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List of oldest fathers

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This is a list of people reported to have fathered a child at or after 75 years of age. Most of these have not necessarily been verified.

Medical considerations

According to a 1969 study,[1] there is a decrease in sperm concentration as men age. The study reported that 90% of seminiferous tubules in men in their 20s and 30s contained spermatids, whereas men in their 40s and 50s had spermatids in 50% of their seminiferous tubules. In the study, only 10% of seminiferous tubules from men aged > 80 years contained spermatids.[2] In a random international sample of 11,548 men confirmed to be biological fathers by DNA paternity testing, the oldest father was found to be 66 years old at the birth of his child; the ratio of DNA-confirmed versus DNA-rejected paternity tests around that age is in agreement with the notion of general male infertility greater than age 65–66.[3][4]

List of claims

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Date Name Age Country Notes and citation(s)
January 1951 James E. Smith 101 years United States Smith's age was disputed. He claimed to have been born in 1849[5] or even March 16, 1848,[6] but other records suggested he may have been 15 years younger.[7][5] He supposedly also had twins in 1948, when he was 99.[5]
1948 99 years
October 5, 2012 Ramjit Raghav 96 years India Raghav claimed to have become the world's oldest father at the age of 94 when his first child was born in 2010.[8] He claimed to have broken his own record in 2012 by having a son at 96.[9]
2010 94 years
July 1992 Les Colley 92 years Australia [10][11]
February 2017 Mahmoud Adam 92 years Palestine [12]
1978 or 1979 Zvonimir Rogoz 91 or 92 years Croatia [13]
July 26, 2006 Julio Iglesias Sr. 91 years Spain Posthumous birth[14] Ruth Iglesias, his fourth child and only daughter, was born 7 months after her father died and the day after what would have been his 91st birthday. He was also the father of Julio Iglesias and grandfather of Enrique Iglesias, both singers.
July 1, 2020 Bernie Ecclestone 89 years United Kingdom Ecclestone is the former head of Formula One motor racing. He previously had daughters in 1955, 1984, and 1988; his younger two daughters, Tamara and Petra respectively, are both socialites. His youngest child, Ace, is his only son.[15]
May 28, 2010 Armais Nazarov 89 years Russia [16]
October 1988 Jimmie C. Jones 88 years United States Jimmie became the father of his fifth child, Roger, in the month of October 1988. Jimmie was 88 years old when his last child was born.[17]
March 10, 2024 Tzvi Kushelevsky 88 years Israel [18][19]
December 23, 1921 Husein-beg Čengić-Zulfikarpašić 87 years Bosnia and Herzegovina Father of vice president of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Adil Zulfikarpašić, Čengić-Zulfikarpašić was the mayor of Foča for 25 years after the Austrian-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878,[20] a landowner, an intellectual, the son of Ali-beg Čengić and a grandson of Zulfikar Pasha Čengić. Husein died in 1936 aged 102 or 104 years when Adil was 15. [21]
27 May 1886 William Price 86 years United Kingdom [22]
c. 1884 84 years
c. 1883 83 years
1933 Mose Triplett 86 years United States Father of Irene Triplett, the last surviving recipient of an American Civil War pension.[23]
January 9, 1930 83 years
January 31, 2002 Ernest Lehman 86 years United States [24]
July 23, 2016 Kostas Voutsas 85 years Greece [25]
August 1, 2013 Edwin Edwards 85 years United States [26]
December 23, 1999 Saul Bellow 84 years United States [27]
1999 or 2000 Major McDonald 84 years United States [28]
October 30, 2023 Jack White 83 years Germany Jack White was the artist name of Horst Nussbaum. He was a German music producer with worldwide hits such as "Gloria" and "Self Control" by Laura Branigan.[29]
2017 Itzhak Fintzi 83 years Bulgaria Matilda is the second child of actor Itzhak Fintzi, first with director Lisa Boeva.[30]
June 22, 2018 Horst Paulmann 83 years Chile [31]
June 15, 2023 Al Pacino 83 years United States American actor and filmmaker.[32]
September 17, 2019 Sitarama Rajarao 82 years India His wife Erramatti herself holds the record of oldest mother to ever give birth to a child.[33]
September 16, 2021 Alberto Cormillot 82 years Argentina
April 28, 2016 Pehr G. Gyllenhammar 81 years Sweden [34]
July 5, 1996 Anthony Quinn 81 years United States [35]
April 2000 James Doohan 80 years United States [36][37]
December 16, 1885 Ferdinand de Lesseps 80 years France [38]
c. 1996 Michael Young 80 years United Kingdom Gaia Young suddenly died in 2021 at the age of 25.[39][40]
May 11, 2024 Horst-Dieter Esch 80 years Mexico [41]
August 20, 1904 Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet 80 years United Kingdom [42]
August 2014 Endre Czeizel 79 years Hungary [43]
May 9, 2023 Robert De Niro 79 years United States [44]
April 19? 2016 Mohinder Singh Gill 79 years India [45]
2019 Emmanuil Vitorgan 79 years Russia [46]
June 15, 1998 Tony Randall 78 years United States [47][48]
April 1997 77 years
2010 Albert Corscaden 78 years Ireland [49]
2004 Mark Taimanov 78 years Russia Had twins.[50]
2025 Eduardo Costantini 78 years Argentina [51]
June 12, 1999 Stanley Ho 77 years Macau [52][53]
1998 Luiz Da Costa Silva 77 years Brazil [54]
June 27, 2008 Charan Singh Panwar 77 years India Had twins.[55]
November 23, 2009 Ning Jianyou 77 years China [56]
April 19, 2020 Noah Adenuga 77 years Nigeria Had twins after four IVF attempts.[57]
January 1931 Lyon Tyler 77 years United States Lyon's second son Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928. Lyon was the son of US President John Tyler. His last son, Henry Tyler, was born in January 1931 when he was 77, but the boy died at more than a week old. [58]
1928 75 years
2010 Barry Stephenson 76 years United Kingdom [59]
December 2009 Dennis Ealam 76 years United Kingdom [60]
2010 Vidas Antonovas 76 years Lithuania [61]
1870 Randall Fish 75 years United States Father of Albert Fish.
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