Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 2018?

677 of the people we track were surely alive in 2018. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 2018: Stephen Hawking, George H. W. Bush, Kofi Annan, John McCain, Aretha Franklin, Ursula K. Le Guin, V. S. Naipaul and Stan Lee.

  1. Barack Obama57
  2. Donald Trump72
  3. Vladimir Putin66
  4. George W. Bush72
  5. Joe Biden76
  6. Elizabeth II92
  7. Bill Gates63
  8. Jimmy Wales52
  9. Pope Francis82
  10. Shakira41
  11. Lionel Messi31
  12. Corbin Bleu29
  13. Bill Clinton72
  14. Basshunter34
  15. Angela Merkel64
  16. François Hollande64
  17. Cristiano Ronaldo33
  18. Volodymyr Zelenskyy40
  19. Mikhail Gorbachev87
  20. Stephen Hawking76 †
  21. Elon Musk47
  22. Jimmy Carter94
  23. Benedict XVI91
  24. Emmanuel Macron41
  25. Hillary Clinton71
  26. Lady Gaga32
  27. George H. W. Bush94 †
  28. Nicolas Sarkozy63
  29. Madonna60
  30. Kamala Harris54
  31. Xi Jinping65
  32. Naruhito58
  33. Noam Chomsky90
  34. Bob Dylan77
  35. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan64
  36. Pelé78
  37. J. K. Rowling53
  38. Justin Bieber24
  39. Kofi Annan80 †
  40. Taylor Swift29
  41. Lech Wałęsa75
  42. Charles III70
  43. Kim Jong-un34
  44. Diego Maradona58
  45. Eminem46
  46. Beyoncé37
  47. Selena Gomez26
  48. Leo XIV63
  49. Narendra Modi68
  50. Rafael Correa55
  51. Aung San Suu Kyi73
  52. Steven Spielberg72
  53. Michael Schumacher49
  54. Angelina Jolie43
  55. Benjamin Netanyahu69
  56. Tenzin Gyatso83
  57. Dmitry Medvedev53
  58. Anna Netrebko47
  59. Mark Zuckerberg34
  60. Silvio Berlusconi82
  61. Shinzō Abe64
  62. Tim Berners-Lee63
  63. Mahathir Mohamad93
  64. Ali Khamenei79
  65. Jackie Chan64
  66. Jacques Chirac86
  67. Guillermo Lasso63
  68. Céline Dion50
  69. Roger Federer37
  70. Lana Del Rey33
  71. Alexander Lukashenka64
  72. Woody Allen83
  73. Tony Blair65
  74. Rihanna30
  75. Neymar26
  76. Malala Yousafzai21
  77. Scarlett Johansson34
  78. Rafael Nadal32
  79. Greta Thunberg15
  80. Ban Ki-moon74
  81. Arnold Schwarzenegger71
  82. David Cameron52
  83. Linus Torvalds49
  84. Brigitte Bardot84
  85. Novak Djokovic31
  86. Boris Johnson54
  87. Jair Bolsonaro63
  88. Bashar al-Assad53
  89. Paul McCartney76
  90. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva73
  91. Anggun44
  92. Leonardo DiCaprio44
  93. Agnez Mo32
  94. Stephen King71
  95. Theresa May62
  96. Johnny Depp55
  97. Brad Pitt55
  98. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad62
  99. Britney Spears37
  100. Sean Connery88
  101. Zinedine Zidane46
  102. Henry Kissinger95
  103. Emma Watson28
  104. Nicolás Maduro56
  105. Justin Trudeau47
  106. Rishi Sunak38
  107. Miley Cyrus26
  108. Ariana Grande25
  109. Warren Buffett88
  110. Bernie Sanders77
  111. Richard Stallman65
  112. Robert Mugabe94
  113. Alain Delon83
  114. Robert De Niro75
  115. Michael Jordan55
  116. David Beckham43
  117. Avril Lavigne34
  118. Hosni Mubarak90
  119. Dilma Rousseff71
  120. Orhan Pamuk66

The 120 best known of 677 are listed.