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This is a list of persons reported to have become father of a child at or after 75 years of age. These claims have not necessarily been verified.

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Medical considerations

According to a 1969 study, there is a decrease in sperm concentration as men age. The study reported that 90% of seminiferous tubules in men in their 20s and 30s contained spermatids, whereas men in their 40s and 50s had spermatids in 50% of their seminiferous tubules. In the study, only 10% of seminiferous tubules from men aged > 80 years contained spermatids. [1] [2] In a random international sample of 11,548 men confirmed to be biological fathers by DNA paternity testing, the oldest father was found to be 66 years old at the birth of his child; the ratio of DNA-confirmed versus DNA-rejected paternity tests around that age is in agreement with the notion of general male infertility greater than age 65–66. [3] [4]

List of claims

DateNameAgeCountryNotes and citation(s)
January 1951James E. SmithUnited StatesSmith's age was disputed. He claimed to have been born in 1849 [5] or even March 16, 1848, [6] but other records suggested he may have been 15 years younger. [7] [5] They supposedly also had twins in 1948, when he was 99. [5]
October 5, 2012 Ramjit Raghav IndiaRaghav became the world's oldest father at the age of 94 when his first child was born in 2010. [8] He broke his own record in 2012 when, at the age of 96, he had another son. [9]
July 1992Les ColleyAustralia [10] [11]
February 2017Mahmoud AdamPalestine [12]
1978 or 1979 Zvonimir Rogoz Croatia [13]
July 26, 2006 Julio Iglesias Sr. Spain Posthumous birth [14]
July 1, 2020 Bernie Ecclestone United KingdomEcclestone is the former head of Formula One motor racing; he previously had daughters in 1955, 1984, and 1988. His youngest child, Ace, is his first son. [15]
May 28, 2010Armais NazarovRussia [16]
March 10, 2024 Tzvi Kushelevsky Israel [17] [18]
1933Mose TriplettUnited StatesBrother of Irene Triplett, the last surviving recipient of an American Civil War pension [19]
January 31, 2002 Ernest Lehman United States [20]
July 23, 2016 Kostas Voutsas Greece [21]
August 1, 2013 Edwin Edwards United States [22]
December 23, 1999 Saul Bellow United States [23]
October 30, 2023 Jack White GermanyJack White is the artist name of Horst Nussbaum. He is a German music producer with worldwide hits such as Gloria and Self Control by Laura Branigan. [24]
2017 Itzhak Fintzi BulgariaMatilda is the second child of actor Itzhak Fintzi, first with director Lisa Boeva. [25]
June 22, 2018 Horst Paulmann Chile [26]
June 15, 2023 Al Pacino United States [27]
September 17, 2019Sitarama RajaraoIndiaHis wife Erramatti herself holds the record of oldest mother to ever give birth to a child. [28]
April 28, 2016 Pehr G. Gyllenhammar Sweden [29]
July 5, 1996 Anthony Quinn United States [30]
April 2000 James Doohan United States [31] [32]
December 16, 1885 Ferdinand de Lesseps France [33]
c. 1996 Michael Young United Kingdom [34] [35]
May 11, 2024Horst-Dieter EschMexico [36]
August 20, 1904 Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet United Kingdom [37]
May 9, 2023 Robert De Niro United States [38]
April 19? 2016Mohinder Singh GillIndia [39]
2019 Emmanuil Vitorgan Russia [40]
June 15, 1998 Tony Randall United StatesThe couple also had a child in April 1997, when he was 77. [41] [42]
2010Albert CorscadenIreland [43]
2004 Mark Taimanov RussiaHad twins. [44]
June 12, 1999 Stanley Ho Macau [45] [46]
1998Luiz Da Costa SilvaBrazil [47]
June 27, 2008Charan Singh PanwarIndiaHad twins. [48]
November 23, 2009Ning JianyouChina [49]
April 19, 2020Noah AdenugaNigeriaHad twins after four IVF attempts. [50]
2010Barry StephensonUnited Kingdom [51]
December 2009Dennis EalamUnited Kingdom [52]
2010Vidas AntonovasLithuania [53]
1928 Lyon Tyler United StatesLyon's second son Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928. Lyon was the son of US President John Tyler. [54]
October 1988Jimmie C. JonesUnited StatesJimmie became the father of his fifth child, Roger, in the month of October, 1988. Jimmie was 88 years old when his last child was born. [55]

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