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This is a list of the 100 oldest verified men ever. The oldest living man on the list is Tomoji Tanabe from Japan (age 129 years, 127 days). As of 13:19, Thursday, January 23, 2025 (UTC), there are ten living men on the list. Number one on the list is his countryman Shigechiyo Izumi (1865–1986), who officially lived to the age of 120 years 237 days, but this is disputed. Number two on the list is Danish American Christian Mortensen, who lived to the age of 115 years 252 days, and represents the longest undisputed lifespan for a man.

List

This is a list of the 100 oldest men ever. The list is in descending order and all ages of those that are living are automatically updated.

Rank	Name	Birth	Death	Age	Age in days	Country
1	Shigechiyo Izumi	29 June 1865?	21 February 1986	120? years, 237 days	44,066?	Japan
2	Christian Mortensen	16 August 1882	25 April 1998	115 years, 252 days	42,255	Denmark  United States
3	Emiliano Mercado del Toro	21 August 1891	24 January 2007	115 years, 156 days	42,159	Puerto Rico
4	Mathew Beard	9 July 1870?	16 February 1985	114? years, 222 days	41,860?	United States
5	Yukichi Chuganji	23 March 1889	28 September 2003	114 years, 189 days	41,826	Japan
6	Joan Riudavets	15 December 1889	5 March 2004	114 years, 81 days	41,718	Spain
7	Fred H. Hale, Sr.	1 December 1890	19 November 2004	113 years, 354 days	41,626	United States
8	Moses Hardy	6 January 1893?	7 December 2006	113? years, 335 days	41,607?	United States
9	Johnson Parks	15 October 1884	17 July 1998	113 years, 275 days	41,547	United States
10	John Ingram McMorran	19 June 1889	24 February 2003	113 years, 250 days	41,522	United States
11	Frederick L. Frazier	27 January 1880	14 June 1993	113 years, 138 days	41,411	United States
12	Tomoji Tanabe	18 September 1895	Living	129 years, 127 days	47,244	Japan
13	Walter Richardson	7 November 1885	25 December 1998	113 years, 48 days	41,320	United States
14	Antonio Todde	22 January 1889	3 January 2002	112 years, 346 days	41,253	Italy
15	John Evans	19 August 1877	10 June 1990	112 years, 295 days	41,202	United Kingdom
16	Denzo Ishizaki	20 October 1886	29 April 1999	112 years, 191 days	41,098	Japan
17	Henry Allingham	6 June 1896	Living	128 years, 231 days	46,982	United Kingdom
	George Rene Francis	6 June 1896	Living	128 years, 231 days	46,982	United States
19	Giovanni Frau	29 December 1890	19 June 2003	112 years, 172 days	41,079	Italy
20	John Painter	20 September 1888	1 March 2001	112 years, 162 days	41,069	United States
21	Alphaeus Philemon Cole	12 July 1876	25 November 1988	112 years, 136 days	41,043	United States
22	George Johnson	1 May 1894	30 August 2006	112 years, 121 days	41,028	United States
23	Gengan Tonaki	30 October 1884	24 January 1997	112 years, 86 days	40,993	Japan
24	Walter Breuning	21 September 1896	Living	128 years, 124 days	46,875	United States
25	Augusto Moreira de Oliveira	6 October 1896	Living	128 years, 109 days	46,860	Portugal
26	Yuinosuke Hashimoto	27 April 1891	31 May 2003	112 years, 34 days	40,941	Japan
27	Kumekichi Tani	20 April 1891	12 May 2003	112 years, 22 days	40,929	Japan
28	James Wiggins	15 October 1879	16 October 1991	112 years, 1 day	40,908	United States
29	Thomas Peters	6 April 1745?	26 March 1857	111? years, 354 days	40,896?	Netherlands
30	Walter H. Seward	13 October 1896	14 September 2008	111 years, 337 days	40,878	United States
