List of the verified oldest people in the World

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List of the verified oldest people in the World. 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 Maria Branyas of Spain, aged 116 years, 341 days. The oldest known living man is Juan Vicente Pérez of Venezuela, aged 114 years, 257 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.

Rank	Name	Birth date	Death date	Age	Place of death or residence
1	Jeanne Calment^[9]	21 February 1875	4 August 1997	122 years, 164 days^[b]	France
2	Kane Tanaka^[7]	2 January 1903	19 April 2022^[10]	119 years, 107 days	Japan
3	Sarah Knauss^[11]	24 September 1880	30 December 1999	119 years, 97 days	United States
4	Lucile Randon^[12]	11 February 1904	17 January 2023^[13]	118 years, 340 days	France
5	Nabi Tajima^[7]	4 August 1900	21 April 2018	117 years, 260 days	Japan
6	Marie-Louise Meilleur^[14]	29 August 1880	16 April 1998	117 years, 230 days	Canada
7	Violet Brown^[7]	10 March 1900	15 September 2017	117 years, 189 days	Jamaica
8	Emma Morano^[7]^[15]	29 November 1899	15 April 2017	117 years, 137 days	Italy
9	Chiyo Miyako^[7]^[16]	2 May 1901	22 July 2018^[17]	117 years, 81 days	Japan
10	Delphia Welford^[6]	9 September 1875	14 November 1992	117 years, 66 days	United States
11	Misao Okawa^[7]	5 March 1898	1 April 2015	117 years, 27 days	Japan
12	Francisca Celsa dos Santos^[7]	21 October 1904	5 October 2021	116 years, 349 days	Brazil
13	María Capovilla^[18]	14 September 1889	27 August 2006	116 years, 347 days	Ecuador
14	Maria Branyas^[5]	4 March 1907	Living	116 years, 341 days	Spain^[c]
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	Fusa Tatsumi^[12]	25 April 1907	12 December 2023^[19]	116 years, 231 days	Japan
18	Antonia da Santa Cruz^[7]	13 June 1905	23 January 2022	116 years, 224 days	Brazil
19	Tane Ikai^[20]	18 January 1879	12 July 1995	116 years, 175 days	Japan
20	Jeanne Bot^[7]	14 January 1905	22 May 2021^[21]	116 years, 128 days	France
21	Elizabeth Bolden^[22]	15 August 1890	11 December 2006	116 years, 118 days	United States
22	Besse Cooper^[23]	26 August 1896	4 December 2012	116 years, 100 days	United States
23	Maria Giuseppa Robucci^[7]	20 March 1903	18 June 2019^[24]	116 years, 90 days	Italy
24	Tekla Juniewicz^[7]	10 June 1906	19 August 2022	116 years, 70 days	Poland^[d]
25	Ana María Vela Rubio^[7]	29 October 1901	15 December 2017	116 years, 47 days	Spain
26	Giuseppina Projetto^[7]	30 May 1902	6 July 2018	116 years, 37 days	Italy
27	Jeralean Talley^[7]	23 May 1899	17 June 2015	116 years, 25 days	United States
28	Edith Ceccarelli^[5]	5 February 1908	Living	116 years, 3 days	United States
29	Shigeyo Nakachi^[7]	1 February 1905	11 January 2021	115 years, 345 days	Japan
30	Maggie Barnes^[25]^[e]	6 March 1882	19 January 1998	115 years, 319 days	United States
31	Tomiko Itooka^[5]	23 May 1908	Living	115 years, 261 days	Japan
32	Dina Manfredini^[8]	4 April 1897	17 December 2012	115 years, 257 days	United States^[f]
33	Shimoe Akiyama^[7]	19 May 1903	29 January 2019	115 years, 255 days	Japan
34	Hester Ford^[7]	15 August 1905	17 April 2021	115 years, 245 days	United States
34	Inah Canabarro Lucas^[5]	8 June 1908	Living	115 years, 245 days	Brazil
36	Charlotte Hughes^[26]	1 August 1877	17 March 1993	115 years, 228 days	United Kingdom
37	Edna Parker^[27]	20 April 1893	26 November 2008	115 years, 220 days	United States
38	Mary Ann Rhodes^[28]	12 August 1882	3 March 1998	115 years, 203 days	Canada
