This is a list of the oldest living men worldwide. The current world's oldest validated living man recognised by Guinness World Records (GWR) is unknown after the death of Masazo Nonaka of Japan on 20 January 2019, but Gustav Gerneth of Germany claimed to be the oldest. There is one validated person on this list: Chitetsu Watanabe of Japan is the world’s oldest man (though he has not been recognised by GWR as of yet).
Oldest living men (107+)
Bold indicates that the individual is believed to be the oldest living man of his country.
Validated Unvalidated Under 110
Rank | Name | Birth | Age as of 19 Apr 2024 |
Country |
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1 | Chitetsu Watanabe | 5 Mar 1907 | 117 years, 45 days | JPN |
Joao Zanol | 13 Oct 1907 | 116 years, 188 days | BRA | |
Bob Weighton | 29 Mar 1908 | 116 years, 21 days | UK | |
Olimpio Martins Pires | 24 Aug 1908 | 115 years, 238 days | BRA | |
Dumitru Comanescu | 8 Nov 1908 | 115 years, 162 days | ROU | |
Irving Piken | 20 Dec 1908 | 115 years, 120 days | USA | |
Saturnino de la Fuente Garcia | 8 Feb 1909 | 115 years, 70 days | ESP | |
Moacyr Nunes Barroso | 31 Mar 1909 | 115 years, 19 days | BRA | |
Jules Theobald | 13 Apr 1909 | 115 years, 6 days | MTQ,FRA | |
Jorge Duran Coral | 24 Apr 1909 | 114 years, 360 days | MEX | |
Juan Vicente Perez Mora | 27 May 1909 | 114 years, 327 days | VEN | |
Marcel Meys | 12 July 1909 | 114 years, 281 days | FRA | |
Joaquim Illas | 26 July 1909 | 114 years, 267 days | ESP | |
Issaku Tomoe | 15 Aug 1909 | 114 years, 247 days | JPN | |
Hyppolyte Cadou | 16 Aug 1909 | 114 years, 246 days | MTQ,FRA | |
Giovanni Quarisa | 24 Aug 1909 | 114 years, 238 days | ITA | |
Lawrence Brooks | 12 Sept 1909 | 114 years, 219 days | USA | |
Delio Venturotti | 25 Oct 1909 | 114 years, 176 days | ITA BRA | |
Giovanni La Penna | 29 Oct 1909 | 114 years, 172 days | ITA | |
UR | Albano Andrade ^ | 14 Dec 1909 | 114 years, 126 days | POR |
Philip Sharp | 21 Dec 1909 | 114 years, 119 days | USA | |
Flaviano Jubane | 22 Dec 1909 | 114 years, 118 days | PHL | |
Israel Nunes Oliveira [1] [2] | 4 Jan 1910 | 114 years, 105 days | BRA | |
Dexter Kruger | 13 Jan 1910 | 114 years, 96 days | AUS | |
Melville Williams | 21 Feb 1910 | 114 years, 57 days | BRB | |
Iwakichi Kawabata | 5 Mar 1910 | 114 years, 45 days | JPN | |
Pedro Amaro da Silva [4] | 13 Mar 1910 | 114 years, 37 days | BRA | |
Eusebio Quintero Lopez [5] | 15 Mar 1910 | 114 years, 35 days | COL | |
Melvin Campbell | 22 Mar 1910 | 114 years, 28 days | USA | |
Clarence Glauner | 22 Mar 1910 | 114 years, 28 days | USA | |
Pedro Jesús Linares [6] | 24 Mar 1910 | 114 years, 26 days | VEN | |
Stanislaw Kowalski | 14 Apr 1910 | 114 years, 5 days | POL | |
Anonymous (Tokyo) | Apr 1910 | 113 years, 353 days+ | JPN | |
Mikizo Ueda | 11 May 1910 | 113 years, 343 days | JPN | |
Unknown [7] | 15 May 1910 | 113 years, 339 days | PHL | |
