Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 2005?

803 of the people we track were surely alive in 2005. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 2005: IShowSpeed.

Died in 2005: John Paul II, Rosa Parks, Saul Bellow, Arthur Miller, Hans Bethe, James Callaghan and Claude Simon.

  1. Barack Obama44
  2. Donald Trump59
  3. Michael Jackson47
  4. Vladimir Putin53
  5. Nelson Mandela87
  6. George W. Bush59
  7. Joe Biden63
  8. Elizabeth II79
  9. Bill Gates50
  10. Jimmy Wales39
  11. Pope Francis69
  12. Shakira28
  13. Steve Jobs50
  14. Lionel Messi18
  15. Corbin Bleu16
  16. Bill Clinton59
  17. Basshunter21
  18. Angela Merkel51
  19. Neil Armstrong75
  20. François Hollande51
  21. Cristiano Ronaldo20
  22. Volodymyr Zelenskyy27
  23. Margaret Thatcher80
  24. John Paul II84 †
  25. Gabriel García Márquez78
  26. Fidel Castro79
  27. Mikhail Gorbachev74
  28. Stephen Hawking63
  29. Elon Musk34
  30. Jimmy Carter81
  31. Benedict XVI78
  32. Emmanuel Macron28
  33. Hillary Clinton58
  34. Lady Gaga19
  35. George H. W. Bush81
  36. Nicolas Sarkozy50
  37. Madonna47
  38. Kamala Harris41
  39. Xi Jinping52
  40. Naruhito45
  41. Noam Chomsky77
  42. Hugo Chávez51
  43. Muammar Gaddafi63
  44. Sung Jae-gi38
  45. Bob Dylan64
  46. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan51
  47. Pelé65
  48. Muhammad Ali63
  49. J. K. Rowling40
  50. Justin Bieber11
  51. Kofi Annan67
  52. Taylor Swift16
  53. Osama bin Laden48
  54. Lech Wałęsa62
  55. Charles III57
  56. Kim Jong-un21
  57. Gerald Ford92
  58. Diego Maradona45
  59. Eminem33
  60. Beyoncé24
  61. Selena Gomez13
  62. Leo XIV50
  63. Narendra Modi55
  64. Rafael Correa42
  65. Naguib Mahfouz94
  66. Aung San Suu Kyi60
  67. Steven Spielberg59
  68. Michael Schumacher36
  69. Angelina Jolie30
  70. Saddam Hussein68
  71. Benjamin Netanyahu56
  72. Tenzin Gyatso70
  73. Dmitry Medvedev40
  74. Anna Netrebko34
  75. Mark Zuckerberg21
  76. Silvio Berlusconi69
  77. Shinzō Abe51
  78. Tim Berners-Lee50
  79. Ingmar Bergman87
  80. Mahathir Mohamad80
  81. Boris Yeltsin74
  82. Ali Khamenei66
  83. Robin Williams54
  84. Jackie Chan51
  85. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn87
  86. Jacques Chirac73
  87. Guillermo Lasso50
  88. Céline Dion37
  89. Roger Federer24
  90. Lana Del Rey20
  91. Alexander Lukashenka51
  92. Woody Allen70
  93. Tony Blair52
  94. Rihanna17
  95. Neymar13
  96. Malala Yousafzai8
  97. Scarlett Johansson21
  98. Rafael Nadal19
  99. Greta Thunberg2
  100. Ban Ki-moon61
  101. Arnold Schwarzenegger58
  102. David Cameron39
  103. Linus Torvalds36
  104. Brigitte Bardot71
  105. Novak Djokovic18
  106. Hebe Camargo76
  107. Umberto Eco73
  108. Boris Johnson41
  109. Benazir Bhutto52
  110. Jair Bolsonaro50
  111. Bashar al-Assad40
  112. Paul McCartney63
  113. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva60
  114. Anggun31
  115. Leonardo DiCaprio31
  116. Agnez Mo19
  117. Stephen King58
  118. Theresa May49
  119. Johnny Depp42
  120. Brad Pitt42

The 120 best known of 803 are listed.