennington, Maryam Mirzakhani, Roger Moore, Derek Walcott and Charles Manson.

  1. Barack Obama56
  2. Donald Trump71
  3. Vladimir Putin65
  4. George W. Bush71
  5. Joe Biden75
  6. Elizabeth II91
  7. Bill Gates62
  8. Jimmy Wales51
  9. Pope Francis81
  10. Shakira40
  11. Lionel Messi30
  12. Corbin Bleu28
  13. Bill Clinton71
  14. Basshunter33
  15. Angela Merkel63
  16. François Hollande63
  17. Cristiano Ronaldo32
  18. Volodymyr Zelenskyy39
  19. Mikhail Gorbachev86
  20. Stephen Hawking75
  21. Elon Musk46
  22. Jimmy Carter93
  23. Benedict XVI90
  24. Emmanuel Macron40
  25. Hillary Clinton70
  26. Lady Gaga31
  27. George H. W. Bush93
  28. Nicolas Sarkozy62
  29. Madonna59
  30. Kamala Harris53
  31. Xi Jinping64
  32. Naruhito57
  33. Noam Chomsky89
  34. Bob Dylan76
  35. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan63
  36. Pelé77
  37. J. K. Rowling52
  38. Justin Bieber23
  39. Kofi Annan79
  40. Taylor Swift28
  41. Lech Wałęsa74
  42. Charles III69
  43. Kim Jong-un33
  44. Diego Maradona57
  45. Eminem45
  46. Beyoncé36
  47. Selena Gomez25
  48. Leo XIV62
  49. Narendra Modi67
  50. Rafael Correa54
  51. Aung San Suu Kyi72
  52. Steven Spielberg71
  53. Michael Schumacher48
  54. Angelina Jolie42
  55. Benjamin Netanyahu68
  56. Tenzin Gyatso82
  57. Dmitry Medvedev52
  58. Anna Netrebko46
  59. Mark Zuckerberg33
  60. Silvio Berlusconi81
  61. Shinzō Abe63
  62. Tim Berners-Lee62
  63. Mahathir Mohamad92
  64. Ali Khamenei78
  65. Jackie Chan63
  66. Jacques Chirac85
  67. Guillermo Lasso62
  68. Céline Dion49
  69. Roger Federer36
  70. Lana Del Rey32
  71. Alexander Lukashenka63
  72. Woody Allen82
  73. Tony Blair64
  74. Rihanna29
  75. Neymar25
  76. Malala Yousafzai20
  77. Scarlett Johansson33
  78. Rafael Nadal31
  79. Greta Thunberg14
  80. Ban Ki-moon73
  81. Arnold Schwarzenegger70
  82. David Cameron51
  83. Linus Torvalds48
  84. Brigitte Bardot83
  85. Novak Djokovic30
  86. Boris Johnson53
  87. Jair Bolsonaro62
  88. Bashar al-Assad52
  89. Paul McCartney75
  90. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva72
  91. Anggun43
  92. Leonardo DiCaprio43
  93. Agnez Mo31
  94. Stephen King70
  95. Theresa May61
  96. Johnny Depp54
  97. Brad Pitt54
  98. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad61
  99. Britney Spears36
  100. Sean Connery87
  101. Zinedine Zidane45
  102. Henry Kissinger94
  103. Emma Watson27
  104. Nicolás Maduro55
  105. Justin Trudeau46
  106. Rishi Sunak37
  107. Miley Cyrus25
  108. Ariana Grande24
  109. Warren Buffett87
  110. Bernie Sanders76
  111. Richard Stallman64
  112. Robert Mugabe93
  113. Alain Delon82
  114. Robert De Niro74
  115. Michael Jordan54
  116. David Beckham42
  117. Avril Lavigne33
  118. Hosni Mubarak89
  119. Dilma Rousseff70
  120. Orhan Pamuk65

The 120 best known of 685 are listed.