# The oldest people in history

Jeanne Calment, who died aged 122 in Arles, still holds the record: humanity's oldest women and men whose age has been verified. Almost all of them are women. Whose story impresses you most?

- 8 votes · 25 items
- Sep 16, 2025 · madameinternaute
- https://even.best/en/l/2557/the-oldest-people-in-history

## Top 25

1. **Kane Tanaka** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Japan. 119 years old, died in 2022.
2. **Lucile Randon (sœur André)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — France. Almost 119 years old, died in 2023.
3. **Nabi Tajima** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Japan. 117 years old, the last person born in the 19th century.
4. **Violet Brown** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Jamaica. 117 years old.
5. **Chiyo Miyako** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Japan. 117 years old.
6. **Inah Canabarro Lucas** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Brazil. The Brazilian nun who died in 2025 aged 116.
7. **Maria Giuseppa Robucci** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Italy. 116 years old.
8. **Jeanne Calment** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — France. 122 years and 164 days, the all-time record.
9. **Sarah Knauss** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — United States. 119 years old, died in 1999.
10. **Marie-Louise Meilleur** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Canada. 117 years old.
11. **Maria Branyas** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Spain. 117 years old, died in Catalonia in 2024.
12. **Emma Morano** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Italy. 117 years old, the last person born in the 1800s.
13. **Delphia Welford** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — United States. 117 years old.
14. **Ethel Caterham** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — United Kingdom. The oldest Briton ever verified.
15. **Misao Okawa** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Japan. 117 years old, died in 2015.
16. **María Capovilla** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ecuador. 116 years old.
17. **Susannah Mushatt Jones** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — United States. 116 years old.
18. **Gertrude Weaver** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — United States. 116 years old.
19. **Fusa Tatsumi** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Japan. 116 years old.
20. **Tomiko Itooka** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Japan. 116 years old, died at the end of 2024.
21. **Tane Ikai** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Japan. 116 years old.
22. **Elizabeth Bolden** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — United States. 116 years old.
23. **Besse Cooper** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — United States. 116 years old.
24. **Tekla Juniewicz** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Poland. 116 years old.
25. **Jeanne Bot** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — France. 116 years old.

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