31	Maurice Floquet	25 December 1894	10 November 2006	111 years, 320 days	40,862	France
32	John Mosely Turner	15 June 1856	21 March 1968	111 years, 280 days	40,821	United Kingdom
33	Hermann Dörnemann	27 May 1893	2 March 2005	111 years, 279 days	40,821	Germany
34	Antonio Urrea-Hernández	16 February 1888	15 November 1999	111 years, 272 days	40,814	Spain
35	Arthur Carter	5 October 1889	11 June 2001	111 years, 249 days	40,791	United States
36	Jan Machiel Reyskens	11 May 1878	7 January 1990	111 years, 241 days	40,783	Belgium
37	Jiroemon Kimura	19 April 1897	Living	127 years, 279 days	46,665	Japan
38	Joe Thomas	1 May 1875	14 December 1986	111 years, 227 days	40,769	United States
39	James Zackry	15 August 1881	14 March 1993	111 years, 211 days	40,753	United States
40	Herman Smith-Johannsen	15 June 1875	5 January 1987	111 years, 204 days	40,746	Norway
41	James Henry Brett, Jr.	25 July 1849?	10 February 1961	111? years, 200 days	40,742?	United States
42	Ernest Pusey	5 May 1895	19 November 2006	111 years, 198 days	40,740	United States
43	Thomas Nelson	8 July 1895	9 January 2007	111 years, 185 days	40,727	United States
44	Earl Brush	17 July 1893	10 January 2005	111 years, 177 days	40,719	United States
45	Sukesaburo Nakanishi	15 March 1896	22 August 2007	111 years, 160 days	40,701	Japan
46	Luther Goding	1 July 1884	5 December 1995	111 years, 157 days	40,698	United States
47	Jan Pieter Bos	12 July 1891	15 December 2002	111 years, 156 days	40,698	Netherlands
48	Emile Fourcade	29 July 1884	29 December 1995	111 years, 153 days	40,694	Algeria  France
49	Benjamin Holcomb	3 July 1889	2 December 2000	111 years, 152 days	40,694	United States
50	George Frederick Ives	17 November 1881	12 April 1993	111 years, 146 days	40,688	United Kingdom  Canada
51	Anders Engberg	1 July 1892	6 November 2003	111 years, 128 days	40,669	Sweden
52	Jack Lockett	22 January 1891	25 May 2002	111 years, 123 days	40,665	Australia
	Kiyoshi Igarashi	2 August 1897	Living	127 years, 174 days	46,560	Japan
54	Aarne Arvonen	4 August 1897	Living	127 years, 172 days	46,558	Finland
55	Henry Hartmann	14 July 1894	10 November 2005	111 years, 119 days	40,661	United States
56	Daniel Guzmán-García	6 February 1897	21 May 2008	111 years, 105 days	40,646	Colombia
57	Sadayoshi Tanabe	20 October 1888	18 January 2000	111 years, 90 days	40,631	Japan
58	Henry Pfeiffer	22 March 1881	23 May 1992	111 years, 62 days	40,604	United States
59	Zachariah Blackistone	16 February 1871	18 April 1982	111 years, 61 days	40,603	United States
60	Antonio Baldo	6 July 1887	28 August 1998	111 years, 53 days	40,595	Italy
61	Edward Bernard	22 June 1889	11 August 2000	111 years, 50 days	40,592	United States
62	Norio Kawada	25 April 1892	6 June 2003	111 years, 42 days	40,583	Japan
63	Kama Nakasone	23 November 1891	1 January 2003	111 years, 39 days	40,581	Japan
64	Peter Solum	3 May 1882	5 June 1993	111 years, 33 days	40,575	United States
65	Domenico Minervino	10 May 1880	21 May 1991	111 years, 11 days	40,552	Italy
66	Nijiro Tokuda	10 June 1895	12 June 2006	111 years, 2 days	40,544	Japan
67	Valentino Stella	2 January 1886	1 January 1997	110 years, 365 days	40,541	Italy
68	Giichi Okumura	18 October 1896	13 October 2007	110 years, 360 days	40,536	Japan
69	Charles Shebanek	9 September 1883	27 August 1994	110 years, 352 days	40,529	United States
70	Antonio Pierro	22 February 1896	8 February 2007	110 years, 351 days	40,528	Italy  United States
71	Eiju Tsuru	4 February 1879	11 January 1990	110 years, 341 days	40,518	Japan
