2002: The Year in People

Generation Z · Year of the Horse 🐎 · Born in 2002 turn 24 in 2026

The year in numbers

Gas, per gallon

$1.36

Median home

$137,800

Minimum wage

$5.15/hr

Movie ticket

$5.81

US population

6.31B

US president

George W. Bush

Top song

"How You Remind Me" — Nickelback

Top film

Spider-Man

Top TV show

Friends

Best Picture

Chicago

In the news: Euro currency enters circulation

What happened in 2002

2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2002nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 2nd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2000s decade.

Summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Born in 2002

149 people in our data · most viewed first

Caitlin Clark

b. 2002 · January 22

American basketball player

Benson Boone

b. 2002 · June 25

American singer-songwriter

Angel Reese

b. 2002 · May 6

American basketball player

Anthony Elanga

b. 2002 · April 27

Swedish footballer

Emma Myers

b. 2002 · April 2

American actress

Chet Holmgren

b. 2002 · May 1

American basketball player

Brian Brobbey

b. 2002 · February 1

Dutch footballer

Liam Lawson

b. 2002 · February 11

New Zealand racing driver

Emma Raducanu

b. 2002 · November 13

British tennis player

Ansu Fati

b. 2002 · October 31

Bissau-Guinean-born Spanish footballer

Drake Maye

b. 2002 · August 30

American football player

Alperen Şengün

b. 2002 · July 25

Turkish basketball player

Ben Shelton

b. 2002 · October 9

American tennis player

Giovanni Reyna

b. 2002 · November 13

American soccer player

Amad Diallo

b. 2002 · July 11

Ivorian footballer

Brandon Miller (basketball, born 2002)

b. 2002 · November 22

American basketball player

Anna Cramling

b. 2002 · April 30

Swedish chess player

Gerard Martín (footballer)

b. 2002 · February 26

Spanish footballer

Andrew Barth Feldman

b. 2002 · May 7

American actor and singer

Alina Zagitova

b. 2002 · May 18

Russian figure skater

Cam Ward (American football)

b. 2002 · May 25

American football player

Bennedict Mathurin

b. 2002 · June 19

Canadian basketball player

Bijan Robinson

b. 2002 · January 30

American football player

Anthony Richardson (American football)

b. 2002 · May 22

American football player

Died in 2002

Aileen Wuornos1956–2002 · American serial killer
Billy Wilder1906–2002 · Polish-American filmmaker
Carrie Hamilton1963–2002 · American dramatist
Dhirubhai Ambani1932–2002 · Indian businessman
Davey Boy Smith1962–2002 · English professional wrestler
Dave Thomas (businessman)1932–2002 · Founder of Wendy's
Cyrus Vance1917–2002 · American lawyer and government official
Astrid Lindgren1907–2002 · Swedish children's writer
Byron White1917–2002 · US Supreme Court justice and pro football player
Anand Bakshi1930–2002 · Indian poet and lyricist
Alan Lomax1915–2002 · American musicologist
Sylvia Rivera1952–2002 · American LGBT rights activist