39	Anonymous of Tokyo^[7]	15 March 1900	27 September 2015	115 years, 196 days	Japan
40	Margaret Skeete^[29]	27 October 1878	7 May 1994	115 years, 192 days	United States
41	Bernice Madigan^[7]	24 July 1899	3 January 2015^[30]	115 years, 163 days	United States
42	Gertrude Baines^[31]	6 April 1894	11 September 2009	115 years, 158 days	United States
43	Bettie Wilson^[32]	13 September 1890	13 February 2006	115 years, 153 days	United States
44	Shin Matsushita^[7]	30 March 1904	27 August 2019	115 years, 150 days	Japan
45	Iris Westman^[7]	28 August 1905	3 January 2021^[33]	115 years, 128 days	United States
46	Julie Winnefred Bertrand^[34]	16 September 1891	18 January 2007	115 years, 124 days	Canada
47	Maria de Jesus^[35]	10 September 1893	2 January 2009	115 years, 114 days	Portugal
48	Marie-Josephine Gaudette^[7]	25 March 1902	13 July 2017^[36]	115 years, 110 days	Italy^[g]
49	Susie Gibson^[37]	31 October 1890	16 February 2006	115 years, 108 days	United States
49	Thelma Sutcliffe^[7]	1 October 1906	17 January 2022	115 years, 108 days	United States
51	Edna Kern^[38]	14 October 1900	20 January 2016	115 years, 98 days	United States
52	Casilda Benegas Gallego^[7]	8 April 1907	28 June 2022^[39]	115 years, 81 days	Argentina^[h]
53	Augusta Holtz^[40]	3 August 1871	21 October 1986	115 years, 79 days	United States^[i]
54	Valentine Ligny^[7]	22 October 1906	4 January 2022	115 years, 74 days	France
55	Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper^[41]	29 June 1890	30 August 2005	115 years, 62 days	Netherlands
56	Bessie Hendricks^[12]	7 November 1907	3 January 2023^[42]	115 years, 57 days	United States
57	Mina Kitagawa^[7]	3 November 1905	19 December 2020	115 years, 46 days	Japan
58	Marie Brémont^[43]	25 April 1886	6 June 2001	115 years, 42 days	France
59	Yoshi Otsunari^[7]	17 December 1906	26 January 2022	115 years, 40 days	Japan
60	Maud Farris-Luse^[44]	21 February 1887	18 March 2002^[45]	115 years, 25 days	United States
61	Koto Okubo^[46]	24 December 1897	12 January 2013	115 years, 19 days	Japan
62	Antonia Gerena Rivera^[7]	19 May 1900	2 June 2015	115 years, 14 days	United States^[j]
63	Chiyono Hasegawa^[47]	20 November 1896	2 December 2011	115 years, 12 days	Japan
64	Annie Jennings^[48]	12 November 1884	20 November 1999	115 years, 8 days	United Kingdom
65	Anonymous of Hyōgo^[7]	29 April 1907	30 April 2022	115 years, 1 day	Japan
66	Eva Morris^[49]	8 November 1885	2 November 2000	114 years, 360 days	United Kingdom
67	Kama Chinen^[50]	10 May 1895	2 May 2010	114 years, 357 days	Japan
68	Mary Bidwell^[51]	9 May 1881	25 April 1996^[52]	114 years, 352 days	United States
69	Sofia Rojas^[7]	13 August 1907	30 July 2022	114 years, 351 days	Colombia
70	Maria Gomes Valentim^[53]	9 July 1896	21 June 2011	114 years, 347 days	Brazil
71	Hazel Plummer^[12]	19 June 1908	25 May 2023^[54]	114 years, 340 days	United States
72	Ophelia Burks^[6]	25 October 1903	27 September 2018	114 years, 337 days	United States
73	Kahoru Furuya^[7]	18 February 1908	25 December 2022^[55]	114 years, 310 days	Japan
74	Mary Josephine Ray^[56]	17 May 1895	7 March 2010	114 years, 294 days	United States^[k]
75	Goldie Steinberg^[7]^[57]	30 October 1900	16 August 2015^[58]	114 years, 290 days	United States^[l]
76	Kiyoko Ishiguro^[7]	4 March 1901	5 December 2015	114 years, 276 days	Japan
77	Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes^[8]	24 October 1890	25 July 2005	114 years, 274 days	Portugal
