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Leo Esaki
12 March 1925 – present
Leo Esaki is a Japanese physicist who discovered electron tunnelling in semiconductors and invented the tunnel (Esaki) d...
Mahathir Mohamad
10 July 1925 – present
Mahathir Mohamad is a Malaysian physician and politician who served as Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 2003 and...
David Attenborough
8 May 1926 – present
David Attenborough is a British broadcaster and natural historian best known for writing and presenting the BBC's Life s...
Li Ka-shing
1928 – present
Li Ka-shing is a Hong Kong businessman, born in Chaozhou, Guangdong, in 1928, whose family moved to Hong Kong in 1940. H...
Manu Chandaria
1 March 1929 – present
Manu Chandaria is a Kenyan industrialist and philanthropist of Indian descent. He trained as an engineer in the United S...
Adonis
1 January 1930 – present
Adonis is the pen name of Ali Ahmad Said Esber, a Syrian-born poet, critic and translator who has lived in Lebanon and F...
Buzz Aldrin
20 January 1930 – present
Buzz Aldrin is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot who was the lunar module pilot of Apollo 11 and...
Dolores Huerta
10 April 1930 – present
Dolores Huerta is an American labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Associatio...
Robert Aumann
8 June 1930 – present
Robert Aumann is an Israeli-American mathematician and game theorist based at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His wo...
Warren Buffett
30 August 1930 – present
Warren Buffett is an American investor and businessman who has led Berkshire Hathaway since the 1960s, turning a New Eng...
Ibrahim El-Salahi
5 September 1930 – present
Ibrahim El-Salahi is a Sudanese painter regarded as a pioneer of African and Arab modernism. A leading figure of the Kha...
Tu Youyou
30 December 1930 – present
Tu Youyou is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist who discovered artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, compounds used to treat...
Bridget Riley
24 April 1931 – present
Bridget Riley is an English painter and a leading figure of the Op Art movement. Famous for her precise black-and-white...
Morris Chang
10 July 1931 – present
Morris Chang is a Taiwanese-American business executive and engineer who founded Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Comp...
Roger Penrose
8 August 1931 – present
Roger Penrose is a British mathematician and mathematical physicist whose work spans general relativity, geometry and th...
John Williams
8 February 1932 – present
John Williams is an American composer and conductor best known for his film scores, including Jaws, Star Wars, Close Enc...
Dieter Rams
20 May 1932 – present
Dieter Rams is a German industrial designer widely associated with the consumer products company Braun and the functiona...
Mostafa El-Sayed
8 May 1933 – present
Mostafa El-Sayed (born 1933) is an Egyptian-American physical chemist known for the spectroscopic selection rule that be...
Amartya Sen
3 November 1933 – present
Amartya Sen is an Indian economist and philosopher known for his work on welfare economics, social choice theory, and th...
C. N. R. Rao
30 June 1934 – present
Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao is an Indian chemist whose research centres on solid-state and structural chemistry, i...
Wole Soyinka
13 July 1934 – present
Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, poet, and essayist and a leading figure in African literature. Known for plays su...
Sophia Loren
20 September 1934 – present
Sophia Loren is an Italian actress whose career spans from Italian post-war cinema to international film. She won the Ac...
14th Dalai Lama
6 July 1935 – present
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, is the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and was the political leader of Tibet un...
Arvo Pärt
11 September 1935 – present
Arvo Pärt (born 1935) is an Estonian composer of classical and sacred music, best known for the minimalist tintinnabuli...
Gary Player
1 November 1935 – present
Gary Player is a South African professional golfer, born in Johannesburg in 1935. He won nine major championships on the...
Magdi Yacoub
16 November 1935 – present
Magdi Yacoub is an Egyptian-British cardiothoracic surgeon known for his work in heart and heart-lung transplantation. B...
Fairuz
21 November 1935 – present
Fairuz is a Lebanese singer regarded as one of the most celebrated and influential Arab vocalists of all time. In collab...
Amancio Ortega
28 March 1936 – present
Amancio Ortega is a Spanish businessman who founded the clothing retailer Zara and its parent company, Inditex. He began...
Yuan T. Lee
19 November 1936 – present
Yuan T. Lee is a Taiwanese chemist who shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on the dynamics of chemical ele...
Philip Glass
31 January 1937 – present
Philip Glass is an American composer whose repetitive, additive musical language became one of the defining styles of la...
Olusegun Obasanjo
5 March 1937 – present
Olusegun Obasanjo is a Nigerian former army general and politician who led Nigeria twice, first as military head of stat...
Valentina Tereshkova
6 March 1937 – present
Valentina Tereshkova is a Russian former cosmonaut and politician who in June 1963 became the first woman to fly in spac...
Farouk El-Baz
2 January 1938 – present
Farouk El-Baz is an Egyptian-American space scientist and geologist who helped select the landing sites for NASA's Apoll...
Donald Knuth
10 January 1938 – present
Donald Ervin Knuth is an American computer scientist and mathematician, widely regarded as a father of the analysis of a...
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
29 October 1938 – present
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is a Liberian politician and economist who served as President of Liberia from 2006 to 2018, the f...
Robert Kahn
23 December 1938 – present
Robert E. Kahn (born 1938) is an American electrical engineer who, with Vint Cerf, invented the TCP/IP protocols that fo...
