List of the verified oldest people

These are lists of the 100 known verified oldest women and men sorted in descending order by age in years and days.[a]

The oldest person ever whose age has been independently verified is Jeanne Calment (1875–1997) of France, who lived to the age of 122 years and 164 days.[b] The oldest verified man ever is Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013) of Japan, who lived to the age of 116 years and 54 days.

The oldest known living person is Tomiko Itooka of Japan, aged 116 years, 184 days.[5] The oldest known living man is John Tinniswood of the United Kingdom, aged 112 years, 89 days.[6] The 100 oldest women have, on average, lived several years longer than the 100 oldest men.

100 verified oldest women

The list includes supercentenarians validated by organisations specialising in extreme age verification such as the Gerontology Research Group (GRG),[5][7][8] with, in some cases, press coverage as a supplementary source.

  Deceased   Living

Rank Name Birth date Death date Age Place of death
or residence
01 Jeanne Calment[9] 21 February 1875 4 August 1997 122 years, 164 days[b] France
02 Kane Tanaka[7] 2 January 1903 19 April 2022[10] 119 years, 107 days Japan
03 Sarah Knauss[11] 24 September 1880 30 December 1999 119 years, 97 days United States
04 Lucile Randon[12] 11 February 1904 17 January 2023[13] 118 years, 340 days France
05 Nabi Tajima[7] 4 August 1900 21 April 2018 117 years, 260 days Japan
06 Marie-Louise Meilleur[14] 29 August 1880 16 April 1998 117 years, 230 days Canada
07 Violet Brown[7] 10 March 1900 15 September 2017 117 years, 189 days Jamaica
08 Maria Branyas[15] 4 March 1907 19 August 2024[16] 117 years, 168 days Spain[c]
09 Emma Morano[7][17] 29 November 1899 15 April 2017 117 years, 137 days Italy
10 Chiyo Miyako[7][18] 2 May 1901 22 July 2018[19] 117 years, 81 days Japan
11 Delphia Welford[20] 9 September 1875 14 November 1992 117 years, 66 days United States
12 Misao Okawa[7] 5 March 1898 1 April 2015 117 years, 27 days Japan
13 Francisca Celsa dos Santos[7] 21 October 1904 5 October 2021 116 years, 349 days Brazil
14 María Capovilla[21] 14 September 1889 27 August 2006 116 years, 347 days Ecuador
15 Susannah Mushatt Jones[7] 6 July 1899 12 May 2016 116 years, 311 days United States
16 Gertrude Weaver[7] 4 July 1898 6 April 2015 116 years, 276 days United States
17 Julia Maria Francisca Simao[22] 9 January 1901 8 October 2017 116 years, 272 days Brazil
18 Fusa Tatsumi[12] 25 April 1907 12 December 2023[23] 116 years, 231 days Japan
19 Antonia da Santa Cruz[7] 13 June 1905 23 January 2022 116 years, 224 days Brazil
20 Tomiko Itooka[5] 23 May 1908 Living 116 years, 184 days Japan
21 Tane Ikai[24] 18 January 1879 12 July 1995 116 years, 175 days Japan
22 Inah Canabarro Lucas[5] 8 June 1908 Living 116 years, 168 days Brazil
23 Jeanne Bot[7] 14 January 1905 22 May 2021[25] 116 years, 128 days France
24 Elizabeth Bolden[26] 15 August 1890 11 December 2006 116 years, 118 days United States
25 Besse Cooper[27] 26 August 1896 4 December 2012 116 years, 100 days United States
26 Maria Giuseppa Robucci[7] 20 March 1903 18 June 2019[28] 116 years, 90 days Italy
27 Tekla Juniewicz[7] 10 June 1906 19 August 2022 116 years, 70 days Poland[d]
28 Ana María Vela Rubio[7] 29 October 1901 15 December 2017 116 years, 47 days Spain
29 Giuseppina Projetto[7] 30 May 1902 6 July 2018 116 years, 37 days Italy
30 Easter Wiggins[29] 1 June 1874 7 July 1990 116 years, 36 days United States