Luis Riveros [8] | 27 June 1910 | 113 years, 296 days | PAR | |
Eelke Bakker [9] | 28 July 1910 | 113 years, 265 days | NED | |
Vincas Sileika [10] | 31 July 1910 | 113 years, 262 days | LTU | |
Lorenzo Achar Valenzuela [11] | 10 Aug 1910 | 113 years, 252 days | PAR | |
Kingo Yumoto | 13 Aug 1910 | 113 years, 249 days | JPN | |
Charles James [12] | 17 Aug 1910 | 113 years, 245 days | JAM | |
Ernst Sass | 5 Sept 1910 | 113 years, 226 days | GER | |
Guillaume Etchegoin | 8 Sept 1910 | 113 years, 223 days | FRA | |
Barney Myers | 13 Sept 1910 | 113 years, 218 days | USA | |
Sadamu Fukuda | 27 Sept 1910 | 113 years, 204 days | JPN | |
Yushiro Sato [13] | 2 Oct 1910 | 113 years, 199 days | JPN | |
Iichiro Tsuchiya | 25 Oct 1910 | 113 years, 176 days | JPN | |
Anonymous | 28 Oct 1910 | 113 years, 173 days | FRA | |
Sizinio Lobo da Silva [14] | 28 Oct 1910 | 113 years, 173 days | BRA | |
Kinsaku Hayashinaka | 15 Nov 1910 | 113 years, 155 days | JPN | |
Lloyd Klement | 16 Nov 1910 | 113 years, 154 days | USA | |
Raimundo Gonçalves [15] | 29 Nov 1910 | 113 years, 141 days | BRA | |
Andre Boite | 6 Dec 1910 | 113 years, 134 days | FRA | |
Raimundo Francisco Lima [16] | 10 Dec 1910 | 113 years, 130 days | BRA | |
Julio Rincon [17] | 24 Dec 1910 | 113 years, 116 days | COL | |
Jessie Winston [18] | 25 Dec 1910 | 113 years, 115 days | USA | |
Kanji Fukuda | 26 Dec 1910 | 113 years, 114 days | JPN | |
Francis Zouein | 1 Jan 1911 | 113 years, 108 days | LBNUSA | |
Manoel Pacheco [19] | 3 Jan 1911 | 113 years, 106 days | BRA | |
Marcelino Sola Traserra | 7 Jan 1911 | 113 years, 102 days | ESP | |
Josef Welter | 19 Jan 1911 | 113 years, 90 days | GER | |
Otilio Porfirio de Lima [20] | 25 Jan 1911 | 113 years, 84 days | BRA | |
Don Fanning | 26 Jan 1911 | 113 years, 83 days | USA | |
Rokuro Hodatsu | 29 Jan 1911 | 113 years, 80 days | JPN | |
Arnold Hawkins | 30 Jan 1911 | 113 years, 79 days | CAN | |
Takeo Takada | Jan 1911 | 113 years, 78 days+ | JPN | |
Anonymous (Oita) | Jan 1911 | 113 years, 78 days+ | JPN | |
John Regan | 15 Feb 1911 | 113 years, 63 days | USA | |
George Rother | 16 Feb 1911 | 113 years, 62 days | TZAUSA | |
Elídio Francisco da Silva [21] | 17 Feb 1911 | 113 years, 61 days | BRA | |
Odo Buratti | 22 Feb 1911 | 113 years, 56 days | ITA | |
Shiro Moriyama | 6 Mar 1911 | 113 years, 44 days | JPN | |
Luis Bayona [22] | 12 Mar 1911 | 113 years, 38 days | COL | |
Kiyoshi Takeuchi | 26 Mar 1911 | 113 years, 24 days | JPN | |
Tetsuo Atarashiya | 27 Mar 1911 | 113 years, 23 days | JPN | |
Anonymous (Okinawa) | Mar 1911 | 113 years, 19 days+ | JPN | |
Chuzo Komatsu | 7 Apr 1911 | 113 years, 12 days | JPN | |
Leon Konkel | 9 Apr 1911 | 113 years, 10 days | POL | |
Fauja Singh | 11 Apr 1911 | 113 years, 8 days | IND UK | |
Arnold Leissler | 21 May 1911 | 112 years, 333 days | GERPOL | |
