List of people with the most children

{{Short description|People having the most offspring}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

This is a list of mothers said to have given birth to 20 or more children and men said to have fathered more than 25 children.

Mothers and couples

This section lists mothers who gave birth to at least 20 children. Numbers in bold and italics are likely to be legendary or inexact, some of them having been recorded before the 19th century. Due to the fact that women bear the children and therefore cannot reproduce as often as men, their records are often shared with or exceeded by their partners.

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style="text-align:center;width:4%;"|Total children birthed

! style="width:20%;"|Mother or couple
(if known)

! style="width:8%;"|Approximate year of last birth

! class="unsortable"|Notes

69

|Valentina and Feodor Vassilyev{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oaFJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA753 |magazine=The Gentleman's Magazine |volume=53 |year=1783 |page=753 |title=??}}

|1765

|A Russian woman named Valentina Vassilyeva and her husband Feodor Vassilyev are alleged to hold the record for the most children a couple has produced. She gave birth to a total of 69 children – sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets – between 1725 and 1765, a total of 27 pregnancies. 67 of the 69 children were said to have survived infancy. Allegedly Vassilyev also had six sets of twins and two sets of triplets with a second wife, for another 18 children in eight pregnancies; he fathered a total of 87 children. The claim is disputed as records at this time were not well kept.

57

|Mr and Ms Kirillov

|1755

|The first wife of peasant Yakov Kirillov from the village of Vvedensky, Russia, gave birth to 57 children in a total of 21 births. She had four sets of quadruplets, seven sets of triplets and ten sets of twins. All of the children were alive in 1755, when Kirillov, aged 60, was presented at court.{{cite book |author=Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Bohomolets |title=The Prolongation of Life |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N5c_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA6 |year=1946 |publisher=Duell, Sloan & Pearce |access-date=2016-08-03 }}{{rp|6}} As with the Vassilyev case, the truth of these claims has not been established, and is highly improbable.

55

|Leontina (née Espinosa) and Gerardo Secunda Albina

|1981

|Leontina Albina (born 1926) married in Argentina and gave birth to her 55th registered child in San Antonio, Chile in 1981, aged 55.{{cite book |author=R. Clayton Brough|author2=Rodney D. Griffen |title=Scientific Support for Scriptural Stories |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n-AMUYZQ0CoC&pg=PA75 |year=1992 |publisher=Cedar Fort |isbn=978-0-88290-450-4 |page=75 }} She claimed to have another 9 children, but none of them were registered.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}} Gerardo Secunda Albina (born 1921) stated that they had five sets of triplets (all boys) before coming to Chile. Eleven children were lost in an earthquake. Only 40, 24 boys and 16 girls, survived.{{cite book |author=Alan Russell|author2=Norris D. McWhirter |title=The Guinness book of records 1988 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TqcxAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA13 |year=1987 |publisher=Guinness Superlatives |isbn=978-0-85112-868-9 |page=13 |access-date=2016-08-03 }}

This case was proven to be untrue; for details please see the Leontina Albina Espinoza article.

53

|Barbara and Adam Stratzmann

|1498

|It is claimed that Barbara Stratzmann (c. 1448–1503) of Bönnigheim, Germany, gave birth to 53 children (38 sons and 15 daughters) in a total of 29 births by 1498. She had one set of septuplets, one set of sextuplets, four sets of triplets and five sets of twins. Nineteen of the children were stillborn, while the eldest surviving lived to be eight years old.{{cite book |last=Probst |first=Ernst |title=Superfrauen. 11. Feminismus und Familie |year=2001 |publisher=Probst |isbn=978-3-935718-03-5 }} As with the Vassilyev and Kirillov cases above, the survival of any one of the offspring of the alleged multiple births is questionable, as is the likelihood of so many multiple births in an era before fertility treatments.

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|Mariam Nabatanzi Babirye

|2016

|Mariam Nabatanzi from Uganda gave birth to 44 children (43 survived infancy) by the age of 36. This included 3 sets of quadruplets, 4 sets of triplets and 6 sets of twins, due to a rare genetic condition causing hyperovulation. In 2019, at the age of 40, she underwent a medical procedure to prevent any further pregnancies.{{cite news|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/worlds-most-fertile-woman-who-20589957|title=World's most fertile woman who had 44 children by 36 stopped from having more babies|publisher=The Mirror|date=16 October 2019}} As of April 4, 2023 she had a total of 38 surviving children (16 females and 22 males), having lost 6.{{Cite web |last=Times |first=Uganda |date=2023-04-02 |title=Meet The World's 'Most Fertile' abandoned mother of 44 Children in Uganda! |url=https://ugandatimes.ug/meet-the-worlds-most-fertile-abandoned-mother-of-44-children-in-uganda/ |access-date=2023-04-04 |website=The Uganda Times – Breaking News, International News, World News, Africa News, Ugandan Updates, Uganda News, Uganda Updates, Opi |language=en-US |archive-date=3 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230403162917/https://ugandatimes.ug/meet-the-worlds-most-fertile-abandoned-mother-of-44-children-in-uganda/ |url-status=dead }}

42

|Elizabeth and John Mott

|1720

|Elizabeth Mott of Monks Kirby, Warwickshire, married in 1676 and produced 42 live-born children. She died in 1720.{{rp|13}}

41

|Alice Hookes

|1553{{cite web |url=https://www.ancestry.ca/genealogy/records/nicholas-hookes-24-2145fjt |website=ancestry |title=Hookes 1553–1637}}

|According to the inscription on a gravestone in Conwy Church cemetery, Gwynedd, North Wales, Nicholas Hookes (died 1637) was the 41st child of his mother Alice Hookes.{{cite book |author=Alan Russell|author2=Norris D. McWhirter |title=The Guinness book of records 1988 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TqcxAQAAIAAJ |year=1987 |publisher=Guinness Superlatives |isbn=978-0-85112-868-9 |access-date=2016-08-03}}{{rp|13}}

39

|Elizabeth and William Greenhill

|1681

|Thomas Greenhill was the last child of 39 by his mother Elizabeth (1615–1681) and William Greenhill. The family consisted of 7 sons and 32 daughters. Not only is this a large number of live newborns, but is unusual in that all but one pair of twins were single births.Bannerman, B.W. (1904). [https://books.google.com/books?id=Pkkq6uPaFIEC&dq=Elizabeth+Greenhill+39&pg=PA298 Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica: Third Series. Vol 5.] Mitchell Hughes and Clarke {{ISBN|978-1-4021-9409-2}} p. 298{{cite book| author = Alan Russel|author2=Norris D. McWhirter | title = The Guinness book of records| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=epbDg2U3SgoC&pg=PA12| year = 1986| publisher = Guinness Superlatives| isbn = 978-0-85112-439-1| page = 12 }}

35

|Ms and Mr Harrison

|1736

|Ms Harrison, the wife of an undertaker residing in Vere Street, London, gave birth to her 35th child by one husband in 1736.{{cite book |last=Mockett |first=John |title=Mockett's Journal: A Collection of Interesting Matters Relating to Remarkable Personages, Ancient Buildings, Manners and Customs, &c., Beginning from the 50 : Also, Particulars of Various Churches, Origin of the Reculvers, Parochial Matters to St. Peter's : with Observations on Agriculture ... and the Price of Corn, Cattle, and Labour ... |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_3uJwzKNQAGAC |year=1836 |publisher=Kentish Observer General Printing Office, Sold by G. Barnes |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_3uJwzKNQAGAC/page/n37 23] |access-date=2016-08-09 }}

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|Mary and John Jonas

|1892

|Mary Jonas (1814–1899) gave birth to 33 children, including 15 sets of boy–girl twins.{{cite book |title=Guinness Book of World Records 1979 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JVgJSE_dStQC&pg=PA32 |year=1983 |publisher=Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. |isbn=978-0-8069-0130-5 |page=32 |access-date=2016-08-09 }} All were christened, but few reached adulthood. Ten children were still alive when their father John died in 1892.{{cite web|url=http://www.chesterwalls.info/overleigh12.html|title=The Overleigh Cemetery, Chester|access-date=12 July 2016}}

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|Moddie and Purcell Oliver

|1959

|Ms Moddie Mae Oliver, aged 50, wife of a Lumberton, North Carolina, sharecropper, was expecting her 33rd child in 1959. At that time, 22 of her children were alive.{{cite magazine |title=?? |magazine=Jet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EUIDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA44 |year=1959 |page=44 |access-date=2016-08-09 }}

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|Maria Addolorata Casalini

|1970

|Ms Casalini (born 1929) of Brindisi, Italy, married at 17 and gave birth to her 32nd child on 11 November 1970. She had two sets of quadruplets, one of triplets, one of twins and nineteen single births. Only 15 children survived.{{cite book |last1=McWhirter |first1=Ross |last2=McWhirter |first2=Norris |title=Guinness Book of World Records |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q0dNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA25 |year=1972 |publisher=Sterling Publishing Company |page=25 |access-date=2016-08-09 }}

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|Madalena and Raimundo Carnauba

|1961{{Cite news |last=Ibiapina |first=Wilson |date=2009-09-14 |title=Casal de cearenses povoa cidade satélite de Ceilândia |url=https://diariodonordeste.verdesmares.com.br/ultima-hora/pais/casal-de-cearenses-povoa-cidade-satelite-de-ceilandia-1.429096 |access-date=2021-09-08 |website=Diário do Nordeste |language=pt-BR}}

|Madalena Carnauba of Ceilândia, Brazil married at 13 and gave birth to 32 children: 24 sons and 8 daughters.{{cite book |last1=McWhirter |first1=Norris |last2=McWhirter |first2=Ross |title=New Guinness Book of Records |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zKQxAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA17 |year=1970 |publisher=Guinness Superlatives |page=17 |access-date=2016-08-09 }}

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|Maria Benita Olivera

|1989

|Ms Olivera (born 1939) of San Juan, Argentina, gave birth to her 32nd child on 31 January 1989. All children were believed to be alive at that time.{{cite book |last1=Mcwhirter |first1=Norris |last2=McFarlan |first2=Donald |title=the Guinness Book of Records 1990 |url=https://archive.org/details/guinnessbookof00mcwh |url-access=registration |year=1989 |publisher=Guinness Publishing Ltd |isbn=978-0-85112-341-7 |page=[https://archive.org/details/guinnessbookof00mcwh/page/11 11] |access-date=2016-08-09 }} She was married twice, and gave birth to a set of triplets when she was 13. She later gave birth to two sets of twins.{{cite magazine |title=?? |magazine=Jet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jbEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA19 |year=1987 |page=19 |access-date=2016-08-09 }}

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|Rebecca Town

|1851

|Ms Town (1807–1851) of Keighley, Yorkshire, had 30 children, but only one reached age 3.