31 Jeralean Talley[7] 23 May 1899 17 June 2015 116 years, 25 days United States
32 Edith Ceccarelli[15] 5 February 1908 22 February 2024[30] 116 years, 17 days United States
33 Ella Miller[31] 6 December 1884 21 November 2000 115 years, 351 days United States
34 Shigeyo Nakachi[7] 1 February 1905 11 January 2021 115 years, 345 days Japan
35 Maggie Barnes[32][e] 6 March 1882 19 January 1998 115 years, 319 days United States
36 Dina Manfredini[8] 4 April 1897 17 December 2012 115 years, 257 days United States[f]
37 Shimoe Akiyama[7] 19 May 1903 29 January 2019 115 years, 255 days Japan
38 Hester Ford[7] 15 August 1905 17 April 2021 115 years, 245 days United States
39 Charlotte Hughes[33] 1 August 1877 17 March 1993 115 years, 228 days United Kingdom
40 Edna Parker[34] 20 April 1893 26 November 2008 115 years, 220 days United States
41 Mary Ann Rhodes[35] 12 August 1882 3 March 1998 115 years, 203 days Canada
42 Anonymous of Tokyo[7] 15 March 1900 27 September 2015 115 years, 196 days Japan
43 Margaret Skeete[36] 27 October 1878 7 May 1994 115 years, 192 days United States
44 Magdalena Oliver Gabarró[37] 31 October 1903 1 May 2019 115 years, 182 days Spain
45 Bernice Madigan[7] 24 July 1899 3 January 2015[38] 115 years, 163 days United States
46 Gertrude Baines[39] 6 April 1894 11 September 2009 115 years, 158 days United States
47 Bettie Wilson[40] 13 September 1890 13 February 2006 115 years, 153 days United States
48 Shin Matsushita[7] 30 March 1904 27 August 2019 115 years, 150 days Japan
49 Iris Westman[7] 28 August 1905 3 January 2021[41] 115 years, 128 days United States
50 Julie Winnefred Bertrand[42] 16 September 1891 18 January 2007 115 years, 124 days Canada
51 Maria de Jesus[43] 10 September 1893 2 January 2009 115 years, 114 days Portugal
52 Marie-Josephine Gaudette[7] 25 March 1902 13 July 2017[44] 115 years, 110 days Italy[g]
53 Susie Gibson[45] 31 October 1890 16 February 2006 115 years, 108 days United States
Thelma Sutcliffe[7] 1 October 1906 17 January 2022 United States
55 Edna Kern[20] 14 October 1900 20 January 2016 115 years, 98 days United States
56 Ethel Caterham[5] 21 August 1909 Living 115 years, 94 days United Kingdom
57 Elizabeth Francis[15] 25 July 1909 22 October 2024[46] 115 years, 89 days United States
58 Okagi Hayashi[5] 2 September 1909 Living 115 years, 82 days Japan
59 Casilda Benegas Gallego[7] 8 April 1907 28 June 2022[47] 115 years, 81 days Argentina[h]
60 Augusta Holtz[48] 3 August 1871 21 October 1986 115 years, 79 days United States[i]
61 Valentine Ligny[7] 22 October 1906 4 January 2022 115 years, 74 days France
62 Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper[49] 29 June 1890 30 August 2005 115 years, 62 days Netherlands
63 Bessie Hendricks[12] 7 November 1907 3 January 2023[50] 115 years, 57 days United States
64 Mina Kitagawa[7] 3 November 1905 19 December 2020 115 years, 46 days Japan
65 Marie Brémont[51] 25 April 1886 6 June 2001 115 years, 42 days France
66 Yoshi Otsunari[7] 17 December 1906 26 January 2022 115 years, 40 days Japan
67 Maude Farris-Luse[52] 21 February 1887 18 March 2002[53] 115 years, 25 days United States
68 Koto Okubo[54] 24 December 1897 12 January 2013 115 years, 19 days Japan
69 Antonia Gerena Rivera[7] 19 May 1900 2 June 2015 115 years, 14 days United States[j]
70 Chiyono Hasegawa[55] 20 November 1896 2 December 2011 115 years, 12 days Japan
71 Annie Jennings[56] 12 November 1884 20 November 1999 115 years, 8 days United Kingdom
72 Anonymous of Hyōgo[7] 29 April 1907 30 April 2022 115 years, 1 day Japan
