List of the verified oldest people
This is a list of the world's verified oldest people, verified to the standards of the Gerontology Research Group, Guinness World Records, or both. Entries are ranked in descending order by individual ages in years and days, rather than ages in total days (the calendar year used is the time between one date and the subsequent date in a following year regardless of year lengths). A verified supercentenarian is a person whose reported age of 110 or more is supported by at least three documents, submitted in a standard process and validated in reliable fashion, by an international body widely recognized for specific expertise in longevity research.
The oldest verified person ever was French woman Jeanne Calment, who died at the age of 122 years, 164 days. For other validated supercentenarian cases listed below, the GRG list of validated supercentenarian cases can be used.[1] There are nine verified living supercentenarians on this list, the oldest of whom is Japanese woman Misao Okawa, aged 126 years, 155 days.
100 verified oldest people
Deceased Living
| Rank | Name | Sex | Birth date | Death date | Age (as of 7 August 2024) |
Place of death or residence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jeanne Calment | F | 21 February 1875 | 4 August 1997 | 122 years, 164 days | France |
| 2 | Sarah Knauss | F | 24 September 1880 | 30 December 1999 | 119 years, 97 days | United States |
| 3 | Lucy Hannah | F | 16 July 1875 | 21 March 1993 | 117 years, 248 days | United States |
| 4 | Marie-Louise Meilleur | F | 29 August 1880 | 16 April 1998 | 117 years, 230 days | Canada |
| 5 | María Capovilla | F | 14 September 1889 | 27 August 2006 | 116 years, 347 days | Ecuador |
| 6 | Misao Okawa[2] | F | 5 March 1898 | Living[2] | 126 years, 155 days | Japan |
| 7 | Tane Ikai | F | 18 January 1879 | 12 July 1995 | 116 years, 175 days | Japan |
| 8 | Elizabeth Bolden | F | 15 August 1890 | 11 December 2006 | 116 years, 118 days | United States |
| 9 | Besse Cooper | F | 26 August 1896 | 4 December 2012 | 116 years, 100 days | United States |
| 10 | Gertrude Weaver[2] | F | 4 July 1898 | Living[2] | 126 years, 34 days | United States |
| 11 | Jiroemon Kimura | M | 19 April 1897 | 12 June 2013 | 116 years, 54 days | Japan |
| 12 | Maggie Barnes | F | 6 March 1882 | 19 January 1998 | 115 years, 319 days | United States |
| 13 | Dina Manfredini | F | 4 April 1897 | 17 December 2012 | 115 years, 257 days | United States[a] |
| 14 | Christian Mortensen | M | 16 August 1882 | 25 April 1998 | 115 years, 252 days | United States[b] |
| 15 | Charlotte Hughes | F | 1 August 1877 | 17 March 1993 | 115 years, 228 days | United Kingdom |
| 16 | Edna Parker | F | 20 April 1893 | 26 November 2008 | 115 years, 220 days | United States |
| 17 | Mary Ann Rhodes | F | 12 August 1882 | 3 March 1998 | 115 years, 203 days | Canada |
| 18 | Margaret Skeete | F | 27 October 1878 | 7 May 1994 | 115 years, 192 days | United States |
| 19 | Gertrude Baines | F | 6 April 1894 | 11 September 2009 | 115 years, 158 days | United States |
| 20 | Emiliano Mercado del Toro | M | 21 August 1891 | 24 January 2007 | 115 years, 156 days | Puerto Rico |
| 21 | Bettie Wilson | F | 13 September 1890 | 13 February 2006 | 115 years, 153 days | United States |
| 22 | Julie Winnefred Bertrand | F | 16 September 1891 | 18 January 2007 | 115 years, 124 days | Canada |
| 23 | Maria de Jesus | F | 10 September 1893 | 2 January 2009 | 115 years, 114 days | Portugal |
| 24 | Susie Gibson | F | 31 October 1890 | 16 February 2006 | 115 years, 108 days | United States |
| 25 | Jeralean Talley[2] | F | 23 May 1899 | Living[2] | 125 years, 76 days | United States |
| 26 | Augusta Holtz | F | 3 August 1871 | 21 October 1986 | 115 years, 79 days | United States[c] |
