Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 2023?

626 of the people we track were surely alive in 2023. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 2023: Silvio Berlusconi, Henry Kissinger, Pervez Musharraf, Milan Kundera, Giorgio Napolitano, Tina Turner, Kenzaburō Ōe and Martti Ahtisaari.

  1. Barack Obama62
  2. Donald Trump77
  3. Vladimir Putin71
  4. George W. Bush77
  5. Joe Biden81
  6. Bill Gates68
  7. Jimmy Wales57
  8. Pope Francis87
  9. Shakira46
  10. Lionel Messi36
  11. Corbin Bleu34
  12. Bill Clinton77
  13. Basshunter39
  14. Angela Merkel69
  15. François Hollande69
  16. Cristiano Ronaldo38
  17. Volodymyr Zelenskyy45
  18. Elon Musk52
  19. Jimmy Carter99
  20. Emmanuel Macron46
  21. Hillary Clinton76
  22. Lady Gaga37
  23. Nicolas Sarkozy68
  24. Madonna65
  25. Kamala Harris59
  26. Xi Jinping70
  27. Naruhito63
  28. Noam Chomsky95
  29. Bob Dylan82
  30. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan69
  31. J. K. Rowling58
  32. Justin Bieber29
  33. Taylor Swift34
  34. Lech Wałęsa80
  35. Charles III75
  36. Kim Jong-un39
  37. Eminem51
  38. Beyoncé42
  39. Selena Gomez31
  40. Leo XIV68
  41. Narendra Modi73
  42. Rafael Correa60
  43. Aung San Suu Kyi78
  44. Steven Spielberg77
  45. Michael Schumacher54
  46. Angelina Jolie48
  47. Benjamin Netanyahu74
  48. Tenzin Gyatso88
  49. Dmitry Medvedev58
  50. Anna Netrebko52
  51. Mark Zuckerberg39
  52. Silvio Berlusconi86 †
  53. Tim Berners-Lee68
  54. Mahathir Mohamad98
  55. Ali Khamenei84
  56. Jackie Chan69
  57. Guillermo Lasso68
  58. Céline Dion55
  59. Roger Federer42
  60. Lana Del Rey38
  61. Alexander Lukashenka69
  62. Woody Allen88
  63. Tony Blair70
  64. Rihanna35
  65. Neymar31
  66. Malala Yousafzai26
  67. Scarlett Johansson39
  68. Rafael Nadal37
  69. Greta Thunberg20
  70. Ban Ki-moon79
  71. Arnold Schwarzenegger76
  72. David Cameron57
  73. Linus Torvalds54
  74. Brigitte Bardot89
  75. Novak Djokovic36
  76. Boris Johnson59
  77. Jair Bolsonaro68
  78. Bashar al-Assad58
  79. Paul McCartney81
  80. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva78
  81. Anggun49
  82. Leonardo DiCaprio49
  83. Agnez Mo37
  84. Stephen King76
  85. Theresa May67
  86. Johnny Depp60
  87. Brad Pitt60
  88. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad67
  89. Britney Spears42
  90. Zinedine Zidane51
  91. Henry Kissinger100 †
  92. Emma Watson33
  93. Nicolás Maduro61
  94. Justin Trudeau52
  95. Rishi Sunak43
  96. Miley Cyrus31
  97. Ariana Grande30
  98. Warren Buffett93
  99. Bernie Sanders82
  100. Richard Stallman70
  101. Alain Delon88
  102. Robert De Niro80
  103. Michael Jordan60
  104. David Beckham48
  105. Avril Lavigne39
  106. Dilma Rousseff76
  107. Orhan Pamuk71
  108. Michelle Obama59
  109. Julian Assange52
  110. Richard Dawkins82
  111. Shah Rukh Khan58
  112. Jennifer Lopez54
  113. Natalie Portman42
  114. Usain Bolt37
  115. Clint Eastwood93
  116. Al Gore75
  117. Oprah Winfrey69
  118. Tom Hanks67
  119. Bradley Cooper48
  120. Katy Perry39

The 120 best known of 626 are listed.