Francis Ford Coppola
7 April 1939 – present
Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer and screenwriter associated with the New Hollywood movement....
Margaret Atwood
18 November 1939 – present
Margaret Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet and critic. Her work ranges from early poetry and the novel Surfacing to th...
Kipchoge Keino
17 January 1940 – present
Kipchoge Keino is a Kenyan former middle- and long-distance runner who won two Olympic gold medals and two silver medals...
J. M. Coetzee
9 February 1940 – present
J. M. Coetzee is a South African-born novelist, essayist and translator who later became an Australian citizen. He wrote...
Herbie Hancock
12 April 1940 – present
Herbie Hancock (born 1940) is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist and composer. A member of the Miles Davis Quintet in...
Sadaharu Oh
20 May 1940 – present
Sadaharu Oh is a Japanese former professional baseball player and manager who spent his entire playing career with the Y...
Kip Thorne
1 June 1940 – present
Kip Thorne is an American theoretical physicist known for his work on gravitation, black holes and gravitational waves....
Muhammad Yunus
28 June 1940 – present
Muhammad Yunus (born 1940) is a Bangladeshi economist, banker and social entrepreneur who founded Grameen Bank and devel...
Óscar Arias
13 September 1940 – present
Óscar Arias Sánchez (born 1940) is a Costa Rican politician who served two terms as President of Costa Rica, from 1986 t...
Hayao Miyazaki
5 January 1941 – present
Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese animator, director, and manga artist, co-founder of Studio Ghibli, and one of the most accl...
Plácido Domingo
21 January 1941 – present
Plácido Domingo is a Spanish opera singer and conductor who has performed more than 150 stage roles, first as a tenor an...
Dan Shechtman
24 January 1941 – present
Dan Shechtman is an Israeli materials scientist who discovered quasicrystals, ordered solids whose atomic arrangement is...
Richard Dawkins
26 March 1941 – present
Richard Dawkins (born 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist and author known for popularizing the gene-centred view...
Bob Dylan
24 May 1941 – present
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, author, and artist widely regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all...
Tadao Ando
13 September 1941 – present
Tadao Ando is a Japanese architect who taught himself the discipline through travel and self-study after an early period...
Alex Ferguson
31 December 1941 – present
Alex Ferguson is a Scottish former football manager and player who managed Manchester United from 1986 to 2013. He first...
Tasuku Honjo
27 January 1942 – present
Tasuku Honjo is a Japanese immunologist and professor at Kyoto University. He identified the immune receptor PD-1 in 199...
Paul McCartney
18 June 1942 – present
Paul McCartney is an English singer, songwriter, and musician who gained worldwide fame as bassist and co-lead vocalist...
Isabel Allende
2 August 1942 – present
Isabel Allende is a Chilean-American writer whose first novel, The House of the Spirits, was published in 1982 and estab...
Amitabh Bachchan
11 October 1942 – present
Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian actor who has worked mainly in Hindi cinema since his debut in 1969. He became one of the...
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
20 October 1942 – present
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is a German developmental biologist who shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicin...
Daniel Barenboim
15 November 1942 – present
Daniel Barenboim is an Argentine-born pianist and conductor who has led the Orchestre de Paris, the Chicago Symphony Orc...
Martin Scorsese
17 November 1942 – present
Martin Scorsese is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter regarded as one of the most significant filmmak...
Joe Biden
20 November 1942 – present
Joseph R. Biden Jr. is an American politician who served as the 46th President of the United States from 2021 to 2025. H...
Ken Thompson
4 February 1943 – present
Kenneth Lane Thompson is an American computer scientist who co-created the Unix operating system with Dennis Ritchie at...
Vint Cerf
23 June 1943 – present
Vinton Gray Cerf is an American computer scientist widely regarded as one of the 'fathers of the Internet' for co-design...
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
15 July 1943 – present
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a British astrophysicist who, as a postgraduate student in 1967, discovered the first radio...
Mick Jagger
26 July 1943 – present
Mick Jagger is an English singer and songwriter who co-founded the Rolling Stones in 1962 and has been the band's lead v...
Tal Brody
30 August 1943 – present
Tal Brody is an American-born Israeli former basketball player and sports executive. After a college career at the Unive...
Lech Wałęsa
29 September 1943 – present
Lech Wałęsa is a Polish statesman, trade-union organizer, and human-rights activist who co-founded and led Solidarity, t...
Joni Mitchell
7 November 1943 – present
Joni Mitchell is a Canadian singer-songwriter and painter whose work moved from folk into pop, jazz and experimental sty...
Billie Jean King
22 November 1943 – present
Billie Jean King is an American former world number one tennis player who won 39 Grand Slam titles across singles, doubl...
El Anatsui
4 February 1944 – present
El Anatsui is a Ghanaian sculptor who has lived and worked in Nigeria since 1975, teaching for decades at the University...
Mary Robinson
21 May 1944 – present
Mary Robinson is an Irish lawyer and politician who served as the seventh President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, the fi...
Larry Ellison
17 August 1944 – present
Larry Ellison is an American businessman who co-founded the software company Oracle in 1977 and led it as chief executiv...
Yoweri Museveni
15 September 1944 – present
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is a Ugandan politician who has served as President of Uganda since 1986. He led guerrilla moveme...
