List of the verified oldest people

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These are lists of the 100 known verified oldest women and men sorted in descending order by age in years and days. [lower-alpha 1]

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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. [lower-alpha 2] 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, 112 days. [5] The oldest known living man is John Tinniswood of the United Kingdom, aged 112 years, 17 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

RankNameBirth dateDeath dateAgePlace of death
or residence
1 Jeanne Calment [9] 21 February 18754 August 1997122 years, 164 days [lower-alpha 2] France
2 Kane Tanaka [7] 2 January 190319 April 2022 [10] 119 years, 107 daysJapan
3 Sarah Knauss [11] 24 September 188030 December 1999119 years, 97 daysUnited States
4 Lucile Randon [12] 11 February 190417 January 2023 [13] 118 years, 340 daysFrance
5 Nabi Tajima [7] 4 August 190021 April 2018117 years, 260 daysJapan
6 Marie-Louise Meilleur [14] 29 August 188016 April 1998117 years, 230 daysCanada
7 Violet Brown [7] 10 March 190015 September 2017117 years, 189 daysJamaica
8 Maria Branyas [15] 4 March 190719 August 2024 [16] 117 years, 168 daysSpain [lower-alpha 3]
9 Emma Morano [7] [17] 29 November 189915 April 2017117 years, 137 daysItaly
10Chiyo Miyako [7] [18] 2 May 190122 July 2018 [19] 117 years, 81 daysJapan
11 Delphia Welford [20] 9 September 187514 November 1992117 years, 66 daysUnited States
12 Misao Okawa [7] 5 March 18981 April 2015117 years, 27 daysJapan
13Francisca Celsa dos Santos [7] 21 October 19045 October 2021116 years, 349 daysBrazil
14 María Capovilla [21] 14 September 188927 August 2006116 years, 347 daysEcuador
15 Susannah Mushatt Jones [7] 6 July 189912 May 2016116 years, 311 daysUnited States
16Gertrude Weaver [7] 4 July 18986 April 2015116 years, 276 daysUnited States
17 Fusa Tatsumi [12] 25 April 190712 December 2023 [22] 116 years, 231 daysJapan
18Antonia da Santa Cruz [7] 13 June 190523 January 2022116 years, 224 daysBrazil
19 Tane Ikai [23] 18 January 187912 July 1995116 years, 175 daysJapan
20Jeanne Bot [7] 14 January 190522 May 2021 [24] 116 years, 128 daysFrance
21 Elizabeth Bolden [25] 15 August 189011 December 2006116 years, 118 daysUnited States
22 Tomiko Itooka [5] 23 May 1908Living116 years, 112 daysJapan
23 Besse Cooper [26] 26 August 18964 December 2012116 years, 100 daysUnited States
24 Inah Canabarro Lucas [5] 8 June 1908Living116 years, 96 daysBrazil
25 Maria Giuseppa Robucci [7] 20 March 190318 June 2019 [27] 116 years, 90 daysItaly
26 Tekla Juniewicz [7] 10 June 190619 August 2022116 years, 70 daysPoland [lower-alpha 4]
27 Ana María Vela Rubio [7] 29 October 190115 December 2017116 years, 47 daysSpain
28 Giuseppina Projetto [7] 30 May 19026 July 2018116 years, 37 daysItaly
29Easter Wiggins [28] 1 June 18747 July 1990116 years, 36 daysUnited States
30 Jeralean Talley [7] 23 May 189917 June 2015116 years, 25 daysUnited States
31 Edith Ceccarelli [15] 5 February 190822 February 2024 [29] 116 years, 17 daysUnited States
32Ella Miller [30] 6 December 188421 November 2000115 years, 351 daysUnited States
33Shigeyo Nakachi [7] 1 February 190511 January 2021115 years, 345 daysJapan
34 Maggie Barnes [31] [lower-alpha 5] 6 March 188219 January 1998115 years, 319 daysUnited States
35Dina Manfredini [8] 4 April 189717 December 2012115 years, 257 daysUnited States [lower-alpha 6]
36Shimoe Akiyama [7] 19 May 190329 January 2019115 years, 255 daysJapan
37Hester Ford [7] 15 August 190517 April 2021115 years, 245 daysUnited States
