Same Day / Decades
The 1950s
139 icons active, 3 born, 39 at their peak.
The twelve longest careers
Born in the 1950s
- Karen Carpenter1950
- Ian Curtis1956
- Sid Vicious1957
At their peak in the 1950s
- Akira KurosawaDirector
- Alfred HitchcockDirector
- Audrey HepburnFilm
- Ava GardnerFilm
- Bill HaleyMusic
- Billy WilderDirector
- Bo DiddleyMusic
- Buddy HollyMusic
- Burt LancasterFilm
- Dean MartinMusic
- Doris DayFilm
- Dorothy DandridgeFilm
- Eddie CochranMusic
- Édith PiafMusic
- Ella FitzgeraldMusic
- Fats DominoMusic
- Federico FelliniDirector
- Frank SinatraMusic
- Gene VincentMusic
- Grace KellyFilm
- Gregory PeckFilm
- Hank WilliamsMusic
- Howlin' WolfMusic
- Irving PennPhotographer
- James DeanFilm
- Jayne MansfieldFilm
- John WayneFilm
- Kirk DouglasFilm
- Little RichardMusic
- Mahalia JacksonMusic
- Marilyn MonroeFilm
- Marlon BrandoFilm
- Montgomery CliftFilm
- Muddy WatersMusic
- Orson WellesFilm
- Ritchie ValensMusic
- Robert MitchumFilm
- The Big BopperMusic
- Vincent PriceFilm
Active in the 1950s
- Akira Kurosawa1943 to 1993
- Alfred Eisenstaedt1927 to 1993
- Alfred Hitchcock1920 to 1976
- Anna May Wong1919 to 1960
- Ansel Adams1927 to 1984
- Aretha Franklin1956 to 2017
- Audrey Hepburn1948 to 1989
- Ava Gardner1941 to 1986
- Barbara Stanwyck1927 to 1986
- Bela Lugosi1917 to 1956
- Bette Davis1931 to 1989
- Bill Haley1946 to 1981
- Billie Holiday1930 to 1959
- Billy Wilder1929 to 1981
- Bing Crosby1926 to 1977
- Bo Diddley1951 to 2007
- Boris Karloff1919 to 1968
- Bruce Lee1941 to 1973
- Buddy Holly1952 to 1959
- Burt Lancaster1946 to 1991
- Busby Berkeley1930 to 1971
- Buster Keaton1917 to 1966
- Cary Grant1932 to 1966
- Cecil B. DeMille1914 to 1956
- Cecil Beaton1925 to 1974
- Charlie Chaplin1914 to 1976
- Charlie Parker1937 to 1955
- Chuck Berry1953 to 2017
- Clark Gable1924 to 1960
- Dean Martin1940 to 1991
- Del Shannon1958 to 1990
- Diane Arbus1946 to 1971
- Doris Day1939 to 1973
- Dorothea Lange1918 to 1965
- Dorothy Dandridge1935 to 1964
- Duke Ellington1923 to 1974
- Dusty Springfield1958 to 1995
- Eddie Cochran1954 to 1960
- Édith Piaf1935 to 1963
- Edward G. Robinson1916 to 1973
- Edward Steichen1898 to 1962
- Elizabeth Taylor1942 to 2001
- Ella Fitzgerald1934 to 1993
- Elvis Presley1954 to 1977
- Errol Flynn1933 to 1959
- Etta James1954 to 2011
- Fats Domino1947 to 2007
- Federico Fellini1950 to 1990
- Frank Capra1922 to 1961
- Frank Sinatra1935 to 1995
- Fred Astaire1905 to 1981
- Fritz Lang1919 to 1960
- Gary Cooper1925 to 1961
- Gene Kelly1938 to 1994
- Gene Vincent1955 to 1971
- George Harrison1958 to 2001
- George Hurrell1925 to 1992
- Ginger Rogers1929 to 1984
- Gloria Swanson1914 to 1975
- Grace Kelly1950 to 1956
- Gregory Peck1944 to 2000
- Groucho Marx1905 to 1976
- Hank Williams1937 to 1953
- Henry Fonda1928 to 1981
- Horst P. Horst1931 to 1991
- Howard Hawks1926 to 1970
- Howlin' Wolf1930 to 1975
- Humphrey Bogart1928 to 1956
- Ingmar Bergman1944 to 2003
- Ingrid Bergman1935 to 1982
- Irving Penn1943 to 2009
- Jack Lemmon1949 to 2000
- Jackie Wilson1953 to 1975
- James Brown1953 to 2006
- James Cagney1930 to 1984
- James Dean1951 to 1955
- James Stewart1932 to 1991
- Jayne Mansfield1954 to 1967
- Jim Marshall1959 to 2010
- Jim Reeves1948 to 1964
- Joan Crawford1925 to 1972
- John Coltrane1945 to 1967
- John Ford1914 to 1971
- John Lennon1957 to 1980
- John Wayne1926 to 1976
- Johnny Cash1954 to 2003
- Judy Garland1928 to 1969
- Katharine Hepburn1928 to 1994
- Kirk Douglas1946 to 2008
- Lana Turner1937 to 1991
- Lauren Bacall1942 to 2014
- Lillian Gish1912 to 1987
- Little Richard1947 to 2013
- Louis Armstrong1919 to 1971
- Mae West1907 to 1978
- Mahalia Jackson1927 to 1971
- Man Ray1915 to 1976
- Margaret Bourke-White1927 to 1957
- Marilyn Monroe1947 to 1962
- Marlene Dietrich1923 to 1978
- Marlon Brando1950 to 2001
- Marvin Gaye1957 to 1984
- Miles Davis1944 to 1991
- Montgomery Clift1935 to 1966
- Muddy Waters1941 to 1982
- Myrna Loy1925 to 1981
- Nat King Cole1934 to 1965
- Natalie Wood1943 to 1981
- Nina Simone1954 to 2002
- Oliver Hardy1914 to 1955
- Orson Welles1934 to 1985
- Otis Redding1958 to 1967
- Patsy Cline1948 to 1963
- Paul Newman1952 to 2006
- Peter Lorre1930 to 1964
- Peter Sellers1948 to 1980
- Ray Charles1947 to 2004
- Richard Avedon1944 to 2004
- Rita Hayworth1934 to 1972
- Ritchie Valens1957 to 1959
- Robert Mitchum1943 to 1997
- Roy Orbison1953 to 1988
- Sam Cooke1950 to 1964
- Sam Peckinpah1955 to 1983
- Sammy Davis Jr.1933 to 1990
- Sergio Leone1959 to 1984
- Sidney Poitier1950 to 2001
- Slim Aarons1942 to 1990
- Spencer Tracy1921 to 1967
- Stan Laurel1906 to 1955
- Stanley Kubrick1951 to 1999
- Steve McQueen1952 to 1980
- The Big Bopper1949 to 1959
- Toni Frissell1931 to 1970
- Tyrone Power1932 to 1958
- Vincent Price1938 to 1993
- Vivien Leigh1935 to 1965
- Walt Disney1921 to 1966
- Woody Guthrie1930 to 1954