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This is a list of the oldest people by country and in selected territories. It includes the individual(s) for each given country or territory who are reported to have had the longest lifespan. Such records can only be determined to the extent that the given country's records are reliable.
Martin Bryant, perpetrator of the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre; Alec Campbell, longest surviving war veteran from the Battle of Gallipoli; George Clarke, University of Tasmania's first vice-chancellor May 1890 to May 1898, and chancellor from May 1898 to May 1907
The 100 oldest women have, on average, lived several years longer than the 100 oldest men. 100 verified oldest women The list includes supercentenarians validated by organisations specialising in extreme age verification such as the Gerontology Research Group (GRG), [ 5 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] with, in some cases, press coverage as a supplementary source.
World War II battalion commander, Holocaust liberator and oldest living West Point graduate [27] Gerd Göran F: January 5, 1919: 106 years, 13 days: Swedish: Artist [28] Maj-Britt Håkansson F: March 29, 1919: 105 years, 295 days: Swedish: Actress [29] Hsu Li-nung: M: April 4, 1919: 105 years, 289 days: Taiwanese: General [30] Caren Marsh Doll ...
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 or Guinness World Records , and others ...
Tasmanian Aboriginal mythology also records in their oral history that the first men emigrated by land from a far-off country and the land was subsequently flooded – an echo of the Tasmanian people's migration from mainland Australia to (then) peninsular Tasmania, and the submergence of the land bridge after the last ice age.
Inah Canabarro Lucas (born 8 June 1908) of Brazil is the world's oldest living person whose age has been validated. [2] João Marinho Neto (born 5 October 1912) of Brazil is the world's oldest living man whose age has been validated. [2]
Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly (1893–1903) [51] Morley Byron Bursey: 1912–2013: 101: Canadian diplomat [52] Mortimer Caplin: 1916–2019: 103: American political appointee, Commissioner of Internal Revenue [53] Reinhold O. Carlson: 1905–2006: 100: American politician, mayor of Des Moines, Iowa [54] Jimmy ...