Who was alive at the same time as Steve Jobs?

American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc.

Steve Jobs lived 1955–2011. Here are the famous people whose lives overlapped with theirs.

Lived: 1955–2011
Lifespan: about 56 years
Born in, as it was then: San Francisco-Bay Area, CA
On today’s map: United States

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When Steve Jobs was born, Che Guevara was already about 27 years old.
Steve Jobs and Salvador Dalí (Spanish artist) shared about 34 years on Earth, one born in the United States and the other in Spain.
Fidel Castro outlived Steve Jobs by about 5 years.

Famous contemporaries of Steve Jobs

Rulers and commanders

Mao Zedong 1893–1976 · 21 yrs shared
Winston Churchill 1874–1965 · 10 yrs shared
Charles de Gaulle 1890–1970 · 15 yrs shared
Francisco Franco 1892–1975 · 20 yrs shared
John F. Kennedy 1917–1963 · 8 yrs shared
Fidel Castro 1926–2016 · 56 yrs shared

Philosophers and scientists

Bertrand Russell 1872–1970 · 15 yrs shared
Michel Foucault 1926–1984 · 29 yrs shared
Carl Jung 1875–1961 · 6 yrs shared
Karl Popper 1902–1994 · 39 yrs shared
Jean Piaget 1896–1980 · 25 yrs shared
John Forbes Nash Jr. 1928–2015 · 56 yrs shared

Religion

Pope John Paul II 1920–2005 · 50 yrs shared

Writers and artists

Pablo Picasso 1881–1973 · 18 yrs shared
Elvis Presley 1935–1977 · 22 yrs shared
Salvador Dalí 1904–1989 · 34 yrs shared
Marilyn Monroe 1926–1962 · 7 yrs shared
Le Corbusier 1887–1965 · 10 yrs shared
Jean-Paul Sartre 1905–1980 · 25 yrs shared

Explorers and others

Che Guevara 1928–1967 · 12 yrs shared
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968 · 13 yrs shared
Walt Disney 1901–1966 · 11 yrs shared
Mother Teresa 1910–1997 · 42 yrs shared
Pelé 1940–2022 · 56 yrs shared

Born within five years of Steve Jobs

Bill Gates (1955) · Jackie Chan (1954) · Vladimir Putin (1952) · Michael Jackson (1958) · Sting (1951) · Angela Merkel (1954) · Orhan Pamuk (1952) · Bruce Willis (1955)

About Steve Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman, inventor, and investor. A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple with his early business partner Steve Wozniak as Apple Computer Company in 1976. After the company's board of directors fired him in 1985, he founded NeXT the same year and purchased Pixar in 1986, becoming its chairman and majority shareholder until 2007. Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 as CEO, where he was closely involved with the creation and promotion of many of the company's most influential products until his resignation in 2011.

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