Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 2000?

824 of the people we track were surely alive in 2000. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 2000: Erling Haaland.

Died in 2000: Hedy Lamarr and Hafez al-Assad.

  1. Barack Obama39
  2. Donald Trump54
  3. Michael Jackson42
  4. Vladimir Putin48
  5. Ronald Reagan89
  6. Nelson Mandela82
  7. George W. Bush54
  8. Joe Biden58
  9. Elizabeth II74
  10. Bill Gates45
  11. Jimmy Wales34
  12. Pope Francis64
  13. Shakira23
  14. Steve Jobs45
  15. Lionel Messi13
  16. Corbin Bleu11
  17. Bill Clinton54
  18. Basshunter16
  19. Angela Merkel46
  20. Neil Armstrong70
  21. François Hollande46
  22. Cristiano Ronaldo15
  23. Volodymyr Zelenskyy22
  24. Margaret Thatcher75
  25. John Paul II80
  26. Gabriel García Márquez73
  27. Fidel Castro74
  28. Mikhail Gorbachev69
  29. Stephen Hawking58
  30. Elon Musk29
  31. Jimmy Carter76
  32. Benedict XVI73
  33. Emmanuel Macron23
  34. Hillary Clinton53
  35. Lady Gaga14
  36. George H. W. Bush76
  37. Nicolas Sarkozy45
  38. Madonna42
  39. Kamala Harris36
  40. Xi Jinping47
  41. Naruhito40
  42. Noam Chomsky72
  43. Hugo Chávez46
  44. Muammar Gaddafi58
  45. Sung Jae-gi33
  46. Bob Dylan59
  47. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan46
  48. Pelé60
  49. Muhammad Ali58
  50. J. K. Rowling35
  51. Justin Bieber6
  52. Kofi Annan62
  53. Taylor Swift11
  54. Osama bin Laden43
  55. Lech Wałęsa57
  56. Charles III52
  57. Kim Jong-un16
  58. Gerald Ford87
  59. Diego Maradona40
  60. Eminem28
  61. Beyoncé19
  62. Selena Gomez8
  63. Leo XIV45
  64. Narendra Modi50
  65. Rafael Correa37
  66. Naguib Mahfouz89
  67. Aung San Suu Kyi55
  68. Steven Spielberg54
  69. Michael Schumacher31
  70. Angelina Jolie25
  71. Saddam Hussein63
  72. Benjamin Netanyahu51
  73. Tenzin Gyatso65
  74. Dmitry Medvedev35
  75. Anna Netrebko29
  76. Mark Zuckerberg16
  77. Silvio Berlusconi64
  78. Shinzō Abe46
  79. Tim Berners-Lee45
  80. Ingmar Bergman82
  81. Mahathir Mohamad75
  82. Boris Yeltsin69
  83. Ali Khamenei61
  84. Robin Williams49
  85. Jackie Chan46
  86. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn82
  87. Jacques Chirac68
  88. Guillermo Lasso45
  89. Céline Dion32
  90. Roger Federer19
  91. Lana Del Rey15
  92. Marlon Brando76
  93. Alexander Lukashenka46
  94. Woody Allen65
  95. Tony Blair47
  96. Rihanna12
  97. Neymar8
  98. Malala Yousafzai3
  99. Scarlett Johansson16
  100. Yasser Arafat71
  101. Rafael Nadal14
  102. Ban Ki-moon56
  103. Arnold Schwarzenegger53
  104. David Cameron34
  105. Linus Torvalds31
  106. Brigitte Bardot66
  107. Novak Djokovic13
  108. Hebe Camargo71
  109. Umberto Eco68
  110. Boris Johnson36
  111. Benazir Bhutto47
  112. Jair Bolsonaro45
  113. Bashar al-Assad35
  114. Paul McCartney58
  115. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva55
  116. Anggun26
  117. Leonardo DiCaprio26
  118. Agnez Mo14
  119. Stephen King53
  120. Theresa May44

The 120 best known of 824 are listed.