Most Senior Fan
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Just as with Most Senior SF Writer, we can ask who is the most senior fan at various times. This could be eldest actifan in age or eldest in years in fandom. Until his death in 2022, centenarian Bob Madle was both.
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 1955 or who were born after 1935. The idea is to celebrate especially long fannish careers.
| Born | Found Fandom | Died or Gafiated | Years in Fandom | Fan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 17, 1874 | ?? | July 30, 1970 | ?? | Walter Murdoch |
| December 25, 1883 | ? | January 31, 1970 | ?? | Pat Terry[1] |
| August 20, 1890 | late ’20s/early ’30s | d. March 15, 1937 | ~10? | H. P. Lovecraft |
| November 12, 1899 | <1929 | g. >1938 | >9 | Warren Fitzgerald |
| January 6, 1905 | mid-30s | d. February 29, 1978 | >45 | Eric Frank Russell |
| April 8, 1907 | 1949 | g. 1961, d. March 6, 2005 | 12 | Gertrude M. Carr |
| 1908 | May 1928 | d. February 11, 1979 | 51 | Ron Graham |
| September 4, 1908 | <January 1930 | d. 1971 | ~40 | Allen Glasser |
| May 31, 1910 | <1928 | January 21, 1996 | >68 | Aubrey MacDermott |
| June 20, 1910 | <1930 | d. October 29, 2003 | ~73 | Lloyd Arthur Eshbach |
| January 2, 1912 | <1930 | g. ~1943—1961, d. January 2, 1963 | >35 | Julius Unger |
| February 19, 1912 | <October 1930 | d. July 17, 1979 | >49 | Walter Gillings |
| November 12, 1912 | 1930–32 | g. ~1942–1990s, d. August 28, 1997 | ~15 | Conrad H. Ruppert |
| August 16, 1913 | <1935 | d. June 7, 1994 | ~60 | Will Sykora |
| October 1, 1914 | Spring 1934 | d. November 2, 1990 | 56 | Don Wollheim |
| November 23, 1914 | 1931 | d. October 6, 2006 | 75 | Bob Tucker |
| June 19, 1915 | <January 1930 | d. February 8, 2004 | >74 | Julius Schwartz |
| January 22, 1916 | 1929 | d. September 25, 1984 | ~50 | Dan McPhail |
| May 1916 | late 30s | g. ~1950; d. Oct 22, 2016 | 15 | Norman F. Stanley |
| September 4, 1916 | 1936 | d. July 14, 1998 | 62 | Doc Lowndes |
| November 24, 1916 | 1930 | d. December 4, 2008 | 78 | Forrest J Ackerman |
| April 5, 1917 | 1935 | d. September 23, 1994 | ~59 | Robert Bloch |
| November 7, 1917 | mid-30s | d. June 28, 1978 | ~45 | J. Michael Rosenblum |
| September 16, 1917 | <1940 | g. 1948–~1978; d. April 17, 2015 | ~42 | Art Widner |
| November 30, 1917 | <1939 | d. November 28, 1998 | ~60 | John Millard |
| March 22, 1918 | <1936 | d. January 25, 2000 | ~64 | Oliver Saari |
| February 17, 1919 | 1936? | d. December 23, 2015 | ~79 | Jack Robins |
| November 26, 1919 | 1932 | d. September 2, 2013 | 81 | Fred Pohl |
| February 14, 1919 | 1933 or '34 | d. September 18, 2016 | ~82 | Dave Kyle |
| June 2, 1920 | 1935 or 36 | d. October 8, 2022 | ~86 | Bob Madle |
| August 8, 1920 | <1939 | d. May 7, 2009 | >70 | A. Langley Searles |
| August 8, 1920 | 1935 | d. June 28, 2008 | ~73 | Jack Speer |
| June 14, 1921 | 1938–39 | g. 1950s?; d. July 29, 2017 | ~20 | William L. Hamling |
| February 16, 1922 | 1930s | semi-g. 1948–65; d. December 27, 2011 | >60 | Rusty Hevelin |
| 1923 | 1937 | g. 1940s (still alive in 2020) | 5? | Bert F. Castellari |
| October 27, 1923 | <1938 | g. mid-1970s? (still alive in 2023) | >40 | Trudy Kuslan |
| October 29, 1923 | <1939 | g. 1957; ung. ~1987; d. August 25, 2021 | ~51 | Erle Korshak |
| October 7, 1926 | 1939 | d. November 21, 2009 | 70 | Ken Krueger |
| April 12, 1908 | 1949 | d. May 6, 1981 | 32 | Janie Lamb |
| December 2, 1914 | 1940s | d. February 25, 1999 | >50 | Ted Engel |
| July 6, 1919 | 1946 | d. September 7, 2006 | 60 | Helen Wesson |
| March 21, 1926 | <1957 | Active through 2018 at least | >60 | Peter Mabey |
| August 12, 1926 | 1940? | largely gafiated, but occasionally revenant; d. September 28, 2022 | >71 | Chan Davis |
| March 6, 1928 | 1940s | d. July 15, 2021 | >72 | Bill Nolan |
| August 12, 1928 | born into fandom | g. ????, d. June 2, 2023 | ?? | Allison Phillips |
| June 3, 1930 | 1940s | d. September 25, 1999 | >60 | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| June 8, 1930 | 1949 | d. January 23, 2022 | 72 | Roger Sims |
| October 3, 1931 | 1947? | d. December 29, 2022 | >74 | Ray Nelson |
| December 31, 1931 | late 1940s | d. November 26, 2017 | ~60 | Perdita Boardman |
| April 29, 1924 | 1950 | g. 1955–93; still active | ~35 | Es Cole |
| September 30, 1924 | ~1950? | still active | >72 | Elinor Busby |
| May 27, 1929 | late 1940s? | still active | >72 | Burnett R. Toskey |
| June 26, 1929 | 1947 | still active | >74 | Wally Weber |
| July 9, 1929 | 1947 | still active | >74 | George W. Price |
| January 14, 1931 | ?? | still active | ?? | Joe Green |
| September 8, 1932 | ~1950 | still active | >72 | John Boardman |
| February 12, 1933 | 1950s | still active | >65 | Juanita Coulson |
| January 15, 1935 | 1949 | still active | >72 | Bob Silverberg |
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