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Shawn Mendes
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Shawn Mendes

Canadian singer

Born 8 August 1998 · living, 28 as of October 2026
Also known as Shawn Peter Raul Mendes

Who was alive at the same time as Shawn Mendes?

  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. Shawn Mendes, born 1998

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When Shawn Mendes was born, Barack Obama was 37, Donald Trump was 52, Michael Jackson was 39, Vladimir Putin was 45 and Ronald Reagan was 87.

Born during Shawn Mendes’s lifetime: Greta Thunberg, Kylian Mbappé, Billie Eilish, IShowSpeed, Erling Haaland, Lamine Yamal, Joshua Bassett and Olivia Rodrigo.

Not quite contemporaries: Salvador Dalí died about 9 years before Shawn Mendes was born, Marlene Dietrich died about 6 years before Shawn Mendes was born, Mother Teresa died about a year before Shawn Mendes was born and Jorge Luis Borges died about 12 years before Shawn Mendes was born.

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Where Shawn Mendes’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

3,168 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Shawn Mendes. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 2012.

  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. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  32. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  33. Emmanuel Macron born 1977
  34. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  35. Lady Gaga born 1986
  36. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  37. Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955
  38. Madonna born 1958
  39. Kamala Harris born 1964
  40. Xi Jinping born 1953
  41. Naruhito born 1960
  42. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  43. Hugo Chávez 1954 – 2013
  44. Bob Dylan born 1941
  45. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  46. Sung Jae-gi 1967 – 2013
  47. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 1954
  48. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  49. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  50. J. K. Rowling born 1965
  51. Justin Bieber born 1994
  52. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  53. Taylor Swift born 1989
  54. Charles III born 1948
  55. Osama bin Laden 1957 – 2011
  56. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  57. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  58. Kim Jong Un born 1984
  59. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  60. Pope Leo XIV born 1955
  61. Diego Maradona 1960 – 2020
  62. Eminem born 1972
  63. Beyoncé born 1981
  64. Selena Gomez born 1992
  65. Narendra Modi born 1950
  66. Rafael Correa born 1963
  67. Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949
  68. Angelina Jolie born 1975
  69. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  70. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  71. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  72. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  73. Michael Schumacher born 1969
  74. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  75. Dmitry Medvedev born 1965
  76. Anna Netrebko born 1971
  77. Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
  78. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  79. Shinzo Abe 1954 – 2022
  80. Tim Berners-Lee born 1955
  81. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  82. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  83. Jackie Chan born 1954
  84. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  85. Ali Khamenei 1939 – 2026
  86. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
  87. Guillermo Lasso born 1955
  88. Celine Dion born 1968
  89. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  90. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  91. Roger Federer born 1981
  92. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  93. Lana Del Rey born 1985
  94. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  95. Alexander Lukashenko born 1954
  96. Woody Allen born 1935
  97. Neymar born 1992
  98. Tony Blair born 1953
  99. Rihanna born 1988
  100. Malala Yousafzai born 1997
  101. Scarlett Johansson born 1984
  102. Rafael Nadal born 1986
  103. Yasser Arafat 1929 – 2004
  104. Greta Thunberg born 2003
  105. Ban Ki-moon born 1944
  106. Arnold Schwarzenegger born 1947
  107. David Cameron born 1966
  108. Linus Torvalds born 1969
  109. Novak Djokovic born 1987
  110. Brigitte Bardot 1934 – 2025
  111. Hebe Camargo 1929 – 2012
  112. Umberto Eco 1932 – 2016
  113. Boris Johnson born 1964
  114. Bashar al-Assad born 1965
  115. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva born 1945
  116. Benazir Bhutto 1953 – 2007
  117. Jair Bolsonaro born 1955
  118. Paul McCartney born 1942
  119. Anggun born 1974
  120. Leonardo DiCaprio born 1974
  121. Agnez Mo born 1986
  122. Stephen King born 1947
  123. Theresa May born 1956
  124. Johnny Depp born 1963
  125. Brad Pitt born 1963
  126. Maya Angelou 1928 – 2014
  127. Zinedine Zidane born 1972
  128. Britney Spears born 1981
  129. Sean Connery 1930 – 2020
  130. Elizabeth Taylor 1932 – 2011
  131. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad born 1956
  132. Henry Kissinger 1923 – 2023
  133. Václav Havel 1936 – 2011
  134. Emma Watson born 1990
  135. Bhumibol Adulyadej 1927 – 2016
  136. Nicolás Maduro born 1962
  137. Justin Trudeau born 1971
  138. Rishi Sunak born 1980
  139. Miley Cyrus born 1992
  140. Ariana Grande born 1993
  141. Warren Buffett born 1930
  142. Bernie Sanders born 1941
  143. Richard Stallman born 1953
  144. Robert Mugabe 1924 – 2019
  145. Alain Delon 1935 – 2024
  146. Robert De Niro born 1943
  147. Michael Jordan born 1963
  148. David Beckham born 1975
  149. Avril Lavigne born 1984
  150. Günter Grass 1927 – 2015