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|Griffith and Elizabeth Johnson

|1790

|Elizabeth G Johnson was born in 1732 in Montgomery, Maryland. She married Griffith Johnson on 16 February 1766, in Annapolis, Maryland. They had 28 children in 31 years. She died on 30 January 1790, in Oldtown, Maryland, at the age of 58, and was buried there.{{cite web |last=Cain |first=Candice |title=Ancestry.com Family Tree |website=Ancestry.com |url=https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/111182358/person/220105555712/story |access-date=2018-05-22 }}

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|Mabel Murphy

|1949

|Ms Murphy (born 1898) of Lisnaskea, Co. Fermanagh, N. Ireland was reported to have given birth to 28 children (12 stillborn) in 32 years of marriage by December 1949, but this claim has not been fully substantiated.{{cite book |last=McWhirter |first=Norris |title=The Guinness book of records |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vO68omlcUvYC&pg=PA13 |year=1988 |publisher=Guinness Superlatives |isbn=978-0-85112-878-8 |page=13 |access-date=2016-08-09 }}

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|Irene (née Cooke) and James Arthur Robinson

|1936

|Ms Robinson of Oyen, Alberta gave birth to her 27th child in 1936. She had 27 children, including six sets of twins in a 24-year period. Eleven children died as babies.{{Cite news|date=April 30, 1946|title=Oyen's 'Woman in Shoe' Had 27 Babies; 16 Live|work=The Albertan, Calgary, AB}}{{cite book |title=Many Trails Crossed Here Volume II |date=2007 |publisher=Oyen and District History Book Committee |page=456}}

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|Marie-Elise Chamberland and Heliodore Cyr

|1959

|Marie-Elise Chamberland and Heliodore Cyr married in 1928 and gave birth to 27 children by 1959, all single births. 19 of them survived to adulthood.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/50168696/|title=?? |newspaper=The Ottawa Journal |page=5|access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818233316/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/50168696/|archive-date=18 August 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}} Mr Cyr, a potato farmer from Saint-François-de-Madawaska, New Brunswick,[http://www.perrygarfinkel.com/pdf/Madawaska-About-Us-Down-East-with-a-French.pdf Madawaska, Down East with a French Accent] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029212411/http://www.perrygarfinkel.com/pdf/Madawaska-About-Us-Down-East-with-a-French.pdf |date=2013-10-29 }}, by Perry Garfunkel, page 405–406 appeared on the TV show I've Got A Secret three times – after the births of his 25th, 26th and 27th children.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3khHxNVTnTQ |title=Heliodore Cyr on I've Got A Secret |via=YouTube |access-date=2016-11-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809095304/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3khHxNVTnTQ |archive-date=2016-08-09 |url-status=live }}

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|Marilouise (Landry) and William Croteau

|1919 ({{Circa}})

|Marielouise and William Croteau had 26 children in St. Patrice-de-Beaurivage, Québec including six sets of twins. Two died as infants, one at 10 months, and one at four years. 21 survived to adulthood. The last to survive was Madeleine Croteau Houle who lived to be 102 and died on January 31, 2021.{{Cite web |title=Obituary for Madeleine Croteau Houle at Keefe Funeral Home |url=http://thekeefefuneralhome.com/obit_view.php?id=2993&placeholderpic&name=Madeleine+Croteau+Houle |access-date=2022-12-17 |website=thekeefefuneralhome.com}}

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|Wéber Andrásné Szirotek Teréz

|1899

|Ms Wéber (b. 30 September 1855) of Csömör, Hungary gave birth to 25 children between 1872 and 1899. She was awarded with a silver medal on 20 August 1930 on the 'Magyar anyák nemzeti ünnepe' (Hungarian Mothers National Day).{{cite web|url=https://adtplus.arcanum.hu/en/view/AzEst_1930_08/?pg=224&layout=s|title=Az Est |date=22 August 1930 |page=9|access-date=12 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180513152055/https://adtplus.arcanum.hu/en/view/AzEst_1930_08/?pg=224&layout=s|archive-date=13 May 2018|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}{{cite web|url=https://adtplus.arcanum.hu/en/view/PestiHirlap_1930_08/?pg=574&layout=s|title=?? |newspaper=Pesti Hírlap |date=26 August 1930 |page=7 |access-date=12 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180513151859/https://adtplus.arcanum.hu/en/view/PestiHirlap_1930_08/?pg=574&layout=s|archive-date=13 May 2018|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}{{cite web|url=https://adtplus.arcanum.hu/en/view/TolnaiVilaglapja_1930_03/?pg=488&layout=s|title=Tolnai Világlapja |date=27 August 1930 |page=7 |access-date=12 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180513081440/https://adtplus.arcanum.hu/en/view/TolnaiVilaglapja_1930_03/?pg=488&layout=s|archive-date=13 May 2018|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

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|Lapa Piagenti and Giacomo di Benincasa

|1347 ({{Circa}})

|Their 23rd child was Saint Catherine of Siena.{{cite book |first=Finn |last=Skårderud |title=Holy anorexia: Catherine of Siena |publisher=Tidsskrift for norsk psykologforening |page=411 |location=Oslo |year=2008}}

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|Ada Watson

|1931

|Ms Watson (1886–1974) of Cambridge gave birth to 25 children, including three sets of twins, during the period 1904–1931. All of the children attained majority.

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|Catherine Ngin Kit Chit (Oct 4, 1904-Oct 12, 1993) and Joseph Goh Yong Twang (Jun 15, 1896-Dec 16, 1956) of Singapore

|1951

|Mrs. Ngin Kit Chit (Catherine) gave birth to 24 children while married to Mr. Goh Yong Twang (Joseph), all single births. They had enough male children to have a football (soccer) team.{{cite web | url=https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/147766/ | title=Singapore: Seventy-One Relatives Reunited with Mother at Chinese New Year Celebrations }}

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|Kathleen Scott

|1958

|Ms Scott (b. 4 July 1914) of Dublin gave birth to her 24th child on 9 August 1958. Twenty of her children were still alive in 1990.

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|Christine of Mecklenburg-Güstrow and Louis Christian, Count of Stolberg-Gedern

|1705

|The great-great-great-grandmother of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom had 23 children in 19 pregnancies between 1684 and 1705 (including four sets of twins); 11 of them survived to adulthood.[https://web.archive.org/web/20141013210502/http://wwperson.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/cgi-bin/l1/LANG%3Dengl/INDEX%3DI117476 Christina Herzogin v.Mecklenburg-Güstrow in: Genealogy Database by Herbert Stoyan] [retrieved 8 October 2014].

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|Queen Darejan and King Heraclius II of Georgia

|1807 ({{Circa}})

|They had a total of 23 children, 13 of whom lived to adulthood.[http://georgianstudies.ge/docs/XIII%202010.pdf Javakhishvili, David (2011/2012). "მეფე ერეკლე II-ის მეუღლეები" [The Spouses of King Erekle II]] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407081518/http://georgianstudies.ge/docs/XIII%202010.pdf |date=2014-04-07 }} (PDF). Georgian Source Studies (in Georgian; English summary). XIII-XIV: 90–96. {{ISSN|1987-9563}}

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|Tabatha Marcum and Silas Mainord

|1811 ({{Circa}})

|Married in 1811, they lived in Overton County, Tennessee, and produced 23 children. One of their daughters, Syreana, later became the mother of 17.{{cite web|url=http://www.josephinesjournal.com/23.html|title=A Family With Twenty-Three Children|access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303232039/http://www.josephinesjournal.com/23.html|archive-date=3 March 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

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|Grace Bagnato

|1938

|Grace Bagnato and her husband had 23 children; nine of them were conceived in order to compete for a bequest by a Toronto eccentric, in what became known as the Great Stork Derby.Orkin, Mark M. [https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/charles-vance-millar Millar, Charles Vance] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921144136/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/charles-vance-millar/ |date=2017-09-21 }}, The Canadian Encyclopedia online, retrieved 17 April 2009

