List of oldest fathers


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, 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. 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.

List of claims

DateNameAgeCountryNotes and citation
January 1951101 yearsUnited StatesSmith's age was disputed. He claimed to have been born in 1849 or even March 16, 1848, but other records suggested he may have been 15 years younger. He supposedly also had twins in 1948, when he was 99.
October 5, 201296 yearsIndiaRaghav became the world's oldest father at the age of 94 when his first child was born in 2010. He broke his own record in 2012 when, at the age of 96, he had another son.
July 199292 yearsAustralia
February 201792 yearsPalestine
1978 or 197991 or 92 yearsCroatia
July 26, 200691 yearsSpainPosthumous birth Ruth Iglesias, his fourth child, and only daughter, was born on July 26, 2006, 7 months after her father died, and the day after what would have been his 91st birthday.
July 1, 202089 yearsUnited KingdomEcclestone is the former head of Formula One motor racing; he previously had daughters in 1955, 1984, and 1988. His youngest child, Ace, is his first son.
May 28, 201089 yearsRussia
October 198888 yearsUnited StatesJimmie 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.
March 10, 2024Tzvi Kushelevsky88 yearsIsrael
27 May 1886William Price86 yearsUnited KingdomAlso fathered children when he was aged 83 and 84
1933Mose Triplett86 yearsUnited StatesFather of Irene Triplett, the last surviving recipient of an American Civil War pension
January 31, 2002Ernest Lehman86 yearsUnited States
July 23, 2016Kostas Voutsas85 yearsGreece
August 1, 2013Edwin Edwards85 yearsUnited States
December 23, 199984 yearsUnited States
1999 or 2000Major McDonald84 yearsUnited States
October 30, 2023Jack White83 yearsGermanyJack 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.
201783 yearsBulgariaMatilda is the second child of actor Itzhak Fintzi, first with director Lisa Boeva.
June 22, 201883 yearsChile
June 15, 202383 yearsUnited StatesAmerican actor and filmmaker.
September 17, 201982 yearsIndiaHis wife Erramatti herself holds the record of oldest mother to ever give birth to a child.
September 16, 2021Alberto Cormillot82 yearsArgentina
April 28, 201681 yearsSweden
July 5, 199681 yearsUnited States
April 200080 yearsUnited States
December 16, 188580 yearsFrance
80 yearsUnited Kingdom
May 11, 2024Horst-Dieter Esch80 yearsMexico
August 20, 190480 yearsUnited Kingdom
May 9, 202379 yearsUnited States
April 19? 201679 yearsIndia
201979 yearsRussia
June 15, 199878 yearsUnited StatesThe couple also had a child in April 1997, when he was 77.
201078 yearsIreland
200478 yearsRussiaHad twins.
June 12, 1999Stanley Ho77 yearsMacau
199877 yearsBrazil
June 27, 200877 yearsIndiaHad twins.
November 23, 200977 yearsChina
April 19, 202077 yearsNigeriaHad twins after four IVF attempts.
201076 yearsUnited Kingdom
December 200976 yearsUnited Kingdom
201076 yearsLithuania
1928 and January 193175–77 yearsUnited StatesLyon'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.
187075 yearsUnited StatesFather of Albert Fish