Most Senior Fan

Just as with Most Senior SF Writer, we can ask who is the most senior fan at various times. This could be eldest in age or eldest in years in fandom.

Note that we're using fan in the proper fannish sense of being involved in fandom, and not in the mundane sense of liking sf -- there is no hope of knowing who liked sf at any given time. As a practical matter, we're also limited to well known fans as others have left little or no trace of their activities.

N.b., to keep this list from growing without limit, please do not list people who entered fandom after 1950 or who were born after 1935. The idea is to celebrate especially long fannish careers.

Birth Date	Found Fandom	Died or Gafiated	Years in Fandom	Fan
Aug. 20, 1890	late 20s early 30s	March 15, 1937	~10?	H. P. Lovecraft
Nov. 12, 1899	<1930	g. 1930	a few?	Warren Fitzgerald
Jan. 6, 1905	mid-30s	February 29, 1978	<45	Eric Frank Russell
April 8, 1907	1949	g. 1961, d. 2005	12	Gertrude M. Carr
1908	May 1928	February 11, 1979	51	Ron Graham
1908	<January 1930	d. 1971	<40	Allen Glasser
1911	<1930	g. ~1943, ung. 1961, d. January 2, 1963	>35	Julius Unger
June 19, 1915	<January 1930	February 8, 2004	>74	Julius Schwartz
June 20, 1910	<1930	October 29, 2003	>73	Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
Feb. 19, 1912	<October 1930	July 17, 1979	>49	Walter Gillings
Nov. 12, 1912	1930-32	g. ~1942, ung. 1990s, d. August 28, 1997	~15	Conrad H. Ruppert
??	mid-30s	June 28, 1978	~45	J. Michael Rosenblum
1913	<1935	1994	~60	Will Sykora
Nov. 23, 1914	1931	October 6, 2006	75	Bob Tucker
Oct. 1, 1914	Spring 1934	November 2, 1990	56	Don Wollheim
Jan. 22, 1916	1929	September 25, 1984	~ 50	Dan McPhail
April 5, 1917	1935	September 23, 1994	~59	Robert Bloch
May 1916	late 30s	g. ~1950; d. Oct 22, 2016	15	Norman F. Stanley
Nov. 24, 1916	~1933	December 4, 2008	~75	Forrest J Ackerman
Sept. 16, 1917	<1940	April 17, 2015	>75	Art Widner
Nov. 30, 1917	<1939	November 28, 1998	~60	John Millard
March 22, 1918	<1936	January 25, 2000	>64	Oliver Saari
Feb. 17, 1919	1936?	December 23, 2015	>79	Jack Robins
Nov. 26, 1919	<1937	September 2, 2013	>76	Fred Pohl
Feb. 14, 1919	1933 or '34	September 18, 2016	>82	Dave Kyle
1920	1935	June 28, 2008	~73	Jack Speer
1920	1935 or 36	still active	>85	Bob Madle
June 14, 1921	1938-39	g. 1950s?; d. July 29, 2017	~20	William L. Hamling
1923	<1940			Bert F. Castellari
Oct. 29, 1923	<1939	still active	>51 (g. ~30)	Erle Korshak
??	30s	May 2019	??	Stan Nuttall
1926	1941?	g. 1960?		Chan Davis
June 8, 1930	1949	still active	>71	Roger Sims

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