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|Irene and Charles DeMello

|1958

|Irene DeMello of Tiverton, Rhode Island, gave birth to her 23rd child in February 1958 at the age of 40 in her 25 years of marriage. There were no multiple births. Seventeen of the children were alive, the eldest being 23.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=266&dat=19540219&id=UOArAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vmUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1800,2990124|title=?? |newspaper=Kentucky New Era |via=Google News |access-date=12 July 2016}}

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|Mary and Sylvester Hemsing

|1951 ({{Circa}})

|Mary Hemsing (1913–2014) of Rolling Hills, Alberta, Canada, gave birth to 11 boys and 12 girls, one of whom was stillborn.{{cite web|url=http://www.sfh.ca/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=2612976&fh_id=13823|title=Obituary For: Mary Hemsing|publisher=Smith Funeral Home|access-date=2016-08-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150607193557/http://www.sfh.ca/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=2612976&fh_id=13823|archive-date=2015-06-07|url-status=live}}

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|Alina and Juho Tyni

|1955

|A couple in Taivalkoski, Finland had 23 children. Two of them died very young.{{cite web|url=https://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2016/05/03/aiti-isa-ja-19-lasta|title=Äiti, isä ja 19 lasta|website=YLE|date=3 May 2016 |access-date=13 July 2023|df=dmy-all}}

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|Lady Emily FitzGerald

|1778

|Emily FitzGerald, Duchess of Leinster and her first husband James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, had nineteen children born between 1748 and 1773. Later she married her children's tutor William Ogilvie; they had three children, who were born between years 1775 and 1778.{{cite web|url=http://www.abcgallery.com/bio/lennox.html|title=The Lennoxes |website=Olga's Gallery|access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160720223936/http://www.abcgallery.com/bio/lennox.html|archive-date=20 July 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

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|Ms and Mr Hostetter

|1941

|Roy Hostetter, a 46-year-old Pennsylvania miner, and his wife, aged 42, announced the birth of their 22nd child in May 1941.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19410526&id=2-IcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=g2QEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3808,4964190|title=?? |newspaper=Sarasota Herald-Tribune |via=Google News |access-date=12 July 2016}}

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|Charlotte and Marlon Story

|1946

|Charlotte Story of Bakersfield, California, gave birth to her 22nd child in July 1946. At the time, 19 of the other 21 children, including four sets of twins, were alive.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1970&dat=19460705&id=Ug8yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=auQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6654,5460960|title=?? |newspaper=Berkeley Daily Gazette |via=Google News|access-date=12 July 2016}} Marion and Charlotte Story participated in You Bet Your Life in 1950.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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|Ms Dick Renata

|1948

|Ms Dick Renata, a Maori, of Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, gave birth to her 22nd child in November 1948. Fourteen of her children survived, including the second born, who was 21 at the time she gave birth to the 22nd, and was himself a father.{{cite news |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/56832451|title=22nd CHILD BORN TO MAORI |newspaper=Morning Bulletin |location=Rockhampton |date=11 November 1948|access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160827152614/http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/56832451|archive-date=27 August 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

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|Madeleine and Marce Devaud

|1952

|Madeleine Devaud, wife of a village dairyman of La Gorre, western France, gave birth to her 22nd child, a boy, in March 1952, at the age of 42. The Devaud couple, married for 24 years, had 13 girls and seven boys. Two other children died in infancy.{{cite news |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/63200164|title=GAVE BIRTH TO HER 22nd. CHILD |newspaper=Townsville Daily Bulletin |date=22 March 1952|access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160827115203/http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/63200164|archive-date=27 August 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}{{cite news |url=http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/freepress19520321-1.2.119.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226160730/http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/freepress19520321-1.2.119.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 December 2013|title=?? |newspaper=The Singapore Free Press |date=21 March 1952 |page=8|access-date=12 July 2016}}

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|Mary Chaloner Hale

|1789

|The wife of General John Hale (1728–1806), Mary Hale (1743–1803, born Mary Chaloner in Guisborough, Yorkshire, England) bore 22 offspring between the years of 1765 and 1789, including her first child, John Hale.{{cite book |last=Hale |first=Elizabeth Frances |editor1-last=Hall |editor1-first=Roger |editor2-last=Shelton |editor2-first=S. W. |title="The Rising Country": The Hale-Amherst Correspondence 1799–1825 |url=https://archive.org/details/risingcountryhal0000hale |url-access=registration |publisher=The Champlain Society |date=2002 |page=[https://archive.org/details/risingcountryhal0000hale/page/447 447] |isbn=978-0-9689317-1-4}}

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|Mabel Constable

|1950 ({{Circa}})

|Ms Constable (born 1920), of Long Itchington, Warwicks, gave birth to 22 children, including a set of triplets and two sets of twins.{{cite book| author=Norris Dewar McWhirter|author2=Alan Ross McWhirter |title=New Guinness Book of Records| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i6MxAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA15| year=1975| publisher=Guinness Superlatives| page=15| access-date=2016-08-09 |isbn=9780900424267 }}

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|Margaret McNaught

|1945 ({{Circa}})

|Ms McNaught (born 1923), of Balsall Heath, Birmingham, gave birth to 22 children, 12 boys (2 of them died in infancy) and 10 girls, all single births.

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|Effie (née Estes) and Charles Dickey

|1914 ({{Circa}})

|From Clinton, Maine, Ms Dickey gave birth to 22 children, all single births. All of them lived to adulthood, with 18 of them living at least 70 years of age (the others died at ages 30, 58, 60 and 67).{{Cite news |last=Ohm |first=Rachel |date=2014-08-10 |title=Descendants of 22 siblings plan Maine reunion |url=https://www.pressherald.com/2014/08/10/descendants-of-22-siblings-plan-maine-reunion/ |access-date=2021-09-08 |website=The Portland Press Herald}}

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|Unidentified Romani woman

|1998

|A 38-year-old Romani woman of Lom, Bulgaria, gave birth to her 22nd child in March 1998. She and her husband had no jobs. 17 children lived with them and five were in orphanages.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yTylND961ZMC|title=The East European Gypsies: Regime Change, Marginality, and Ethnopolitics|first=Zoltan|last=Barany|date=1 January 2002|publisher=Cambridge University Press|access-date=12 July 2016|via=Google Books|isbn=9780521009102}}

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|Alice (née Spencer) & John Jennings

|1660 ({{Circa}})

|Jennings was an MP of St. Albans before the English Civil War. He names 3 of these children in his will, dated 1642, and his wife's will names 7 of them, dated 1663. Their granddaughter was Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough.{{cite book |last1=Greaves |first1=Richard |title=Biographical Dictionary of British Radicals in the Seventeenth Century |date=1982 |page=139 |edition=2}}

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|Sue and Noel Radford

|2020

|Sue (Suzanne) Radford has given birth to 22 children as of April 2020, 11 boys and 11 girls, all single births. Alfie (their 17th) was stillborn. At this time, their eldest son (Christopher) is 30 years old. They have six grandchildren. They have a bakery which is the family business and live in Morecambe, United Kingdom. All of them are healthy and thriving.{{cite news|url=https://www.lep.co.uk/news/people/morecambes-radford-family-welcome-22nd-baby-2530404|title=Morecambe's Radford family welcome 22nd baby|newspaper=Lancashire Evening Post |first=Michelle |last=Blade |date=6 April 2020 |access-date=26 December 2020}} The Channel 5 TV series 22 kids and counting documents their lives.

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|Alvin and Lucille Miller

|1966

|Alvin and Lucille resided in Waseca, Minnesota, where Lucille gave birth to 22 children and they cared for several more.{{Cite news |date=August 31, 2006 |title=Waseca woman who bore 22 children and took in others dies |url=https://www.postbulletin.com/news/waseca-woman-who-bore-22-children-and-took-in-others-dies |access-date=April 26, 2024 |work=Post Bulletin}} Their daughter Helen Miller recounted her experiences in the memoir "21 Siblings: Cheaper by the Two Dozen".{{Cite book |last=Miller |first=Helen |title=21 Siblings: Cheaper by the Two Dozen |publisher=Helen Miller |year=2018 |isbn=9780692089286}}

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|Mary Susannah Roberts (née Sautelle) and John Roberts

|1749 ({{Circa}})

|18th-century Irish architect and his wife. Of their children, said to number 21 or 24, only eight survived to adulthood, including the painters Thomas Roberts and Thomas Sautelle Roberts.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dia.ie/architects/view/4559/ROBERTS,+JOHN+%5B1%5D|title=Roberts, John [1] – Dictionary of Irish Architects|website=dia.ie}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dc-bDwAAQBAJ&q=%22John+Roberts%22+architect&pg=PT120|title=Waterford City: A History|first=Cian|last=Manning|date=31 October 2019|publisher=History Press|isbn=9780750992978|via=Google Books}}

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|Johanna O'Sullivan and William O'Daly

|1837

|They had 21 children in 29 years, 6 sons and 15 daughters, born between 1808 and 1837 in Gurrane, Currans, County Kerry, Ireland. There were no multiple births, and all of the children were born alive – it is likely that there were a number of stillborn children too. Four children died in childhood, and the last child, Bridget Russell, died in 1923. Descendants of Johanna and William include Commandant General Charlie Daly, Senator Mark Daly, Senator Lorraine Clifford-Lee, and Siobhán Fleming, captain of the Munster Women rugby team.{{Cite book|last1=Lyne|first1=John|title=Genealogies of Old Kilcummin and Adjoining Parishes|last2=Pleimionn|first2=Padraig|year=1936|location=County Kerry, Ireland}}{{Cite web|last=Daly|first=Mark|title=About Mark|url=https://senatormarkdaly.org/about/|publisher=Senator Mark Daly}}