Katsunori Kishida | 30 May 1911 | 112 years, 324 days | JPN | |
Nicholas Mascitelli [23] | 5 June 1911 | 112 years, 318 days | CAN | |
Warren Patrick | 13 June 1911 | 112 years, 310 days | USA | |
Heinrich Homann | 24 June 1911 | 112 years, 299 days | GER | |
Unidentified | 2 July 1911 | 112 years, 291 days | IRL | |
Bill James | 5 July 1911 | 112 years, 288 days | USA | |
Suekichi Ogasawara | 10 July 1911 | 112 years, 283 days | JPN | |
Francois Rochex | 17 July 1911 | 112 years, 276 days | FRA | |
Ben Raymond | 23 July 1911 | 112 years, 270 days | UK | |
Erich Steffen | 25 July 1911 | 112 years, 268 days | GER | |
Franco Boggio [24] | 5 Aug 1911 | 112 years, 257 days | ITA | |
Hideo Shimizu | 16 Aug 1911 | 112 years, 246 days | JPN | |
Kazuyoshi Kitani | Aug 1911 | 112 years, 231 days+ | JPN | |
Annius Isidore Sonny [25] | 3 Sept 1911 | 112 years, 228 days | LCA | |
Sadayoshi Kanno | 9 Sept 1911 | 112 years, 222 days | JPN | |
Kazuo Iizuka | 17 Sept 1911 | 112 years, 214 days | JPN | |
Ronald Hermanns | 25 Sept 1911 | 112 years, 206 days | CANNZL | |
Benedito [26] | c.Sept 1911 | 112 years, 200 days+ | BRA | |
Anthony Patterson [27] | c.July 1911 | 112 years, 262 days+ | GUYBRA | |
Kazuyoshi Kawasaki | 11 Oct 1911 | 112 years, 190 days | JPN | |
Cliff Kayhart | 14 Oct 1911 | 112 years, 187 days | USA | |
Lucas Palapar [28] | 18 Oct 1911 | 112 years, 183 days | PHL | |
Siegfried Labus | 19 Oct 1911 | 112 years, 182 days | GER | |
Kiyoshi Yoneda | Oct 1911 | 112 years, 170 days+ | JPN | |
Kurt Sturm | 12 Nov 1911 | 107 years, 326 days | GER | |
Yokichi Asano | 18 Nov 1911 | 112 years, 152 days | JPN | |
Kazumasa Noguchi | 19 Nov 1911 | 112 years, 151 days | JPN | |
Valoy Ortiz | 20 Nov 1911 | 112 years, 150 days | URU | |
Josias de Oliveira [29] | 21 Nov 1911 | 112 years, 149 days | BRA | |
Frank Read | 24 Nov 1911 | 112 years, 146 days | USA | |
Harry Fransman [30] | 25 Nov 1911 | 112 years, 145 days | NED UK | |
Robert Marchand [31] | 26 Nov 1911 | 112 years, 144 days | FRA | |
Alberto Andrade [32] | 2 Dec 1911 | 112 years, 138 days | POR | |
Josip Krsul | 10 Dec 1911 | 112 years, 130 days | CRO | |
Henryk Kozubski [33] | 11 Dec 1911 | 112 years, 129 days | POL | |
Edward Helon [34] | 18 Dec 1911 | 112 years, 122 days | POL | |
Wakamatsu Izumiyama | 25 Dec 1911 | 112 years, 115 days | JPN | |
R. Lowell Wood | 26 Dec 1911 | 112 years, 114 days | USA | |
John Amoriell | 31 Dec 1911 | 112 years, 109 days | USA | |
Miyoshi Kuzume | Dec 1911 | 112 years, 109 days+ | JPN | |
Hideo Nakamura | 4 Jan 1912 | 112 years, 105 days | JPN | |
Corsino de Souza Almeida [35] | 6 Jan 1912 | 112 years, 103 days | BRA | |
Bennie Woolam [36] | 12 Jan 1912 | 112 years, 97 days | USA | |
Manichi Kondo | 13 Jan 1912 | 112 years, 96 days | JPN | |
Antonino Turturici [37] | 18 Jan 1912 | 112 years, 91 days | ITA | |
Gaudenzio Nobili [38] | 25 Jan 1912 | 112 years, 84 days | ITA | |
