Who Was Alive
Karen Gillan
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Karen Gillan

British actor

Born 28 November 1987 · living, 38 as of October 2026
Also known as Karen Sheila Gillan

Who was alive at the same time as Karen Gillan?

  1. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  2. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  3. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  4. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  5. Neil Armstrong, 1930 – 2012
  6. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025
  7. Joe Biden, born 1942
  8. Donald Trump, born 1946
  9. George W. Bush, born 1946
  10. Bill Clinton, born 1946
  11. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  12. Angela Merkel, born 1954
  13. François Hollande, born 1954
  14. Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
  15. Bill Gates, born 1955
  16. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  17. Barack Obama, born 1961
  18. Jimmy Wales, born 1966
  19. Shakira, born 1977
  20. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, born 1978
  21. Basshunter, born 1984
  22. Lionel Messi, born 1987
  23. Karen Gillan, born 1987
  24. Corbin Bleu, born 1989

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When Karen Gillan was born, Barack Obama was 26, Donald Trump was 41, Michael Jackson was 29, Vladimir Putin was 35 and Ronald Reagan was 76.

Born during Karen Gillan’s lifetime: Corbin Bleu, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Neymar, Rihanna, Malala Yousafzai and Greta Thunberg.

Not quite contemporaries: Pablo Picasso died about 14 years before Karen Gillan was born, Charlie Chaplin died about 10 years before Karen Gillan was born, Mao Zedong died about 11 years before Karen Gillan was born and Elvis Presley died about 10 years before Karen Gillan was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,408 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Karen Gillan. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 2007.

  1. Barack Obama born 1961
  2. Donald Trump born 1946
  3. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
  4. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  5. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. George W. Bush born 1946
  8. Joe Biden born 1942
  9. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  10. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  11. Bill Gates born 1955
  12. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  13. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  14. Shakira born 1977
  15. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  16. Lionel Messi born 1987
  17. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  18. Bill Clinton born 1946
  19. Basshunter born 1984
  20. Angela Merkel born 1954
  21. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  22. François Hollande born 1954
  23. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  24. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  25. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  26. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  27. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  28. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  29. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  30. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  31. Elon Musk born 1971
  32. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  33. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  34. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  35. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  36. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  37. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  38. Lady Gaga born 1986
  39. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  40. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  41. Madonna born 1958
  42. Kamala Harris born 1964
  43. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  44. Xi Jinping born 1953
  45. Naruhito born 1960
  46. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  47. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  48. Bob Dylan born 1941
  49. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  50. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  51. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  52. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  53. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  54. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  55. Justin Bieber born 1994
  56. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  57. Taylor Swift born 1989
  58. Charles III born 1948
  59. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  60. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  61. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  62. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  63. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  64. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  65. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  66. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  67. Eminem born 1972
  68. Beyoncé born 1981
  69. Selena Gomez born 1992
  70. Narendra Modi born 1950
  71. Rafael Correa born 1963
  72. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  73. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  74. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  75. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  76. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  77. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  78. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  79. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  80. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  81. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  82. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  83. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  84. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  85. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  86. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  87. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  88. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  89. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  90. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  91. Jackie Chan born 1954
  92. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  93. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  94. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  95. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  96. Celine Dion born 1968
  97. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  98. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  99. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  100. Roger Federer born 1981
  101. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  102. Lana Del Rey born 1985
  103. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  104. Alexander Lukashenko born 1954
  105. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  106. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  107. Woody Allen born 1935
  108. Neymar born 1992
  109. Tony Blair born 1953
  110. Rihanna born 1988
  111. Malala Yousafzai born 1997
  112. Scarlett Johansson born 1984
  113. Rafael Nadal born 1986
  114. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  115. Greta Thunberg born 2003
  116. Ban Ki-moon born 1944
  117. Arnold Schwarzenegger born 1947
  118. David Cameron born 1966
  119. Linus Torvalds born 1969
  120. Novak Djokovic born 1987
  121. Brigitte Bardot 1934 – 2025
  122. Hebe Camargo 1929 – 2012
  123. Umberto Eco 1932 – 2016
  124. Diana, Princess of Wales 1961 – 1997
  125. Boris Johnson born 1964
  126. Bashar al-Assad born 1965
  127. Audrey Hepburn 1929 – 1993
  128. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva born 1945
  129. Benazir Bhutto 1953 – 2007
  130. Jair Bolsonaro born 1955
  131. Paul McCartney born 1942
  132. Anggun born 1974
  133. Leonardo DiCaprio born 1974
  134. Agnez Mo born 1986
  135. Stephen King born 1947
  136. Theresa May born 1956
  137. Johnny Depp born 1963
  138. Brad Pitt born 1963
  139. Maya Angelou 1928 – 2014
  140. Zinedine Zidane born 1972
  141. Britney Spears born 1981
  142. Sean Connery 1930 – 2020
  143. Elizabeth Taylor 1932 – 2011
  144. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad born 1956
  145. Satyajit Ray 1921 – 1992
  146. Henry Kissinger 1923 – 2023
  147. Václav Havel 1936 – 2011
  148. Emma Watson born 1990
  149. Bhumibol Adulyadej 1927 – 2016
  150. Carl Sagan 1934 – 1996