77	Eudoxie Baboul^[7]	1 October 1901	1 July 2016	114 years, 274 days	France (French Guiana)
79	Ramona Trinidad Iglesias Jordan^[59]	1 September 1889	29 May 2004^[60]	114 years, 271 days	Puerto Rico
79	Yukie Hino^[7]	17 April 1902	13 January 2017	114 years, 271 days	Japan
81	Delphine Gibson^[7]	17 August 1903	9 May 2018	114 years, 265 days	United States
82	Eugénie Blanchard^[61]	16 February 1896	4 November 2010	114 years, 261 days	France (Saint Barthélemy)
83	Venere Pizzinato^[8]	23 November 1896	2 August 2011	114 years, 252 days	Italy^[m]
84	Neva Morris^[62]	3 August 1895	6 April 2010	114 years, 246 days	United States
85	Hide Ohira^[8]	15 September 1880	9 May 1995	114 years, 236 days	Japan
86	Blanche Cobb^[7]^[63]	8 September 1900	1 May 2015^[64]	114 years, 235 days	United States
87	Ethel Lang^[7]	27 May 1900	15 January 2015	114 years, 233 days	United Kingdom
88	Mila Mangold^[7]	14 November 1907	2 July 2022^[65]	114 years, 230 days	United States
89	Yone Minagawa^[66]	4 January 1893	13 August 2007	114 years, 221 days	Japan
90	María Antonia Castro^[8]^[67]	10 June 1881	16 January 1996	114 years, 220 days	Spain
91	Myrtle Dorsey^[68]	20 November 1885	25 June 2000^[69]	114 years, 218 days	United States
91	Ura Koyama^[70]	30 August 1890	5 April 2005	114 years, 218 days	Japan
93	Yoshi Baba^[7]	3 June 1907	4 January 2022^[71]	114 years, 215 days	Japan
94	Iso Nakamura^[7]	23 April 1903	23 November 2017	114 years, 214 days	Japan
95	Faustina Sarmiento-Pupo^[7]	15 February 1905	16 September 2019	114 years, 213 days	Cuba
96	Cecile Klein^[7]	15 June 1907	13 January 2022	114 years, 212 days	Canada
97	Anna Eliza Williams^[72]	2 June 1873	27 December 1987	114 years, 208 days	United Kingdom
97	Carrie Lazenby^[73]	9 February 1882	4 September 1996	114 years, 208 days	United States
99	Eleonora Camargo Veiga^[74]	14 August 1901	7 March 2016	114 years, 206 days	Brazil
100	Elizabeth Francis^[5]	25 July 1909	Living	114 years, 198 days	United States

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.

Rank	Name^[a]	Birth date	Death date	Age	Place 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^[b]
3	Emiliano Mercado del Toro	21 August 1891	24 January 2007	115 years, 156 days	Puerto Rico
4	Juan Vicente Pérez^[5]	27 May 1909	Living	114 years, 257 days	Venezuela
5	Walter Breuning	21 September 1896	14 April 2011	114 years, 205 days	United States
6	Yukichi Chuganji	23 March 1889	28 September 2003	114 years, 189 days	Japan
7	Joan Riudavets Moll	15 December 1889	5 March 2004	114 years, 81 days	Spain
8	Fred Harold Hale Sr.	1 December 1890	19 November 2004	113 years, 354 days	United States
9	Israel Kristal^[7]	15 September 1903	11 August 2017	113 years, 330 days	Israel^[c]
10	Efraín Antonio Ríos García^[75]	4 April 1910	11 January 2024^[76]	113 years, 282 days	Colombia
11	Johnson Parks	15 October 1884	17 July 1998	113 years, 275 days	United States
12	Tomoji Tanabe	18 September 1895	19 June 2009	113 years, 274 days	Japan
13	John Ingram McMorran	19 June 1889	24 February 2003	113 years, 250 days	United States
14	Masazō Nonaka^[7]	25 July 1905	20 January 2019	113 years, 179 days	Japan
15	Frederick Frazier	27 January 1880	14 June 1993	113 years, 138 days	United States
16	Eusebio Quintero López^[77]	6 March 1910	16 July 2023^[78]	113 years, 132 days	Colombia
17	James Sisnett	22 February 1900	23 May 2013	113 years, 90 days	Barbados^[d]
17	Wenceslao Leyva González^[79]	28 September 1903	27 December 2016	113 years, 90 days	Mexico
