List of People with the most children.How many children do you have?Ramli and Maimunah have 5 children (3boys and 2 girls)

 

List of people with the most children

 

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Mothers[edit]

This section lists mothers who have parented the most children.

# Children	Mother/Couple	Notes
69	Mrs. and Mr. Feodor Vassilyev	Vassilyev and his first wife, whose name is unknown, holds the record for most children a couple has parented. She gave birth to a total of 69 children. She gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets between 1725 and 1765, in a total of 27 births. 67 of the 69 children born were said to have survived infancy.[1][2]
57	Mrs. and Mr. Yakov Kirillov	The first wife of peasant Yakov Kirillov from the village of Vvedensky gave birth to 57 children in a total of 21 births. She had 4 sets of quadruplets, 7 sets of triplets and 10 sets of twins. All of the children were alive in 1755, when Kirillov, aged 60, was presented at Court.[3]
55	Leontina (Espinosa) and Gerardo Secunda Albina	Leontina Albina (b. 1926) married in Argentina in 1943 and gave birth to her 55th registered child in San Antonio, Chile, in 1981, aged 55.[4]She claimed to have more 9 children born, but none of them was registered.[5] Gerardo Secunda Albina (b. 1921) stated that and they had 5 sets of triplets (all boys) before coming to Chile. 11 children were lost in an earthquake. Only 40, 24 boys and 16 girls, survived.[6]
52	Maddalena Granata	Maddalena Granata (b. 1839) of the City of Nocera, who married at age 28, had given birth to 52 living and dead children, 49 being males, by 1886. Dr. de Sanctis, of Nocera, stated that she had 15 sets of triplets.[7][8]
42	Elizabeth and John Mott	Elizabeth Mott of Monks Kirby, Warwickshire, married in 1676 and produced 42 live-born children. She died in 1720.[9]
41	Alice Hookes	According to the inscription on a gravestone in Conway Church cemetery, Gwynedd, North Wales, Nicholas Hookes (d. 1637) was the 41st child of his mother Alice Hookes, but there were no further details.[10]
39	Elizabeth and William Greenhill	Thomas Greenhill was the last child of 39 by his mother Elizabeth (1615 – 1681) and William Greenhill.[11] The family consisted of 7 sons and 32 daughters.[12] Not only is this a large number of live newborns but unusual in that apart from one pair of twins they were single births.
35	Mrs. and Mr. Harrison	Mrs. Harrison, the wife of an undertaker residing in Vere Street, London, gave birth to her 35th child by one husband in 1736.[13]
33	Mary and John Jonas	Mary Jonas (1814 – 1899) gave birth to 33 children, including 15 sets of boy-girl twins.[14] All were christened, but few achieved adulthood. 10 children were still alive when their father John died in 1892.[15]
32	Moddie and Perccell Oliver	Mrs. Moddile M.Oliver, aged 50, wife of a Lumberton, N. C., sharecropper, who had already mothered 32 children, was expecting her 33rd in 1959. 22 children were alive at that moment. It was not revealed if the 33rd child was born or not.[16]
32	Maria Addolorata Casalini	Mrs. Casalini (b. 1929) of Brindisi, Italy, married at 17 and gave birth to her 32nd child on November 11, 1970. She had, in 23 confinements, two sets of quadruplets, one of triplets, one of twins and 19 single births. Only 15 children survived.[17]
32	Madalena and Raimundo Carnauba	Madalena Carnauba of Ceilandia, Brazil, married at 13 and gave birth to 32 children, 24 sons and 8 daughters.[18]
32	Maria Benita Olivera	Mrs. Olivera (b. 1939) of San Juan, Argentina, gave birth to her 32nd child on 31 Jan 1989. All children were believed to be alive at that time.[19] She was married twice, and during 32 years of her marriages she had a set of triplets (born at age 13) and two sets of twins.[20]
30	Rebecca Town	Mrs. Town (1807 – 1851) of Keighley, Yorkshire, had 30 children, but only one reached age 3.[21]
