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Sexiest Man Alive by Picture

Can you identify theses celebrities who were chosen as "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine?
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100 Recent Comments
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Level 94
Mar 13, 2018
Amazing how George Clooney was sexiest man alive twice, 9 years apart!
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Level 69
Nov 15, 2018
He had a rough 8 years in the middle, then cleaned it up for the repeat.
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Level 70
May 11, 2018
I realise that I am a man, but apart from that, I don't find any of these blokes sexy.
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Level 72
Nov 22, 2018
Lots of men find men sexy, and lots of other men not sexy.
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Level 76
Jun 19, 2019
Ápart from connery and hemsworth, none on of these are really of interest to me either. I get jackman though, he is very charming. (and sort of get ford too, indiana jones was an exciting character with an adventurous life and for many the indiana jones movies are a part of their childhood)>

I think many of these had adventurous roles, not simply movie star, superheros, action heros, bonds

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Level 56
Nov 22, 2020
That's ridiculous.
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Level 65
May 11, 2018
How the hell has Ryan Gosling never won this? I'm a straight man, but even I know he's sexy.
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Level 76
Jun 19, 2019
really ?? I absolutely dont seeit. I find him ugly sooner than goodlooking. But sometimes sexy goes beyond looks, but I still.. no... really not.
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Level 83
Nov 22, 2024
I mean... anyone with a pulse who watches Drive must have their heart flutter at least a little.
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Level 80
Oct 8, 2022
God I think Ryan Gosling is hot
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Level 55
May 11, 2018
david beckham is a footballer not a athlete but he is english
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Level 86
Nov 11, 2018
Athlete=sportsman, in at least a part of the anglophone world.
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Level 55
Jan 17, 2026
And Chris Hemsworth is Australian, what's your point?
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Level 94
Jun 19, 2018
How Australian is Mel Gibson? He was born in the US, didn't move to Australia until he was 12 and since the time he was 30 he's been more or less living in America. He was born an American citizen and as far as I know never renounced his citizenship. Interestingly enough he is currently an Irish citizen which he clams from his mother as well not Australian which he is only a permanent resident. I understand leaving that since most people would say at first say he's Australian but he only lived there for about a third of his life.
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Level 79
Nov 15, 2018
The year he won he'd been Australian for more than half his life.
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Level 68
Jun 30, 2018
I always thought Harry Hamlin's political accomplishments were underappreciated. Glad someone finally recognized him, even if it was 220 years late. Also surprised Kevin Costner didn't win between '87 and '94. He was *everywhere.*
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Level 82
Sep 2, 2018
Pleased to have scored 1/28 in this so arbitrary and ridiculous quiz. The judges have around 4,000 million options to choose from and the fact that they've hardly strayed from the acting profession indicates that they haven't been checking them all out.
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Level 81
Nov 18, 2024
I'm proud of you for taking a celebrity and pop culture magazine quiz featuring extremely famous mugs (even if they're of debatable sexiness) so seriously. So ridiculous and arbitrary of them, I agree, the people at People need to be scouring entire countries, nay, CONTINENTS, not just these Hollywood goons
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Level 28
Sep 28, 2018
I cannot believe that Kevin Costner never made the list when other nominees who were not as hot as he was made the cut.... he's still hot!!
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Level 75
Nov 12, 2018
Why is one British, but there's also English and Scottish mentioned?
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Level 67
Nov 22, 2020
does it really matter?
+3
Level 92
Nov 13, 2018
Donald Trump for 2019. Orange wave.
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Level 68
Nov 15, 2018
I heard they wanted to pick him for this year, but he turned it down.
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Level 81
Nov 18, 2024
Lucky for Melania, he's all hers
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Level 82
Jan 16, 2025
He's never been all anyone's. She made her choice ... and now seems to regret it.
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Level 79
Nov 15, 2018
So it helps a lot to be American or else cast as James Bond.
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Level 48
Nov 15, 2018
I’m sorry but Mel Gibson is definitely not Australian. He may be of Australian descent but he was born in New York and neither of his parents are from Australia sooooo...
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Level 79
Nov 15, 2018
His grandparents were Australian. He was born in New York but he moved to Australia as a kid and spent his formative year there. He first worked as an actor in Australian movies before coming back to work in Hollywood.

