List of the verified oldest people

This article is about specific supercentenarian claims validated by modern standards. For the oldest currently living people, see List of oldest living people.

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]}

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, 119 days. ^[5] The oldest known living man is John Tinniswood of the United Kingdom, aged 112 years, 24 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 [lower-alpha 2]	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 [lower-alpha 3]
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	Tane Ikai [24]	18 January 1879	12 July 1995	116 years, 175 days	Japan
21	Jeanne Bot [7]	14 January 1905	22 May 2021 [25]	116 years, 128 days	France
22	Tomiko Itooka [5]	23 May 1908	Living	116 years, 119 days	Japan
23	Elizabeth Bolden [26]	15 August 1890	11 December 2006	116 years, 118 days	United States
24	Inah Canabarro Lucas [5]	8 June 1908	Living	116 years, 103 days	Brazil
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 [lower-alpha 4]
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] [lower-alpha 5]	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 [lower-alpha 6]
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 [lower-alpha 7]
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	Casilda Benegas Gallego [7]	8 April 1907	28 June 2022 [46]	115 years, 81 days	Argentina [lower-alpha 8]
57	Augusta Holtz [47]	3 August 1871	21 October 1986	115 years, 79 days	United States [lower-alpha 9]
58	Valentine Ligny [7]	22 October 1906	4 January 2022	115 years, 74 days	France
59	Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper [48]	29 June 1890	30 August 2005	115 years, 62 days	Netherlands
60	Bessie Hendricks [12]	7 November 1907	3 January 2023 [49]	115 years, 57 days	United States
61	Elizabeth Francis [5]	25 July 1909	Living	115 years, 56 days	United States
62	Mina Kitagawa [7]	3 November 1905	19 December 2020	115 years, 46 days	Japan
63	Marie Brémont [50]	25 April 1886	6 June 2001	115 years, 42 days	France
64	Yoshi Otsunari [7]	17 December 1906	26 January 2022	115 years, 40 days	Japan
65	Ethel Caterham [5]	21 August 1909	Living	115 years, 29 days	United Kingdom
66	Maude Farris-Luse [51]	21 February 1887	18 March 2002 [52]	115 years, 25 days	United States
67	Koto Okubo [53]	24 December 1897	12 January 2013	115 years, 19 days	Japan
68	Okagi Hayashi [5]	2 September 1909	Living	115 years, 17 days	Japan
69	Antonia Gerena Rivera [7]	19 May 1900	2 June 2015	115 years, 14 days	United States [lower-alpha 10]
70	Chiyono Hasegawa [54]	20 November 1896	2 December 2011	115 years, 12 days	Japan
71	Annie Jennings [55]	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 [56]	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 [57]	10 May 1895	2 May 2010	114 years, 357 days	Japan
76	Mary Bidwell [58]	9 May 1881	25 April 1996 [59]	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 [60]	9 July 1896	21 June 2011	114 years, 347 days	Brazil
79	Hazel Plummer [12]	19 June 1908	25 May 2023 [61]	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 [62]	114 years, 310 days	Japan
82	Mary Josephine Ray [63]	17 May 1895	7 March 2010	114 years, 294 days	United States [lower-alpha 11]
83	Goldie Steinberg [7] [64]	30 October 1900	16 August 2015 [65]	114 years, 290 days	United States [lower-alpha 12]
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)
86	Ramona Trinidad Iglesias Jordan [66]	1 September 1889	29 May 2004 [67]	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 [68]	114 years, 268 days	Germany [lower-alpha 13]
91	Delphine Gibson [7]	17 August 1903	9 May 2018	114 years, 265 days	United States
92	Eugénie Blanchard [69]	16 February 1896	4 November 2010	114 years, 261 days	France (Saint Barthélemy)
93	Mary Royster [70]	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 [lower-alpha 14]
95	Neva Morris [71]	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] [72]	8 September 1900	1 May 2015 [73]	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 [74]	114 years, 230 days	United States
100	Masa Matsumoto [15]	29 November 1909	9 July 2024 [75]	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. 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 [lower-alpha 1]	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 [lower-alpha 2]
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 [76]	114 years, 311 days	Venezuela
05	Horacio Celi Mendoza [77]	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 [78]	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 [lower-alpha 3]
12	Efraín Antonio Ríos García [15]	4 April 1910	11 January 2024 [79]	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 [80]	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 [81]	113 years, 132 days	Colombia
19	James Sisnett	22 February 1900	23 May 2013	113 years, 90 days	Barbados [lower-alpha 4]
	Wenceslao Leyva González [82]	28 September 1903	27 December 2016		Mexico
