List of the verified oldest people

Jeanne Calment, the world's oldest verified person, lived to the age of 122 years, 164 days.

These are lists of the 100 known verified oldest people sorted in descending order by age in years and days. 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. 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 Ethel Caterham of the United Kingdom, aged 117 years, 82 days. The oldest known living man is João Marinho Neto of Brazil, aged 114 years, 37 days. 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), with, in some cases, press coverage as a supplementary source.

  Deceased   Living

Rank Name Birth date Death date Age Country of death
or residence
1 Jeanne Calment 21 February 1875 4 August 1997 122 years, 164 days France
2 Kane Tanaka 2 January 1903 19 April 2022 119 years, 107 days Japan
3 Sarah Knauss 24 September 1880 30 December 1999 119 years, 97 days United States
4 Lucile Randon 11 February 1904 17 January 2023 118 years, 340 days France
5 Nabi Tajima 4 August 1900 21 April 2018 117 years, 260 days Japan
6 Marie-Louise Meilleur 29 August 1880 16 April 1998 117 years, 230 days Canada
7 Violet Brown 10 March 1900 15 September 2017 117 years, 189 days Jamaica
8 Maria Branyas 4 March 1907 19 August 2024 117 years, 168 days Spain
9 Emma Morano 29 November 1899 15 April 2017 117 years, 137 days Italy
10 Chiyo Miyako 2 May 1901 22 July 2018 117 years, 81 days Japan
Ethel Caterham 21 August 1909 Living 117 years, 82 days United Kingdom
12 Delphia Welford 9 September 1875 14 November 1992 117 years, 66 days United States
13 Misao Okawa 5 March 1898 1 April 2015 117 years, 27 days Japan
14 Francisca Celsa dos Santos 21 October 1904 5 October 2021 116 years, 349 days Brazil
15 María Capovilla 14 September 1889 27 August 2006 116 years, 347 days Ecuador
16 Inah Canabarro Lucas 8 June 1908 30 April 2025 116 years, 326 days Brazil
17 Susannah Mushatt Jones 6 July 1899 12 May 2016 116 years, 311 days United States
18 Gertrude Weaver 4 July 1898 6 April 2015 116 years, 276 days United States
19 Fusa Tatsumi 25 April 1907 12 December 2023 116 years, 231 days Japan
20 Antonia da Santa Cruz 13 June 1905 23 January 2022 116 years, 224 days Brazil
21 Tomiko Itooka 23 May 1908 29 December 2024 116 years, 220 days Japan
22 Tane Ikai 18 January 1879 12 July 1995 116 years, 175 days Japan
23 Jeanne Bot 14 January 1905 22 May 2021 116 years, 128 days France
24 Elizabeth Bolden 15 August 1890 11 December 2006 116 years, 118 days United States
25 Besse Cooper 26 August 1896 4 December 2012 116 years, 100 days United States
26 Maria Giuseppa Robucci 20 March 1903 18 June 2019 116 years, 90 days Italy
27 Tekla Juniewicz 10 June 1906 19 August 2022 116 years, 70 days Poland
28 Ana María Vela Rubio 29 October 1901 15 December 2017 116 years, 47 days Spain
29 Naomi Whitehead 26 September 1910 Living 116 years, 46 days United States
30 Giuseppina Projetto 30 May 1902 6 July 2018 116 years, 37 days Italy
31 Easter Wiggins 1 June 1874 7 July 1990 116 years, 36 days United States
32 Jeralean Talley 23 May 1899 17 June 2015 116 years, 25 days United States
33 Edith Ceccarelli 5 February 1908 22 February 2024 116 years, 17 days United States
34 Lucia Laura Sangenito 22 November 1910 Living 115 years, 354 days Italy