19	Domingo Villa Avisencio^[80]	26 August 1906	3 November 2019	113 years, 69 days	Mexico
20	Walter Richardson	7 November 1885	25 December 1998	113 years, 48 days	United States
21	Francisco Núñez Olivera^[7]	13 December 1904	29 January 2018	113 years, 47 days	Spain
22	Henry Allingham	6 June 1896	18 July 2009	113 years, 42 days	United Kingdom
23	Emilio Flores Márquez^[81]	8 August 1908	12 August 2021^[82]	113 years, 4 days	Puerto Rico
24	Chitetsu Watanabe^[7]^[83]	5 March 1907	23 February 2020	112 years, 355 days	Japan
25	Antonio Todde	22 January 1889	3 January 2002	112 years, 346 days	Italy
26	Saturnino de la Fuente García^[84]	11 February 1909	18 January 2022^[85]	112 years, 341 days	Spain
27	Moses Hardy	6 January 1894	7 December 2006	112 years, 335 days	United States
28	Yasutaro Koide^[7]	13 March 1903	19 January 2016^[86]	112 years, 312 days	Japan
29	John Evans	19 August 1877	10 June 1990	112 years, 295 days	United Kingdom
30	Richard Arvin Overton^[7]	11 May 1906	27 December 2018	112 years, 230 days	United States
31	Delio Venturotti^[87]	25 October 1909	1 June 2022^[88]	112 years, 219 days	Brazil^[e]
32	Denzō Ishizaki^[89]^[f]	2 October 1886	29 April 1999	112 years, 209 days	Japan
33	George Francis	6 June 1896	27 December 2008	112 years, 204 days	United States
34	Josep Armengol	23 July 1881	20 January 1994	112 years, 181 days	Spain
35	Giovanni Frau	29 December 1890	19 June 2003	112 years, 172 days	Italy
36	John Painter	20 September 1888	1 March 2001	112 years, 162 days	United States
37	Marcel Meys^[92]	12 July 1909	15 December 2021	112 years, 156 days	France
38	Masamitsu Yoshida^[7]	30 May 1904	29 October 2016	112 years, 152 days	Japan
39	Sakari Momoi^[7]	5 February 1903	5 July 2015	112 years, 150 days	Japan
40	Alphaeus Philemon Cole	12 July 1876	25 November 1988	112 years, 136 days	United States
41	Augusto Moreira	6 October 1896	13 February 2009	112 years, 130 days	Portugal
42	George Johnson	1 May 1894	30 August 2006	112 years, 121 days	United States
42	Mikizō Ueda^[93]	11 May 1910	9 September 2022^[94]	112 years, 121 days	Japan
44	Lawrence Brooks^[95]	12 September 1909	5 January 2022	112 years, 115 days	United States
45	Salustiano Sanchez	8 June 1901	13 September 2013	112 years, 97 days	United States^[g]
46	Gisaburō Sonobe^[5]	6 November 1911	Living	112 years, 94 days	Japan
47	CP Crawford^[7]	25 August 1907	23 November 2019	112 years, 90 days	United States
48	Jorge Durán Coral^[96]	23 April 1909	21 July 2021	112 years, 89 days	Mexico
49	Yoshikazu Yamashita^[7]	10 April 1907	7 July 2019	112 years, 88 days	Japan
50	Gengan Tonaki	30 October 1884	24 January 1997	112 years, 86 days	Japan
51	Robert Weighton^[7]^[97]	29 March 1908	28 May 2020	112 years, 60 days	United Kingdom
52	Tadanosuke Hashimoto	27 April 1891	31 May 2003	112 years, 34 days	Japan
53	Kumekichi Tani	20 April 1891	12 May 2003	112 years, 22 days	Japan
54	Ernest Peronneau^[98]	7 March 1902	26 March 2014	112 years, 19 days	United States
55	James Wiggins	15 October 1879	16 October 1991	112 years, 1 day	United States
56	George Feldman^[99]	2 December 1906	2 December 2018^[100]	112 years, 0 days	United States
57	Tsunahei Ogawa^[101]	9 January 1907	4 January 2019	111 years, 360 days	Japan
58	Arturo Licata	2 May 1902	24 April 2014	111 years, 357 days	Italy
59	Walter H. Seward	13 October 1896	14 September 2008	111 years, 337 days	United States
