# Who is twice your age? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 18, 2011, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080 "2011-01-18T16:38:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/21 "2011-01-18T21:28:24Z")
**Wheelz** will be twice my age this year. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/22 "2011-01-18T21:33:55Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > **Wheelz** will be twice my age this year. Ya punk kid! Get off my lawn! šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Ludy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Ludy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludy)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/23 "2011-01-18T21:55:51Z")
1953 Bill Pullman Cyndi Lauper Dog the Bounty Hunter Hulk Hogan Kim Basinger Rick Moranis Jon Jeremy and so on ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/24 "2011-01-18T22:00:05Z")
Betty White is 89. Iā€™m Half her age. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/25 "2011-01-18T22:01:53Z")
Duke Ellington, Fred Astaire, Ruth Page, Paul Robeson, Ernest Hemmingway, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Hoagy Carmichael and Alfred Hitchcock - all born in 1899 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/26 "2011-01-19T00:16:20Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Duke Ellington, Fred Astaire, Ruth Page, Paul Robeson, Ernest Hemmingway, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Hoagy Carmichael and Alfred Hitchcock - all born in 1899 I thought you were a year older than me? 1898: Sergei Eisenstein Bertolt Brecht Enzo Ferrari Dorothy Gish Golda Meir Norman Vincent Peale Federico Garcia Lorca M.C. Escher Erich Maria Remarque Alexander Calder Henry Moore George Gershwin Rene Magritte Alfred Eisenstadt ---
**Author:** ![luv2draw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@luv2draw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luv2draw)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/27 "2011-01-19T00:21:31Z")
I see dead people. ---
**Author:** ![ImNotPaulAvery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@ImNotPaulAvery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ImNotPaulAvery)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/28 "2011-01-19T00:33:07Z")
1957: Osama bin Laden (still alive?) Fran Drescher Donny Osmond Katie Couric Cameron Crowe ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/29 "2011-01-19T00:35:07Z")
Gwyneth Paltrow Ben Affleck Cameron Diaz Amanda Peet Dwayne ā€œThe Rockā€ Johnson (I thought he was older than thatā€¦) Jude Law Jennifer Garner Dane Cook ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/30 "2011-01-19T00:57:07Z")
Jane Addams Nelly Bly Neville Chamberlain Marie Dressler Mohandas K. Ghandi Andre Gide Emma Goldman Charlie Grapewin (Wizard of Oz actor) John Heisman (name honored with football trophy) Henri Matisse Tyrone Power, Sr. Frank Lloyd Wright Flo Ziegfeld, Jr. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/31 "2011-01-19T01:43:52Z")
1961: Susan Boyle George Clooney Ann Coulter Enya Melissa Etheridge Ricky Gervais Julia Gillard Sean Hannity Peter Jackson k.d. lang Wynton Marsalis Barack Obama Tim Roth Meg Ryan Amy Sedaris George Stephanopolous Two heads of government, two lesbian singers, two conservative commentators, and some other people. ---
**Author:** ![CatherineZeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@CatherineZeta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatherineZeta)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/32 "2011-01-19T01:50:46Z")
Jennifer Aniston Christy Turlington Jason Bateman Dave Grohl Robert Sean Leonard Paul Rudd Renee Zellweger- thought she was younger Jennifer Lopez Sean Combs Elliott Smith- one of the few deceased individuals who should be twice my age ETA: 1969 ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/33 "2011-01-19T03:24:02Z")
1914: George Reeves Ralph Ellison Alec Guiness Professor Irwin Corey Clayton Moore Allen Funt Jack LaLanne Dylan Thomas Jonas Salk Jonathan Harris (Oh, the pain! The pain!) Joe DiMaggio Ray Walston Dorothy LaMour Only Irwin Corey and Jack LaLanne are still alive. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/34 "2011-01-19T03:38:45Z")
Whoohoo, Betty White is twice my age and still causing at least as much trouble as I do! /dance I canā€™t believe sheā€™s 88, holy crap! ETA: err, 89. My birthā€™s at the end of the year, so things get sticky. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/35 "2011-01-19T07:01:58Z")
> [@ErinPuff](#): > > 1961: > > Susan Boyle > George Clooney > Ann Coulter > Enya > Melissa Etheridge > Ricky Gervais > Julia Gillard > Sean Hannity > Peter Jackson > k.d. lang > Wynton Marsalis > Barack Obama > Tim Roth > Meg Ryan > Amy Sedaris > George Stephanopolous > > Two heads of government, two lesbian singers, two conservative commentators, and some other people. And me! Which makes my doubled-age year 1912. I was pleasantly surprised to find quite a number of living celebrities born in that year. Said Akl (Lebanese poet) Perkins Bass (politician) Alois Brunner (Nazi war criminal - possibly alive) Mary Carlisle (actress and singer) Boris Chertok (rocket scientist) Marta Eggerth (actress and singer) Otto von Habsburg (claimant to the throne of Austria-Hungary) Fritz Hellwig (German politician) Herbert Matare (German physicist) Roberta McCain (John McCainā€™s mother) Kathleen Ollerenshaw (British mathematician) Clarence ā€œAceā€ Parker (professional baseball and football player) Wolf Gunther Plaut (rabbi and author) Kurt Sanderling (German conductor) Zohra Segal (Indian actress) Kaneto Shindo (Japanese film director) Edward Short (British politician) Katsumi Tezuka (Japanese actor) Nancy Wake (member of the French Resistance) Lawrence Walsh (Iran-Contra investigator) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/36 "2011-01-19T07:07:49Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > Only Irwin Corey and Jack LaLanne are still alive. Youā€™ve also got [Norman Lloyd](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516093/). One of the founding members of Orson Wellesā€™ Mercury Theatre group. And heā€™s still working - he appeared last year in an episode of _Modern Family_. ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/37 "2011-01-19T07:42:13Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > **Wheelz** will be twice my age this year. This. I turn 24 in two weeks. I feel like such a brat now. šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/38 "2011-01-19T07:54:53Z")
People born in 1946 are twice my age. This includes: Dolly Parton Cher Susan Sarandon Ozzy Osbourne Twiggy Roy Orbison On a related note, Dakota Fanning is \*half \*my age for another month. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/39 "2011-01-19T08:08:19Z")
Born 1943: Robert De Niro Ben Kingsley Penny Marshall Christopher Walken Blythe Danner Chevy Chase Mick Jagger ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/40 "2011-01-19T08:15:39Z")
Iā€™m 24, so that would put people twice my age at being born in 1963. Notable people on Wikipedia include: Steven Soderbergh Michael Jordan Charles Barkley Joel Osteen Bret Michaels Vanessa L. Williams Quentin Tarantino Joe Scarborough Garry Kasparov Joel Murray Conan Oā€™Brien Jet Li Mike Myers Johnny Depp Helen Hunt Coolio Whitney Houston Tori Amos Mark McGwire Elisabeth Shue Brian Boitano Rick Allen Brad Pitt [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080.md?page=3)