Ren Zhengfei
25 October 1944 – present
Ren Zhengfei is a Chinese engineer and entrepreneur who founded the telecommunications equipment company Huawei in Shenz...
Tahar Ben Jelloun
1 December 1944 – present
Tahar Ben Jelloun is a Moroccan novelist, poet and essayist who writes in French. He settled in Paris in the early 1970s...
Hanan al-Shaykh
1945 – present
Hanan al-Shaykh is a Lebanese writer whose novels and short stories examine the lives of Arab women, war in Lebanon, and...
Yoshinori Ohsumi
9 February 1945 – present
Yoshinori Ohsumi is a Japanese cell biologist who used baker's yeast to identify the genes and mechanisms behind autopha...
Eric Clapton
30 March 1945 – present
Eric Clapton is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter who came to prominence with the Yardbirds and John Mayall's...
Aung San Suu Kyi
19 June 1945 – present
Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese politician and daughter of independence hero Aung San who led the pro-democracy movement a...
Itzhak Perlman
31 August 1945 – present
Itzhak Perlman is an Israeli-American violinist, conductor and teacher. Left with impaired mobility after contracting po...
Graça Machel
17 October 1945 – present
Graça Machel (born 1945) is a Mozambican politician and humanitarian who served as Mozambique's first Minister of Educat...
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
27 October 1945 – present
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is a Brazilian politician and former metalworker who served as President of Brazil from 2003 t...
Mo Ibrahim
3 May 1946 – present
Mo Ibrahim is a Sudanese-British businessman who built mobile telephone networks across Africa. Trained as a telecommuni...
Donald Trump
14 June 1946 – present
Donald Trump is an American politician, businessman and television personality who served as the 45th president of the U...
Bill Clinton
19 August 1946 – present
Bill Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001, after tw...
Aziz Sancar
8 September 1946 – present
Aziz Sancar is a Turkish-American molecular biologist whose research established mechanisms by which cells repair damage...
Hanan Ashrawi
8 October 1946 – present
Hanan Ashrawi is a Palestinian academic, legislator and diplomat. A professor of English literature at Birzeit Universit...
Steven Spielberg
18 December 1946 – present
Steven Spielberg is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter widely regarded as one of the most influential...
Elton John
25 March 1947 – present
Sir Elton Hercules John is an English singer, songwriter, and pianist whose partnership with lyricist Bernie Taupin prod...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
16 April 1947 – present
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr., is an American former basketball player who won three NCAA title...
James Dyson
2 May 1947 – present
James Dyson is a British inventor and industrial designer, the founder of the household-appliance company Dyson. After d...
Salman Rushdie
19 June 1947 – present
Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British and American novelist whose second novel, Midnight's Children, won the Booker P...
Shirin Ebadi
21 June 1947 – present
Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer and human rights advocate who was among the first women appointed as judges in Iran, s...
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
30 July 1947 – present
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi is a French virologist. Working in Luc Montagnier's laboratory at the Institut Pasteur in Paris...
Stephen King
21 September 1947 – present
Stephen King is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense and fantasy, whose books have sold hundreds...
Sheikh Hasina
28 September 1947 – present
Sheikh Hasina is a Bangladeshi politician and the leader of the Awami League. The eldest daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahm...
Aaron Ciechanover
1 October 1947 – present
Aaron Ciechanover is an Israeli biologist and physician known for his work on ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. Wo...
Hillary Clinton
26 October 1947 – present
Hillary Clinton is an American politician, lawyer and diplomat who served as First Lady of the United States (1993-2001)...
Akira Yoshino
30 January 1948 – present
Akira Yoshino is a Japanese chemist who spent his career at the Asahi Kasei Corporation and developed the first safe, co...
Steven Chu
28 February 1948 – present
Steven Chu is an American physicist who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of methods to cool an...
Andrew Lloyd Webber
22 March 1948 – present
Andrew Lloyd Webber is an English composer and theatre producer known for musicals written from the late 1960s onward, m...
Abdulrazak Gurnah
20 December 1948 – present
Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian-born British novelist and academic who left Zanzibar as a refugee in the late 1960s and...
Haruki Murakami
12 January 1949 – present
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese novelist, short-story writer and translator whose fiction blends realism with surreal and...
Paul Nurse
25 January 1949 – present
Sir Paul Nurse is a British geneticist and cell biologist who identified the genes that control the cell cycle, work for...
Tadashi Yanai
7 February 1949 – present
Tadashi Yanai is a Japanese businessman who founded and leads Fast Retailing, the parent company of the clothing chain U...
Bernard Arnault
5 March 1949 – present
Bernard Arnault is a French businessman who has been chairman and chief executive of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, t...
Miuccia Prada
10 May 1949 – present
Miuccia Prada (born 1949) is an Italian fashion designer and businesswoman who took over her family's Milan leather-good...
Salif Keita
25 August 1949 – present
Salif Keita is a Malian singer and songwriter, often described as the golden voice of Africa, whose work blends Mandinka...
Bruce Springsteen
23 September 1949 – present
Bruce Springsteen is an American singer-songwriter known for narrative songs about working-class American life and for l...
Benjamin Netanyahu
21 October 1949 – present
Benjamin Netanyahu is an Israeli politician who has served as Prime Minister of Israel across multiple terms since 1996,...