However, he's never had Australian citizenship. He's got dual American and Irish citizenship. I'd say you're sort of right and sort of wrong.

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Level ∞
Nov 13, 2019
Australians were very proud of him until his drunk driving arrest and subsequent anti-semitic rant. Then they were like "Mel who?".
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Level 32
Nov 16, 2018
That's weird, I don't see my name there
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Level 93
Nov 16, 2018
Yeah, that joke stopped being funny a long time ago...
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Level 79
Aug 24, 2019
5 and half years ago to be exact.
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Level 79
Nov 13, 2019
How can a list like this that excludes Danny DeVito be expected to be taken seriously?
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Level 68
Nov 22, 2020
Had a very good laugh at this, but it's also a credit to DeVito's talent. Guys like him, Paul Giamati, and John C. Reilly never have to doubt whether they made it on talent alone. All three have put together remarkable and enduring careers too.
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Level 81
Nov 18, 2019
It's a very Swayze Christmas! :-)
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Level 79
Nov 19, 2019
I did terrible. However, I knew I would. I don't pay attention to hollywood or celebrity status.
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Level 58
Jan 19, 2020
Start at Ocean's Eleven and go from there...
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Level 93
Nov 22, 2020
That would only give you three: Clooney, Damon, Pitt.
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Level 55
Apr 5, 2020
Is it me or does People Magazine pick random names from a hat and just goes who they think is sexy
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Level 61
Nov 19, 2024
No random names, names of native English speakers.
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Level 77
Apr 19, 2020
where's danny devito
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Level 93
Nov 19, 2024
I hear he's living above the grill at a Jersey Mike's. ;)
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Level 36
Apr 19, 2020
Sean Connery, Idris Elba, Pierce Brosnan, Patrick Swayze, the late John Kennedy, Jr., George Clooney, Matthew McCaughey yes! ...the others, not so much.
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Level 59
Apr 19, 2020
Such a biased quiz, I'm very disappointed to not see Hrithik Roshan here.
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Level 76
Nov 19, 2020
It’s not the quiz makers opinion it’s the opinion of the people at People Magazine
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Level 71
Sep 10, 2020
How about the women's one?
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Level 93
Nov 18, 2020
I don't think there is one for women. Or at least, not one that's been as long-running as the men's.
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Level 63
Nov 20, 2020
There was a somewhat similar list in Esquire magazine but they abandoned it in 2015 after 12 years.
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Level 64
Nov 19, 2020
Make room for Paul Reubens.
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Level 76
Nov 19, 2020
Why couldn’t Kennedy be 1987? :( I would have liked to have been born in the year of JFK Jr.
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Level 70
Nov 22, 2020
Patrick Swayze and Sean Connery are dead!
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Level 87
Nov 19, 2024
That might explain why they haven't won recently.
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Level 74
Nov 22, 2020
No Wilford Brimley???
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Level 93
Nov 19, 2024
They're clearly prejudice against people with diabeeedus. ;)
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Level 78
Nov 22, 2020
rip Sean Connery
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Level 58
Nov 22, 2020
The three latest ones are black. Hmmm
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Level 92
Nov 19, 2021
Hmmm what? What are you trying to say here?
+4
Level 93
Nov 20, 2021
A bash on political correctness, I guess? I don't know. You can never really tell sometimes.
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Level 79
Apr 7, 2025
God forbid black men be sexy
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Level 61
Nov 22, 2020
Nonsense. I tried a dozen variations of my name & none of them worked.
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Level 89
Dec 2, 2020
+1
Level 31
Feb 9, 2021
I got a 21/31. Better than i thought id ever do. Great quiz tho!!
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Level 36
Jun 5, 2021
Kim Jong Un?
+4
Level 87
Nov 19, 2021
For some reason "Bartolo Colon" wasn't accepted.
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Level ∞
Nov 18, 2022
People is a family magazine. Can't have people getting too excited.
+3
Level 80
Nov 18, 2022
Not the Quizmaster himself?
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Level 92
Nov 18, 2022
Interestingly, not many of these people are dead.
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Level 81
Nov 18, 2024
Alive is the new sexy
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Level 80
Nov 20, 2022
More like sexiest English-speaking man in the entertainment business.
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Level 81
Nov 21, 2022
+who had notable success, preferably in the US, around the time of choosing.