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|Barbara Bremner and Thomas Burns

|1978

|Barbara and Thomas resided in Rogers Park on the north side of Chicago. Barbara gave birth to 21 single birth live children. She had her first daughter in 1951, and last in 1978. They supported their children on Tom's salary as an electrician, and Barbara ran a secretarial and phone-answering service, called Barb's Wire, from her home for many years. All 21 children reached adulthood.{{cite web|first=Rudolph |last=Bush |website=Chicago Tribune |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2003-05-06-0305060089-story.html |title=Barbara Burns, 71 |date=6 May 2003}}

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|Olivia (née Whitmore) and Arthur Guinness

|1783The Guinness family, 3rd edition; ed. Brian Guinness; family trees arranged by M. Galwey (1985) pp. 3–17

|Guinness was an Irish brewer. Only ten of their children lived to adulthood.{{cite book| last=Wilson| first=Derek| title=Dark and Light: The Story of the Guinness Family| year=1998| publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson| isbn=978-0-297-81718-5 }}

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|Ann Clark Skerrett and Jeremiah Lear

|1812

|Their 20th child was English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet Edward Lear (born 1812).{{cite web |author=James Williams (University of Cambridge) |url=http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2659 |title=Literary Encyclopedia | Edward Lear |publisher=Litencyc.com |date=2004-07-20 |access-date=2014-01-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215194623/http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2659 |archive-date=2015-02-15 |url-status=live }}

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|Olivia (née Gutenberger) and Rudolph Schoelzel Sr.

|1949

|They had 21 children in 24 years, 11 sons and 10 daughters, born between 1925 and 1949 in Colby, Wisconsin, USA. There were no multiple births. One son died in infancy in 1947, and one son also died in 1947, aged 21.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9360157/schoelzel-20-children-in-25-years-1 |title=20 Children in 25 Years, But Colby Family's Record Is Tied |work=Marshfield News-Herald |place=Colby |date=5 November 1949 |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=22 January 2021}}

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|Domitille (née Brun) and Pierre Martin

|1861

They had 21 children in 25 years, 11 sons and 10 daughters, born and baptized between 1835 and 1861 in Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville, Québec, Canada. There were no multiple births.Drouin Collection (accessible from FamilySearch.org, Ancestry.com, or GenealogieQuebec.com){{Unreliable source?|date=April 2013}}{{cite web |title=PRDH Family Profile 189117 |url=https://www.prdh-igd.com/Membership/en/PRDH/famille/189117 |website=Programme de recherche en démographie historique |access-date=26 December 2019}}
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| Teodora (née Lopez) and Raymundo Olivas

|1853 ({{Circa}})

| Born in 1809 in Los Angeles, Raymundo Olivas met his future wife, Teodora Lopez, in Santa Barbara. They were married in 1832, and together they had 21 children – 13 boys and eight girls. In 1841 Raymundo built the Olivas Adobe, an important part of Ventura city's cultural heritage.{{cite web|url=http://www.cityofventura.net/olivashistory|title=History & preservation – City Of Ventura|access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160627133935/http://www.cityofventura.net/olivashistory|archive-date=27 June 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

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|Josephine & Michael Salzo Sr.

|1923 ({{Circa}})

|The 21 children included the first known surviving set of quadruplets in New Haven, Connecticut; triplets; and two sets of twins.{{cite web|date=23 June 2013|title=James Salzo|url=http://www.westhavenfuneral.com/book-of-memories/1619389/Salzo-James/obituary.php|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815212906/http://www.westhavenfuneral.com/book-of-memories/1619389/Salzo-James/obituary.php|archive-date=15 August 2016|access-date=12 July 2016|publisher=West Haven Funeral Home|df=dmy-all}}

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|Anna and Henry Crocker

|1963 ({{Circa}})

|18 of their children lived to adulthood.{{Cite news |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/lowellsun/obituary.aspx?n=anna-j-crocker&pid=1559133|title=Anna Crocker – Obituary |newspaper=Lowell Sun |via=Legacy.com}}

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|Ms and Mr Albert Cunningham

|1930

|The couple from Iron Mountain, Michigan, welcomed their 21st child in September 1930 after 27 years of marriage. Seventeen of their children were alive.{{cite news |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1930/09/28/page/1/article/21st-child-born-to-this-michigan-pair-wed-27-yrs|title=21st Child Born to This Michigan Pair, Wed 27 Yrs. |date=September 28, 1930 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307115537/http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1930/09/28/page/1/article/21st-child-born-to-this-michigan-pair-wed-27-yrs/|archive-date=7 March 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

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|Elizabeth Hudson

|1955

|Ms Hudson, of London, the wife of a paint sprayer, gave birth to her 21st child in February 1955, at the age of 45. Sixteen of the children were alive.{{cite news |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1955/02/07/page/3/article/21st-child-born-to-wife-of-british-paint-sprayer|title=21st Child Born to Wife of British Paint Sprayer |date=February 7, 1955 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180117131508/http://chicagotribune.newspapers.com/|archive-date=17 January 2018|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

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|Mary and Wara Tengu

|1968

|The Maori couple from Hamilton, New Zealand, welcomed their 21st child in January 1968; the mother was then 42 years old. They already had five grandchildren.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19680115&id=NtgzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LTIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=2698,1178990 |title==?? |newspaper=Lodi News-Sentinel |via=Google News |access-date=12 July 2016}}

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|Ofelia Llanes Gaxiola

|1960 ({{Circa}})

|Ms Ofelia Llanes Gaxiola, of Culiacán, Sinaloa, the wife of a postman, gave birth to 21 children.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/10874763/|title=?? |newspaper=The Titusville Herald |location=Titusville, Pennsylvania |page=1|access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819064731/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/10874763/|archive-date=19 August 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

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|Aliza and Meir Ben-Haroush

|1969

|Aliza Ben-Haroush of Haifa gave birth to her 21st child in July 1969 at the age of 46 and became the most prolific mother in Israel.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19690709&id=bjNWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=p-cDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3049,1556252|title=?? |newspaper=Eugene Register-Guard |via=Google News|access-date=12 July 2016}}

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|Unidentified Indian woman

|1970

|Not much is known about this case except that a woman from Assam gave birth to her 21st child in 1970.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/27978826/|title=?? |newspaper=The Evening Standard |location=Uniontown, Pennsylvania |page=35|access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818045555/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/27978826/|archive-date=18 August 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xDcDAAAAMBAJ|title=?? |magazine=Jet |date=14 January 1971 |access-date=12 July 2016|via=Google Books}}

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|Leonora and Yanosh Nameni

|2013

|Leonora Namenia, of Ostritsa, Hertsa Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, gave birth to her 21st child in October 2013, at the age of 44, becoming the most prolific mother in Ukraine. Leonora and Yanosh are followers of the Apostolic Christian Church (Nazarene) and do not practice birth control. The Nameni family has 11 sons and 10 daughters, including two sets of twins.{{cite web|url=http://fakty.ua/171173-muzh-samoj-mnogodetnoj-materi-v-ukraine-yanosh-nameni-esli-gospod-planiruet-dlya-nas-ecshe-detej-znachit-oni-budut|title=Муж самой многодетной матери в Украине Янош Намени: Если Господь планирует для нас еще...|language=ru|trans-title=The husband of the women with the most children in the Ukraine says 'If the Lord intends for us to have children, then we will'|access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806165434/http://fakty.ua/171173-muzh-samoj-mnogodetnoj-materi-v-ukraine-yanosh-nameni-esli-gospod-planiruet-dlya-nas-ecshe-detej-znachit-oni-budut|archive-date=6 August 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

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| Sebastiana Maria da Conceicao

|2015

| Sebastiana Maria da Conceicao, aged 51, gave birth to her 21st child in the city of Aracaju, Brazil, in May 2015. The boy joined the family of 10 brothers and 10 sisters, of whom 18 were alive.{{cite news |url=http://g1.globo.com/se/sergipe/noticia/2015/05/mulher-de-51-anos-da-luz-ao-21-filho-em-aracaju-e-diz-que-quer-mais.html|title=Mulher de 51 anos dá à luz 21º filho em Aracaju e diz que quer mais|date=16 May 2015|language=pt|trans-title=51 year old woman gives birth to 21st child in Aracaju and says she wants more|access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170219072100/http://g1.globo.com/se/sergipe/noticia/2015/05/mulher-de-51-anos-da-luz-ao-21-filho-em-aracaju-e-diz-que-quer-mais.html|archive-date=19 February 2017|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

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|Jane (née Purdon) and Adam Loftus.

|1590 ({{Circa}})

|The archbishop of Armagh, and later of Dublin, and Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Adam Loftus, had 20 children with his wife Jane between c. 1559 and 1590,{{cite web|url=http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cmricha/fam4344.html|title=Family of Adam LOFTUS and Jane PURDON|access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617112433/http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cmricha/fam4344.html|archive-date=17 June 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}} twelve of whom survived to adulthood.{{cite DNB|wstitle=Loftus, Adam (1533?–1605)|display=Loftus, Adam (1533?–1605)|volume=34|pages=73–77}}

