Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 2021?

646 of the people we track were surely alive in 2021. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 2021: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Desmond Tutu, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa, Christopher Plummer, Steven Weinberg, Hal Holbrook and F. W. de Klerk.

  1. Barack Obama60
  2. Donald Trump75
  3. Vladimir Putin69
  4. George W. Bush75
  5. Joe Biden79
  6. Elizabeth II95
  7. Bill Gates66
  8. Jimmy Wales55
  9. Pope Francis85
  10. Shakira44
  11. Lionel Messi34
  12. Corbin Bleu32
  13. Bill Clinton75
  14. Basshunter37
  15. Angela Merkel67
  16. François Hollande67
  17. Cristiano Ronaldo36
  18. Volodymyr Zelenskyy43
  19. Mikhail Gorbachev90
  20. Elon Musk50
  21. Jimmy Carter97
  22. Benedict XVI94
  23. Emmanuel Macron44
  24. Hillary Clinton74
  25. Lady Gaga35
  26. Nicolas Sarkozy66
  27. Madonna63
  28. Kamala Harris57
  29. Xi Jinping68
  30. Naruhito61
  31. Noam Chomsky93
  32. Bob Dylan80
  33. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan67
  34. Pelé81
  35. J. K. Rowling56
  36. Justin Bieber27
  37. Taylor Swift32
  38. Lech Wałęsa78
  39. Charles III73
  40. Kim Jong-un37
  41. Eminem49
  42. Beyoncé40
  43. Selena Gomez29
  44. Leo XIV66
  45. Narendra Modi71
  46. Rafael Correa58
  47. Aung San Suu Kyi76
  48. Steven Spielberg75
  49. Michael Schumacher52
  50. Angelina Jolie46
  51. Benjamin Netanyahu72
  52. Tenzin Gyatso86
  53. Dmitry Medvedev56
  54. Anna Netrebko50
  55. Mark Zuckerberg37
  56. Silvio Berlusconi85
  57. Shinzō Abe67
  58. Tim Berners-Lee66
  59. Mahathir Mohamad96
  60. Ali Khamenei82
  61. Jackie Chan67
  62. Guillermo Lasso66
  63. Céline Dion53
  64. Roger Federer40
  65. Lana Del Rey36
  66. Alexander Lukashenka67
  67. Woody Allen86
  68. Tony Blair68
  69. Rihanna33
  70. Neymar29
  71. Malala Yousafzai24
  72. Scarlett Johansson37
  73. Rafael Nadal35
  74. Greta Thunberg18
  75. Ban Ki-moon77
  76. Arnold Schwarzenegger74
  77. David Cameron55
  78. Linus Torvalds52
  79. Brigitte Bardot87
  80. Novak Djokovic34
  81. Boris Johnson57
  82. Jair Bolsonaro66
  83. Bashar al-Assad56
  84. Paul McCartney79
  85. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva76
  86. Anggun47
  87. Leonardo DiCaprio47
  88. Agnez Mo35
  89. Stephen King74
  90. Theresa May65
  91. Johnny Depp58
  92. Brad Pitt58
  93. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad65
  94. Britney Spears40
  95. Zinedine Zidane49
  96. Henry Kissinger98
  97. Emma Watson31
  98. Nicolás Maduro59
  99. Justin Trudeau50
  100. Rishi Sunak41
  101. Miley Cyrus29
  102. Ariana Grande28
  103. Warren Buffett91
  104. Bernie Sanders80
  105. Richard Stallman68
  106. Alain Delon86
  107. Robert De Niro78
  108. Michael Jordan58
  109. David Beckham46
  110. Avril Lavigne37
  111. Dilma Rousseff74
  112. Orhan Pamuk69
  113. Michelle Obama57
  114. Julian Assange50
  115. Richard Dawkins80
  116. Shah Rukh Khan56
  117. Jennifer Lopez52
  118. Natalie Portman40
  119. Usain Bolt35
  120. Clint Eastwood91

The 120 best known of 646 are listed.