Suekichi Ito | 28 Jan 1912 | 112 years, 81 days | JPN | |
Leon Kaleta [39] | 1 Feb 1912 | 112 years, 77 days | POL | |
Miguel Martinez Valiente | 2 Feb 1912 | 112 years, 76 days | ESP | |
Gerrit Bovendorp [40] | 3 Feb 1912 | 112 years, 75 days | NED | |
Roderick Isaac [41] | 5 Feb 1912 | 112 years, 73 days | TRI | |
Benigno Velazquez [42] | 13 Feb 1912 | 112 years, 65 days | PRI,USA USA | |
Juan Tudela Piernas | 14 Feb 1912 | 112 years, 64 days | ESP | |
Eloff Gyldvig Rasmussen | 15 Feb 1912 | 112 years, 63 days | DEN | |
Bruno Praast | 18 Feb 1912 | 112 years, 60 days | GER | |
Joseph Lloyd | 18 Feb 1912 | 112 years, 60 days | JAMUSA | |
Joe Daniels [43] | 19 Feb 1912 | 112 years, 59 days | UK | |
Philip Corio | 22 Feb 1912 | 112 years, 56 days | USA | |
Masahisa Abe | 23 Feb 1912 | 112 years, 55 days | JPN | |
Vito Vasti [44] | 23 Feb 1912 | 112 years, 55 days | ITA | |
Ioan Lascau | 25 Feb 1912 | 112 years, 53 days | ROU | |
Hans Schornack | 29 Feb 1912 | 112 years, 49 days | GER | |
Mansaku Tsuboi | 2 Mar 1912 | 112 years, 48 days | JPN | |
Jose Martins [45] | 7 Mar 1912 | 112 years, 43 days | POR | |
Jose Antonio de Lima [46] | 10 Mar 1912 | 112 years, 40 days | BRA | |
Alf Johansen | 11 Mar 1912 | 112 years, 39 days | NOR | |
Fernand Muller | 14 Mar 1912 | 112 years, 36 days | FRA | |
Gabriel Saldanha [47] | 18 Mar 1912 | 112 years, 32 days | BRA | |
Bill Frankland | 19 Mar 1912 | 112 years, 31 days | UK | |
Antonio Gaiotto | 24 Mar 1912 | 112 years, 26 days | ITA | |
Anonymous (Shimane) | 3 Apr 1912 | 112 years, 16 days | JPN | |
Wilfried de Beauclair | 4 Apr 1912 | 112 years, 15 days | SUIGER | |
Nedelcho Boikov | 4 Apr 1912 | 112 years, 15 days | GREBUL | |
Jack Reynolds | 6 Apr 1912 | 112 years, 13 days | UK | |
Manuel Ortiz Hontalvilla | 12 Apr 1912 | 112 years, 7 days | ESP | |
Giuseppe Venturi | 13 Apr 1912 | 112 years, 6 days | ITA | |
Anonymous | c.15 Apr 1912 | ≈112 years, 4 days | GER | |
Josef Schuster | 23 Apr 1912 | 111 years, 361 days | GER | |
Noble Brewer | 4 May 1912 | 111 years, 350 days | USA | |
Raymond Monroy | 11 May 1912 | 111 years, 343 days | USA | |
Sylvain Vallee | 17 May 1912 | 111 years, 337 days | BEL | |
Wayne Streeter | 26 May 1912 | 111 years, 328 days | USA | |
Giovanni Vattuone | 26 May 1912 | 111 years, 328 days | ITA | |
Dante Candotti | 28 May 1912 | 111 years, 326 days | ITA | |
Isaac Silva [48] | 3 June 1912 | 111 years, 320 days | URU | |
Andre Ludwig | 6 June 1912 | 111 years, 317 days | FRA | |
Antonio Massarini | 13 June 1912 | 111 years, 310 days | ITA | |
Genezio Dias [49] | 17 June 1912 | 111 years, 306 days | BRA | |
Domenico Loreti | 22 June 1912 | 111 years, 301 days | ITA | |
Camille Le Houx | 25 June 1912 | 111 years, 298 days | FRA | |
Cipriano Reyes [50] | 25 June 1912 | 111 years, 298 days | ARG | |
Antonio Alvarado Largo | 8 July 1912 | 111 years, 285 days | ESP | |