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|Catherine Marion de Druy and Antoine Arnauld

|1612

|Famous French lawyer Antoine Arnauld had 20 children with his wife Catherine Marion de Druy between 1588 and 1612, ten of whom survived to adulthood.{{cite web|url=http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Printonly/Arnauld.html|title=Arnauld (print-only)|access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160323020159/http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Printonly/Arnauld.html|archive-date=23 March 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

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|Elizabeth Carleton

|1681 ({{Circa}})

|Elizabeth Carleton, daughter of Sir Dudley Carleton, had one child, daughter Elizabeth, with her first husband Thomas Barker, and 19 children with her second husband Giles Vanbrugh, 12 of whom survived infancy, including English architect and dramatist John Vanbrugh (1664–1726) and Commodore Governor of Newfoundland Philip Vanbrugh (c. 1681 – 1753).page 16, Sir John Vanbrugh A Biography, Kerry Downes, 1987, Sidgwick and Jackson, {{ISBN|0-283-99497-5}}{{Cite book|title=The work of John Vanbrugh|last1=Beard|first1=Geoffery|isbn=978-0-7134-4678-4|year=1986|publisher=Batsford}}

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|Marie Elisabeth of Eggenberg and Ferdinand Joseph

|1685

|Ferdinand Joseph had 20 children with his wife Marie Elisabeth of Eggenberg between 1657 and 1685 (all single births), of whom only five survived to adulthood.{{cite web|url=http://rmm.cz/dietrichstein/dietrich/ferdinand.html|website=Dietrichsteinové v Mikulově|title=Ferdinand Josef – 2. kníže Dietrichstein|trans-title=Ferdinand Joseph – 2nd Prince of Dietrichstein|language=cs|access-date=12 July 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310044701/http://rmm.cz/dietrichstein/dietrich/ferdinand.html|archive-date=10 March 2016}}

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| Anne Margrethe Rossing and Peder Horrebow

|1718 ({{Circa}})

| Danish astronomer Peder Horrebow and his wife Anne Margrethe Rossing had a total of 20 children.{{cite book |title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers |last=Hockey |first=Thomas |year=2009 |publisher=Springer Publishing |isbn=978-0-387-31022-0 |access-date=22 August 2012 |url=http://www.springerreference.com/docs/html/chapterdbid/58654.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130203002226/http://www.springerreference.com/docs/html/chapterdbid/58654.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 February 2013}} One of their sons, Christian Horrebow, born 1718, continued his father's astronomical studies.{{cite book |last=Hockey |first=Thomas |url=http://www.springerreference.com/docs/html/chapterdbid/58653.html |title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers |publisher=Springer Publishing |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-387-31022-0 |access-date=August 22, 2012}}

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|Barbe Arnault and Antoine Monneron

|1758

|Barbe Arnault and Antoine Monneron had 20 children between 1733 and 1758 (all single births), 12 of whom survived infancy.{{cite web|url=http://gw.geneanet.org/samlap?lang=fr&m=NG&n=Monneron&t=N|title=Famille de Simon de Solemy de Palmas – Geneanet|access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160207054848/http://gw.geneanet.org/samlap?lang=fr&m=NG&n=Monneron&t=N|archive-date=7 February 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}} Their sons became well known Monneron brothers.

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|Johan Samuelsson and Sofia Persdotter

|1794

|Johan Samuelsson and Sofia Persdotter of Lycksele, Sweden had 20 children born between 1767 and 1794.{{cite web|url= https://www.geni.com/people/Johan-Samuelsson-Öhrling/6000000007511862826 |title=Geni |date=May 2024 |website=Geni |access-date=11 August 2024 }}

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|Rosgen (née Fuld) and Hayum Lowenstein

|1860 ({{Circa}})

|Rosgen and Hayum Lowenstein of Langendernbach, Germany, had 20 children, 19 of whom survived to adulthood. The youngest child was born in 1860.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m1uSCgAAQBAJ|title=Jews in the Great War: Family Histories Retold|first=Lois Ogilby|last=Rosen|date=19 August 2015|publisher=Lulu.com|access-date=12 July 2016|via=Google Books|isbn=9781329409422}}{{self-published source|date=February 2020}}{{self-published inline|date=February 2020}}

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|Marie Verrault and Pierre Edouard Cauchon

|1882

|Born between 1853 and 1882 at Château-Richer, Québec, Canada, sixteen of the children died in infancy, and one as a young adult. There were no multiple births.

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|Florestine Piché and Gaspard Beaupré

|1881

|Florestine Piché and Gaspard Beaupré had 20 children; the eldest of them was famous giant Édouard Beaupré, born in 1881 in Willow Bunch, Saskatchewan.{{cite web|url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/beaupre_edouard_13E.html|title=Biography – BEAUPRÉ, ÉDOUARD – Volume XIII (1901–1910) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography|access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815225958/http://biographi.ca/en/bio/beaupre_edouard_13E.html|archive-date=15 August 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

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|Emma Catherine Padgett and Addison Bidwell Millard

|1890

|Addison Millard (1843–1898) and Emma Padgett (1849–1919) married in 1865 in Urbana, Maryland, and had 20 children, the last of whom was born in 1890. Six died in infancy. The family moved to Virginia in 1893, where they ran Colvin Run Mill for more than 50 years.{{cite web|url=http://gfhs.org/local_lore/11_the_millards.htm|title=An Earlier Great Falls (Virginia): The Millards of Colvin Run Mill|date=7 April 2010|access-date=28 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100407152208/http://gfhs.org/local_lore/11_the_millards.htm|archive-date=7 April 2010|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

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|Elise Steinmann and Leonhard Hauser

|1928 ({{Circa}})

|The couple had 20 children, seven of whom died as infants. Elise Steinmann (1848–1928) and Leonhard Hauser (1842–1915) were both born in Switzerland. they immigrated to the US in 1882, and settled in Greenwood (now Greenfield) near Rockford, Minnesota. 13 of their children were born in Switzerland, and seven in the US.US Census 1900, US Census 1910

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|Ella and James Lee Townsend

|1917

|Ella and James Lee Townsend, sharecroppers from Montgomery County, Mississippi, had a total of 20 children. The youngest of them was American voting rights activist, civil rights leader, and philanthropist Fannie Lou Hamer, born in 1917.{{cite news |url=http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/articles/51/fannie-lou-hamer-civil-rights-activist |title=Fannie Lou Hamer: Civil Rights Activist |work=Mississippi History Now |date=April 2007 |agency=Mississippi Historical Society |access-date=3 March 2015 |author=Mills, Kay |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150311160112/http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/articles/51/fannie-lou-hamer-civil-rights-activist |archive-date=11 March 2015 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}

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|Gertrude Louisa Rowe Goodley and George Thomas Jolley

|1932

|Gertrude and George married in 1905 and had 20 children between 1906 and 1932, when Gertrude was aged 46. The family were from the Tolaga Bay area on New Zealand's North Island.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} Issue 227 of the Gisborne Photo News carried a report in 1973 about a reunion of 140 of their descendants and noted that they had 215 direct descendants at that time.{{cite news |url=http://photonews.org.nz/gisborne/issue/GPN227_19730523/t1-body-d9.html|title=Four Generation Families – Gisborne Photo News – No 227 : May 23, 1973|website=photonews.org.nz|access-date=12 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304191822/http://photonews.org.nz/gisborne/issue/GPN227_19730523/t1-body-d9.html|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}

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|Mary and John Fullerton

|1935 ({{Circa}})

|Mary and John Fullerton from County Donegal, Ireland, had 20 children, the eldest of whom was Eddie Fullerton, born in 1935.{{cite web|url=http://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/16338|title=Collusion: Kilkenny republicans view presentation on Truth – An Phoblacht|access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160918062954/http://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/16338|archive-date=18 September 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

style="text-align:center;" |20

|Ms and Mr Rexford Oakley

|1954

|Ms Oakley, aged 54, from Scranton, Pennsylvania, gave birth to her 20th child in December 1954. 18 of the children, including the newborn, were alive.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19541213&id=cXxIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=22oDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1313,5867074|title=?? |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |via=Google News|access-date=12 July 2016}}

style="text-align:center;" |20

| Ms and Mr Edward Bitter

|1958

| Ms Bitter, aged 40, the wife of a bricklayer, from Covington, Kentucky, gave birth to her 20th child in January 1958. Four of their children, including a set of twins, were dead. The other 16 were 10 boys and six girls; the oldest of them was 24.{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6L8DAAAAMBAJ|title=?? |magazine=Jet |date=28 January 1954 |access-date=12 July 2016|via=Google Books}}

style="text-align:center;" |20

|Dolores and Prosper Grenier

|1961

|Dolores Grenier, aged 43, of Waterville, Maine, gave birth to her 20th child in April 1961. During 26 years of marriage she gave birth to 12 sons and eight daughters, including three sets of twins. Two daughters have died.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1928&dat=19610415&id=ORMgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TWYFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4522,4348066|title=?? |newspaper=The Lewiston Daily Sun |via=Google News |access-date=12 July 2016}}

style="text-align:center;" |20

|Eldora and James Parnell

|1966

|Eldora Parnell, aged 42, of Bakersfield, California, gave birth to her 20th child in November 1966, after 27 years of marriage.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19661130&id=cEsqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pk8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5213,5843433|title=?? |newspaper=The Pittsburgh Press |via=Google News|access-date=12 July 2016}}

style="text-align:center;" |20

|The mother of Maria Goncales Moreira

|1984

|Not much is known about this case except the fact that she had ten sets of twins. Her daughter also had ten sets of twins (see below).{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=266&dat=19840707&id=jPAwAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FOAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5186,651944|title=?? |newspaper=Kentucky New Era |via=Google News|access-date=12 July 2016}}

style="text-align:center;" |20

|Maria Goncales Moreira

|1984

|Ms Moreira of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, gave birth to her tenth set of twins (identical boys) on 3 July 1984. Her other twins were 16 girls and two boys. She delivered the first at age 13. Her mother also had ten sets of twins.

