Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 2006?

796 of the people we track were surely alive in 2006. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 2006: Gerald Ford, Naguib Mahfouz, Saddam Hussein, Milton Friedman, Augusto Pinochet, Slobodan Milošević, Stanisław Lem and James Brown.

  1. Barack Obama45
  2. Donald Trump60
  3. Michael Jackson48
  4. Vladimir Putin54
  5. Nelson Mandela88
  6. George W. Bush60
  7. Joe Biden64
  8. Elizabeth II80
  9. Bill Gates51
  10. Jimmy Wales40
  11. Pope Francis70
  12. Shakira29
  13. Steve Jobs51
  14. Lionel Messi19
  15. Corbin Bleu17
  16. Bill Clinton60
  17. Basshunter22
  18. Angela Merkel52
  19. Neil Armstrong76
  20. François Hollande52
  21. Cristiano Ronaldo21
  22. Volodymyr Zelenskyy28
  23. Margaret Thatcher81
  24. Gabriel García Márquez79
  25. Fidel Castro80
  26. Mikhail Gorbachev75
  27. Stephen Hawking64
  28. Elon Musk35
  29. Jimmy Carter82
  30. Benedict XVI79
  31. Emmanuel Macron29
  32. Hillary Clinton59
  33. Lady Gaga20
  34. George H. W. Bush82
  35. Nicolas Sarkozy51
  36. Madonna48
  37. Kamala Harris42
  38. Xi Jinping53
  39. Naruhito46
  40. Noam Chomsky78
  41. Hugo Chávez52
  42. Muammar Gaddafi64
  43. Sung Jae-gi39
  44. Bob Dylan65
  45. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan52
  46. Pelé66
  47. Muhammad Ali64
  48. J. K. Rowling41
  49. Justin Bieber12
  50. Kofi Annan68
  51. Taylor Swift17
  52. Osama bin Laden49
  53. Lech Wałęsa63
  54. Charles III58
  55. Kim Jong-un22
  56. Gerald Ford93 †
  57. Diego Maradona46
  58. Eminem34
  59. Beyoncé25
  60. Selena Gomez14
  61. Leo XIV51
  62. Narendra Modi56
  63. Rafael Correa43
  64. Naguib Mahfouz94 †
  65. Aung San Suu Kyi61
  66. Steven Spielberg60
  67. Michael Schumacher37
  68. Angelina Jolie31
  69. Saddam Hussein69 †
  70. Benjamin Netanyahu57
  71. Tenzin Gyatso71
  72. Dmitry Medvedev41
  73. Anna Netrebko35
  74. Mark Zuckerberg22
  75. Silvio Berlusconi70
  76. Shinzō Abe52
  77. Tim Berners-Lee51
  78. Ingmar Bergman88
  79. Mahathir Mohamad81
  80. Boris Yeltsin75
  81. Ali Khamenei67
  82. Robin Williams55
  83. Jackie Chan52
  84. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn88
  85. Jacques Chirac74
  86. Guillermo Lasso51
  87. Céline Dion38
  88. Roger Federer25
  89. Lana Del Rey21
  90. Alexander Lukashenka52
  91. Woody Allen71
  92. Tony Blair53
  93. Rihanna18
  94. Neymar14
  95. Malala Yousafzai9
  96. Scarlett Johansson22
  97. Rafael Nadal20
  98. Greta Thunberg3
  99. Ban Ki-moon62
  100. Arnold Schwarzenegger59
  101. David Cameron40
  102. Linus Torvalds37
  103. Brigitte Bardot72
  104. Novak Djokovic19
  105. Hebe Camargo77
  106. Umberto Eco74
  107. Boris Johnson42
  108. Benazir Bhutto53
  109. Jair Bolsonaro51
  110. Bashar al-Assad41
  111. Paul McCartney64
  112. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva61
  113. Anggun32
  114. Leonardo DiCaprio32
  115. Agnez Mo20
  116. Stephen King59
  117. Theresa May50
  118. Johnny Depp43
  119. Brad Pitt43
  120. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad50

The 120 best known of 796 are listed.