Rafael Mendez Duran [51] | 9 July 1912 | 111 years, 284 days | ARG | |
Masanobu Miyasaki [52] | 13 July 1912 | 111 years, 280 days | USA | |
Alexandru Zamfirescu | 23 July 1912 | 111 years, 270 days | ROU | |
Vaino Loisa | 26 July 1912 | 111 years, 267 days | FIN | |
Anonymous | 30 July 1912 | 111 years, 263 days | FRA | |
Glenn Waters [53] | 30 July 1912 | 111 years, 263 days | USA | |
Takeo Minato | 30 July 1912 | 111 years, 263 days | JPN | |
Shigeichi Ota | 1 Aug 1912 | 111 years, 261 days | JPN | |
Jimmy Sinclair | 18 Aug 1912 | 111 years, 244 days | UK | |
Stefan Ciesla | 18 Aug 1912 | 111 years, 244 days | POL UK | |
Tripolino Giannini | 20 Aug 1912 | 111 years, 242 days | ITA | |
Agostino Gallo | 24 Aug 1912 | 111 years, 238 days | ITA | |
Adriaan Balkhoven | 25 Aug 1912 | 111 years, 237 days | NED | |
Truman Peebles | 26 Aug 1912 | 111 years, 236 days | USA ITA | |
John Tinniswood | 26 Aug 1912 | 111 years, 236 days | UK | |
Masatomo Minamimori | 31 Aug 1912 | 111 years, 231 days | JPN | |
Fernand Gourbeau | 14 Sept 1912 | 111 years, 217 days | FRA | |
Marian Wojewodzki | 16 Sept 1912 | 111 years, 215 days | POL | |
João Osvaldo Ferreira [54] | 16 Sept 1912 | 111 years, 215 days | BRA | |
Tomasz Bogusiewicz | 24 Sept 1912 | 111 years, 207 days | POL | |
August Barberi [55] | 25 Sept 1912 | 111 years, 206 days | USA | |
Ewald Schwarze | 27 Sept 1912 | 111 years, 204 days | GER | |
Ray Green [56] | 4 Oct 1912 | 111 years, 197 days | USA | |
Francesco Parlanti | 8 Oct 1912 | 111 years, 193 days | ITA | |
Francisco Guijarro Roda | 10 Oct 1912 | 111 years, 191 days | ESP | |
Salvatore Nardi | 14 Oct 1912 | 111 years, 187 days | ITA | |
Orla Johansen | 17 Oct 1912 | 111 years, 184 days | DEN | |
Umeo Kataoka | 18 Oct 1912 | 111 years, 183 days | JPN | |
Maurice Butty | 20 Oct 1912 | 111 years, 181 days | SUIFRA | |
Buster Austin [57] | 20 Oct 1912 | 111 years, 185 days | USA | |
Edmund Smielecki | 20 Oct 1912 | 111 years, 181 days | POL | |
Hisao Ikeda | 2 Nov 1912 | 111 years, 168 days | JPN | |
Carlo Bellei | 8 Nov 1912 | 111 years, 162 days | ITA | |
Pierre Bardet | 12 Nov 1912 | 111 years, 158 days | FRA | |
Domenico Fonti | 13 Nov 1912 | 111 years, 157 days | ITA | |
Bunzaburo Uchida | 23 Nov 1912 | 111 years, 147 days | JPN | |
Amos Montanari | 26 Nov 1912 | 111 years, 144 days | ITA | |
Bill Bannister [58] | 29 Nov 1912 | 111 years, 141 days | USA | |
Mordie Rochlin [59] | 5 Dec 1912 | 111 years, 135 days | USA | |
Nicolo German | 10 Dec 1912 | 111 years, 130 days | ITA | |
Marcel Rigolet | 19 Dec 1912 | 111 years, 121 days | FRA | |
John Henderson [60] | 24 Dec 1912 | 111 years, 116 days | USA | |
Noel Cot | 25 Dec 1912 | 111 years, 115 days | FRA | |
Mario Fiolli | 25 Dec 1912 | 111 years, 115 days | ITA USA |
a^ Andrade's age was validated by the Guinness World Records (not as the oldest living man).