| 27 | Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper | F | 29 June 1890 | 30 August 2005 | 115 years, 62 days | Netherlands |
| 28 | Susannah Mushatt Jones[2] | F | 6 July 1899 | Living[2] | 125 years, 32 days | United States |
| 29 | Maude Farris-Luse | F | 21 January 1887 | 18 March 2002 | 115 years, 56 days | United States |
| 30 | Marie Brémont | F | 25 April 1886 | 6 June 2001 | 115 years, 42 days | France |
| 31 | Bernice Madigan[2] | F | 24 July 1899 | Living[2] | 125 years, 14 days | United States |
| 32 | Koto Okubo | F | 24 December 1897 | 12 January 2013 | 115 years, 19 days | Japan |
| 33 | Chiyono Hasegawa | F | 20 November 1896 | 2 December 2011 | 115 years, 12 days | Japan |
| 34 | Annie Jennings | F | 12 November 1884 | 20 November 1999 | 115 years, 8 days | United Kingdom |
| 35 | Eva Morris | F | 8 November 1885 | 2 November 2000 | 114 years, 360 days | United Kingdom |
| 36 | Kama Chinen | F | 10 May 1895 | 2 May 2010 | 114 years, 357 days | Japan |
| 37 | Maria Gomes Valentim | F | 9 July 1896 | 21 June 2011 | 114 years, 347 days | Brazil |
| 38 | Mary Bidwell | F | 19 May 1881 | 25 April 1996 | 114 years, 342 days | United States |
| 39 | Mary Josephine Ray | F | 17 May 1895 | 7 March 2010 | 114 years, 294 days | United States[d] |
| 40 | Emma Morano-Martinuzzi[2] | F | 29 November 1899 | Living[2] | 124 years, 252 days | Italy |
| 41 | Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes | F | 24 October 1890 | 25 July 2005 | 114 years, 274 days | Portugal |
| 42 | Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan | F | 31 August 1889 | 29 May 2004 | 114 years, 272 days | Puerto Rico |
| 43 | Eugénie Blanchard | F | 16 February 1896 | 4 November 2010 | 114 years, 261 days | France |
| 44 | Venere Pizzinato-Papo | F | 23 November 1896 | 2 August 2011 | 114 years, 252 days | Italy[e] |
| 45 | Neva Morris | F | 3 August 1895 | 6 April 2010 | 114 years, 246 days | United States |
| 46 | Hide Ohira | F | 15 September 1880 | 9 May 1995 | 114 years, 236 days | Japan |
| 47 | Mathew Beard | M | 9 July 1870 | 16 February 1985 | 114 years, 222 days | United States |
| 48 | Yone Minagawa | F | 4 January 1893 | 13 August 2007 | 114 years, 221 days | Japan |
| 49 | María Antonia Castro | F | 10 June 1881 | 16 January 1996 | 114 years, 220 days | Spain |
| 50 | Carrie Lazenby | F | 9 February 1882 | 14 September 1996 | 114 years, 218 days | United States |
| Ura Koyama | F | 30 August 1890 | 5 April 2005 | 114 years, 218 days | Japan | |
| 52 | Myrtle Dorsey | F | 22 November 1885 | 25 June 2000 | 114 years, 216 days | United States |
| 53 | Anna Eliza Williams | F | 2 June 1873 | 27 December 1987 | 114 years, 208 days | United Kingdom |
| 54 | Walter Breuning | M | 21 September 1896 | 14 April 2011 | 114 years, 205 days | United States |
| 55 | Eunice Sanborn | F | 20 July 1896 | 31 January 2011 | 114 years, 195 days | United States |
| 56 | Grace Clawson | F | 15 November 1887 | 28 May 2002 | 114 years, 194 days | United States[f] |
| 57 | Tase Matsunaga | F | 11 May 1884 | 18 November 1998 | 114 years, 191 days | Japan |
| 58 | Yukichi Chuganji | M | 23 March 1889 | 28 September 2003 | 114 years, 189 days | Japan |
| 59 | Kame Nakamura | F | 8 March 1898 | 12 September 2012 | 114 years, 188 days | Japan |
| 60 | Lydie Vellard | F | 18 March 1875 | 17 September 1989 | 114 years, 183 days | France |
| Wilhelmina Kott | F | 7 March 1880 | 6 September 1994 | 114 years, 183 days | United States | |
| Adelina Domingues | F | 19 February 1888 | 21 August 2002 | 114 years, 183 days | United States[g] | |
| 63 | Mitoyo Kawate | F | 15 May 1889 | 13 November 2003 | 114 years, 182 days | Japan |
| 64 | Charlotte Benkner | F | 16 November 1889 | 14 May 2004 | 114 years, 180 days | United States[h] |
| Camille Loiseau | F | 13 February 1892 | 12 August 2006 | 114 years, 180 days | France | |
| 66 | Anne Primout | F | 5 October 1890 | 26 March 2005 | 114 years, 172 days | France[i] |