60	Maurice Floquet	25 December 1894	10 November 2006	111 years, 320 days	France
61	Valerio Piroddi^[102]	13 November 1905	18 September 2017	111 years, 309 days	Italy
62	Shigeru Nakamura^[103]	11 January 1911	15 November 2022	111 years, 308 days	Japan
63	Arthur Nash^[104]	7 January 1885	4 November 1996	111 years, 302 days	Canada^[h]
64	James McCoubrey	13 September 1901	5 July 2013	111 years, 295 days	United States^[i]
65	Ezra Hill^[105]	19 December 1910	4 October 2022^[106]	111 years, 289 days	United States
66	John Mosley Turner	15 June 1856	21 March 1968	111 years, 280 days	United Kingdom
67	Hermann Dörnemann	27 May 1893	2 March 2005	111 years, 279 days	Germany
68	Antonio Urrea	18 February 1888	15 November 1999	111 years, 270 days	Spain
69	Choki Miyagi^[7]	15 November 1904	7 August 2016	111 years, 266 days	Japan
70	Reuben Sinclair^[107]	5 December 1911	27 August 2023^[108]	111 years, 265 days	Canada
71	Arthur Carter	5 October 1889	11 June 2001	111 years, 249 days	United States
72	Santos Hildebrando Rivas García^[109]	17 August 1911	17 April 2023	111 years, 243 days	El Salvador
73	Jan Machiel Reyskens	11 May 1878	7 January 1990	111 years, 241 days	Netherlands^[j]
74	Tōichi Sasaki^[110]	4 September 1905	20 April 2017	111 years, 228 days	Japan
75	Joe Thomas	1 May 1875	14 December 1986	111 years, 227 days	United States
76	André Boite^[111]	6 December 1910	15 July 2022	111 years, 221 days	France
77	Dumitru Comănescu^[81]	21 November 1908	27 June 2020	111 years, 219 days	Romania
78	André Ludwig^[12]	6 June 1912	7 January 2024^[112]	111 years, 215 days	France
79	James Zackry	15 August 1881	14 March 1993	111 years, 211 days	United States
80	Tanekichi Onishi	15 February 1900	11 September 2011	111 years, 208 days	Japan
81	Kiyoshi Igarashi	2 August 1897	23 February 2009	111 years, 205 days	Japan
81	Lester Townsend^[113]	31 March 1908	22 October 2019^[114]	111 years, 205 days	United States
83	Herman Smith-Johannsen	15 June 1875	5 January 1987	111 years, 204 days	Norway
84	Ernest Pusey	5 May 1895	19 November 2006	111 years, 198 days	United States
85	Albano Andrade^[115]^[116]	14 December 1909	29 June 2021^[117]	111 years, 197 days	Portugal
86	Dexter Kruger^[118]	13 January 1910	20 July 2021	111 years, 188 days	Australia
87	Thomas Nelson Sr.	8 July 1895	9 January 2007	111 years, 185 days	United States
88	Jokichi Ikarashi	26 January 1902	23 July 2013	111 years, 178 days	Japan
89	Earl Brush	17 July 1893	10 January 2005	111 years, 177 days	United States
89	Manuel Benavente Sanhueza^[119]	25 September 1909	21 March 2021	111 years, 177 days	Chile
91	Francisco Juárez Iglesias^[120]	8 May 1911	25 October 2022	111 years, 170 days	Mexico
92	Antonio de Castro	6 January 1898	22 June 2009	111 years, 167 days	Portugal
93	John Tinniswood^[5]	26 August 1912	Living	111 years, 166 days	United Kingdom
94	Sukesaburo Nakanishi	15 March 1896	22 August 2007	111 years, 160 days	Japan
95	Luther Goding	1 July 1884	5 December 1995	111 years, 157 days	United States
96	Jan Pieter Bos	12 July 1891	15 December 2002	111 years, 156 days	Netherlands
97	Émile Fourcade	29 July 1884	29 December 1995	111 years, 153 days	France^[k]
98	Benjamin Harrison Holcomb	3 July 1889	2 December 2000	111 years, 152 days	United States
99	Aarne Arvonen	4 August 1897	1 January 2009	111 years, 150 days	Finland^[l]
99	Melville Williams^[121]	21 February 1910	21 July 2021	111 years, 150 days	Barbados^[d

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