73 Eva Morris[57] 8 November 1885 2 November 2000 114 years, 360 days United Kingdom
74 Diolinda Maria da Conceição[37] 10 March 1906 4 March 2021 114 years, 359 days Brazil
75 Kama Chinen[58] 10 May 1895 2 May 2010 114 years, 357 days Japan
76 Mary Bidwell[59] 9 May 1881 25 April 1996[60] 114 years, 352 days United States
77 Sofia Rojas[7] 13 August 1907 30 July 2022 114 years, 351 days Colombia
78 Maria Gomes Valentim[61] 9 July 1896 21 June 2011 114 years, 347 days Brazil
79 Hazel Plummer[12] 19 June 1908 25 May 2023[62] 114 years, 340 days United States
80 Ophelia Burks[29] 25 October 1903 27 September 2018 114 years, 337 days United States
81 Kahoru Furuya[7] 18 February 1908 25 December 2022[63] 114 years, 310 days Japan
82 Mary Josephine Ray[64] 17 May 1895 7 March 2010 114 years, 294 days United States[k]
83 Goldie Steinberg[7][65] 30 October 1900 16 August 2015[66] 114 years, 290 days United States[l]
84 Kiyoko Ishiguro[7] 4 March 1901 5 December 2015 114 years, 276 days Japan
85 Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes[8] 24 October 1890 25 July 2005 114 years, 274 days Portugal
Eudoxie Baboul[7] 1 October 1901 1 July 2016 France (French Guiana)
87 Ramona Trinidad Iglesias Jordan[67] 1 September 1889 29 May 2004[68] 114 years, 271 days Puerto Rico
Yukie Hino[7] 17 April 1902 13 January 2017 Japan
Olindina Juvêncio Atanásio da Silva[37] 25 May 1906 20 February 2021 Brazil
90 Charlotte Kretschmann[15] 3 December 1909 27 August 2024[69] 114 years, 268 days Germany[m]
91 Delphine Gibson[7] 17 August 1903 9 May 2018 114 years, 265 days United States
92 Eugénie Blanchard[70] 16 February 1896 4 November 2010 114 years, 261 days France (Saint Barthélemy)
93 Mary Royster[71] 15 April 1875 28 December 1989 114 years, 257 days United States
94 Venere Pizzinato[8] 23 November 1896 2 August 2011 114 years, 252 days Italy[n]
95 Neva Morris[72] 3 August 1895 6 April 2010 114 years, 246 days United States
96 Hide Ohira[8] 15 September 1880 9 May 1995 114 years, 236 days Japan
97 Blanche Cobb[7][73] 8 September 1900 1 May 2015[74] 114 years, 235 days United States
98 Ethel Lang[7] 27 May 1900 15 January 2015 114 years, 233 days United Kingdom
99 Mila Mangold[7] 14 November 1907 2 July 2022[75] 114 years, 230 days United States
100 Masa Matsumoto[15] 29 November 1909 9 July 2024[76] 114 years, 223 days Japan
  1. ^ The exact lifespan of people listed with the same number of years and days may differ because of leap days that occurred during their lifetime.
  2. ^ a b Calment's case was disputed in a Russian study posted online in 2018,[1][2] and a followup paper published in January 2019,[3] although other researchers have dismissed this on the basis of extensive prior research into Calment's life.[4]
  3. ^ Branyas was born in the United States.
  4. ^ Juniewicz was born in Krupsko near Lviv, then in Austria-Hungary, now in Ukraine.
  5. ^ May have been older (116 or 117); possibly born in 1881 or 1880.
  6. ^ Manfredini was born in Italy.
  7. ^ Gaudette was born in the United States.
  8. ^ Benegas Gallego was born in Paraguay.
  9. ^ Holtz was born in the German Empire; her birthplace is now in Poland.
  10. ^ Gerena Rivera was born in Puerto Rico.
  11. ^ Ray was born in Canada.
  12. ^ Steinberg was born in Chișinău, then part of the Russian Empire, now the capital of Moldova.
  13. ^ Kretschmann was born in Breslau, Silesia, then in the German Empire, now in Poland.
  14. ^ Pizzinato was born in Ala, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in Italy.