| 67 | Ettie Mae Greene | F | 8 September 1877 | 26 February 1992 | 114 years, 171 days | United States |
| 68 | Irene Frank | F | 1 October 1881 | 28 February 1996 | 114 years, 150 days | United States |
| 69 | Christina Cock | F | 25 December 1887 | 22 May 2002 | 114 years, 148 days | Australia |
| 70 | Olivia Patricia Thomas | F | 29 June 1895 | 16 November 2009 | 114 years, 140 days | United States |
| 71 | Anna Henderson | F | 5 March 1900 | 1 July 2014 | 114 years, 118 days | United States |
| 72 | Emma Verona Johnston | F | 6 August 1890 | 1 December 2004 | 114 years, 117 days | United States |
| Mamie Rearden | F | 7 September 1898 | 2 January 2013 | 114 years, 117 days | United States | |
| 74 | Bettie Chatmon | F | 30 April 1884 | 16 August 1998 | 114 years, 108 days | United States |
| 75 | Odie Matthews | F | 28 December 1878 | 14 April 1993 | 114 years, 107 days | United States |
| 76 | Antonia Gerena Rivera[2] | F | 19 May 1900 | Living[2] | 124 years, 80 days | United States[j] |
| 77 | Chiyo Shiraishi | F | 6 August 1895 | 19 November 2009 | 114 years, 105 days | Japan |
| 78 | Ethel Lang[2] | F | 27 May 1900 | Living[2] | 124 years, 72 days | United Kingdom |
| 79 | Asa Takii | F | 28 April 1884 | 31 July 1998 | 114 years, 94 days | Japan |
| 80 | Florence Knapp | F | 10 October 1873 | 11 January 1988 | 114 years, 93 days | United States |
| Elena Slough | F | 4 July 1889 | 5 October 2003 | 114 years, 93 days | United States | |
| 82 | Lucy Jane Askew | F | 8 September 1883 | 9 December 1997 | 114 years, 92 days | United Kingdom |
| Mary Anna Boone | F | 10 February 1887 | 13 May 2001 | 114 years, 92 days | United States | |
| 84 | María del Carmen López | F | 3 April 1883 | 3 July 1997 | 114 years, 91 days | Spain |
| 85 | Waka Shirahama | F | 23 March 1878 | 16 June 1992 | 114 years, 85 days | Japan |
| Delma Kollar | F | 31 October 1897 | 24 January 2012 | 114 years, 85 days | United States | |
| 87 | Joan Riudavets | M | 15 December 1889 | 5 March 2004 | 114 years, 81 days | Spain |
| 88 | Suekiku Miyanaga | F | 7 April 1884 | 20 June 1998 | 114 years, 74 days | Japan |
| 89 | Shige Hirooka | F | 16 January 1897 | 29 March 2011 | 114 years, 72 days | Japan |
| 90 | Maggie Renfro | F | 14 November 1895 | 22 January 2010 | 114 years, 69 days | United States |
| 91 | Emma Tillman | F | 22 November 1892 | 28 January 2007 | 114 years, 67 days | United States |
| 92 | Leila Denmark | F | 1 February 1898 | 1 April 2012 | 114 years, 60 days | United States |
| 93 | Naomi Conner | F | 30 August 1899 | 18 October 2013 | 114 years, 49 days | United States |
| 94 | Florrie Baldwin | F | 31 March 1896 | 8 May 2010 | 114 years, 38 days | United Kingdom |
| 95 | Nabi Tajima[2] | F | 4 August 1900 | Living[2] | 124 years, 3 days | Japan |
| 96 | Amy Hulmes | F | 5 October 1887 | 27 October 2001 | 114 years, 22 days | United Kingdom |
| 97 | Grace Thaxton | F | 18 June 1891 | 6 July 2005 | 114 years, 18 days | United States |
| 98 | Soledad Mexia | F | 13 August 1899 | 30 August 2013 | 114 years, 17 days | United States[k] |
| 99 | Minnie Ward | F | 19 November 1885 | 2 December 1999 | 114 years, 13 days | United States |
| 100 | Arbella Ewing | F | 13 March 1894 | 22 March 2008 | 114 years, 9 days | United States |
a^ Manfredini was born in Italy.
b^ Mortensen was born in Denmark.
c^ Holtz was born in the German Empire; her birthplace is now in Poland.
d^ Ray was born in Canada.
e^ Pizzinato-Papo was born in Ala, which was then part of Austria-Hungary; it is now located in Italy.
f^ Clawson was born in the United Kingdom.
g^ Domingues was born in Cape Verde, at that time a colony of Portugal.
h^ Benkner was born in Germany.
i^ Primout was born in French Algeria; it is now Algeria.
j^ Gerena was born in Puerto Rico.
k^ Mexia was born in Mexico.