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Who was alive in 1950?

3,976 well-known people were alive in 1950, including Donald Trump, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan. Here are the 80 most notable:

• Donald Trump (1946–) — American businessman and politician (born 1946), President of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025)
• Albert Einstein (1879–1955) — German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
• Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) — president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and actor (1911–2004)
• Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) — President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013)
• George W. Bush (1946–) — President of the United States from 2001 to 2009
• Joseph Stalin (1878–1953) — leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
• Joe Biden (1942–) — 46th President of the United States (2021–2025)
• Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) — Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
• Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) — English comic actor and filmmaker (1889–1977)
• Winston Churchill (1874–1965) — British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)
• Elizabeth II (1926–2022) — Queen of the United Kingdom from 1952 to 2022 (1926–2022)
• John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) — president of the United States from 1961 to 1963 (1917–1963)
• Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) — Spanish artist (1904–1989)
• Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) — American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1929–1968)
• Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) — American actress and model (1926–1962)
• Pope Francis (1936–2025) — 266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
• Mao Zedong (1893–1976) — 1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976)
• Che Guevara (1928–1967) — Argentine Marxist revolutionary (1928–1967)
• Bill Clinton (1946–) — President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 (born 1946)
• Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) — French general and statesman (1890–1970)
• Neil Armstrong (1930–2012) — American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2012)
• Elvis Presley (1935–1977) — American singer and actor (1935–1977)
• Walt Disney (1901–1966) — American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
• George Orwell (1903–1950) — British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
• Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) — American author and journalist (1899–1961)
• Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) — British stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)
• Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) — Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014)
• Albert Camus (1913–1960) — French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
• Fidel Castro (1926–2016) — Cuban politician, author and revolutionary (1926–2016)
• John Paul II (1920–2005) — 264th pope of the Catholic Church (1978–2005)
• J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973) — English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
• Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968) — Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space (1934–1968)
• Benedict XVI (1927–2022) — 265 th pope of the Catholic Church (2005–2013)
• Mikhail Gorbachev (1931–2022) — leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022)
• Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992) — German and American actress and singer (1901–1992)
• Jimmy Carter (1924–2024) — president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
• Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) — British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
• Le Corbusier (1887–1965) — Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer (1886–1965)
• Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) — French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
• Mother Teresa (1910–1997) — Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary (1910–1997)
• Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) — Mexican painter (1907–1954)
• Hillary Clinton (1947–) — American politician and diplomat (born 1947)
• Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) — president of the United States from 1945 to 1953; politician (1884–1972)
• Agatha Christie (1890–1976) — English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
• George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) — president of the United States from 1989 to 1993 (1924-2018)
• Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) — Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator (1899–1986)
• Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) — Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964
• Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) — president of the United States from 1953 to 1961 (1890–1969)
• Alan Turing (1912–1954) — English computer scientist (1912–1954)
• Richard Nixon (1913–1994) — president of the United States from 1969 to 1974 (1913–1994)
• Noam Chomsky (1928–) — American linguist and activist (born 1928)
• George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) — Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
• Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) — British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)
• Niels Bohr (1885–1962) — Danish physicist (1885–1962)
• Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) — British filmmaker (1899–1980)
• Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) — Military officer and former Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution of Libya (1969-2011)
• Bob Dylan (1941–) — American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
• Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) — French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
• John Lennon (1940–1980) — British musician (1940–1980)
• Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) — American boxer (1942–2016)
• Pelé (1940–2022) — Brazilian footballer (1940–2022)
• Henri Matisse (1869–1954) — French artist (1869-1954)
• Andy Warhol (1928–1987) — American artist, film director, and producer (1928–1987)
• Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) — American architect (1867-1959)
• Louis Armstrong (1901–1971) — American jazz musician, trumpeter and singer (1901–1971)
• Kofi Annan (1938–2018) — 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1938-2018)
• Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) — British singer, songwriter and musician, frontman of the rock band Queen (1946–1991)
• Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) — president of the United States from 1963 to 1969 (1908–1973)
• Gerald Ford (1913–2006) — president of the United States from 1974 to 1977 (1913–2006)
• Lech Wałęsa (1943–) — President of Poland from 1990 to 1995 (born 1943)
• Charles III (1948–) — King of the United Kingdom since 2022 (born 1948)
• Akira Kurosawa (1910–1998) — Japanese filmmaker (1910–1998)
• Huang Xianfan (1899–1982) — Chinese historian, ethnologist and educator (1899-1982)
• Narendra Modi (1950–) — Prime Minister of India since 2014
• Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) — Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
• Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006) — Egyptian writer (1911–2006)
• Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) — Prime Minister of India (1966-1977; 1980-1984)
• Aung San Suu Kyi (1945–) — former State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy
• Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) — leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964
• Steven Spielberg (1946–) — American filmmaker (born 1946)

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