Who was alive at the same time as Robert Redford?

American actor and director

Robert Redford lived 1936–2025. Here are the famous people whose lives overlapped with theirs.

Lived: 1936–2025
Lifespan: about 89 years
Born in, as it was then: Los Angeles, CA
On today’s map: United States

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When Robert Redford was born, Adolf Hitler was already about 47 years old.
Robert Redford was about 1 when Saddam Hussein was born.
Robert Redford and Pablo Picasso (Spanish painter and sculptor) shared about 37 years on Earth, one born in the United States and the other in Spain.

Famous contemporaries of Robert Redford

Rulers and commanders

Adolf Hitler 1889–1945 · 9 yrs shared
Joseph Stalin 1878–1953 · 17 yrs shared
Benito Mussolini 1883–1945 · 9 yrs shared
Mao Zedong 1893–1976 · 40 yrs shared
Winston Churchill 1874–1965 · 29 yrs shared
Charles de Gaulle 1890–1970 · 34 yrs shared

Philosophers and scientists

Albert Einstein 1879–1955 · 19 yrs shared
Sigmund Freud 1856–1939 · 3 yrs shared
John Maynard Keynes 1883–1946 · 10 yrs shared
Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889–1951 · 15 yrs shared
Bertrand Russell 1872–1970 · 34 yrs shared
Henry Ford 1863–1947 · 11 yrs shared

Religion

Pope John Paul II 1920–2005 · 69 yrs shared

Writers and artists

Pablo Picasso 1881–1973 · 37 yrs shared
Elvis Presley 1935–1977 · 41 yrs shared
Salvador Dalí 1904–1989 · 53 yrs shared
Marilyn Monroe 1926–1962 · 26 yrs shared
Le Corbusier 1887–1965 · 29 yrs shared
Jean-Paul Sartre 1905–1980 · 44 yrs shared

Explorers and others

Che Guevara 1928–1967 · 31 yrs shared
Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948 · 12 yrs shared
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968 · 32 yrs shared
Walt Disney 1901–1966 · 30 yrs shared
Mother Teresa 1910–1997 · 61 yrs shared
Pelé 1940–2022 · 82 yrs shared

Born within five years of Robert Redford

Elvis Presley (1935) · Bruce Lee (1940) · Bob Dylan (1941) · Saddam Hussein (1937) · John Lennon (1940) · Pelé (1940) · Mikhail Gorbachev (1931) · Johnny Cash (1932)

About Robert Redford

Charles Robert Redford Jr. was an American actor, director, and producer, celebrated for his magnetic presence as a leading man during the American New Wave. Across a career spanning more than six decades, Redford earned widespread recognition and numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and five Golden Globe Awards, including a Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1994. He also earned various other honors, including the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1996, the Academy Honorary Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2005, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, and the Honorary César in 2019.

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