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Famous people born in the 1950s

The most famous people born between 1950 and 1959 — with the year each arrived.

  1. 1Michael Jackson
    Michael Jackson1958
  2. 2Bill Gates
    Bill Gates1955
  3. 3Vladimir Putin
    Vladimir Putin1952
  4. 4Socrates
    Socrates1954
  5. 5Steve Jobs
    Steve Jobs1955
  6. 6Madonna
    Madonna1958
  7. 7Angela Merkel
    Angela Merkel1954
  8. 8Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
    Recep Tayyip Erdoğan1954
  9. 9François Hollande
    François Hollande1954
  10. 10Narendra Modi
    Narendra Modi1950
  11. 11Shinzō Abe
    Shinzō Abe1954
  12. 12Xi Jinping
    Xi Jinping1953
  13. 13Bonnie Tyler
    Bonnie Tyler1951
  14. 14Jair Bolsonaro
    Jair Bolsonaro1955
  15. 15Nicolas Sarkozy
    Nicolas Sarkozy1955
  16. 16Hugo Chávez
    Hugo Chávez1954
  17. 17Maurice Benguigui
    Maurice Benguigui1959
  18. 18Prince
    Prince1958
  19. 19Oprah Winfrey
    Oprah Winfrey1954
  20. 20Tim Berners-Lee
    Tim Berners-Lee1955
  21. 21Andrea Bocelli
    Andrea Bocelli1958
  22. 22Tony Blair
    Tony Blair1953
  23. 23Stevie Wonder
    Stevie Wonder1950
  24. 24Osama bin Laden
    Osama bin Laden1957
  25. 25Phil Collins
    Phil Collins1951
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