28	Mabel Murphy	Mrs. Murphy (b. 1898) of Lisnaskea, Co. Fermanagh, N. Ireland was reported to have produced 28 children (12 stillborn) in 32 years of marriage by December 1949, but this claim has not been fully substantiated.[22]
25	Lapa Piagenti and Giacomo di Benincasa	Their 23rd child was Saint Catherine of Siena.[23]
25	Ada Watson	Mrs. Watson (1886 – 1974) of Cambridge gave birth to 25 children, including 3 sets of twins, during the period 1904 – 1931. All of the children attained majority.[24]
24	Woman from Isle of Sky, Scotland	Woman married to a clergyman in Isle of Sky, Scotland, had 24 children, according to 1970’s reference Guinness Book of Records.[citation needed]
24	Kathleen Scott	Mrs. Scott (b. 4 July 1914) of Dublin gave birth to her 24th child on 9 Aug 1958. Twenty of her children were still alive in 1990.[25]
24	Marcella S. (Mills) Big Crow and James M. Big Crow Sr.	Marcella Mills-Big Crow (1924-1989) of Pine Ridge, South Dakota had 24 children, including 8 pairs of twins. Five of them died in infancy.[26]
23	Queen Darejan and King Heraclius II of Georgia	They had a total of 23 children, 13 of whom lived to adulthood.
23	Tabatha Marcum and Silas Mainord	Married in 1811, they lived in Overton County, Tennessee and produced 23 children. One of their daughters, Syreana, later became the mother of 17.[27]
23	Grace Bagnato	Grace Bagnato and her husband had 23 children; 9 of these were conceived in order to compete for a bequest by a Toronto eccentric, in what became known as the Great Stork Derby.[28]
22	Marie Massicotte and Philippe Dontigny	Born between 1888 and 1915 at Champlain, Québec; 14 of the children died in infancy. There were no multiple births.[29]
22	Mabel Constable	Mrs. Constable (b. 1920), of Long Itchington, Warwicks, gave birth to 22 children, including a set of triplets and two sets of twins.[30]
22	Margaret McNaught	Mrs. McNaught (b. 1923), of Balsall Heath, Birmingham, gave birth to 22 children, 12 boys (2 of them died in infancy) and 10 girls, all single births.[31]
21	Olivia (Whitmore) and Arthur Guinness	Guinness was an Irish brewer. Only ten of their children lived to adulthood.[32]
21	Anna and Henry Crocker	18 of their children lived to adulthood.[33]
20	Marie Verrault and Pierre Edouard Cauchon	Born between 1853 and 1882 at Château-Richer, Québec, 16 of the children in infancy, and one as a young adult. There were no multiple births.[29]
20	Rose Alma and Roland Letendre	The youngest died as a result of birth injury. All the children were born in Drummondville, Quebec, Canada. The combined age of the mother (94) and 19 children (72–50) adds up to 1256 years as of August 25, 2012.[34]
20	The mother of Maria Goncales Moreira	Not much is known about this case except the fact that she had 10 sets of twins. Her daughter also has 10 sets of twins (see below).[35]
20	Maria Goncales Moreira	Mrs. Moreira of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, gave birth to her 10th set of twins (identical boys) on July 3, 1984. Her other twins were 16 girls and 2 boys. She delivered the first at age 13. Her mother also has 10 sets of twins.[35]
20	Jessie Campbell	Mrs. Campbell (b. 1946) of Struan, Isle of Skye, Scotland, gave birth to her 20th child on 22 Jan 1990.[36]
20	Leonora and Yanosh Nameni	Leonora Nameni gave birth to her 20th child in 2011, at the age of 41, becoming the most prolific mother in Ukraine. The Nameni family of 10 sons and 10 daughters lives in a village in West Ukraine.[37]
19	Marie Hébert and Jean-Baptiste Brodeur dit Lavigne	Born between 1713 and 1739 at Varennes, Québec, 11 of the children died in infancy. There were no multiple births.[29]
19	Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar	The family is the subject of the reality TV show, 19 Kids and Counting.[38]
19	Jose Luis Barrera and Adela Barrera Vargas	19 total children, 14 lived to adulthood.[citation needed]