35 Ella Miller 6 December 1884 21 November 2000 115 years, 351 days United States
36 Shigeyo Nakachi 1 February 1905 11 January 2021 115 years, 345 days Japan
37 Maggie Barnes 6 March 1882 19 January 1998 115 years, 319 days United States
38 Yolanda Beltrão de Azevedo 13 January 1911 Living 115 years, 302 days Brazil
39 Marie-Rose Tessier 21 May 1910 10 February 2026 115 years, 265 days France
40 Dina Manfredini 4 April 1897 17 December 2012 115 years, 257 days United States
41 Shimoe Akiyama 19 May 1903 29 January 2019 115 years, 255 days Japan
42 Hester Ford 15 August 1905 17 April 2021 115 years, 245 days United States
43 Okagi Hayashi 2 September 1909 26 April 2025 115 years, 236 days Japan
44 Charlotte Hughes 1 August 1877 17 March 1993 115 years, 228 days United Kingdom
45 Edna Parker 20 April 1893 26 November 2008 115 years, 220 days United States
46 Mary Ann Rhodes 12 August 1882 3 March 1998 115 years, 203 days Canada
47 Anonymous of Tokyo 15 March 1900 27 September 2015 115 years, 196 days Japan
48 Margaret Skeete 27 October 1878 7 May 1994 115 years, 192 days United States
49 Magdalena Oliver Gabarró 31 October 1903 1 May 2019 115 years, 182 days Spain
50 Bernice Madigan 24 July 1899 3 January 2015 115 years, 163 days United States
51 Gertrude Baines 6 April 1894 11 September 2009 115 years, 158 days United States
52 Bettie Wilson 13 September 1890 13 February 2006 115 years, 153 days United States
53 Shin Matsushita 30 March 1904 27 August 2019 115 years, 150 days Japan
54 Beatriz Ferreira Duarte 21 June 1911 Living 115 years, 143 days Brazil
55 Iris Westman 28 August 1905 3 January 2021 115 years, 128 days United States
56 Julie Winnefred Bertrand 16 September 1891 18 January 2007 115 years, 124 days Canada
57 Maria de Jesus 10 September 1893 2 January 2009 115 years, 114 days Portugal
58 Marie-Josephine Gaudette 25 March 1902 13 July 2017 115 years, 110 days Italy
59 Susie Gibson 31 October 1890 16 February 2006 115 years, 108 days United States
Thelma Sutcliffe 1 October 1906 17 January 2022 United States
61 Edna Kern 14 October 1900 20 January 2016 115 years, 98 days United States
62 Shigeko Kagawa 28 May 1911 27 August 2026 115 years, 91 days Japan
63 Elizabeth Francis 25 July 1909 22 October 2024 115 years, 89 days United States
64 Casilda Benegas Gallego 8 April 1907 28 June 2022 115 years, 81 days Argentina
65 Augusta Holtz 3 August 1871 21 October 1986 115 years, 79 days United States
66 Guillermina Acosta Bilbao 27 November 1901 13 February 2017 115 years, 78 days Panama
67 Valentine Ligny 22 October 1906 4 January 2022 115 years, 74 days France
68 Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper 29 June 1890 30 August 2005 115 years, 62 days Netherlands
69 Bessie Hendricks 7 November 1907 3 January 2023 115 years, 57 days United States
70 Mina Kitagawa 3 November 1905 19 December 2020 115 years, 46 days Japan
71 Marie Brémont 25 April 1886 6 June 2001 115 years, 42 days France
72 Yoshi Otsunari 17 December 1906 26 January 2022 115 years, 40 days Japan
73 Katie Hatton 18 December 1876 24 January 1992 115 years, 37 days United States
74 Maude Farris-Luse 21 February 1887 18 March 2002 115 years, 25 days United States
75 Koto Okubo 24 December 1897 12 January 2013 115 years, 19 days Japan
76 Antonia Gerena Rivera 19 May 1900 2 June 2015 115 years, 14 days United States