38 Charlotte Hughes [32] 1 August 187717 March 1993115 years, 228 daysUnited Kingdom
39 Edna Parker [33] 20 April 189326 November 2008115 years, 220 daysUnited States
40Mary Ann Rhodes [34] 12 August 18823 March 1998115 years, 203 daysCanada
41Anonymous of Tokyo [7] 15 March 190027 September 2015115 years, 196 daysJapan
42Margaret Skeete [35] 27 October 18787 May 1994115 years, 192 daysUnited States
43Magdalena Oliver Gabarró [36] 31 October 19031 May 2019115 years, 182 daysSpain
44 Bernice Madigan [7] 24 July 18993 January 2015 [37] 115 years, 163 daysUnited States
45Gertrude Baines [38] 6 April 189411 September 2009115 years, 158 daysUnited States
46 Bettie Wilson [39] 13 September 189013 February 2006115 years, 153 daysUnited States
47Shin Matsushita [7] 30 March 190427 August 2019115 years, 150 daysJapan
48Iris Westman [7] 28 August 19053 January 2021 [40] 115 years, 128 daysUnited States
49Julie Winnefred Bertrand [41] 16 September 189118 January 2007115 years, 124 daysCanada
50Maria de Jesus [42] 10 September 18932 January 2009115 years, 114 daysPortugal
51 Marie-Josephine Gaudette [7] 25 March 190213 July 2017 [43] 115 years, 110 daysItaly [lower-alpha 7]
52Susie Gibson [44] 31 October 189016 February 2006115 years, 108 daysUnited States
Thelma Sutcliffe [7] 1 October 190617 January 2022United States
54Edna Kern [20] 14 October 190020 January 2016115 years, 98 daysUnited States
55Casilda Benegas Gallego [7] 8 April 190728 June 2022 [45] 115 years, 81 daysArgentina [lower-alpha 8]
56Augusta Holtz [46] 3 August 187121 October 1986115 years, 79 daysUnited States [lower-alpha 9]
57Valentine Ligny [7] 22 October 19064 January 2022115 years, 74 daysFrance
58 Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper [47] 29 June 189030 August 2005115 years, 62 daysNetherlands
59Bessie Hendricks [12] 7 November 19073 January 2023 [48] 115 years, 57 daysUnited States
60 Elizabeth Francis [5] 25 July 1909Living115 years, 49 daysUnited States
61Mina Kitagawa [7] 3 November 190519 December 2020115 years, 46 daysJapan
62 Marie Brémont [49] 25 April 18866 June 2001115 years, 42 daysFrance
63Yoshi Otsunari [7] 17 December 190626 January 2022115 years, 40 daysJapan
64 Maude Farris-Luse [50] 21 February 188718 March 2002 [51] 115 years, 25 daysUnited States
65 Ethel Caterham [5] 21 August 1909Living115 years, 22 daysUnited Kingdom
66Koto Okubo [52] 24 December 189712 January 2013115 years, 19 daysJapan
67Antonia Gerena Rivera [7] 19 May 19002 June 2015115 years, 14 daysUnited States [lower-alpha 10]
68Chiyono Hasegawa [53] 20 November 18962 December 2011115 years, 12 daysJapan
69 Okagi Hayashi [5] 2 September 1909Living115 years, 10 daysJapan
70Annie Jennings [54] 12 November 188420 November 1999115 years, 8 daysUnited Kingdom
71Anonymous of Hyōgo [7] 29 April 190730 April 2022115 years, 1 dayJapan
72 Eva Morris [55] 8 November 18852 November 2000114 years, 360 daysUnited Kingdom
73Diolinda Maria da Conceição [36] 10 March 19064 March 2021114 years, 359 daysBrazil
74Kama Chinen [56] 10 May 18952 May 2010114 years, 357 daysJapan
75 Mary Bidwell [57] 9 May 188125 April 1996 [58] 114 years, 352 daysUnited States
76Sofia Rojas [7] 13 August 190730 July 2022114 years, 351 daysColombia
77Maria Gomes Valentim [59] 9 July 189621 June 2011114 years, 347 daysBrazil
78Hazel Plummer [12] 19 June 190825 May 2023 [60] 114 years, 340 daysUnited States
79Ophelia Burks [28] 25 October 190327 September 2018114 years, 337 daysUnited States
80Kahoru Furuya [7] 18 February 190825 December 2022 [61] 114 years, 310 daysJapan