Zhang Yimou
2 April 1950 – present
Zhang Yimou is a Chinese film director, producer, and former cinematographer, a leading figure of the Fifth Generation o...
Googoosh
5 May 1950 – present
Googoosh is the stage name of Faegheh Atashin, an Iranian singer and actress who became the best-known figure in Iranian...
Stevie Wonder
13 May 1950 – present
Stevie Wonder is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who became one of the most acclaimed and infl...
Marcel Khalife
10 June 1950 – present
Marcel Khalife is a Lebanese composer, singer and oud player whose work draws on Arabic musical traditions and on the po...
Richard Branson
18 July 1950 – present
Richard Branson is a British businessman, born in London in 1950, who founded the Virgin Group. He began with the magazi...
Steve Wozniak
11 August 1950 – present
Steve Wozniak is an American electronics engineer and computer pioneer who co-founded Apple Computer with Steve Jobs and...
Narendra Modi
17 September 1950 – present
Narendra Modi is an Indian politician who has served as Prime Minister of India since 2014. A member of the Bharatiya Ja...
Elias Zerhouni
12 April 1951 – present
Elias Zerhouni is an Algerian-American radiologist and biomedical researcher who emigrated to the United States in 1975...
Michelle Bachelet
29 September 1951 – present
Michelle Bachelet is a Chilean physician and politician who served as President of Chile from 2006 to 2010 and again fro...
Tebello Nyokong
20 October 1951 – present
Tebello Nyokong is a Lesotho-born South African chemist and professor at Rhodes University, where she works on phthalocy...
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
1 April 1952 – present
Venkatraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan is an Indian-born British and American structural biologist who shared the 2009 Nobel P...
Jean Paul Gaultier
24 April 1952 – present
Jean Paul Gaultier is a French fashion designer who founded his own label in the 1970s after working as an assistant to...
Orhan Pamuk
7 June 1952 – present
Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist whose books, including My Name Is Red, Snow and The Museum of Innocence, explore memor...
Imran Khan
5 October 1952 – present
Imran Khan is a Pakistani politician and former cricketer who captained Pakistan to victory in the 1992 Cricket World Cu...
Shigeru Miyamoto
16 November 1952 – present
Shigeru Miyamoto is a Japanese video game designer and producer at Nintendo. He created or oversaw the Donkey Kong, Supe...
Tony Blair
6 May 1953 – present
Tony Blair is a British politician who led the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007 and served as Prime Minister of the United...
Xi Jinping
15 June 1953 – present
Xi Jinping is a Chinese politician who has served as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012 and as...
Cindy Sherman
19 January 1954 – present
Cindy Sherman is an American photographer and conceptual artist celebrated for her series of self-portraits in which she...
David Grossman
25 January 1954 – present
David Grossman is an Israeli writer whose novels include See Under: Love, To the End of the Land and A Horse Walks into...
Oprah Winfrey
29 January 1954 – present
American talk show host, producer and philanthropist whose syndicated show ran for 25 years and made her one of the most...
Carlos Ghosn
9 March 1954 – present
Carlos Ghosn (born 1954) is a Brazilian-born businessman of Lebanese descent who led the turnaround of Nissan after 1999...
Jackie Chan
7 April 1954 – present
Jackie Chan is a Hong Kong actor, martial artist, film director and stunt performer known for combining acrobatic fighti...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
13 June 1954 – present
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a Nigerian-American economist who spent twenty-five years at the World Bank, rising to Managing D...
Naguib Sawiris
15 June 1954 – present
Naguib Sawiris is an Egyptian businessman who built Orascom Telecom into one of the largest mobile operators in the Midd...
Sezen Aksu
13 July 1954 – present
Sezen Aksu is a Turkish singer and songwriter born in 1954 in Saraykoy, Denizli Province, and raised in the Izmir region...
Angela Merkel
17 July 1954 – present
Angela Merkel is a German politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021, the first woman to hold the...
Ang Lee
23 October 1954 – present
Ang Lee is a Taiwanese film director, producer and screenwriter. He moved to the United States for film study and direct...
Kazuo Ishiguro
8 November 1954 – present
Kazuo Ishiguro is a British novelist born in Nagasaki, Japan, who moved to England as a child. His novels, among them Th...
Lubna Olayan
1955 – present
Lubna Olayan is a Saudi Arabian businesswoman who led the Olayan Financing Company, the Saudi arm of the family-owned Ol...
Mo Yan
17 February 1955 – present
Mo Yan is the pen name of Guan Moye, a Chinese novelist and short-story writer from Gaomi County, Shandong. His fiction,...
Al-Waleed bin Talal
7 March 1955 – present
Al-Waleed bin Talal Al Saud is a Saudi businessman and member of the Saudi royal family. He founded Kingdom Holding Comp...
Tim Berners-Lee
8 June 1955 – present
English computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web while at CERN, then gave it to the world royalty-free and has...
Bill Gates
28 October 1955 – present
American software pioneer and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft, who later turned to global health and development...
Mohamed Alabbar
1956 – present
Mohamed Alabbar is an Emirati businessman and the founder and chairman of Emaar Properties, the Dubai developer behind t...