19	Susannah (Annesley) and Samuel Wesley	10 of their children lived to adulthood.[39]
19	Kelly and Gil Bates	Friends of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar. The family is the subject of United Bates of America.
18	Ellen and John Currie	18 total children born between 1932 and 1955. 14 survived to adulthood. She gave birth to 4 pairs of twins.[citation needed]
18	Claudia Maria da Silva	Claudia Maria da Silva, an unemployed woman from Sao Paolo, southeast Brazil, gave birth to her 18th child in 2007, aged 40. The father of the newborn girl was only 15 years old, a friend of one of Maria’s sons. Da Silva said she had been aware of contraception methods but chose never to use them, and gave birth to her first child at age 11. Since then she has been pregnant 27 times and has had nine abortions. Of her 18 children, only three were living with her.[40]
18	Fatma and Mehmet Saygi	Fatma Saygi of Adana, Turkey, gave birth to her 6th set of triplets in 2004, at the age of 28. Eight children from previous pregnancies were alive at that moment.[41]
18	Livia and Alexandru Ionce	Livia Ionce gave birth to her 18th child, a girl, in British Columbia in 2008, at the age of 44 when their other 17 children, 9 girls and 8 boys, were from 20 months to 23 years old. Ionces immigrated to Canada from Romania in 1990. Alexandru Ionce said he did not know if they would have more children.[42]
17	Elizabeth (Morris) and Vladistoff Skeminski	17 children total, six lived to adulthood.[citation needed]
17	Juliana of Stolberg	She had 5 children with her first husband Philip II, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg and 12 with her second husband William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg.
17	Maria and Ivan Mendeleev	Famous Russian chemist and inventor Dmitri Mendeleev was 17th child of his parents. Eight of his siblings died in infancy and one sister died form tuberculosis aged 14.[43]
17	Syreana Mainord and Allen Brock Hull	They lived in Overton County, Tennessee and produced 17 children. One son of their son William Pascal Hull was polititan Cordell Hull.[27]
17	Ruth and Chalmers Montgomery	Mrs. Montgomery gave birth to her 17th child in 1950. 14 of her children were alive at that time.[44]
17	Unidentified couple from Melbourne	A woman from Melbourne who already had 12 children, gave birth to naturally-conceived quintuplets in 2010, at the age of 48. One of the quints died soon after birth.[45]
17	Zynaida and Vladimir Chernenko	A family from Rancho Cordova, California, celebrated the birth of their 17th child in 2005. 11 children were born in Ukraine, before the family moved to the U.S.[46]
16	Maria Theresa and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor	13 survived infancy.
16	Angel Adams	A dozen of her children lived with her in a motel room. These children have now been put into foster care.[47]
16	Florence and John Dooley	16 children, 14 survived infancy. Married in Chicago in 1910, they had 9 boys and 5 girls born between 1912 and 1937. Florence Dooley was profiled in a 1985 Lisle Sun newspaper article for her 90th birthday. She died in 1995 at age 101, and John Dooley died in 1976 at age 91.[48]
16	Christi and David Cason	David and Christi Cason of Lake Elsinore, California have 16 children (17th child due 10-25-2013), 9 boys and 7 girls, 6 losses.[49]
16	Gertrude Markham	Gertrude Markham from Linconshire delivered 16; 11 of the 12 who were born alive, achieved adulthood.[citation needed]
16	Mary and John Wagner	From Defiance, Ohio; all their children lived well into adulthood and produced 71 grandchildren.[50]
16	Sue and Noel Radford	16 children currently, the last being born in November. The Radfords are amongst the largest families in modern Britain and support themselves by their family-run bakery. They live in a 10-bedroom converted nursing home; the children run from 4 months to 23 years old.[51]