81Mary Josephine Ray [62] 17 May 18957 March 2010114 years, 294 daysUnited States [lower-alpha 11]
82Goldie Steinberg [7] [63] 30 October 190016 August 2015 [64] 114 years, 290 daysUnited States [lower-alpha 12]
83Kiyoko Ishiguro [7] 4 March 19015 December 2015114 years, 276 daysJapan
84 Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes [8] 24 October 189025 July 2005114 years, 274 daysPortugal
Eudoxie Baboul [7] 1 October 19011 July 2016France (French Guiana)
86Ramona Trinidad Iglesias Jordan [65] 1 September 188929 May 2004 [66] 114 years, 271 daysPuerto Rico
Yukie Hino [7] 17 April 190213 January 2017Japan
Olindina Juvêncio Atanásio da Silva [36] 25 May 190620 February 2021Brazil
89 Charlotte Kretschmann [15] 3 December 190927 August 2024 [67] 114 years, 268 daysGermany [lower-alpha 13]
90Delphine Gibson [7] 17 August 19039 May 2018114 years, 265 daysUnited States
91Eugénie Blanchard [68] 16 February 18964 November 2010114 years, 261 daysFrance (Saint Barthélemy)
92Mary Royster [69] 15 April 187528 December 1989114 years, 257 daysUnited States
93 Venere Pizzinato [8] 23 November 18962 August 2011114 years, 252 daysItaly [lower-alpha 14]
94Neva Morris [70] 3 August 18956 April 2010114 years, 246 daysUnited States
95Hide Ohira [8] 15 September 18809 May 1995114 years, 236 daysJapan
96Blanche Cobb [7] [71] 8 September 19001 May 2015 [72] 114 years, 235 daysUnited States
97 Ethel Lang [7] 27 May 190015 January 2015114 years, 233 daysUnited Kingdom
98Mila Mangold [7] 14 November 19072 July 2022 [73] 114 years, 230 daysUnited States
99Masa Matsumoto [15] 29 November 19099 July 2024 [74] 114 years, 223 daysJapan
100Yone Minagawa [75] 4 January 189313 August 2007114 years, 221 daysJapan
  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. 1 2 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

RankName [lower-alpha 1] Birth dateDeath dateAgePlace of death
or residence
1 Jiroemon Kimura 19 April 189712 June 2013116 years, 54 daysJapan
2 Christian Mortensen 16 August 188225 April 1998115 years, 252 daysUnited States [lower-alpha 2]
3 Emiliano Mercado del Toro 21 August 189124 January 2007115 years, 156 daysPuerto Rico
4 Juan Vicente Pérez [15] 27 May 19092 April 2024 [76] 114 years, 311 daysVenezuela
5Horacio Celi Mendoza [77] 3 January 189725 September 2011114 years, 265 daysPeru
6 Walter Breuning 21 September 189614 April 2011114 years, 205 daysUnited States
7 Yukichi Chuganji 23 March 188928 September 2003114 years, 189 daysJapan
8Tomás Pinales Figuereo [78] 31 March 190624 September 2020114 years, 177 daysDominican Republic
9 Joan Riudavets 15 December 18895 March 2004114 years, 81 daysSpain
10 Fred Harold Hale 1 December 189019 November 2004113 years, 354 daysUnited States
11 Israel Kristal [7] 15 September 190311 August 2017113 years, 330 daysIsrael [lower-alpha 3]
12Efraín Antonio Ríos García [15] 4 April 191011 January 2024 [79] 113 years, 282 daysColombia
13 Tomoji Tanabe 18 September 189519 June 2009113 years, 274 daysJapan
14John Ingram McMorran19 June 188924 February 2003113 years, 250 daysUnited States
15 Masazō Nonaka [7] 25 July 190520 January 2019113 years, 179 daysJapan
16Mauro Ambriz Tapia [80] 21 November 189718 April 2011113 years, 148 daysMexico
17Frederick Frazier27 January 188014 June 1993113 years, 138 daysUnited States
18Eusebio Quintero López [12] 6 March 191016 July 2023 [81] 113 years, 132 daysColombia
19James Sisnett22 February 190023 May 2013113 years, 90 daysBarbados [lower-alpha 4]
Wenceslao Leyva González [82] 28 September 190327 December 2016Mexico
21Domingo Villa Avisencio [83] 26 August 19063 November 2019113 years, 69 daysMexico