style="text-align:center;" |20

|Jessie Campbell

|1990

|Ms Campbell (born 1946) of Struan, Isle of Skye, Scotland, gave birth to her 20th child on 22 January 1990.{{cite book| last1=McFarlan| first1=Donald| last2=McWhirter| first2=Norris| title=The Guinness book of records 1991| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yPfPrgK21okC&pg=PA10| year=1990| publisher=Guinness| isbn=978-0-85112-374-5| page=10| access-date=2016-08-09 }}

style="text-align:center;" |20

|Julianna and Ernő Lukács

|1991

|Julianna Lukács and her husband, a Hungarian farmer, have six sons and fourteen daughters. They live in Tolna, Hungary, in a mansion farming on {{convert|3336|acre}}. The first child was born in 1966 and the last in 1991.{{cite web|url=http://superiormagazin.hu/best-of/9684/|title=Lukács Ernő, a 20 gyermekes milliárdos|work=Superior Premium Magazine|language=hu|trans-title=Lukács Ernő, a 20 children millionaire|access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814104714/http:/\/superiormagazin.hu/best-of/9684/|archive-date=14 August 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

style="text-align:center;" |20

|Valentina and Anatoliy Khromykh

|1993 ({{Circa}})

|Valentina Khromykh from Lev-Tolstovsky District, Lipetsk Oblast, Russia, gave birth to 20 children, 11 boys and 9 girls. As of May 2015, 15 of the children were alive (two died in infancy and other three at the ages of 12, 28 and 32), the oldest child was 46 and the youngest was 22. Also by May 2015, Valentina was 64, she had been married to Anatoliy Khromykh for 46 years, and they already had ten grandchildren.{{cite news |url=http://gorod48.ru/news/317810/|title=Жительница Липецкой области родила 20 детей|language=ru|trans-title=A resident of the Lipetsk region has given birth to 20 children|access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917042043/http://gorod48.ru/news/317810/|archive-date=17 September 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

style="text-align:center;" |20

|Elena and Alexander Shishkin

|2003

|Elena Shishkina (born 1958) of Voronezh Oblast, Russia, gave birth to her 20th child in April 2003, becoming the most prolific mother in Russia; her eldest son was 24 at that time. The Shishkins have 9 sons and 11 daughters, and had 20 grandchildren by November 2012.{{cite web|url=http://www.aif.ru/society/people/glavnaya_mama_rossii_elena_shishkina_podarila_nashey_strane_20_detey|title=Главная мама России: Елена Шишкина подарила нашей стране 20 детей|first=Мария|last=Копытина|date=27 November 2012|access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820124036/http://www.aif.ru/society/people/glavnaya_mama_rossii_elena_shishkina_podarila_nashey_strane_20_detey|archive-date=20 August 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

style="text-align:center;" |20

|Marie and Antonín Kludský

|1909 ({{Circa}})

|Marie (1832–1909) and Antonín Kludský (1826–1895) from Bohemia were parents of 20 boys and ancestors of the famous cirque family Kludský.{{cite web|url=https://www.knihovna-jirkov.cz/karel-kludsky/|title=Karel Kludský – Kulturní, vzdělávací a informační zařízení Jirkov|access-date=7 September 2019|language=cs}}

style="text-align:center;" |20

|Georgiana Văcaru

|2020 ({{Circa}})

|Georgiana Văcaru (born 1976) from Stoenești, Argeș is the woman with the most children in Romania.{{cite news|url=https://adevarul.ro/locale/pitesti/cum-reusit-romanca-nasca-20-copii-varsta-42-ani-mama-cei-mai-copii-romania-1_5e1dc37c5163ec42711ac7b7/index.html|date=January 14, 2020|access-date=May 4, 2023|language=ro|title=Cum a reușit o româncă să nască 20 de copii până la vârsta de 42 de ani. Este mama cu cei mai mulți copii din România|newspaper=Adevărul| first=Denis| last=Grigorescu}}

style="text-align:center;" |20

|Bertta (née Ämmänpää) and Seppo Oikarinen

|1992

|A couple in Finland had 20 children.{{cite web|url=https://www.kodinkuvalehti.fi/artikkeli/lue/ihmiset/20-lapsisen-perheen-sisarukset-kaikki-oli-opittava-jakamaan-lelut-huone-ja|title=20-lapsisen perheen sisarukset: "Kaikki oli opittava jakamaan – lelut, huone ja äidin aika"|website=Kodin Kuvalehti|date=14 February 2020 |access-date=13 July 2023}}

style="text-align:center;" |20

|"Dorothea"

|1550 ({{Circa}})

|Dorothea, an Italian woman who lived at the time of Ambroise Paré, reportedly delivered 20 children in 2 exceptionally large pregnancies. She first carried 9 children, and then 11. It is unknown whether the children survived.{{Cite web|url=https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-57221200R-bk|title=Anomalies and curiosities of medicine: being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day : abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed – Digital Collections – National Library of Medicine|website=collections.nlm.nih.gov}}

Fathers

This section lists men who have produced at least 25 or more children, usually with different women. Males who have fathered large numbers of children through medical sperm donation are difficult to record. Numbers in italics are inexact, particularly of rulers of antiquity.

class="wikitable sortable"
style="text-align:center; width:4%;" | Total births

! style="width:20%;" | Father's name

!Approximate year of last birth

! style="width:72%; class="unsortable" |Notes

style="text-align:center;"|1,000–3,000 (wildly overestimated by myths)

| Genghis Khan

|

|According to popular myths and legends about his prolific number of offspring, Genghis Khan, the first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire is rumoured to have fathered 1,000 to 3,000 children from his enormous harem (however, mathematical evidence does not support this claim{{Cite journal|title=The Genetic Legacy of the Mongol|date=2003 |doi=10.1086/367774 |pmid=12592608 |last1=Zerjal |first1=T. |last2=Xue |first2=Y. |last3=Bertorelle |first3=G. |last4=Wells |first4=R. S. |last5=Bao |first5=W. |last6=Zhu |first6=S. |last7=Qamar |first7=R. |last8=Ayub |first8=Q. |last9=Mohyuddin |first9=A. |last10=Fu |first10=S. |last11=Li |first11=P. |last12=Yuldasheva |first12=N. |last13=Ruzibakiev |first13=R. |last14=Xu |first14=J. |last15=Shu |first15=Q. |last16=Du |first16=R. |last17=Yang |first17=H. |last18=Hurles |first18=M. E. |last19=Robinson |first19=E. |last20=Gerelsaikhan |first20=T. |last21=Dashnyam |first21=B. |last22=Mehdi |first22=S. Q. |last23=Tyler-Smith |first23=C. |journal=American Journal of Human Genetics |volume=72 |issue=3 |pages=717–721 |pmc=1180246 }}). A 2003 study speculated that 16 million men alive today are likely direct descendants of him and/or his male relatives.{{Cite web|url=https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/who-had-the-most-kids-in-history|title=Who had the most kids in history? Or, humanity's near-extinction and why it matters for us all.|first=Brian|last=Klaas|website=www.forkingpaths.co}}{{Cite journal |last=Callaway |first=Ewen |date=2015-01-23 |title=Genghis Khan's genetic legacy has competition |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.16767 |journal=Nature |language=en |doi=10.1038/nature.2015.16767 |issn=1476-4687|url-access=subscription }} However, a later study has cast doubt on this claim.{{cite journal |last1=Batini |first1=Chiara |last2=Jobling |first2=Mark |title=Detecting past male-mediated expansions using the Y chromosome |journal=Human Genetics |date=2017 |volume=136 |issue=5 |pages=547–557 |doi=10.1007/s00439-017-1781-z |pmid=28349239 |s2cid=253980891 |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00439-017-1781-z|hdl=2381/39780 |hdl-access=free }} This amount of children that Genghis Khan is referenced as having is largely mythical as official sources dispute this.{{cite web |title=Genghis Khan DNA Ancestry |url=https://genomelink.io/dna/genghis-khan-ancestry |website=Genomelink |access-date=27 April 2025}}

style="text-align:center;"|868–1171

|Moulay Ismail Ibn Sharif

|1727 ({{Circa}}){{Efn|His date of death}}

|The monarch of Morocco who had a harem of 500 women, and fathered 525 boys and 342 girls. In total, Guinness World Records calculated the most children to one father at 1042.{{Cite web |url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2008/03/080303.aspx |title=Guinness book of records |access-date=10 May 2021 |archive-date=13 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100313155522/http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2008/03/080303.aspx |url-status=dead}} A research team at the University of Vienna suggested 1171 children from a report by Dominique Busnot.{{cite journal|title=NCBI US library|last=Ismail|first=Moulay|journal=PLOS ONE|year=2014|volume=9|issue=2|page=e85292|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0085292|pmid=24551034|pmc=3925083|doi-access=free}}