77 Chiyono Hasegawa 20 November 1896 2 December 2011 115 years, 12 days Japan
78 Annie Jennings 12 November 1884 20 November 1999 115 years, 8 days United Kingdom
79 Anonymous of Hyōgo 29 April 1907 30 April 2022 115 years, 1 day Japan
80 Eva Morris 8 November 1885 2 November 2000 114 years, 360 days United Kingdom
81 Klavdiya Gadyuchkina 5 December 1910 29 November 2025 114 years, 359 days Russia
82 Kama Chinen 10 May 1895 2 May 2010 114 years, 357 days Japan
83 Mary Bidwell 9 May 1881 25 April 1996 114 years, 352 days United States
84 Sofia Rojas 13 August 1907 30 July 2022 114 years, 351 days Colombia
85 Maria Gomes Valentim 9 July 1896 21 June 2011 114 years, 347 days Brazil
86 Izabel Rosa Pereira 13 October 1910 24 September 2025 114 years, 346 days Brazil
87 Hazel Plummer 19 June 1908 25 May 2023 114 years, 340 days United States
88 Ophelia Burks 25 October 1903 27 September 2018 114 years, 337 days United States
89 Ella Gantt 30 November 1886 28 October 2001 114 years, 332 days United States
90 Fuyo Kishimoto 20 December 1911 Living 114 years, 326 days Japan
91 Eliza Underwood 15 March 1866 27 January 1981 114 years, 318 days United States
92 Kahoru Furuya 18 February 1908 25 December 2022 114 years, 310 days Japan
93 Mary Josephine Ray 17 May 1895 7 March 2010 114 years, 294 days United States
94 Goldie Steinberg 30 October 1900 16 August 2015 114 years, 290 days United States
95 Andrée Bertoletto 1 January 1911 16 October 2025 114 years, 288 days France
96 Kiyoko Ishiguro 4 March 1901 5 December 2015 114 years, 276 days Japan
97 Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes 24 October 1890 25 July 2005 114 years, 274 days Portugal
Eudoxie Baboul 1 October 1901 1 July 2016 France (French Guiana)
99 Ramona Trinidad Iglesias Jordan 1 September 1889 29 May 2004 114 years, 271 days Puerto Rico
Yukie Hino 17 April 1902 13 January 2017 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. 1 2 Calment's case was disputed in a Russian study posted online in 2018, and a followup paper published in January 2019, which other researchers have dismissed on the basis of extensive prior research into Calment's life.
  3. ↑ Born in Jamaica, then a British colony.
  4. ↑ Branyas was born in the United States.
  5. 1 2 Some uncertainty remains regarding Delphia Welford's exact date of birth, which during her lifetime was never given as 9 September 1875, and is recorded as “April 1876” in the 1900 census, which would correspond to an age-at-death of 116 years and 198 to 228 days. Her gravestone gives a date of birth of 15 October 1881, corresponding to an age of 111, and that age is also given in her obituary.
  6. ↑ Juniewicz was born in Krupsko near Lviv, then in Austria-Hungary, now in Ukraine.
  7. ↑ May have been older (116 or 117); possibly born in 1881 or 1880.
  8. ↑ Manfredini was born in Italy.
  9. ↑ Gaudette was born in the United States.
  10. ↑ Benegas Gallego was born in Paraguay.
  11. ↑ Holtz was born in the German Empire; her birthplace is now in Poland.
  12. ↑ Bilbao was born in a part of Colombia that is now Panama.
  13. ↑ Gerena Rivera was born in Puerto Rico.
  14. ↑ Ray was born in Canada.
  15. ↑ Steinberg was born in Chișinău, then part of the Russian Empire, now the capital of Moldova.