Björn Borg
6 June 1956 – present
Björn Borg is a Swedish former tennis player who won eleven Grand Slam singles titles, including five consecutive Wimble...
Mae Jemison
17 October 1956 – present
Mae Jemison is an American engineer, physician and former NASA astronaut who in 1992 became the first African American w...
Martina Navratilova
18 October 1956 – present
Martina Navratilova is a Czech-American former professional tennis player who won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, includin...
Segenet Kelemu
1957 – present
Segenet Kelemu is an Ethiopian molecular plant pathologist who works on the diseases of tropical forage crops and on mic...
Shirin Neshat
26 March 1957 – present
Shirin Neshat is an Iranian visual artist and filmmaker based in New York. She works in photography, video installation...
Aliko Dangote
10 April 1957 – present
Aliko Dangote is a Nigerian businessman and the founder of the Dangote Group, a conglomerate with interests in cement, s...
Masayoshi Son
11 August 1957 – present
Masayoshi Son is a Japanese business executive who founded SoftBank in 1981 and serves as its chairman and chief executi...
Ai Weiwei
28 August 1957 – present
Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist, architect and documentary filmmaker. His work spans sculpture, installation,...
Kadim Al Sahir
12 September 1957 – present
Kadim Al Sahir is an Iraqi singer, composer and songwriter born in 1957 in Mosul and raised in Baghdad, where he trained...
Paul Kagame
23 October 1957 – present
Paul Kagame is a Rwandan politician and former military officer who has served as President of Rwanda since 2000. He gre...
Wong Kar-wai
17 July 1958 – present
Wong Kar-wai is a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter and producer known for films including Chungking Express, Happy...
Kate Bush
30 July 1958 – present
Kate Bush is an English singer-songwriter and producer whose debut single 'Wuthering Heights' reached number one in the...
Madonna
16 August 1958 – present
Madonna Louise Ciccone is an American singer, songwriter, and actress widely referred to as the 'Queen of Pop.' Known fo...
Andrea Bocelli
22 September 1958 – present
Andrea Bocelli is an Italian tenor and singer-songwriter who came to prominence after winning the newcomers' section of...
Neil deGrasse Tyson
5 October 1958 – present
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author and science communicator. He has directed the Hayden Planetari...
Fadi Ghandour
1959 – present
Fadi Ghandour is a Jordanian-Lebanese entrepreneur who co-founded the logistics company Aramex in Amman in 1982 and serv...
Kapil Dev
6 January 1959 – present
Kapil Dev is an Indian former cricketer who played as a fast-bowling all-rounder. He captained India to victory in the 1...
Rigoberta Menchú
9 January 1959 – present
Rigoberta Menchú Tum is a K'iche' Maya human rights activist from Guatemala. She rose to international prominence for he...
Majed Abdullah
11 January 1959 – present
Majed Abdullah is a Saudi Arabian former footballer who played as a forward. He spent his club career with Al-Nassr, for...
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
26 January 1959 – present
Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkish film director, screenwriter and photographer whose slow-paced, landscape-driven films are...
Ben Okri
15 March 1959 – present
Ben Okri is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist whose fiction blends realist narrative with myth and dream. He won...
Youssou N'Dour
1 October 1959 – present
Youssou N'Dour is a Senegalese singer, songwriter and businessman who helped popularise mbalax, a fusion of Wolof percus...
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim
17 October 1959 – present
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim is a Mauritian biodiversity scientist and politician who served as the sixth President of Mauritius...
Evo Morales
26 October 1959 – present
Evo Morales is a Bolivian politician and former coca growers' union leader who served as President of Bolivia from 2006...
Amnon Shashua
1960 – present
Amnon Shashua is an Israeli computer scientist and entrepreneur, a professor of computer science at the Hebrew Universit...
Salim Abdool Karim
1960 – present
Salim Abdool Karim is a South African clinical infectious diseases epidemiologist known for research on HIV prevention a...
Khaled
29 February 1960 – present
Khaled (born 1960), earlier known as Cheb Khaled, is an Algerian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Oran....
Jafar Panahi
11 July 1960 – present
Jafar Panahi is an Iranian film director and screenwriter associated with the Iranian New Wave. His features, among them...
Angélique Kidjo
14 July 1960 – present
Angélique Kidjo is a Beninese-French singer, songwriter and activist whose music blends West African traditions with fun...
Elia Suleiman
28 July 1960 – present
Elia Suleiman is a Palestinian film director, screenwriter and actor born in Nazareth. His features, in which he usually...
Cumrun Vafa
1 August 1960 – present
Cumrun Vafa is an Iranian-American theoretical physicist at Harvard University who works on string theory. With Andrew S...
Tim Cook
1 November 1960 – present
Tim Cook is an American business executive who became chief executive officer of Apple Inc. in 2011, succeeding Steve Jo...
Strive Masiyiwa
1961 – present
Strive Masiyiwa (born 1961) is a Zimbabwean businessman and philanthropist who founded the telecommunications group Econ...
Carl Lewis
1 July 1961 – present
Carl Lewis is an American former track and field athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals and eight world championship t...
Barack Obama
4 August 1961 – present
The 44th President of the United States and the first African American to hold the office, serving two terms from 2009 t...
Arundhati Roy
24 November 1961 – present
Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer and political essayist. Her first novel, The God of Small Things, won the Booker Prize...
