Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 2011?

759 of the people we track were surely alive in 2011. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 2011: Steve Jobs, Muammar Gaddafi, Osama bin Laden, Václav Havel, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Jong-il, Amy Winehouse and Wangari Muta Maathai.

  1. Barack Obama50
  2. Donald Trump65
  3. Vladimir Putin59
  4. Nelson Mandela93
  5. George W. Bush65
  6. Joe Biden69
  7. Elizabeth II85
  8. Bill Gates56
  9. Jimmy Wales45
  10. Pope Francis75
  11. Shakira34
  12. Steve Jobs56 †
  13. Lionel Messi24
  14. Corbin Bleu22
  15. Bill Clinton65
  16. Basshunter27
  17. Angela Merkel57
  18. Neil Armstrong81
  19. François Hollande57
  20. Cristiano Ronaldo26
  21. Volodymyr Zelenskyy33
  22. Margaret Thatcher86
  23. Gabriel García Márquez84
  24. Fidel Castro85
  25. Mikhail Gorbachev80
  26. Stephen Hawking69
  27. Elon Musk40
  28. Jimmy Carter87
  29. Benedict XVI84
  30. Emmanuel Macron34
  31. Hillary Clinton64
  32. Lady Gaga25
  33. George H. W. Bush87
  34. Nicolas Sarkozy56
  35. Madonna53
  36. Kamala Harris47
  37. Xi Jinping58
  38. Naruhito51
  39. Noam Chomsky83
  40. Hugo Chávez57
  41. Muammar Gaddafi69 †
  42. Sung Jae-gi44
  43. Bob Dylan70
  44. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan57
  45. Pelé71
  46. Muhammad Ali69
  47. J. K. Rowling46
  48. Justin Bieber17
  49. Kofi Annan73
  50. Taylor Swift22
  51. Osama bin Laden54 †
  52. Lech Wałęsa68
  53. Charles III63
  54. Kim Jong-un27
  55. Diego Maradona51
  56. Eminem39
  57. Beyoncé30
  58. Selena Gomez19
  59. Leo XIV56
  60. Narendra Modi61
  61. Rafael Correa48
  62. Aung San Suu Kyi66
  63. Steven Spielberg65
  64. Michael Schumacher42
  65. Angelina Jolie36
  66. Benjamin Netanyahu62
  67. Tenzin Gyatso76
  68. Dmitry Medvedev46
  69. Anna Netrebko40
  70. Mark Zuckerberg27
  71. Silvio Berlusconi75
  72. Shinzō Abe57
  73. Tim Berners-Lee56
  74. Mahathir Mohamad86
  75. Ali Khamenei72
  76. Robin Williams60
  77. Jackie Chan57
  78. Jacques Chirac79
  79. Guillermo Lasso56
  80. Céline Dion43
  81. Roger Federer30
  82. Lana Del Rey26
  83. Alexander Lukashenka57
  84. Woody Allen76
  85. Tony Blair58
  86. Rihanna23
  87. Neymar19
  88. Malala Yousafzai14
  89. Scarlett Johansson27
  90. Rafael Nadal25
  91. Greta Thunberg8
  92. Ban Ki-moon67
  93. Arnold Schwarzenegger64
  94. David Cameron45
  95. Linus Torvalds42
  96. Brigitte Bardot77
  97. Novak Djokovic24
  98. Hebe Camargo82
  99. Umberto Eco79
  100. Boris Johnson47
  101. Jair Bolsonaro56
  102. Bashar al-Assad46
  103. Paul McCartney69
  104. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva66
  105. Anggun37
  106. Leonardo DiCaprio37
  107. Agnez Mo25
  108. Stephen King64
  109. Theresa May55
  110. Johnny Depp48
  111. Brad Pitt48
  112. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad55
  113. Britney Spears30
  114. Maya Angelou83
  115. Sean Connery81
  116. Zinedine Zidane39
  117. Henry Kissinger88
  118. Václav Havel75 †
  119. Bhumibol Adulyadej84
  120. Elizabeth Taylor79 †

The 120 best known of 759 are listed.