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Sam Smith
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Sam Smith

British singer and songwriter

Born 19 May 1992 · living, 34 as of October 2026
Also known as Samuel Frederick Smith

Who was alive at the same time as Sam Smith?

  1. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  2. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  3. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  4. Neil Armstrong, 1930 – 2012
  5. Pope Francis, 1936 – 2025
  6. Joe Biden, born 1942
  7. Donald Trump, born 1946
  8. George W. Bush, born 1946
  9. Bill Clinton, born 1946
  10. Vladimir Putin, born 1952
  11. Angela Merkel, born 1954
  12. François Hollande, born 1954
  13. Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
  14. Bill Gates, born 1955
  15. Michael Jackson, 1958 – 2009
  16. Barack Obama, born 1961
  17. Jimmy Wales, born 1966
  18. Shakira, born 1977
  19. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, born 1978
  20. Basshunter, born 1984
  21. Cristiano Ronaldo, born 1985
  22. Lionel Messi, born 1987
  23. Corbin Bleu, born 1989
  24. Sam Smith, born 1992

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When Sam Smith was born, Barack Obama was 30, Donald Trump was 45, Michael Jackson was 33, Vladimir Putin was 39 and Ronald Reagan was 81.

Born during Sam Smith’s lifetime: Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Malala Yousafzai, Greta Thunberg, Miley Cyrus, Ariana Grande, Kylian Mbappé and Demi Lovato.

Not quite contemporaries: Charlie Chaplin died about 15 years before Sam Smith was born, Salvador Dalí died about 3 years before Sam Smith was born, Elvis Presley died about 15 years before Sam Smith was born and Marlene Dietrich died months before Sam Smith was born.

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Where Sam Smith’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,317 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Sam Smith. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 2009.

  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. Bill Gates born 1955
  11. Jimmy Wales born 1966
  12. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  13. Shakira born 1977
  14. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  15. Lionel Messi born 1987
  16. Corbin Bleu born 1989
  17. Bill Clinton born 1946
  18. Basshunter born 1984
  19. Angela Merkel born 1954
  20. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  21. François Hollande born 1954
  22. Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978
  23. Cristiano Ronaldo born 1985
  24. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  25. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  26. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  27. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  28. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  29. Elon Musk born 1971
  30. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  31. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  32. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  33. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  34. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  35. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  36. Lady Gaga born 1986
  37. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  38. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  39. Madonna born 1958
  40. Kamala Harris born 1964
  41. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  42. Xi Jinping born 1953
  43. Naruhito born 1960
  44. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  45. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  46. Bob Dylan born 1941
  47. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  48. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  49. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  50. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  51. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  52. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  53. Justin Bieber born 1994
  54. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  55. Taylor Swift born 1989
  56. Charles III born 1948
  57. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  58. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  59. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  60. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  61. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  62. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  63. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  64. Eminem born 1972
  65. Beyoncé born 1981
  66. Selena Gomez born 1992
  67. Narendra Modi born 1950
  68. Rafael Correa born 1963
  69. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  70. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  71. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  72. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  73. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  74. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  75. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  76. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  77. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  78. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  79. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  80. Rafael Orozco Maestre 1954 – 1992
  81. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  82. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  83. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  84. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  85. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  86. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  87. Jackie Chan born 1954
  88. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  89. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  90. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  91. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  92. Celine Dion born 1968
  93. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  94. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  95. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  96. Roger Federer born 1981
  97. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  98. Lana Del Rey born 1985
  99. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  100. Alexander Lukashenko born 1954
  101. Woody Allen born 1935
  102. Neymar born 1992
  103. Tony Blair born 1953
  104. Rihanna born 1988
  105. Malala Yousafzai born 1997
  106. Scarlett Johansson born 1984
  107. Rafael Nadal born 1986
  108. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  109. Greta Thunberg born 2003
  110. Ban Ki-moon born 1944
  111. Arnold Schwarzenegger born 1947
  112. David Cameron born 1966
  113. Linus Torvalds born 1969
  114. Novak Djokovic born 1987
  115. Brigitte Bardot 1934 – 2025
  116. Hebe Camargo 1929 – 2012
  117. Umberto Eco 1932 – 2016
  118. Diana, Princess of Wales 1961 – 1997
  119. Boris Johnson born 1964
  120. Bashar al-Assad born 1965
  121. Audrey Hepburn 1929 – 1993
  122. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva born 1945
  123. Benazir Bhutto 1953 – 2007
  124. Jair Bolsonaro born 1955
  125. Paul McCartney born 1942
  126. Anggun born 1974
  127. Leonardo DiCaprio born 1974
  128. Agnez Mo born 1986
  129. Stephen King born 1947
  130. Theresa May born 1956
  131. Johnny Depp born 1963
  132. Brad Pitt born 1963
  133. Maya Angelou 1928 – 2014
  134. Zinedine Zidane born 1972
  135. Britney Spears born 1981
  136. Sean Connery 1930 – 2020
  137. Elizabeth Taylor 1932 – 2011
  138. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad born 1956
  139. Henry Kissinger 1923 – 2023
  140. Václav Havel 1936 – 2011
  141. Emma Watson born 1990
  142. Bhumibol Adulyadej 1927 – 2016
  143. Carl Sagan 1934 – 1996
  144. Nicolás Maduro born 1962
  145. Justin Trudeau born 1971
  146. Rishi Sunak born 1980
  147. Miley Cyrus born 1992
  148. Ariana Grande born 1993
  149. Warren Buffett born 1930
  150. Bernie Sanders born 1941