HUMAN REPRODUCTION - MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE GIVEN BIRTH TO GREATEST NUMBER OF CHILDREN

WOMEN WHO HAVE GIVEN BIRTH TO MOST CHILDREN
No.*	Mother/Couple	Details
69	Mr. and Mrs. Fedor Vassilyev	16 sets of twins; 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets; born between 1725 and 1765, a total of 27 births.
62	Mr. and Mrs. Gravata	A Tuscan woman gave birth to a total of 62 live children
57	Mr. and Mrs. Yakov Krillov	4 sets of quadruplets, 7 sets of triplets and 10 sets of twins. All of the children were alive in 1755
53	Barbara and Adam Stratzmann	It is claimed that Barbara Stratzmann (c. 1448-1503) of Germany, gave birth to 53 children in a total of 29 births by 1498. She had 1 set of septuplets, 1 set of sextuplets, 4 sets of triplets, and 5 sets of twins. 19 of the children were stillborn, the eldest surviving was 8 years old in 1498
52	Maddalena Granata	Maddalena Granata (born 1839) in Italy, who married at age 28, had given birth to 52 living and dead children by 1886. Dr. de Sanctis of Nocera, stated that she had 25 sets of triplets.
42	Elizabeth and John Mott	Elizabeth Mott of Monks Kirby, Warwickshire, England, married in 1676 and produced 42 live-born children. She died in 1720.

*Source: Wikipedia – Wikipedia notes that records of births before the 19^th century cannot be established with certainty and that the number of births being claimed is highly improbable.

UNITED STATES WOMEN WHO HAVE GIVEN BIRTH TO MOST CHILDREN
No.	Mother/couple	Further Information
32	Moddie and Perccell Oliver	Moddie Oliver, age 50, wife of a Lumberton, NC, sharecropper was expecting her 33rd child in 1959. At that time, 22 of her children were alive.
28	Griffith and Elizabeth Johnson	Elizabeth G. Johnson was born in 1732 in Montgomery, MD. She married Griffith in 1766. They had 28 children in 31 years. Elizabeth died in on January 30, 1790, in Oldtown, MD at the age of 58.
27	Glendora Pope	Mrs. Pope, the wife of an Idaho carpenter, gave birth to her 27th child in June 1939, at the age of 45. At that time, 14 children were living. All were single births.
24	Marcella S. (née 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 children died in infancy.
23	Tabatha Marcum and Silas Mainord	Married in 1811, they lived in Overton County, TN* and produced 23 children. One of their daughters, Syreana, later became the mother of 17.
23	Irene and Charles DeMello	Irene DeMello of Tiverton, RI, gave birth to her 23rd child in February 1958 at the ago of 40. There were no multiple births, 17 of the children were alive in 1958, the eldest being 23.
22	Charlotte and Marion Story	Charlotte Story of Bakersfield, CA, gave birth to her 22nd child in July 1946. All but 2 of the other 21 children including 4 sets of twins were alive. Marion and Charlotte Story participated in You Bet Your Life in 1960.
22	Effie (née Estes) and Charles Dickey	From Clinton, ME, Mrs. Dickey gave birth to 22 children, all single births. All of them lived to adulthood, 18 of them living into their 70s, 80s and 90s, (the others died at ages 30, 58, 60 and 67)

MEN WHO HAVE PARENTED THE MOST CHILDREN
No.	Father	Further Information
1,000- 2,000	Genghis Khan	He is said to have fathered at least 1,000 children, possibly as many as 2,000 from as many as 3,000 wives. Genetic analysis has shown he is a male-line ancestor of 0.5% of the world’s population
880	Moulay Ismail ibn Sharif	Monarch of Morocco. Born around 1645 and died on March 22, 1727. He had 4 official wives. According to the writings of a French diplomat, Ismail had at least 500 concubines. A total of 868 children (525 sons and 343 daughters) is recorded in 1793, with his 700 hundredth son being born shortly after his death in 1721, by which time he had well over 1,000 children. The final total is uncertain; the Guinness Book of Records claims 1,042, while the University of Vienna put the total at 1,171. This is widely considered the largest number of children of any human in history.
MANY MEN IN THE HUNDREDS

SPERM DONORS
No.	Father/Donor	Further Information
300- 600	Bertold P. Wiesner	Bertold P. Wiesner (1901-1972) was an Austrian Jewish physiologist noted firstly for coining the term ‘Psi’ to denote parapsychological phenomena, secondly for his contribution to research into human fertility and he diagnosis of pregnancy and thirdly for being biological father to an estimated 600 offspring by anonymously donating sperm used by his wife, an obstetrician, to perform artificial insemination on women at a private clinic in London.
~200	“Louis”	A Dutch man born in 1949/50 in the Netherlands to a Dutch mother and Surinamese father and raised in Suriname. Louis is a pseudonym. He donated between 1982 and 2002 at three clinics, far exceeding the current limit of 25 donations. 57 live births are confirmed, of whom he has met 40 since 2011, but he estimates 200 in total.
150+	Joe Donor	Located on the east coast of the U.S., Joe Donor is the admin of the free sperm donor group “Joesdonorgroup” on Facebook. He was featured on ABC’s 20/20.
150	Anonymous Sperm Donor	An American sperm donor was found to have produced at least 150 children. This was the inspiration for the 2011 Canadian film Starbuck and its 2013 American remake Delivery Man.
50	Donald L. Cline, MD	An American fertility doctor from Indiana University School of Medicine who used his own sperm more than 50 times since the 1970s.

MORMONS
No.	Father		Further Information
~300	Paul Elden Kingston		Paul Elden Kingston (born 1959/60) has been the leader of the Mormon fundamentalist Latter-Day Church of Christ and the Davis County Cooperative Society in the USA since 1987. In 2006, it was estimated that Paul Kinston had up to 27 wives (including three half-sisters of his), some of who have up to 18 children
145+	Winston Blackmore		Leader of the Mormon fundamentalist sect called the Blackmore/Bountiful Community, he fathered children through as many as 25 wives.
106+	John Daniel Kingston		A member of a fundamentalist Mormon group, Kingston had 106 children by 14 wives as of 2004.
MANY MORE WITH BETWEEN 50 AND 100 CHILDREN
30		Miles Park Romney	Great-grandfather of Mitt Romney, he fathered 30 children with 5 wives, he married the last in 1890, just before the 1890 Manifesto.