Oldest people
This is a list of tables of the oldest people in the world in ordinal ranks. To avoid including false or unconfirmed claims of old age, names here are restricted to those people whose ages have been validated by an international body dealing in longevity research, such as the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) or "Guinness World Records" (GWR), and others who have otherwise been reliably sourced. The longest verified human lifespan is that of Jeanne Calment of France (1875–1997), a woman who lived to age 122 years and 164 days. She supposedly met Vincent van Gogh when she  was 12 or 13. She received news media attention in 1985, after turning 110. Subsequent investigation found documentation for Calment's age, beyond any reasonable question, in the records of her native city, Arles, France. More evidence of Calment's lifespan has been produced than for any other supercentenarian, such that her case serves as an archetype in the methodology for verifying the ages of the world's known oldest people. As women live longer than men on average, women predominate in combined records. The longest lifespan for a man is that of Jiroemon Kimura of Japan (1897–2013), who lived  to age 116 years and 54 days. The oldest currently living person in the world whose age has been validated is -year-old Lucile Randon of France, born 11 February 1904. The world's oldest known currently living man is -year-old Juan Vicente Pérez Mora of Venezuela, born 27 May 1909. Academics have hypothesized the existence of a number of blue zones around the world where people live longer than average. Ten oldest verified people ever. Systematic verification of longevity has only been practiced in recent decades and only in certain parts of the world. All ten oldest verified  people ever are women. Legend Ten oldest living people. Oldest living people. All of the world's ten oldest known living people are women. Chronological list of the oldest known living person since 1955. This table lists the sequence of the world's oldest known living person from 1955 to present, according to GRG research. Due to the life expectancy difference between sexes, nearly all the oldest living people have been women; a sequence of the oldest living men is provided below the main list. Chronological list of the oldest living man since 1973. This table lists the sequence of  the world's oldest known living men from 1973 to present.