Convert String Data Array To List?

i have an string data array which contains data like this

5~kiran
2~ram
1~arun
6~rohan

now a method returns an value like string [] data public string [] names()

{
return data.Toarray()
}
public class Person
{
public string Name { get; set; }
public int Age { get; set; }
)
List<Person> persons = new List<Person>();
string [] names =names();

now i need to copy all the data from an string array to an list<person> and finally bind to grid view

gridview.datasource= persons

how can i do it?