Patrice Motsepe
28 January 1962 – present
Patrice Motsepe is a South African businessman and lawyer who founded African Rainbow Minerals. Trained as a mining lawy...
Nawal El Moutawakel
15 April 1962 – present
Nawal El Moutawakel is a Moroccan former hurdler and sports administrator. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles sh...
Shinya Yamanaka
4 September 1962 – present
Shinya Yamanaka is a Japanese stem cell researcher and professor at Kyoto University, where he directs the Center for iP...
Hakeem Olajuwon
21 January 1963 – present
Hakeem Olajuwon is a Nigerian-American former basketball player who spent most of his career as a centre for the Houston...
Jensen Huang
17 February 1963 – present
Jensen Huang is a Taiwanese-American businessman and electrical engineer who co-founded the semiconductor company Nvidia...
Michael Jordan
17 February 1963 – present
Michael Jordan is an American former basketball player who spent most of his career with the Chicago Bulls, winning six...
Tony Elumelu
22 March 1963 – present
Tony Elumelu is a Nigerian banker and investor who led the turnaround of Standard Trust Bank and its 2005 merger with Un...
Park Chan-wook
23 August 1963 – present
Park Chan-wook is a South Korean film director, screenwriter and producer. He studied philosophy at Sogang University be...
Jahangir Khan
10 December 1963 – present
Jahangir Khan (born 1963) is a Pakistani former squash player widely regarded as one of the greatest in the sport's hist...
Jeff Bezos
12 January 1964 – present
Jeff Bezos is an American entrepreneur who founded the online retailer Amazon in 1994 and built it into one of the large...
Jennifer Doudna
19 February 1964 – present
Jennifer Doudna is an American biochemist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, known for her work on...
Elie Saab
4 July 1964 – present
Elie Saab is a Lebanese fashion designer who founded his couture house in Beirut in 1982. He became the first non-Italia...
Jack Ma
10 September 1964 – present
Jack Ma is a Chinese business executive who co-founded the e-commerce group Alibaba. A former English teacher in Hangzho...
Omar M. Yaghi
9 February 1965 – present
Omar M. Yaghi is a Jordanian-American chemist known for developing reticular chemistry and the porous crystalline materi...
Yang Liwei
21 June 1965 – present
Yang Liwei is a Chinese military pilot and astronaut who became the first person sent into space by the Chinese space pr...
J. K. Rowling
31 July 1965 – present
J. K. Rowling is a British writer, best known as the author of the Harry Potter series of seven fantasy novels published...
Uğur Şahin
19 September 1965 – present
Uğur Şahin is a Turkish-German physician, immunologist and entrepreneur. A professor at the University of Mainz, he co-f...
Shah Rukh Khan
2 November 1965 – present
Shah Rukh Khan is an Indian actor and film producer, often called the "King of Bollywood," and one of the most successfu...
Björk
21 November 1965 – present
Björk is an Icelandic singer, songwriter and producer who first recorded as a child in Reykjavík and came to internation...
Wasim Akram
3 June 1966 – present
Wasim Akram is a Pakistani former cricketer and left-arm fast bowler who played international cricket from 1984 to 2003....
Mike Tyson
30 June 1966 – present
Mike Tyson is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 2005. In 1986 he became the youngest boxer...
Anousheh Ansari
12 September 1966 – present
Anousheh Ansari is an Iranian-American engineer and businesswoman who co-founded the telecommunications company Telecom...
Francois Pienaar
2 January 1967 – present
Francois Pienaar is a South African former rugby union flanker who captained the Springboks in every one of his 29 Test...
A. R. Rahman
6 January 1967 – present
A. R. Rahman is an Indian composer, singer and record producer known for film scores in Tamil and Hindi cinema and for i...
Jony Ive
27 February 1967 – present
Sir Jonathan Ive is a British industrial designer who led design at Apple for more than two decades. Trained at Newcastl...
Pierre Omidyar
21 June 1967 – present
Pierre Omidyar (born 1967) is a French-born Iranian-American entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the online mark...
Gil Shwed
1968 – present
Gil Shwed is an Israeli entrepreneur and software engineer who co-founded Check Point Software Technologies in 1993 and...
Hassiba Boulmerka
10 July 1968 – present
Hassiba Boulmerka is an Algerian former middle-distance runner, born in Constantine in 1968. She won the 1500 metres at...
Emmanuelle Charpentier
11 December 1968 – present
Emmanuelle Charpentier is a French microbiologist and biochemist whose work on the bacterial immune system CRISPR-Cas9 l...
Dambisa Moyo
1969 – present
Dambisa Moyo is a Zambian-born economist and author who writes on macroeconomics and international development. After wo...
Zeresenay Alemseged
1969 – present
Zeresenay Alemseged is an Ethiopian paleoanthropologist known for leading the Dikika Research Project in Ethiopia's Afar...
Ali Daei
21 March 1969 – present
Ali Daei (born 1969) is an Iranian former footballer and manager who played as a striker for Iran from 1993 to 2006, sco...
Tony Fadell
22 March 1969 – present
Tony Fadell is an American engineer, designer and entrepreneur best known for leading the teams that created Apple's iPo...