100 verified oldest men

The list includes supercentenarians validated by an organisation specialising in extreme age verification such as the Gerontology Research Group (GRG),[5][7][8] with, in some cases, press coverage as a supplementary source.

  Deceased   Living

Rank Name Birth date Death date Age Place of death
or residence
01 Jiroemon Kimura 19 April 1897 12 June 2013 116 years, 54 days Japan
02 Christian Mortensen 16 August 1882 25 April 1998 115 years, 252 days United States[a]
03 Emiliano Mercado del Toro 21 August 1891 24 January 2007 115 years, 156 days Puerto Rico
04 Juan Vicente Pérez[15] 27 May 1909 2 April 2024[77] 114 years, 311 days Venezuela
05 Horacio Celi Mendoza[78] 3 January 1897 25 September 2011 114 years, 265 days Peru
06 Walter Breuning 21 September 1896 14 April 2011 114 years, 205 days United States
07 Yukichi Chuganji 23 March 1889 28 September 2003 114 years, 189 days Japan
08 Tomás Pinales Figuereo[79] 31 March 1906 24 September 2020 114 years, 177 days Dominican Republic
09 Joan Riudavets 15 December 1889 5 March 2004 114 years, 81 days Spain
10 Fred Harold Hale 1 December 1890 19 November 2004 113 years, 354 days United States
11 Israel Kristal[7] 15 September 1903 11 August 2017 113 years, 330 days Israel[b]
12 Efraín Antonio Ríos García[15] 4 April 1910 11 January 2024[80] 113 years, 282 days Colombia
13 Tomoji Tanabe 18 September 1895 19 June 2009 113 years, 274 days Japan
14 John Ingram McMorran 19 June 1889 24 February 2003 113 years, 250 days United States
15 Masazō Nonaka[7] 25 July 1905 20 January 2019 113 years, 179 days Japan
16 Mauro Ambriz Tapia[81] 21 November 1897 18 April 2011 113 years, 148 days Mexico
17 Frederick Frazier 27 January 1880 14 June 1993 113 years, 138 days United States
18 Eusebio Quintero López[12] 6 March 1910 16 July 2023[82] 113 years, 132 days Colombia
19 James Sisnett 22 February 1900 23 May 2013 113 years, 90 days Barbados[c]
Wenceslao Leyva González[83] 28 September 1903 27 December 2016 Mexico
21 Domingo Villa Avisencio[84] 26 August 1906 3 November 2019 113 years, 69 days Mexico
22 Maximiano José dos Santos[29] 22 February 1893 25 April 2006 113 years, 62 days Brazil
23 Walter Richardson 7 November 1885 25 December 1998 113 years, 48 days United States
24 Francisco Núñez Olivera[7] 13 December 1904 29 January 2018 113 years, 47 days Spain
25 Henry Allingham 6 June 1896 18 July 2009 113 years, 42 days United Kingdom
26 Emilio Flores Márquez[85] 8 August 1908 12 August 2021[86] 113 years, 4 days Puerto Rico
27 Chitetsu Watanabe[7][87] 5 March 1907 23 February 2020 112 years, 355 days Japan
28 Antonio Todde 22 January 1889 3 January 2002 112 years, 346 days Italy
29 Saturnino de la Fuente García[88] 11 February 1909 18 January 2022[89] 112 years, 341 days Spain
30 Moses Hardy 6 January 1894 7 December 2006 112 years, 335 days United States
31 Yasutaro Koide[7] 13 March 1903 19 January 2016[90] 112 years, 312 days Japan
32 John Evans 19 August 1877 10 June 1990 112 years, 295 days United Kingdom
33 Shi Ping[22] 1 November 1911 29 June 2024 112 years, 241 days China
34 Richard Arvin Overton[7] 11 May 1906 27 December 2018 112 years, 230 days United States
35 Delio Venturotti[91] 25 October 1909 1 June 2022[92] 112 years, 219 days Brazil[d]
