# List of oldest fathers

This is a list of people reported to have fathered a child at or after 75 years of age. These claims 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

| 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 or even March 16, 1848, but other records suggested he may have been 15 years younger. They supposedly also had twins in 1948, when he was 99. |
| October 5, 2012 | Ramjit Raghav | 96 years | India | Raghav 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 1992 | Les Colley | 92 years | Australia | |
| February 2017 | Mahmoud Adam | 92 years | Palestine | |
| 1978 or 1979 | Zvonimir Rogoz | 91 or 92 years | Croatia | |
| July 26, 2006 | Julio Iglesias Sr. | 90 years | Spain | Posthumous birth |
| 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 youngest child, Ace, is his first son. |
| May 28, 2010 | Armais Nazarov | 89 years | Russia | |
| 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. |
| March 10, 2024 | Tzvi Kushelevsky | 88 years | Israel | |
| 1933 | Mose Triplett | 86 years | United States | Father of Irene Triplett, the last surviving recipient of an American Civil War pension |
| January 31, 2002 | Ernest Lehman | 86 years | United States | |
| July 23, 2016 | Kostas Voutsas | 85 years | Greece | |
| August 1, 2013 | Edwin Edwards | 85 years | United States | |
| December 23, 1999 | Saul Bellow | 84 years | United States | |
| October 30, 2023 | Jack White | 83 years | Germany | Jack White is the artist name of Horst Nussbaum. He is a German music producer with worldwide hits such as Gloria and Self Control by Laura Branigan. |
| 2017 | Itzhak Fintzi | 83 years | Bulgaria | Matilda is the second child of actor Itzhak Fintzi, first with director Lisa Boeva. |
| June 22, 2018 | Horst Paulmann | 83 years | Chile | |
| June 15, 2023 | Al Pacino | 83 years | United States | Al Pacino is an American actor and filmmaker renowned for his powerful performances in films like The Godfather, Scarface, and Scent of a Woman. |
| 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. |
| September 16, 2021 | Alberto Cormillot | 82 years | Argentina | |
| April 28, 2016 | Pehr G. Gyllenhammar | 81 years | Sweden | |
| July 5, 1996 | Anthony Quinn | 81 years | United States | |
| April 2000 | James Doohan | 80 years | United States | |
| December 16, 1885 | Ferdinand de Lesseps | 80 years | France | |
| c. 1996 | Michael Young | 80 years | United Kingdom | |
| May 11, 2024 | Horst-Dieter Esch | 80 years | Mexico | |
| August 20, 1904 | Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet | 80 years | United Kingdom | |
| May 9, 2023 | Robert De Niro | 79 years | United States | |
| April 19? 2016 | Mohinder Singh Gill | 79 years | India | |
| 2019 | Emmanuil Vitorgan | 79 years | Russia | |
| June 15, 1998 | Tony Randall | 78 years | United States | The couple also had a child in April 1997, when he was 77. |
| 2010 | Albert Corscaden | 78 years | Ireland | |
| 2004 | Mark Taimanov | 78 years | Russia | Had twins. |
| June 12, 1999 | Stanley Ho | 77 years | Macau | |
| 1998 | Luiz Da Costa Silva | 77 years | Brazil | |
| June 27, 2008 | Charan Singh Panwar | 77 years | India | Had twins. |
| November 23, 2009 | Ning Jianyou | 77 years | China | |
| April 19, 2020 | Noah Adenuga | 77 years | Nigeria | Had twins after four IVF attempts. |
| 2010 | Barry Stephenson | 76 years | United Kingdom | |
| December 2009 | Dennis Ealam | 76 years | United Kingdom | |
| 2010 | Vidas Antonovas | 76 years | Lithuania | |
| 1928 | Lyon Tyler | 75 years | United States | Lyon's second son Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928. Lyon was the son of US President John Tyler. |