 

Fathers[edit]

This section lists fathers who have fathered the most children, usually with many different women. In most cases, fathers who have parented large numbers of children can be attributed topolygamy. Numbers in italics are inexact.

# Children	Father	Notes
888	Ismail Ibn Sharif	Alaouite sultan, said to have fathered 525 sons and 342 daughters with multiple wives and concubines.[52]
300-600	Bertold Wiesner	Fertility doctor, used his own sperm to impregnate customers between 1943 and 1962.[53] Father of Eva Ibbotson.
210	King Sobhuza II	King of Swaziland, lived 1899–1982; thought to have had 70 wives.
177	Sultan Ibrahim Njoya	King of Bamum in Cameroon, lived 1860–1933, and thought to have had ‘around 600’ wives; he was said to have had 149 children by December 1915.[54]
162	Ramesses II	Egyptian pharaoh; see also: List of children of Ramesses II.
160+	Ancentus Akuku	This Kenyan polygamist, full name Ancentus Ogwella Akuku, known as ‘Danger’, lived 1916–2010; he married ‘more than 100 times’ and had fathered ‘at least 160 children’ when he married his final wife in 2000.[55] An unsubstantiated article from the East African Standard claimed 210 children: 104 daughters and 106 sons, by some 130 wives.[56]
158	Jack Kigongo	Lived in Kateera, Uganda, 1909–2012; he had 20 wives, and when he died aged 103, around 500 grandchildren.[57]
150	Anonymous sperm donor	One of the US sperm donors was found to have produced at least 150 children.[58]
142	Emperor Minh Mang	Reported to have had 142 children.[59]
121	Winston Blackmore	Leader of the Mormon fundamentalist sect called the Blackmore/Bountiful Community,[60] fathered children through as many as 25 wives.[61]
106–115	Saud of Saudi Arabia	King Saud, son of Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, lived 1902–1969; according to one source he had 52 sons and about 54 daughters from ‘a wider range of women’ than his father (who only had 22 wives);[62] however, another source credited him with 115.[63]
108+	Fath-Ali Shah Qajar	The second Shah of the Qajar dynasty of Iran, Fath-Ali (1772–1834), had 48 daughters and 60 sons ‘who survived infancy’, as a result of the 160+ marriages by which he had consolidated his control over the country. Many of his descendents went on to become prominent figures.[64]
<100	Augustus John	The Welsh painter is widely reported to have fathered ‘up to 100 children’, mostly outside marriage, although some believe that this figure is greatly exaggerated.[65]
94	Ziona Chana	Leader of a polygamist sect in the Mizoram state of India, has 94 children with 39 wives, as well as 33 grandchildren.[66]
87	Feodor Vassilyev	Feodor Vassilyev, a peasant from Shuya, Russia, had 69 children with his first wife and 18 with second. 84 of his kids survived to adulthood.[67]
49–89	Goel Ratzon	Jewish cult leader and Messiah claimant, born in 1951; in 2010 he reportedly had ‘21 wives’, with whom he had fathered 49 children (CNN data), or ‘more than 30 wives’ and 89 children (Time magazine data). The statistics came to light when he was charged with enslavement and rape.[68][69]
77	Chulalongkorn	King Chulalongkorn, Thailand’s fifth monarch; he had 92 consorts during his lifetime who produced 77 children, of which 33 were sons and 44 were daughters.
75	Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia	King Abdulaziz, the first monarch of Saudi Arabia, lived 1876–1953; he had 45 recorded sons and about 30 daughters from 22 wives and concubines; by 2001 he had 2,500–3,500 direct descendants.[62]
75	Screamin’ Jay Hawkins[citation needed]	Rock and roll singer. 57 confirmed children, possibly as many as 75.
75	Cecil Byran Jacobson	Fertility doctor suspected of fathering as many as 75 children by impregnating patients with his own sperm.
74	Ben Seisler	Ben Seisler, who spent three years donating sperm to a Virginia sperm bank to offset law-school expenses, recently learned that his donations have produced 74 children.[70]
72	Ramon Revilla	Filipino actor and former senator, fathered children through 16 different women.[71]
65	Heber C. Kimball	First Counselor of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, fathered children through 17 of his 43 wives.