style="text-align:center;" |900+

|Bertold Paul Wiesner

|

|This scientist fathered up to 1000 children by artificial insemination by donor through the medical practice of his second wife Mary Barton, between 1942 (or earlier) and 1967. He also is the father of Eva Ibbotson by his first wife Anna Gmeyner, and two children by Mary Barton.Findlay, S.,'British Man Fathered 600 Children at Own Fertility Clinic'. The Star. Toronto. 9 Apr 2012.{{cite news |last1=Fricker |first1=Martin |title=Grand Daddy: Sperm Donor Scientist May Have Fathered 1000 Babies at Clinic He Ran |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sperm-donor-may-have-fathered-1000-babies-784615 |accessdate=15 March 2020 |work=London Daily Mirror |date=8 April 2012}}{{Cite journal|last1=Nunn|first1=Jack|last2=Crawshaw|first2=Marilyn|last3=Lacaze|first3=Paul|date=2020-11-10|title=Co-Designing Genomics Research With A Large Group of Donor-Conceived Siblings|url=https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-100595/v1|doi=10.21203/rs.3.rs-100595/v1|doi-access=free}}

style="text-align:center;"|800+

|Simon Watson

|

|British sperm donor, made headlines in 2016 for claiming to have sired over 800 children. He regularly posts updates of his new children to Twitter. In 2018, a child of Watson took a DNA test and matched with 40 siblings. Made headlines again in 2019 for getting 13 women pregnant in just 26 days.{{Cite news |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/ct-nw-nyt-case-of-serial-sperm-donor-20210201-53yflq6fyfhchkrymbi7tbvpca-story.html|title=The case of the serial sperm donor |newspaper=Orlando Sentinel}}{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35262535 |title=I fathered 800 children, claims sperm donor |first1=Natalie |last1=Morton |first2=Sarah |last2=Bell |publisher=BBC News |date=13 January 2016}}

style="text-align:center;"|500+

|Jonathan Jacob Meijer

|

|Dutch musician who, in his 30s, may have fathered 200 children through sperm donation. The director of the Dutch Donor Child Foundation, told the Times that his offspring could number several hundred or even 1,000.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bioedge.org/bioethics/spreading-genes-far-and-wide/13698|title=BioEdge: Spreading genes far and wide| date=6 February 2021 }} In 2023 a Dutch court forbade Meijer from donating any more sperm with a potential fine of €100,000 per infraction.{{Cite news |last=Staff |date=2023-04-28 |title=Father of hundreds gets sperm donation ban from Dutch court |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/father-hundreds-gets-sperm-donation-ban-dutch-court-2023-04-28/ |access-date=2023-04-29}}

style="text-align:center;"|{{sort|300|up to 300}}

|Paul Elden Kingston

|

|Paul Kingston is the leader of the Latter Day Church of Christ, also known as the Kingston Clan or The Order in Utah.Bennion, Janet.(2012). Polygamy in Primetime: Media, Gender and Politics in Mormon Fundamentalism. University Press of New England. Lebanon, NH. {{ISBN|978-1-61168-262-5}}

style="text-align:center;"|210

|King Sobhuza II

|

|King of Swaziland (now Eswatini), lived 1899–1982, is thought to have had 70 wives.{{cite web|last=Swaziland National Trust Commission|title=Succession in Swazi Kingship|url=http://www.sntc.org.sz/cultural/swaziculture1.html|publisher=Sntc.org.sz|access-date=28 November 2013|archive-date=25 July 2001|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010725080851/http://www.sntc.org.sz/cultural/swaziculture1.html|url-status=dead}}

style="text-align:center;" |177

|Sultan Ibrahim Njoya

|

|He was King of Bamum in Cameroon, lived 1860–1933, and is thought to have had 'around 600' wives. He was said to have had 149 children by December 1915.{{cite book| author=Naval & Military Press, The| title=Great War in West Africa| year=2005| publisher=Naval & Military Press| isbn=978-1-84574-115-0 }}

style="text-align:center;" |170+

|Mohammed Bello Abubakar

|

|Mohammed Bello Abubakar (1924–2017) of Nigeria married 86 women and had 170 children with them before being arrested in 2008 for polygamy for having more than four wives.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7618396.stm|title=Nigerian with 86 wives arrested|date=16 September 2008|access-date=12 July 2016|via=bbc.co.uk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910182000/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7618396.stm|archive-date=10 September 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

style="text-align:center;" |≥165

|Ari Nagel

|

|The American maths professor has fathered more than 100 children via sperm donation.{{cite news |title=Ukraine and Russia to take spotlight at 24th DocAviv film fest |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/ukraine-and-russia-to-take-spotlight-at-24th-docaviv-film-fest/ |agency=Times of Israel |date=9 May 2022}}{{cite news |title=Have Sperm, Will Travel |url=https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a37982793/sperm-donor-shortage-facebook-groups/ |publisher=Esquire |date=20 October 2021}}

style="text-align:center;" |162+

|Ramesses II

|

|Egyptian pharaoh; see list of children of Ramesses II

style="text-align:center;" |160+

|Ancentus Ogwella Akukujulama

|

|This Kenyan polygamist, known as "Danger", lived 1916–2010; he married "more than 100 times" and had fathered "at least 160 children".{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/661527.stm|title=Polygamist marries 100 times|date=29 February 2000|access-date=12 July 2016|via=bbc.co.uk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040519025224/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/661527.stm|archive-date=19 May 2004|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}} An unsubstantiated article from the East African Standard claimed he had 210 children: 104 daughters and 106 sons, by some 130 wives.{{cite web|url=https://citizen.digital/news/elderly-man-dies-leaving-148-children-35-widows-101500/|title=elderly man leaves 148 children| website=citizen.digital|date=23 September 2015}}

style="text-align:center;" |158

|Jack Kigongo

|

|Kigongo lived in Kateerea, Uganda, 1909–2014; he had 27 wives, and when he died aged 109, had around 501 grandchildren.{{cite news |url=http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2012/04/25/Ugandan-man-fathered-158-children/UPI-72311335378231/|title=Ugandan man fathered 158 children|access-date=12 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808000415/http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2012/04/25/Ugandan-man-fathered-158-children/UPI-72311335378231/|archive-date=8 August 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

style="text-align:center;" |150

|Joe Donor

|

|{{As of|2018|July}}, a 47-year-old man using the pseudonym Joe Donor claimed to have fathered up to 150 children by using a Facebook page to connect with women looking for free sperm, generally by having sex with "Joe" rather than through costly artificial insemination (though some customers do prefer syringes of his sperm).{{cite news |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/sperm-donor-who-advertises-facebook-12889072 |title=Sperm donor who advertises on Facebook says he's fathered 1,562 across America thanks to 'super' seed |first1=Josh |last1=Layton |first2=Amy |last2=Coles |work=Daily Mirror |date=2018-07-10 |access-date=2019-03-25 }} At the time of a 2014 interview on the television news magazine 20/20, Joe had already claimed 30+ successful childbirths from having sex with 100 different women requesting his free-sperm-via-intercourse offer.{{cite news| url=https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/meet-men-sex-strangers-babies/story?id=26870643 |title=Meet the Men Having Sex With Strangers to Help Them Have Babies |last1=Schneider |first1=Jeff |last2=Pearson |first2=Muriel |last3=Valiente |first3=Alexa |work=20/20 |date=2014-11-17 |access-date=2019-03-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203082429/http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/meet-men-sex-strangers-babies/story?id=26870643 |archive-date=2018-02-03}}

style="text-align:center;" |150

|Anonymous sperm donor

|

|{{As of|2011|September}}, an American sperm donor was found to have produced at least 150 children.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/health/06donor.html |title=One Sperm Donor, 150 Offspring |first=Jacqueline |last=Mroz |work=The New York Times |date=2011-09-05 |access-date=2019-03-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604082118/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/health/06donor.html |archive-date=2016-06-04 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}} This was the inspiration for the 2011 Canadian film Starbuck and its 2013 American remake Delivery Man.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

style="text-align:center;" |145+

|Winston Blackmore

|

|Leader of the Mormon fundamentalist sect called the Blackmore/Bountiful Community,{{Cite web |publisher=Utah Attorney General's Office and Arizona Attorney General's Office |title=The Primer, Helping Victims of Domestic Violence and Child Abuse in Polygamous Communities: Fundamentalist Mormon Communities |url=http://attorneygeneral.utah.gov/cmsdocuments/The_Primer.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081209161937/http://attorneygeneral.utah.gov/cmsdocuments/The_Primer.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2008-12-09 |access-date=29 June 2010 |date=June 2006 }} he fathered children through as many as 25 wives.{{Cite news|url=http://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-polygamist-wedded-nine-girls-under-18-1.412718|title=B.C. polygamist wedded nine girls under 18|author=ctv.ca|publisher=CTV BC|date=30 June 2009|access-date=30 June 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021183222/http://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-polygamist-wedded-nine-girls-under-18-1.412718|archive-date=21 October 2013|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}{{cite news |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-polygamy-trial-1.4218735|title=Former leaders of Bountiful, B.C., found guilty of polygamy |publisher=CBC News|access-date=2017-07-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170724234852/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-polygamy-trial-1.4218735|archive-date=2017-07-24|url-status=live}}

style="text-align:center;" |144

|Miên Định, Prince of Thọ Xuân

|

|Son of Minh Mang, fathered 144 children, including 78 sons and 66 daughters.{{cite web|url=http://chuatriyeusinhly.kiti.vn/p/tan-man-ve-ong-vua-co-nhieu-con-nhat-trong-lich-su-viet-nam.htm|title=Tản Mạn về ông vua có nhiều con nhất trong lịch sử Việt Nam|date=16 May 2015|access-date=20 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150516014036/http://chuatriyeusinhly.kiti.vn/p/tan-man-ve-ong-vua-co-nhieu-con-nhat-trong-lich-su-viet-nam.htm|archive-date=16 May 2015|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

style="text-align:center;" |142

|Emperor Minh Mạng

|

|He is reported to have fathered 142 children from 400 wives.