	Gregory Pandazes	15 January 1873	22 December 1983	110 years, 341 days	40,517	Template:Gre  United States
73	Masatake Kinoshita	20 August 1897	17 July 2008	110 years, 332 days	40,508	Japan
74	Linus Reinhart	28 July 1892	14 June 2003	110 years, 321 days	40,497	United States
75	Lloyd Myers	20 March 1892	1 February 2003	110 years, 318 days	40,494	United States
76	Frank Ahmann	11 May 1889	22 March 2000	110 years, 316 days	40,492	United States
77	Leopold Vietoris	4 June 1891	9 April 2002	110 years, 309 days	40,486	Austria
78	Walter Wilcox	1 November 1872	11 August 1983	110 years, 283 days	40,459	United States
79	Galo Leoz-Ortin	22 April 1879	23 January 1990	110 years, 276 days	40,453	Spain
80	Takashi Hattori	12 March 1898	Living	126 years, 317 days	46,338	Japan
81	Henri Pérignon	14 October 1879	18 June 1990	110 years, 247 days	40,424	France
82	Gerald Gilman	30 April 1893	1 January 2004	110 years, 246 days	40,422	United States
83	Alexis Daigneau	4 August 1890	3 April 2001	110 years, 242 days	40,419	France
84	Aurelio Diaz	16 October 1878	13 June 1989	110 years, 240 days	40,417	Spain
85	Alton Gilbert	11 June 1878	21 January 1989	110 years, 224 days	40,401	United States
86	James Nash	31 July 1872	4 March 1983	110 years, 216 days	40,392	United States
87	Bernard Delhom	9 July 1885	7 February 1996	110 years, 213 days	40,389	France
88	Charles Young	28 December 1894	27 July 2005	110 years, 211 days	40,388	United States
89	Friedrich Wedeking	10 October 1862	5 May 1973	110 years, 207 days	40,384	Germany
90	Aimé Avignon	2 February 1897	23 August 2007	110 years, 202 days	40,378	France
91	Arno Wagner	4 June 1894	22 December 2004	110 years, 201 days	40,378	Germany
92	Chiake Nakamura	31 December 1889	7 July 2000	110 years, 189 days	40,365	Japan
93	Olav Hovatn	23 October 1892	26 April 2003	110 years, 185 days	40,361	Norway
94	Vincenzo Izzillo	29 July 1883	23 January 1994	110 years, 178 days	40,355	Italy  United States
95	Lora David Trueblood	7 May 1887	24 October 1997	110 years, 170 days	40,347	United States
96	Harry Patch	17 June 1898	Living	126 years, 220 days	46,241	United Kingdom
97	Joseph Athmann	23 March 1888	2 September 1998	110 years, 163 days	40,339	United States
98	Shozo Otani	5 March 1897	13 August 2007	110 years, 161 days	40,337	Japan
99	Salvatore Fiore	10 September 1888	11 February 1999	110 years, 154 days	40,330	Italy  United States
100	Rufus Clansy	27 March 1885	17 August 1995	110 years, 143 days	40,319	United States

Incomplete Cases

The following cases were once cited by Guinness, or are cited by authorities as having a validated birthdate but not a death date:

Name	Birth	Death	Age	Age in days	Country
Utaro Tamura	5 April 1892	fl. January 2003	110 years, 271+ days	40,447+	Japan
Demetrius Philipovitch	9 March 1818	fl. August 1928	110 years, 150+ days	40,327+	Yugoslavia

See also

• List of the verified oldest people

References

1. ^ Guinness accepted in 1978 the claim that Shigechiyo Izumi was born 29 June 1865, and from the 1980 edition considered him the oldest person. However, subsequent research by some Japanese scholars has cast doubt on his claim, as his birth certificate is believed to refer to that of his older brother who died young and whose name might have been reused as a necronym. There remains continued speculation that he may have only lived to the age of 105.

• Demography
• Lists of people by age
• Lists of supercentenarians