65	Rulon Jeffs	President of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, fathered children through as many as 75 wives.[72]
60	Warren Jeffs	President of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, fathered children through as many as 70 wives.[72]
57	Brigham Young	President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, fathered children through 16 of his 55 wives.
55	Kangxi Emperor	Chinese emperor, lived 1654–1722; he fathered 35 sons and 20 daughters from numerous wives and concubines.
54+	Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden	Yemeni emigrant to Saudi Arabia, married 22 times and fathered at least 54 children.[73] Osama bin Laden is believed to have been his 17th son.
50	Jean-Bedel Bokassa	Dictator of the Central African Republic, lived 1921–1996; had 17 wives.
45	Orson Pratt	Orson Pratt (Sr.), polymath, and an apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, lived 1811–1881; he fathered 45 children through his ten wives.
30–45	Idi Amin	Dictator of Uganda, lived 1925–2003; he had 17 wives.
43	Anonymous sperm donor	Danish sperm donor, who fathered 43 children at 14 different IVF clinics in 10 different countries, passed on a genetic disorder to at least five children born from IVF procedures. The man was allowed to continue donating sperm, despite Danish national rules restrict donations to 25 times.[74]
42	Lorenzo Snow	President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, fathered children through his 9 wives.
40+	Joseph Kony	Ugandan warlord, born in 1961; reported to have 88 ‘wives’.
35+	King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia	The present King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, born in 1924; he has fathered at least 35 children to date, by thirteen wives.[75]
34	John Taylor	President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, fathered children through his seven wives.
33	Wilford Woodruff	President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, fathered children through his five (possible 6) wives.
30+	Omar Bongo	President of Gabon, lived 1935–2009; number of wives not recorded.
30	Miles Park Romney	Mormon and great-grandfather of Mitt Romney, fathered 30 children with five wives;[76] he married the last in 1890, just before the 1890 Manifesto.
30	Tom Green	Mormon fundamentalist, fathered children through with ten women.[77]
26	Henry I of England	3 legitimate children by his first wife, 23 acknowledged illegitimate children.
25	Dr. Samuel Annesley	Susanna Wesley was the 25th of his children.
24	Robert I, Duke of Parma	Fathered 24 children with his two wives, 12 from each marriage.
24	Desmond Hatchett	Fathered 24 children, according to Knox County, Tennessee Juvenile Court records. A Los Angeles Times article and Memphis television station WREG erroneously reported that he fathered 30 children.[78]
23	King Mswati III	King of Swaziland, born 1968; he has 14 wives (as of 2012).
22+	Jacob Zuma	President of South Africa, born in 1942; he has fathered at least 22 children to date, with five wives and some others out of wedlock; some sources claim 24 children.
22	Ed Rudolph	Fathered 22 children, one of them being 3-time gold winning Olympic athlete Wilma Rudolph.[79]
22	Richard Lovell Edgeworth	An Anglo-Irish politician, who fathered 22 children with four wives.
22	James II of England	The children were born between 1660 and 1692. Of these, 15 were legitimate: eight by his first wife, Anne Hyde, and seven by his second wife, Mary of Modena.
21	John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg	Fathered children with 3 wives.
21	Carlos Gracie	Martial arts practitioner, lived 1902–1994; number of wives not recorded.
21	Nanu Ram Jogi	Indian farmer, fathered 21 children with 4 wives. He was the world’s oldest father when he fathered his 21st child at the age of 90.[80]
20	Charlemagne	Emperor of the Franks, lived 742–814; fathered 20 children with three wives and five concubines, between 757 and 807.
20	Johann Sebastian Bach	German composer, lived 1685–1750; fathered children with two wives.