How old is Eric Schmidt?

Eric Schmidt is 71 years old, born 27 April 1955.

Software engineer, businessman, former Google CEO.

Eric Emerson Schmidt is an American businessman and former computer engineer who was the chief executive officer of Google from 2001 to 2011 and the company's executive chairman from 2011 to 2015. He also was the executive chairman of parent company Alphabet Inc. from 2015 to 2017, and technical advisor at Alphabet from 2017 to 2020. Since 2025, he has been the CEO of Relativity Space, an aerospace manufacturing company. As of 2026, he is one of the wealthiest people in the world according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index with an estimated net worth of US$64.3 billion.

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Birthday facts

Based on Eric Schmidt's birth date, 27 April 1955.

Wednesday

Born on a

♉ Taurus

Zodiac sign

Wood Goat

Chinese zodiac

Diamond

Birthstone

Daisy

Birth flower

Baby Boomers

Generation

age 27, in 1982

Golden birthday

Dwight D. Eisenhower

US President

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Cosmic stats

Rough estimates — not exact science.

71.41

Trips around the Sun

67,111,350,336

km travelled through space

3,004,761,600

Heartbeats (est.)

600,952,320

Breaths taken (est.)

883

Full moons seen

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