36 Denzō Ishizaki[93][e] 2 October 1886 29 April 1999 112 years, 209 days Japan
37 George Francis 6 June 1896 27 December 2008 112 years, 204 days United States
38 James King[78] 15 November 1854 5 June 1967 112 years, 202 days United States
39 Georges Thomas[96] 19 November 1911 1 June 2024 112 years, 195 days France
40 Josep Armengol 23 July 1881 20 January 1994 112 years, 181 days Spain
41 Giovanni Frau 29 December 1890 19 June 2003 112 years, 172 days Italy
42 Jules Théobald[37] 17 April 1909 5 October 2021 112 years, 171 days France (Martinique)
43 John Painter 20 September 1888 1 March 2001 112 years, 162 days United States
44 Marcel Meys[97] 12 July 1909 15 December 2021 112 years, 156 days France
45 Masamitsu Yoshida[7] 30 May 1904 29 October 2016 112 years, 152 days Japan
46 Sakari Momoi[7] 5 February 1903 5 July 2015 112 years, 150 days Japan
47 Victor Chanca Santos[37] 14 June 1910 9 November 2022 112 years, 148 days Peru
48 Gisaburō Sonobe[15] 6 November 1911 31 March 2024[98] 112 years, 146 days Japan
49 Efraín Núñez Núñez[37] 28 December 1904 22 May 2017 112 years, 145 days Dominican Republic
50 Alphaeus Philemon Cole 12 July 1876 25 November 1988 112 years, 136 days United States
51 Augusto Moreira 6 October 1896 13 February 2009 112 years, 130 days Portugal
52 João Zanol[37] 13 October 1907 12 February 2020 112 years, 122 days Brazil
53 George Johnson 1 May 1894 30 August 2006 112 years, 121 days United States
Mikizō Ueda[99] 11 May 1910 9 September 2022[100] Japan
55 Lawrence Brooks[101] 12 September 1909 5 January 2022 112 years, 115 days United States
56 Salustiano Sanchez 8 June 1901 13 September 2013 112 years, 97 days United States[f]
57 CP Crawford[7] 25 August 1907 23 November 2019 112 years, 90 days United States
58 Jorge Durán Coral[102] 23 April 1909 21 July 2021 112 years, 89 days Mexico
John Tinniswood[5] 26 August 1912 Living 112 years, 89 days United Kingdom
60 Yoshikazu Yamashita[7] 10 April 1907 7 July 2019 112 years, 88 days Japan
61 Gengan Tonaki 30 October 1884 24 January 1997 112 years, 86 days Japan
62 Robert Weighton[7][103] 29 March 1908 28 May 2020 112 years, 60 days United Kingdom
63 João Marinho Neto[104] 5 October 1912 Living 112 years, 49 days Brazil
64 Tadanosuke Hashimoto 27 April 1891 31 May 2003 112 years, 34 days Japan
65 Kumekichi Tani 20 April 1891 12 May 2003 112 years, 22 days Japan
66 Ernest Peronneau[105] 7 March 1902 26 March 2014 112 years, 19 days United States
67 George Feldman[106] 2 December 1906 2 December 2018[107] 112 years, 0 days United States
68 Tsunahei Ogawa[108] 9 January 1907 4 January 2019 111 years, 360 days Japan
69 Arturo Licata 2 May 1902 24 April 2014 111 years, 357 days Italy
70 Stanisław Kowalski[79] 14 April 1910 5 April 2022 111 years, 356 days Poland[g]
71 Silverio Pereira Ayala[37] 11 June 1906 30 May 2018 111 years, 353 days Paraguay
72 Frank Morimitsu[79] 26 December 1886 9 December 1998 111 years, 348 days United States[h]
73 Walter H. Seward 13 October 1896 14 September 2008 111 years, 337 days United States
74 Faustino Vargas Pérez[29] 27 September 1896 20 August 2008 111 years, 328 days Costa Rica
75 Maurice Floquet 25 December 1894 10 November 2006 111 years, 320 days France