Questionable/limbo cases
Living claims that have not been updated for more than two years are in limbo. Limbo Validated Pending --> Unvalidated Supercentenarian Under 110
# | Name | Birth | Age as of 19 Apr 2024 |
Country |
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Plácido Francisco da Silva [61] | 10 Aug 1906? | 117 years, 252 days | BRA | |
Rufino Roadel [62] | 10 Apr 1907? | 117 years, 9 days | PHL | |
José Rodolfo Mojica [63] | 5 Apr 1908 | 116 years, 14 days | NIC | |
Juan Pérez Gabriel [64] | 26 June 1908 ? | 115 years, 297 days | GTM | |
Jose Antonio da Silva [65] | Aug/Sept 1908? | 115 years, 222 days+? | BRA | |
Lorenzo Tejo [66] | 14 Nov 1908? | 115 years, 156 days? | PHL | |
Giannis Zambelis | 1 Dec 1908? | 115 years, 139 days? | GRE | |
Charalampos Tsakaldimis | 25 Dec 1908 | 115 years, 115 days? | GRE | |
Modesto Lopez Bautista | 17 Jan 1909? | 115 years, 92 days? | MEXUSA | |
José Guillermo Mogollón Muñoz [67] | Jan/Jul 1909 | 114 years, 287 days+ | PER | |
Severino Pedro dos Santos [68] | 10 Jul 1909 | 114 years, 283 days | BRA | |
Victor Moran | 29 July 1909 | 114 years, 264 days | ECU | |
Neuton Fermin [69] | c. 2 Aug 1909 | c.114 years, 260 days | DOM | |
Pauline Boulangger Mogollon [70] | 17 Aug 1909 | 114 years, 245 days | PER | |
Antonio Pereira dos Santos [71] | 6 sept 1907/1909 | 114 years, 225 days+ | BRA | |
Shiro Koizumi | Jan/15 Sep 1909 | 114 years, 216 days+ | JPN | |
Juan Suarez Cedeno | 27 Sep 1909 | 114 years, 204 days | CUB | |
Kewal Parsad Bisnauthsing | 10 Oct 1909 | 114 years, 191 days | MRI | |
Alejandro Colcha [72] | 4 Apr 1910 | 114 years, 15 days | ECU | |
Enrique Galeano Moreno [73] | 15 July 1910 | 113 years, 278 days | PAR | |
Seiichiro Horiguchi | 2 Aug 1910 | 113 years, 260 days | JPN | |
Anonymous [74] | 1910/11 | 113 years, 108 days+ | CHL | |
Tomoki Uchida | 25 Mar 1911 | 113 years, 25 days | JPN | |
Shunzuke Tachihara | 13 June 1911 | 112 years, 310 days | JPN | |
Tsutau Sato | 26 Aug 1911 | 112 years, 236 days | JPN | |
Pablo [75] | 9 Oct 1912 | 111 years, 192 days? | ECU | |
Ricardo Corrales [76] | 1912? | 111 years, 139 days? | BOL |
No 110th birthday confirmation
Unvalidated Supercentenarian
# | Name | Birth | Age as of 19 Apr 2024 |
Country |
---|---|---|---|---|
Nihei Miyauchi | ? Mar 1907 | 117 years, 19 days+ | JPN | |
Adolfas Jurevicius [77] | 19 Apr 1907 | 117 years, 0 days | LTU | |
Anonymous (Niigata) | ? Apr 1907 | 116 years, 354 days+ | JPN | |
Anonymous (Niigata) | Mar/15 Sep 1907 | 116 years, 216 days+ | JPN | |
Bob Henry [78] | 29 Dec 1907 | 116 years, 111 days | USA | |
Moises Alexandre dos Santos [79] | 6 Feb 1909 | 115 years, 72 days | BRA | |
Hideo Shio | 20 Sept 1909 | 114 years, 211 days | JPN | |
Shojiro Shirai | 29 Oct 1909 | 114 years, 172 days | JPN | |
Jose Pinto de Sousa [80] | 9 Nov 1909 | 114 years, 161 days | BRA | |
Goro Danjo | 14 Dec 1909 | 114 years, 126 days | JPN | |
Joao Delmar de Souza [81] | 14 Dec 1909 | 114 years, 126 days | BRA |