100 verified oldest men

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

  Deceased   Living

Rank Name Birth date Death date Age Country of death
or residence
1 Jiroemon Kimura 19 April 1897 12 June 2013 116 years, 54 days Japan
2 Christian Mortensen 16 August 1882 25 April 1998 115 years, 252 days United States
3 Emiliano Mercado del Toro 21 August 1891 24 January 2007 115 years, 156 days Puerto Rico
4 Juan Vicente Pérez 27 May 1909 2 April 2024 114 years, 311 days Venezuela
5 Horacio Celi Mendoza 3 January 1897 25 September 2011 114 years, 265 days Peru
6 Walter Breuning 21 September 1896 14 April 2011 114 years, 205 days United States
7 Yukichi Chuganji 23 March 1889 28 September 2003 114 years, 189 days Japan
8 Tomás Pinales Figuereo 31 March 1906 24 September 2020 114 years, 177 days Dominican Republic
9 Joan Riudavets 15 December 1889 5 March 2004 114 years, 81 days Spain
10 João Marinho Neto 5 October 1912 Living 114 years, 37 days Brazil
11 Fred Harold Hale 1 December 1890 19 November 2004 113 years, 354 days United States
12 Israel Kristal 15 September 1903 11 August 2017 113 years, 330 days Israel
13 Efraín Antonio Ríos García 4 April 1910 11 January 2024 113 years, 282 days Colombia
14 Tomoji Tanabe 18 September 1895 19 June 2009 113 years, 274 days Japan
15 John Ingram McMorran 19 June 1889 24 February 2003 113 years, 250 days United States
16 Masazō Nonaka 25 July 1905 20 January 2019 113 years, 179 days Japan
17 Mauro Ambriz Tapia 21 November 1897 18 April 2011 113 years, 148 days Mexico
18 Frederick Frazier 27 January 1880 14 June 1993 113 years, 138 days United States
19 Eusebio Quintero López 6 March 1910 16 July 2023 113 years, 132 days Colombia
20 Donald Butler 21 August 1885 27 December 1998 113 years, 128 days United States
21 James Sisnett 22 February 1900 23 May 2013 113 years, 90 days Barbados
Wenceslao Leyva González 28 September 1903 27 December 2016 Mexico
23 Domingo Villa Avisencio 26 August 1906 3 November 2019 113 years, 69 days Mexico
24 Walter Richardson 7 November 1885 25 December 1998 113 years, 48 days United States
25 Francisco Núñez Olivera 13 December 1904 29 January 2018 113 years, 47 days Spain
26 Henry Allingham 6 June 1896 18 July 2009 113 years, 42 days United Kingdom
27 Ken Weeks 5 October 1913 Living 113 years, 37 days Australia
28 Emilio Flores Márquez 8 August 1908 12 August 2021 113 years, 4 days Puerto Rico
29 Chitetsu Watanabe 5 March 1907 23 February 2020 112 years, 355 days Japan
30 Ilie Ciocan 10 June 1913 27 May 2026 112 years, 351 days Romania
31 Antonio Todde 22 January 1889 3 January 2002 112 years, 346 days Italy
32 Saturnino de la Fuente García 11 February 1909 18 January 2022 112 years, 341 days Spain
33 Moses Hardy 6 January 1894 7 December 2006 112 years, 335 days United States
34 Yasutaro Koide 13 March 1903 19 January 2016 112 years, 312 days Japan
35 John Evans 19 August 1877 10 June 1990 112 years, 295 days United Kingdom
36 Shi Ping 1 November 1911 29 June 2024 112 years, 241 days China
37 Richard Arvin Overton 11 May 1906 27 December 2018 112 years, 230 days United States
38 Delio Venturotti 25 October 1909 1 June 2022 112 years, 219 days Brazil
39 Denzō Ishizaki 2 October 1886 29 April 1999 112 years, 209 days Japan
40 George Francis 6 June 1896 27 December 2008 112 years, 204 days United States
41 James King 15 November 1854 5 June 1967 112 years, 202 days United States
42 Georges Thomas 19 November 1911 1 June 2024 112 years, 195 days France
43 Hikaru Katō 2 May 1914 Living 112 years, 193 days Japan
44 Josino Levino Ferreira 3 April 1913 5 October 2025 112 years, 185 days Brazil
45 Josep Armengol 23 July 1881 20 January 1994 112 years, 181 days Spain
46 Giovanni Frau 29 December 1890 19 June 2003 112 years, 172 days Italy
47 Vitantonio Lovallo 28 March 1914 15 September 2026 112 years, 171 days Italy
48 John Painter 20 September 1888 1 March 2001 112 years, 162 days United States
49 Marcel Meys 12 July 1909 15 December 2021 112 years, 156 days France
50 Masamitsu Yoshida 30 May 1904 29 October 2016 112 years, 152 days Japan
51 Sakari Momoi 5 February 1903 5 July 2015 112 years, 150 days Japan
52 Gisaburō Sonobe 6 November 1911 31 March 2024 112 years, 146 days Japan
