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 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.

Birth Date Found Fandom Died or Gafiated Years in Fandom Fan
Sept 17, 1874 July 30, 1970 Walter Murdoch
1884 or 1885 1970 Pat Terry
Aug 20, 1890 late 20s early 30s March 15, 1937 ~10? H. P. Lovecraft
Nov 12, 1899 <1930 g. 1930 a few? Warren Fitzgerald
January 6, 1905 mid-30s February 29, 1978 <45 Eric Frank Russell
Apr 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
Jun 20, 1910 <1930 October 29, 2003 >73 Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
February 19, 1912 <October 1930 July 17, 1979 >49 Walter Gillings
November 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
January 22, 1916 1929 September 25, 1984 ~ 50 Dan McPhail
Apr 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
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
Jun 14, 1921 1938-39 g. 1950s?; d. July 29, 2017 ~20 William L. Hamling
1917 <1939 November 28, 1998 ~60 John Millard
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

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.


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