22Maximiano José dos Santos [28] 22 February 189325 April 2006113 years, 62 daysBrazil
23Walter Richardson7 November 188525 December 1998113 years, 48 daysUnited States
24 Francisco Núñez Olivera [7] 13 December 190429 January 2018113 years, 47 daysSpain
25 Henry Allingham 6 June 189618 July 2009113 years, 42 daysUnited Kingdom
26Emilio Flores Márquez [84] 8 August 190812 August 2021 [85] 113 years, 4 daysPuerto Rico
27Chitetsu Watanabe [7] [86] 5 March 190723 February 2020112 years, 355 daysJapan
28 Antonio Todde 22 January 18893 January 2002112 years, 346 daysItaly
29 Saturnino de la Fuente García [87] 11 February 190918 January 2022 [88] 112 years, 341 daysSpain
30 Moses Hardy 6 January 18947 December 2006112 years, 335 daysUnited States
31 Yasutaro Koide [7] 13 March 190319 January 2016 [89] 112 years, 312 daysJapan
32John Evans19 August 187710 June 1990112 years, 295 daysUnited Kingdom
33 Shi Ping [90] 1 November 191129 June 2024112 years, 241 daysChina
34 Richard Arvin Overton [7] 11 May 190627 December 2018112 years, 230 daysUnited States
35 Delio Venturotti [91] 25 October 19091 June 2022 [92] 112 years, 219 daysBrazil [lower-alpha 5]
36 Denzō Ishizaki [93] [lower-alpha 6] 2 October 188629 April 1999112 years, 209 daysJapan
37 George Francis 6 June 189627 December 2008112 years, 204 daysUnited States
38James King [77] 15 November 18545 June 1967112 years, 202 daysUnited States
39Georges Thomas [96] 19 November 19111 June 2024112 years, 195 daysFrance
40Josep Armengol23 July 188120 January 1994112 years, 181 daysSpain
41Giovanni Frau29 December 189019 June 2003112 years, 172 daysItaly
42Jules Théobald [36] 17 April 19095 October 2021112 years, 171 daysFrance (Martinique)
43 John Painter 20 September 18881 March 2001112 years, 162 daysUnited States
44Marcel Meys [97] 12 July 190915 December 2021112 years, 156 daysFrance
45Masamitsu Yoshida [7] 30 May 190429 October 2016112 years, 152 daysJapan
46Sakari Momoi [7] 5 February 19035 July 2015112 years, 150 daysJapan
47Victor Chanca Santos [36] 14 June 19109 November 2022112 years, 148 daysPeru
48Gisaburō Sonobe [15] 6 November 191131 March 2024 [98] 112 years, 146 daysJapan
49Efraín Núñez Núñez [36] 28 December 190422 May 2017112 years, 145 daysDominican Republic
50 Alphaeus Philemon Cole 12 July 187625 November 1988112 years, 136 daysUnited States
51Augusto Moreira6 October 189613 February 2009112 years, 130 daysPortugal
52João Zanol [36] 13 October 190712 February 2020112 years, 122 daysBrazil
53George Johnson1 May 189430 August 2006112 years, 121 daysUnited States
Mikizō Ueda [99] 11 May 19109 September 2022 [100] Japan
55 Lawrence Brooks [101] 12 September 19095 January 2022112 years, 115 daysUnited States
56Salustiano Sanchez8 June 190113 September 2013112 years, 97 daysUnited States [lower-alpha 7]
57CP Crawford [7] 25 August 190723 November 2019112 years, 90 daysUnited States
58Jorge Durán Coral [102] 23 April 190921 July 2021112 years, 89 daysMexico
59Yoshikazu Yamashita [7] 10 April 19077 July 2019112 years, 88 daysJapan
60Gengan Tonaki30 October 188424 January 1997112 years, 86 daysJapan
61Robert Weighton [7] [103] 29 March 190828 May 2020112 years, 60 daysUnited Kingdom
62Tadanosuke Hashimoto27 April 189131 May 2003112 years, 34 daysJapan
63Kumekichi Tani20 April 189112 May 2003112 years, 22 daysJapan
64Ernest Peronneau [104] 7 March 190226 March 2014112 years, 19 daysUnited States
65 John Tinniswood [5] 26 August 1912Living112 years, 17 daysUnited Kingdom
66George Feldman [105] 2 December 19062 December 2018 [106] 112 years, 0 daysUnited States