Dara Khosrowshahi
28 May 1969 – present
Dara Khosrowshahi is an Iranian-American business executive. Born in Tehran, he left Iran with his family as a child and...
Steffi Graf
14 June 1969 – present
Steffi Graf is a German former professional tennis player who won 22 Grand Slam singles titles and held the world number...
Bong Joon-ho
14 September 1969 – present
Bong Joon-ho is a South Korean film director and screenwriter whose work mixes genre storytelling with social commentary...
Jay-Z
4 December 1969 – present
Jay-Z, born Shawn Corey Carter, is an American rapper and businessman from Brooklyn, New York. He co-founded Roc-A-Fella...
Viswanathan Anand
11 December 1969 – present
Viswanathan Anand is an Indian chess grandmaster who in 1988 became the first grandmaster from India and who held the Wo...
Linus Torvalds
28 December 1969 – present
Linus Torvalds is a Finnish-American software engineer who created the Linux kernel and remains its principal maintainer...
Han Kang
27 November 1970 – present
Han Kang is a South Korean writer born in Gwangju, known for novels including The Vegetarian, Human Acts and The White B...
Nasser Al-Attiyah
21 December 1970 – present
Nasser Al-Attiyah is a Qatari rally driver and sport shooter. He has won the Dakar Rally five times, in 2011, 2015, 2019...
Elon Musk
28 June 1971 – present
South African-born entrepreneur behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla and other ventures, known for pushing electric vehicles and...
Hakan Şükür
1 September 1971 – present
Hakan Şükür is a Turkish former footballer who played as a striker, principally for Galatasaray, and is the record goals...
Elif Shafak
25 October 1971 – present
Elif Shafak is a Turkish-British novelist and essayist who writes in both Turkish and English. Her novels, including The...
Leymah Gbowee
1 February 1972 – present
Leymah Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist and social worker who organised the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, a...
Muttiah Muralitharan
17 April 1972 – present
Muttiah Muralitharan is a Sri Lankan former cricketer who bowled off spin for Sri Lanka between 1992 and 2011. He holds...
Narges Mohammadi
21 April 1972 – present
Narges Mohammadi is an Iranian human rights activist and journalist who has campaigned against the death penalty and aga...
Asghar Farhadi
7 May 1972 – present
Asghar Farhadi is an Iranian film director and screenwriter whose dramas centre on moral dilemmas within families. A Sep...
Zinedine Zidane
23 June 1972 – present
Zinedine Zidane is a French former footballer and football manager born in Marseille to Algerian parents. An attacking m...
Ghada Shouaa
10 September 1972 – present
Ghada Shouaa is a Syrian former heptathlete who won the gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, the first Olympic...
Hamdi Ulukaya
26 October 1972 – present
Hamdi Ulukaya is a Turkish-American businessman, born in 1972 to a Kurdish dairy-farming family in Ilic, Erzincan Provin...
Larry Page
26 March 1973 – present
Larry Page is an American computer scientist and businessman, born in East Lansing, Michigan, in 1973. With Sergey Brin...
Haile Gebrselassie
18 April 1973 – present
Haile Gebrselassie is an Ethiopian long-distance runner and businessman. He won Olympic gold in the 10,000 metres in 199...
Sachin Tendulkar
24 April 1973 – present
Sachin Tendulkar is an Indian former cricketer who played international cricket for India from 1989 to 2013. A right-han...
Sergey Brin
21 August 1973 – present
Sergey Brin is an American computer scientist and businessman who co-founded Google with Larry Page in 1998 while they w...
Mark Shuttleworth
18 September 1973 – present
Mark Shuttleworth is a South African entrepreneur and software developer who founded the certificate authority Thawte an...
Ichiro Suzuki
22 October 1973 – present
Ichiro Suzuki is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder who played in Nippon Professional Baseball for the O...
Nadine Labaki
18 February 1974 – present
Nadine Labaki is a Lebanese film director, screenwriter and actress. Her features include Caramel, Where Do We Go Now? a...
Hicham El Guerrouj
14 September 1974 – present
Hicham El Guerrouj is a Moroccan former middle-distance runner. He holds the world records for the 1500 metres and the m...
Mohammed Dewji
8 May 1975 – present
Mohammed Dewji is a Tanzanian businessman and former politician. He is chief executive of MeTL Group, a conglomerate fou...
Tom Brady
3 August 1977 – present
Tom Brady is an American former football quarterback who played 23 seasons in the National Football League, twenty with...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
15 September 1977 – present
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer whose novels include Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah....
Emmanuel Macron
21 December 1977 – present
Emmanuel Macron is a French politician who has served as President of France since 2017. A graduate of Sciences Po and t...
Hossein Rezazadeh
12 May 1978 – present
Hossein Rezazadeh is an Iranian former weightlifter who competed in the super-heavyweight class. He won Olympic gold med...
Tawakkol Karman
7 February 1979 – present
Tawakkol Karman is a Yemeni journalist, politician and human rights activist. She co-founded the group Women Journalists...
Hidayet Türkoğlu
19 March 1979 – present
Hidayet Türkoğlu is a Turkish former professional basketball player and sports administrator. After beginning his career...
Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu
1980 – present
Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu is an Ethiopian entrepreneur who founded the footwear company soleRebels in Addis Ababa, making...