53 Efraín Núñez Núñez 28 December 1904 22 May 2017 112 years, 145 days Dominican Republic
54 Alphaeus Philemon Cole 12 July 1876 25 November 1988 112 years, 136 days United States
55 Augusto Moreira 6 October 1896 13 February 2009 112 years, 130 days Portugal
56 João Zanol 13 October 1907 12 February 2020 112 years, 122 days Brazil
57 George Johnson 1 May 1894 30 August 2006 112 years, 121 days United States
Mikizō Ueda 11 May 1910 9 September 2022 Japan
59 Lawrence Brooks 12 September 1909 5 January 2022 112 years, 115 days United States
60 Salustiano Sanchez 8 June 1901 13 September 2013 112 years, 97 days United States
61 Park Fountain Heard 18 May 1882 18 August 1994 112 years, 92 days United States
62 John Tinniswood 26 August 1912 25 November 2024 112 years, 91 days United Kingdom
63 CP Crawford 25 August 1907 23 November 2019 112 years, 90 days United States
64 Jorge Durán Coral 23 April 1909 21 July 2021 112 years, 89 days Mexico
65 Yoshikazu Yamashita 10 April 1907 7 July 2019 112 years, 88 days Japan
66 Gengan Tonaki 30 October 1884 24 January 1997 112 years, 86 days Japan
67 Robert Weighton 29 March 1908 28 May 2020 112 years, 60 days United Kingdom
68 Tadanosuke Hashimoto 27 April 1891 31 May 2003 112 years, 34 days Japan
69 Kumekichi Tani 20 April 1891 12 May 2003 112 years, 22 days Japan
70 Ernest Peronneau 7 March 1902 26 March 2014 112 years, 19 days United States
71 Tokuji Tanigaki 8 November 1914 Living 112 years, 3 days Japan
72 George Feldman 2 December 1906 2 December 2018 112 years, 0 days United States
73 Tsunahei Ogawa 9 January 1907 4 January 2019 111 years, 360 days Japan
74 Arturo Licata 2 May 1902 24 April 2014 111 years, 357 days Italy
75 Stanisław Kowalski 14 April 1910 5 April 2022 111 years, 356 days Poland
76 Silverio Pereira Ayala 11 June 1906 30 May 2018 111 years, 353 days Paraguay
77 Ryōji Shinoda 30 November 1914 Living 111 years, 346 days Japan
78 Julio Saldarriaga Hernández 3 November 1913 10 October 2025 111 years, 341 days Colombia
Primo Olivieri 7 March 1914 11 February 2026 Brazil
80 Walter H. Seward 13 October 1896 14 September 2008 111 years, 337 days United States
81 Francisco Ernesto Filho 5 April 1914 6 March 2026 111 years, 335 days Brazil
82 Kiyotaka Mizuno 14 March 1914 8 February 2026 111 years, 331 days Japan
83 Faustino Vargas Pérez 27 September 1896 20 August 2008 111 years, 328 days Costa Rica
84 Maurice Floquet 25 December 1894 10 November 2006 111 years, 320 days France
85 Valerio Piroddi 13 November 1905 18 September 2017 111 years, 309 days Italy
86 Shigeru Nakamura 11 January 1911 15 November 2022 111 years, 308 days Japan
87 Arthur Nash 7 January 1885 4 November 1996 111 years, 302 days Canada
88 James McCoubrey 13 September 1901 5 July 2013 111 years, 295 days United States
89 Ezra Hill 19 December 1910 4 October 2022 111 years, 289 days United States
90 John Mosley Turner 15 June 1856 21 March 1968 111 years, 280 days United Kingdom
91 Hermann Dörnemann 27 May 1893 2 March 2005 111 years, 279 days Germany
92 Hilario Orozco Lemus 3 November 1913 5 August 2025 111 years, 275 days Mexico
93 Laurence Thompson 23 January 1887 24 October 1998 111 years, 274 days United States
94 Agustín Reyes Ortiz 8 February 1887 6 November 1998 111 years, 271 days Puerto Rico
95 Antonio Urrea Hernandez 18 February 1888 15 November 1999 111 years, 270 days Spain
96 Choki Miyagi 15 November 1904 7 August 2016 111 years, 266 days Japan
97 Reuben Sinclair 5 December 1911 27 August 2023 111 years, 265 days Canada
98 Luis Gonzaga Carrasco-Muñoz
Pérez de la Isla		 13 February 1914 29 October 2025 111 years, 258 days Spain
99 Maurice Le Coutour 12 May 1914 23 January 2026 111 years, 256 days France
100 Arthur Carter 5 October 1889 11 June 2001 111 years, 249 days United States
  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". LongeviQuest subsequently determined Ishizaki was born 18 days earlier than previously believed, based on family records.
  6. ↑ Sanchez was born in Spain.
  7. ↑ Kowalski was born in Rogówek, then part of the Russian Empire, now in Poland.
  8. ↑ Nash was born in the United Kingdom.
  9. ↑ McCoubrey was born in Newfoundland, then a separate British colony, now part of Canada.

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