76 Valerio Piroddi[109] 13 November 1905 18 September 2017 111 years, 309 days Italy
77 Shigeru Nakamura[110] 11 January 1911 15 November 2022 111 years, 308 days Japan
78 Arthur Nash[111] 7 January 1885 4 November 1996 111 years, 302 days Canada[i]
79 James McCoubrey 13 September 1901 5 July 2013 111 years, 295 days United States[j]
80 Mikhail Krichevsky 9 March 1897 26 December 2008 111 years, 292 days Ukraine
81 Ezra Hill[112] 19 December 1910 4 October 2022[113] 111 years, 289 days United States
82 John Mosley Turner 15 June 1856 21 March 1968 111 years, 280 days United Kingdom
83 Hermann Dörnemann 27 May 1893 2 March 2005 111 years, 279 days Germany
84 Laurence Thompson[114] 23 January 1887 24 October 1998 111 years, 274 days United States
85 Agustín Reyes Ortiz[115] 8 February 1887 6 November 1998 111 years, 271 days Puerto Rico
86 Antonio Urrea 18 February 1888 15 November 1999 111 years, 270 days Spain
87 Choki Miyagi[7] 15 November 1904 7 August 2016 111 years, 266 days Japan
88 Reuben Sinclair[116] 5 December 1911 27 August 2023[117] 111 years, 265 days Canada
89 Pedro Batista Layana[29] 25 June 1909 7 March 2021 111 years, 255 days Cuba
90 Arthur Carter 5 October 1889 11 June 2001 111 years, 249 days United States
91 Santos Hildebrando Rivas García[118] 17 August 1911 17 April 2023 111 years, 243 days El Salvador
92 Jan Machiel Reyskens 11 May 1878 7 January 1990 111 years, 241 days Netherlands[k]
93 Jésus Mosteo Pérez[37] 1 January 1908 28 August 2019 111 years, 239 days Spain
94 Josino Levino Ferreira 3 April 1913 Living 111 years, 234 days Brazil
95 Frank Sylvester[114] 25 June 1893 12 February 2005 111 years, 232 days United States
96 Henry Tseng[79] 12 July 1907 27 February 2019 111 years, 230 days United States[l]
97 Tōichi Sasaki[119] 4 September 1905 20 April 2017 111 years, 228 days Japan
98 Joe Thomas 1 May 1875 14 December 1986 111 years, 227 days United States
99 André Boite[120] 6 December 1910 15 July 2022 111 years, 221 days France
100 Dumitru Comănescu[85] 21 November 1908 27 June 2020 111 years, 219 days Romania
  1. ^ Mortensen was born in Denmark.
  2. ^ Kristal was born in Maleniec, then part of the Russian Empire, now in Poland.
  3. ^ Sisnett was born in Barbados, which was at the time of his birth part of the British colony of the Leeward Islands; it is now an independent country.
  4. ^ Venturotti was born in Italy.
  5. ^ Although the Gerontology Research Group verified Ishizaki's birth date as 20 October 1886, he claimed himself to be born in 1884 and asserted that his birth record was "delayed by two years".[94] LongeviQuest subsequently determined Ishizaki was born 18 days earlier than previously believed, based on family records.[95]
  6. ^ Sanchez was born in Spain.
  7. ^ Kowalski was born in Rogówek, then part of the Russian Empire, now in Poland.
  8. ^ Morimitsu was born in Japan.
  9. ^ Nash was born in the United Kingdom.
  10. ^ McCoubrey was born in Newfoundland, then a separate British colony, now part of Canada.
  11. ^ Reyskens was born in Belgium, lived (from 1897) and died in the Netherlands, but never obtained Dutch citizenship.
  12. ^ Tseng was born in Japan.

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