67Tsunahei Ogawa [107] 9 January 19074 January 2019111 years, 360 daysJapan
68Arturo Licata2 May 190224 April 2014111 years, 357 daysItaly
69 Stanisław Kowalski [78] 14 April 19105 April 2022111 years, 356 daysPoland [lower-alpha 8]
70Silverio Pereira Ayala [36] 11 June 190630 May 2018111 years, 353 daysParaguay
71Frank Morimitsu [78] 26 December 18869 December 1998111 years, 348 daysUnited States [lower-alpha 9]
72Walter H. Seward13 October 189614 September 2008111 years, 337 daysUnited States
73Faustino Vargas Pérez [28] 27 September 189620 August 2008111 years, 328 daysCosta Rica
74 Maurice Floquet 25 December 189410 November 2006111 years, 320 daysFrance
75Valerio Piroddi [108] 13 November 190518 September 2017111 years, 309 daysItaly
76Shigeru Nakamura [109] 11 January 191115 November 2022111 years, 308 daysJapan
77Arthur Nash [110] 7 January 18854 November 1996111 years, 302 daysCanada [lower-alpha 10]
78James McCoubrey13 September 19015 July 2013111 years, 295 daysUnited States [lower-alpha 11]
79Ezra Hill [111] 19 December 19104 October 2022 [112] 111 years, 289 daysUnited States
80John Mosley Turner15 June 185621 March 1968111 years, 280 daysUnited Kingdom
81 Hermann Dörnemann 27 May 18932 March 2005111 years, 279 daysGermany
82Agustín Reyes Ortiz [113] 8 February 18876 November 1998111 years, 271 daysPuerto Rico
83Antonio Urrea18 February 188815 November 1999111 years, 270 daysSpain
84Choki Miyagi [7] 15 November 19047 August 2016111 years, 266 daysJapan
85 Reuben Sinclair [114] 5 December 191127 August 2023 [115] 111 years, 265 daysCanada
86Arthur Carter5 October 188911 June 2001111 years, 249 daysUnited States
87Santos Hildebrando Rivas García [116] 17 August 191117 April 2023111 years, 243 daysEl Salvador
88Jan Machiel Reyskens11 May 18787 January 1990111 years, 241 daysNetherlands [lower-alpha 12]
89Jésus Mosteo Pérez [36] 1 January 190828 August 2019111 years, 239 daysSpain
90Henry Tseng [78] 12 July 190727 February 2019111 years, 230 daysUnited States [lower-alpha 13]
91Tōichi Sasaki [117] 4 September 190520 April 2017111 years, 228 daysJapan
92Joe Thomas1 May 187514 December 1986111 years, 227 daysUnited States
93André Boite [118] 6 December 191015 July 2022111 years, 221 daysFrance
94Dumitru Comănescu [84] 21 November 190827 June 2020111 years, 219 daysRomania
95André Ludwig [15] 6 June 19127 January 2024 [119] 111 years, 215 daysFrance
96James Zackry15 August 188114 March 1993111 years, 211 daysUnited States
97Tanekichi Onishi15 February 190011 September 2011111 years, 208 daysJapan
98Roger Auvin [36] 20 March 190813 October 2019111 years, 207 daysFrance
99Kiyoshi Igarashi2 August 189723 February 2009111 years, 205 daysJapan
Lester Townsend [120] 31 March 190822 October 2019 [121] United States
  1. All entries are sourced to GRG "table B" dated 1 January 2015, unless otherwise noted. [8]
  2. Mortensen was born in Denmark.
  3. Kristal was born in Maleniec, then part of the Russian Empire, now in Poland.
  4. 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.
  5. Venturotti was born in Italy.
  6. 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]
  7. Sanchez was born in Spain.
  8. Kowalski was born in Rogówek, then part of the Russian Empire, now in Poland.
  9. Morimitsu was born in Japan.
  10. Nash was born in the United Kingdom.
  11. McCoubrey was born in Newfoundland, then a separate British colony, now part of Canada.
  12. Reyskens was born in Belgium, lived (from 1897) and died in the Netherlands, but never obtained Dutch citizenship.
  13. Tseng was born in Japan.

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