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Neil Patrick Harris
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Neil Patrick Harris

American actor

Born 15 June 1973 · living, 53 as of October 2026

Who was alive at the same time as Neil Patrick Harris?

  1. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  2. Mao Zedong, 1893 – 1976
  3. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989
  4. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  5. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  6. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  7. Neil Armstrong, 1930 – 2012
  8. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025
  9. Joe Biden, born 1942
  10. Donald Trump, born 1946
  11. George W. Bush, born 1946
  12. Bill Clinton, born 1946
  13. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  14. Angela Merkel, born 1954
  15. Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
  16. Bill Gates, born 1955
  17. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  18. Barack Obama, born 1961
  19. Jimmy Wales, born 1966
  20. Neil Patrick Harris, born 1973
  21. Shakira, born 1977
  22. Basshunter, born 1984
  23. Lionel Messi, born 1987
  24. Corbin Bleu, born 1989

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When Neil Patrick Harris was born, Barack Obama was 11, Donald Trump was 27, Michael Jackson was 14, Vladimir Putin was 20 and Ronald Reagan was 62.

Born during Neil Patrick Harris’s lifetime: Shakira, Lionel Messi, Corbin Bleu, Basshunter, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Cristiano Ronaldo, Emmanuel Macron and Lady Gaga.

Not quite contemporaries: Pablo Picasso died months before Neil Patrick Harris was born, Winston Churchill died about 8 years before Neil Patrick Harris was born, John F. Kennedy died about 10 years before Neil Patrick Harris was born and Martin Luther King Jr. died about 5 years before Neil Patrick Harris was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,724 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Neil Patrick Harris. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 2000.

  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. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  10. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  11. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  12. Bill Gates born 1955
  13. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  14. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  15. Shakira born 1977
  16. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  17. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  18. Lionel Messi born 1987
  19. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  20. Bill Clinton born 1946
  21. Basshunter born 1984
  22. Angela Merkel born 1954
  23. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  24. François Hollande born 1954
  25. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  26. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  27. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  28. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  29. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  30. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  31. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  32. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  33. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  34. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  35. Elon Musk born 1971
  36. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  37. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  38. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  39. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  40. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  41. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  42. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  43. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  44. Lady Gaga born 1986
  45. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  46. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  47. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  48. Madonna born 1958
  49. Kamala Harris born 1964
  50. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  51. Xi Jinping born 1953
  52. Naruhito born 1960
  53. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  54. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  55. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  56. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  57. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  58. Bob Dylan born 1941
  59. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  60. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  61. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  62. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  63. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  64. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  65. Justin Bieber born 1994
  66. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  67. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  68. Taylor Swift born 1989
  69. Charles III born 1948
  70. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  71. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  72. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  73. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  74. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  75. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  76. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  77. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  78. Eminem born 1972
  79. Beyoncé born 1981
  80. Selena Gomez born 1992
  81. Narendra Modi born 1950
  82. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  83. Rafael Correa born 1963
  84. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  85. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  86. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  87. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  88. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  89. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  90. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  91. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  92. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  93. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  94. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  95. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  96. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  97. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  98. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  99. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  100. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  101. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  102. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  103. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  104. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  105. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  106. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  107. Jackie Chan born 1954
  108. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  109. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  110. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  111. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  112. Celine Dion born 1968
  113. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  114. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  115. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  116. Roger Federer born 1981
  117. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  118. Lana Del Rey born 1985
  119. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  120. Alexander Lukashenko born 1954
  121. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  122. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  123. Woody Allen born 1935
  124. Neymar born 1992
  125. Tony Blair born 1953
  126. Rihanna born 1988
  127. Malala Yousafzai born 1997
  128. Scarlett Johansson born 1984
  129. Rafael Nadal born 1986
  130. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  131. Greta Thunberg born 2003
  132. Ban Ki-moon born 1944
  133. Arnold Schwarzenegger born 1947
  134. David Cameron born 1966
  135. Linus Torvalds born 1969
  136. Novak Djokovic born 1987
  137. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  138. Brigitte Bardot 1934 – 2025
  139. Hebe Camargo 1929 – 2012
  140. Umberto Eco 1932 – 2016
  141. Diana, Princess of Wales 1961 – 1997
  142. Boris Johnson born 1964
  143. Bashar al-Assad born 1965
  144. Audrey Hepburn 1929 – 1993
  145. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva born 1945
  146. Benazir Bhutto 1953 – 2007
  147. Jair Bolsonaro born 1955
  148. Paul McCartney born 1942
  149. Anggun born 1974
  150. Leonardo DiCaprio born 1974