21	Domingo Villa Avisencio [83]	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 [84]	8 August 1908	12 August 2021 [85]	113 years, 4 days	Puerto Rico
27	Chitetsu Watanabe [7] [86]	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 [87]	11 February 1909	18 January 2022 [88]	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 [89]	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 [90]	25 October 1909	1 June 2022 [91]	112 years, 219 days	Brazil [lower-alpha 5]
36	Denzō Ishizaki [92] [lower-alpha 6]	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 [77]	15 November 1854	5 June 1967	112 years, 202 days	United States
39	Georges Thomas [95]	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 [96]	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 [97]	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 [98]	11 May 1910	9 September 2022 [99]		Japan
55	Lawrence Brooks [100]	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 [lower-alpha 7]
57	CP Crawford [7]	25 August 1907	23 November 2019	112 years, 90 days	United States
58	Jorge Durán Coral [101]	23 April 1909	21 July 2021	112 years, 89 days	Mexico
59	Yoshikazu Yamashita [7]	10 April 1907	7 July 2019	112 years, 88 days	Japan
60	Gengan Tonaki	30 October 1884	24 January 1997	112 years, 86 days	Japan
61	Robert Weighton [7] [102]	29 March 1908	28 May 2020	112 years, 60 days	United Kingdom
62	Tadanosuke Hashimoto	27 April 1891	31 May 2003	112 years, 34 days	Japan
63	John Tinniswood [5]	26 August 1912	Living	112 years, 24 days	United Kingdom
64	Kumekichi Tani	20 April 1891	12 May 2003	112 years, 22 days	Japan
65	Ernest Peronneau [103]	7 March 1902	26 March 2014	112 years, 19 days	United States
66	George Feldman [104]	2 December 1906	2 December 2018 [105]	112 years, 0 days	United States
67	Tsunahei Ogawa [106]	9 January 1907	4 January 2019	111 years, 360 days	Japan
68	Arturo Licata	2 May 1902	24 April 2014	111 years, 357 days	Italy
69	Stanisław Kowalski [78]	14 April 1910	5 April 2022	111 years, 356 days	Poland [lower-alpha 8]
70	Silverio Pereira Ayala [37]	11 June 1906	30 May 2018	111 years, 353 days	Paraguay
71	Frank Morimitsu [78]	26 December 1886	9 December 1998	111 years, 348 days	United States [lower-alpha 9]
72	Walter H. Seward	13 October 1896	14 September 2008	111 years, 337 days	United States
73	Faustino Vargas Pérez [29]	27 September 1896	20 August 2008	111 years, 328 days	Costa Rica
74	Maurice Floquet	25 December 1894	10 November 2006	111 years, 320 days	France
75	Valerio Piroddi [107]	13 November 1905	18 September 2017	111 years, 309 days	Italy
76	Shigeru Nakamura [108]	11 January 1911	15 November 2022	111 years, 308 days	Japan
77	Arthur Nash [109]	7 January 1885	4 November 1996	111 years, 302 days	Canada [lower-alpha 10]
78	James McCoubrey	13 September 1901	5 July 2013	111 years, 295 days	United States [lower-alpha 11]
79	Ezra Hill [110]	19 December 1910	4 October 2022 [111]	111 years, 289 days	United States
80	John Mosley Turner	15 June 1856	21 March 1968	111 years, 280 days	United Kingdom
81	Hermann Dörnemann	27 May 1893	2 March 2005	111 years, 279 days	Germany
82	Agustín Reyes Ortiz [112]	8 February 1887	6 November 1998	111 years, 271 days	Puerto Rico
83	Antonio Urrea	18 February 1888	15 November 1999	111 years, 270 days	Spain
84	Choki Miyagi [7]	15 November 1904	7 August 2016	111 years, 266 days	Japan
85	Reuben Sinclair [113]	5 December 1911	27 August 2023 [114]	111 years, 265 days	Canada
86	Arthur Carter	5 October 1889	11 June 2001	111 years, 249 days	United States
87	Santos Hildebrando Rivas García [115]	17 August 1911	17 April 2023	111 years, 243 days	El Salvador
88	Jan Machiel Reyskens	11 May 1878	7 January 1990	111 years, 241 days	Netherlands [lower-alpha 12]
89	Jésus Mosteo Pérez [37]	1 January 1908	28 August 2019	111 years, 239 days	Spain
90	Henry Tseng [78]	12 July 1907	27 February 2019	111 years, 230 days	United States [lower-alpha 13]
91	Tōichi Sasaki [116]	4 September 1905	20 April 2017	111 years, 228 days	Japan
92	Joe Thomas	1 May 1875	14 December 1986	111 years, 227 days	United States
93	André Boite [117]	6 December 1910	15 July 2022	111 years, 221 days	France
94	Dumitru Comănescu [84]	21 November 1908	27 June 2020	111 years, 219 days	Romania
95	André Ludwig [15]	6 June 1912	7 January 2024 [118]	111 years, 215 days	France
96	James Zackry	15 August 1881	14 March 1993	111 years, 211 days	United States
97	Tanekichi Onishi	15 February 1900	11 September 2011	111 years, 208 days	Japan
98	Roger Auvin [37]	20 March 1908	13 October 2019	111 years, 207 days	France
99	Kiyoshi Igarashi	2 August 1897	23 February 2009	111 years, 205 days	Japan
	Lester Townsend [119]	31 March 1908	22 October 2019 [120]		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". ^[93] LongeviQuest subsequently determined Ishizaki was born 18 days earlier than previously believed, based on family records. ^[94]
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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