But, we can always make our own list. With blackjack... and, you know.

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Level 92
Nov 18, 2024
Jack Black???
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Level 67
Nov 26, 2022
Feels like they pick celebrities from a hat and say "Here's our guy"
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Level 72
Jun 4, 2023
Obviously a wrong list beacuse I am not on it.
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Level 43
Feb 18, 2024
LIES! DECEPTION! MY MAN YODA AIN'T THERE!
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Level 99
Nov 18, 2024
What, no Nick Offerman?!!
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Level 92
Nov 18, 2024
+100
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Level 79
Nov 18, 2024
These are always such weird awards because you can genuinely find better looking people on your average day out in a big city, but everyone fawns over the actors because they're famous
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Level 95
Nov 19, 2024
Keep in mind it is "sexiest", not best looking. For women, sexy is a lot of things (not the least of which is how rich you are).
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Level 92
Nov 18, 2024
There must be a lot of Patriots haters who've kept Tom Brady off this list.
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Level 83
Nov 18, 2024
For some reason Ben Affleck looks like Tom Holland and Sean Connery looks like Peter Sellers. Wrong time periods, but couldn't see the right answers for either haha
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Level 94
Nov 19, 2024
This is a very generic list of faces. Half of them could be the same person!
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Level 95
Nov 19, 2024
Got lucky with Harry Hamlin, who I would have never come up with, when trying to guess Mark Harmon.
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Level 83
Nov 22, 2024
It's hard to believe that Nick Nolte was once a heart throb.
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Level 75
Nov 24, 2024
Hell, I'm sexier than some of these characters, and I'm close to my 65th birthday!
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Level 33
Jan 14, 2025
So I’m very clearly not very good at pop culture stuff ( I got 14, multiple for johnny depp and brad pitt, I only got Patrick Swayze trying to guess someone else as him ), so maybe I should come out from under my rock lol

Also, I’ve never paid attention to sexiest man alive before, but I noticed it’s a very white bunch generally

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Level 56
Jan 14, 2025
Ah, I saw Navy CIS that often, but I didn't get Harmon
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Level 71
Jan 14, 2025
But... my grandma says I'm the prettiest
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Level 63
Jan 14, 2025
You forgot me.
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Level 36
Jan 14, 2025
That’s funny how TWO movie Outsiders actors are here.(Steve and Darry)
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Level 45
Jan 15, 2025
ill send my picture so yall can add me, this is embarrassing
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Level 62
Jan 15, 2025
I got at least 4 of them because the names weren't fully cropped out.
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Level 73
Jan 15, 2025
Leroy Jethro Gibbs in his younger years was the sexiest man alive. I love that little fact
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Level 28
Jan 16, 2025
am I the only one who thinks that that photo of Chris Hemsworth makes him look like marjorie Taylor Greene?
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Level 85
Apr 18, 2025
Yes.
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Level 14
Jan 21, 2025
Only 1995.

I luv long hair (read: I am a super-mega-lesbian.)

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Level 68
Feb 25, 2025
No disrespect to Patrick Dempsey, who is still a very handsome fella, but he seems so out of place. Seems they almost always pick the "It Guy" of the moment. Every other selection was picked during a year in which he was a very regular presence in major movies and television. Dempsey is known mostly for one role, on Grey's Anatomy. That show passed its prime like...12 years ago, at least, and he wasn't even on it anymore when he got picked. Feels like like someone who had a crush on him in 2010 grew up to reach the editor's desk at People and thought "Finally! A chance to right this historical wrong!" Good for him, anyway.
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Level 79
Apr 7, 2025
I find it mildly upsetting that people are allowed to win multiple years.
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Level 63
May 5, 2025
Why is it always celebrities and never, like, Phil Peterman from accounting? And how does the sexiest man always lose his sexiness so quickly that by the next year someone else is sexier? Every time!
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Level 66
Jun 13, 2025
*Guesses 2016*

*ends the quiz*

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Level 73
Aug 13, 2025
Dempsey is such a break of habit, I really don't know why people find him sexy