Natalie Portman
9 June 1981 – present
Natalie Portman is an Israeli-American actress and filmmaker. She made her film debut in Léon: The Professional (1994) a...
MS Dhoni
7 July 1981 – present
Mahendra Singh Dhoni is an Indian cricketer and wicket-keeper who captained India to the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, the 20...
Roger Federer
8 August 1981 – present
Roger Federer is a Swiss former professional tennis player who won 20 Grand Slam singles titles, including a record eigh...
Beyoncé
4 September 1981 – present
Beyoncé is an American singer, songwriter and businesswoman from Houston, Texas. She first became known in the late 1990...
Serena Williams
26 September 1981 – present
Serena Williams is an American former professional tennis player. She won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most in the...
Kenenisa Bekele
13 June 1982 – present
Kenenisa Bekele is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who held the world records over 5000 and 10,000 metres for more tha...
Mary Kom
24 November 1982 – present
Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom is an Indian boxer from Manipur who has won six world amateur championship titles, in 2002,...
Timnit Gebru
1983 – present
Timnit Gebru is an Ethiopian-born computer scientist who works on algorithmic bias and data mining. She co-authored the...
Younis Mahmoud
3 February 1983 – present
Younis Mahmoud is an Iraqi former footballer who played as a striker and captained the Iraq national team. He scored the...
Mark Zuckerberg
14 May 1984 – present
Mark Zuckerberg is an American technology entrepreneur who co-founded Facebook in 2004 while a student at Harvard Univer...
Eliud Kipchoge
5 November 1984 – present
Eliud Kipchoge is a Kenyan long-distance runner who won the Olympic marathon in 2016 and 2021 and twice set the world re...
LeBron James
30 December 1984 – present
LeBron James is an American basketball player who entered the NBA as the first overall draft pick in 2003 and has won fo...
Canan Dağdeviren
1985 – present
Canan Dağdeviren is a Turkish materials scientist and engineer who works on flexible, conformable electronic devices for...
Cristiano Ronaldo
5 February 1985 – present
Cristiano Ronaldo is a Portuguese professional footballer who has played as a forward for Sporting CP, Manchester United...
Sam Altman
22 April 1985 – present
Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur and investor who is chief executive of OpenAI. He left Stanford University to co-...
Tirunesh Dibaba
1 June 1985 – present
Tirunesh Dibaba is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who won three Olympic gold medals and five world titles on the trac...
Marcos Baghdatis
17 June 1985 – present
Marcos Baghdatis is a Cypriot former professional tennis player. He reached the final of the 2006 Australian Open and th...
Rafael Nadal
3 June 1986 – present
Rafael Nadal is a Spanish former professional tennis player who won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, including a record 14...
Novak Djokovic
22 May 1987 – present
Novak Djokovic is a Serbian professional tennis player who has won a record number of men's singles Grand Slam titles an...
Kendrick Lamar
17 June 1987 – present
Kendrick Lamar is an American rapper, songwriter and record producer from Compton, California. Signed to Top Dawg Entert...
Adele
5 May 1988 – present
Adele is an English singer and songwriter whose albums 19, 21, 25 and 30 have made her one of the best-selling music art...
Virat Kohli
5 November 1988 – present
Virat Kohli is an Indian cricketer who has played for the India national team since 2008 and captained it across all thr...
David Rudisha
17 December 1988 – present
David Rudisha is a Kenyan middle-distance runner who specialised in the 800 metres. He set world records over the distan...
Taylor Swift
13 December 1989 – present
Taylor Swift is an American singer-songwriter born in West Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1989. She began as a country artist...
Caster Semenya
7 January 1991 – present
Caster Semenya is a South African middle-distance runner who won the 800 metres at the 2009, 2011 and 2017 World Champio...
Siya Kolisi
16 June 1991 – present
Siya Kolisi is a South African rugby union flanker who became the first Black player to captain the South Africa nationa...
Mutaz Essa Barshim
24 June 1991 – present
Mutaz Essa Barshim is a Qatari high jumper and one of the most decorated athletes in the event's history. He has won mul...
Mohamed Salah
15 June 1992 – present
Mohamed Salah is an Egyptian footballer who plays as a forward for Liverpool and captains the Egypt national team. After...
Nadia Murad
1993 – present
Nadia Murad is an Iraqi Yazidi human rights advocate. She was abducted by Islamic State fighters during the 2014 attack...
Shohei Ohtani
5 July 1994 – present
Shohei Ohtani is a Japanese baseball player who competes as both a pitcher and a designated hitter. He played for the Ho...
Hassan Yazdani
26 December 1994 – present
Hassan Yazdani (born 1994) is an Iranian freestyle wrestler who won the Olympic gold medal in the 74 kg category at the...
Malala Yousafzai
12 July 1997 – present
Pakistani activist for girls' education who survived a Taliban assassination attempt at 15 and became the youngest-ever...
Naomi Osaka
16 October 1997 – present
Naomi Osaka is a Japanese professional tennis player who has won four Grand Slam singles titles and was the first Asian...
Neeraj Chopra
24 December 1997 – present
Neeraj Chopra is an Indian track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw. He won the world under-20 title in...
Linoy Ashram
13 May 1999 – present
Linoy Ashram is an Israeli former rhythmic gymnast. She won the individual all-around gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olymp...
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