style="text-align:center;" |128

|Misheck Doctor Nyandoro

|

|Nyandoro, a Zimbabwean man living in Chipinge, currently has 15 wives and 128 children.{{cite news |url=http://www.herald.co.zw/15-wives-128-kids-still-countingl-meet-zimbabwes-own-super-dad-l-im-replacing-my-comrades-killed-in-war/|title=15 wives, 128 kids, still countingl Meet Zimbabwe's own super dad l I'm replacing my comrades killed in war – The Herald|access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818092847/http://www.herald.co.zw/15-wives-128-kids-still-countingl-meet-zimbabwes-own-super-dad-l-im-replacing-my-comrades-killed-in-war/|archive-date=18 August 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

style="text-align:center;" |120

|Bodawpaya

|

|King of Burma, fathered 62 sons and 58 daughters{{Cite book|last=U Thein Tin|first=Nyo Mya|title=The Quest for Konbaung|publisher=Centenary Bookhouse|year=2003|location=Yangon, Burma|page=95}}{{verify source|date=September 2023}}

style="text-align:center;" | 117

|John Robert Dunn

|

|John Robert Dunn (1834–1895), a South African hunter and trader, was already married when he became an adviser to the Zulu king Cetshwayo, who granted him land, cattle, a chieftainship and two Zulu brides. He married 46 more Zulu women and fathered 33 sons and 46 daughters.{{cite news|last1=Bridgland |first1=Fred |title=Zulu descendants of Scot who fathered 117 children win fight with squatters |access-date=26 September 2016 |agency=The Telegraph|date=15 August 2004 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/southafrica/1469474/Zulu-descendants-of-Scot-who-fathered-117-children-win-fight-with-squatters.html }}

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|Saud of Saudi Arabia

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|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 had 22 wives);Sabri S. (2001) The House of Saud in Commerce: A Study of Royal Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia, I.S Publications Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi: 323 pp. however, another source credited him with 115.{{cite news|title=The Acton princess calling for reform in Saudi Arabia: Royal runs campaign for change in her homeland from a suburb in west London|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/the-acton-princess-calling-for-reform-in-saudi-arabia-6284225.html|newspaper=The Independent|last=Milmo|first=Cahal|date=3 January 2012|access-date=21 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120621180336/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/the-acton-princess-calling-for-reform-in-saudi-arabia-6284225.html|archive-date=21 June 2012|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

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|Matteo Valles

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|One of America's most well known sperm donors. Although he is retired now, at age 25 he is estimated to have 114 children. This initially came to light due to starring on ABC's The Bachelorette Season 15.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a27406542/matteo-valles-bachelorette-sperm-donor/|title=One of the 'Bachelorette' Contestants Has Fathered 114 Children|last=Adebowale|first=Temi|date=2019-05-08|magazine=Men's Health|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-08}}

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|Miên Trinh, Prince of Tuy Lý

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|Another son of Minh Mang, fathered 77 sons and 37 daughters.

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|Ed Houben

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|Houben was Europe's most prolific sperm donor. He advocates the use of natural methods.{{cite news |url=https://nypost.com/2014/04/13/dutch-sperm-donor-has-fathered-99-kids-across-the-world/ |work=New York Post |title='Sperminator' with 99 kids shares his secrets |date=13 April 2014 |access-date=11 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171106114451/http://nypost.com/2014/04/13/dutch-sperm-donor-has-fathered-99-kids-across-the-world/ |archive-date=6 November 2017 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}

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|Mindon Min

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|King of Burma, fathered 110 children.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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|Fath-Ali Shah Qajar

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|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 descendants went on to become prominent figures.{{cite web|url=http://www.qajarpages.org/fathalishahchildren.html|title=Children of Fath Ali Shah Qajar|access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160709205545/http://www.qajarpages.org/fathalishahchildren.html|archive-date=9 July 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

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|John Daniel Kingston

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|A member of a fundamentalist Mormon group, Kingston had 106 children by 14 wives as of 2004.{{cite news |url=https://www.deseretnews.com/article/595065830/2-Kingston-girls-tell-of-abuse.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160703081412/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/595065830/2-Kingston-girls-tell-of-abuse.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 July 2016|title=2 Kingston girls tell of abuse|website=Deseret News|date=26 May 2004|access-date=15 August 2018}}

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|Murad III

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|It was said that Murad III fathered over a hundred children.

Felek, Özgen. (2010). Re-creating image and identity: Dreams and visions as a means of Murad III's self-fashioning. PhD Thesis. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor: ProQuest/UMI. (Publication No. 3441203).

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|Pavel Durov

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| As of 29 June 2024, CEO of Telegram (software), Pavel Durov, said to have over 100 biological kids via sperm donation in 12 nations since 2010.{{cite book |url=https://t.me/durov/339 |title=Du Rove's Channel |first=P. |last=Durov |year=1974 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241112200837/https://t.me/durov/339 |archive-date=2024-11-12 |url-status=live }}

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|Lou Salvador

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|The Filipino basketball player and actor fathered 102 children,{{Cite web|url=http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/176162/all-souls-go-to-heaven|title = All souls go to heaven|date = November 2014}} including Alona Alegre, Phillip Salvador, and Ross Rival.

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|Bindusara

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|Emperor Bindusara had 101 sons (one of them was Emperor Ashoka) from his 16 wives{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4dVRvVyHaiQC&pg=PR87 |title=History of Classical Sanskrit Literature |first=M. |last=Srinivasachariar |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |year=1974 |isbn=9788120802841 |page=lxxxvii}}

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|Augustus John

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|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.{{Cite news |url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/last-illegitimate-son-augustus-john-2033921 |title=Last illegitimate son of Augustus John on life with 'King of Bohemia' |first=Darren |last=Devine |work=Wales Online |date=2013-03-26 |access-date=2019-03-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208184930/http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/last-illegitimate-son-augustus-john-2033921 |archive-date=2015-12-08 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}

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|Juan Vicente Gómez

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|Juan Vicente Gómez was the dictator of Venezuela from 1908 to 1935. He had sixteen children with his two mistresses, and several others in affairs.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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|Donald L. Cline

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|An American fertility doctor who illegally used his own sperm to impregnate his customers since the 1970s. DNA has been shown to link 94 siblings so far{{cite web|title=Dr. Donald L. Cline, MD|url=https://www.opendoctor.io/dr-donald-l-cline-md-1385473|website=OpenDoctor.io|access-date=10 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161110235258/https://www.opendoctor.io/dr-donald-l-cline-md-1385473|archive-date=10 November 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}{{cite web|title=Dr. Donald L. Cline Indianapolis Fertility Doctor Used Own Sperm|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/12/donald-cline-indianapolis-fertility-doctor-used-ow/|website=The Washington Times |access-date=10 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161111061331/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/12/donald-cline-indianapolis-fertility-doctor-used-ow/|archive-date=11 November 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}} (in addition to the 4 children he had with his wife).

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|Daad Mohammed Murad Abdul Rahman

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|Balochi-Emirati who wants to have 100. He has married wives from different countries too.https://gulfnews.com/uae/father-of-60-1.401975 gulfnews.com{{cite news |url=https://www.emirates247.com/news/emirates/father-of-96-mourns-loss-of-second-son-2016-05-01-1.628824 |title=Father of 96 mourns loss of second son |website=Emirates24|7 }}

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|Ziona

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|Leader of the religious sect Pu Chana páwl, in the Mizoram state of India, has 94 children with 39 wives, as well as 33 grandchildren, and has, according to the Guinness Book of Records, the world's largest family.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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|Feodor Vassilyev

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|Feodor Vassilyev, a peasant from Shuya, Russia, had 69 children with his first wife and 18 with his second. At least 82 of his children survived infancy.{{cite news|url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/3000/most-prolific-mother-ever|title=Most prolific mother ever|newspaper=Guinness World Records |access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112065143/http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/3000/most-prolific-mother-ever|archive-date=12 November 2014|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

style="text-align:center;" |86

|Trần Viết Chu

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|A peasant from Hải Lăng, Quảng Trị (Vietnam), he had 86 children with 12 wives.{{cite web|url=http://vnexpress.net/tin-tuc/thoi-su/loi-song/mot-nguoi-dan-ong-co-gan-100-nguoi-con-2016821.html|title=Một người đàn ông có gần 100 người con |website=VnExpress|language=vi|trans-title=A man has nearly 100 children |access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304112825/http://vnexpress.net/tin-tuc/thoi-su/loi-song/mot-nguoi-dan-ong-co-gan-100-nguoi-con-2016821.html|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

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|Mongkut (Rama IV)

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|King Mongkut, Thailand's fourth monarch, had 32 wives and concubines during his lifetime who produced at least 82 children, one of whom was Chulalongkorn. See list of children of Mongkut.

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|Jan Karbaat

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|Dutch fertility doctor who used his own seed to impregnate patients. He has 11 children from his marriage, 22 donor children which were DNA-matched before his death, and an additional 49 children which were DNA-matched via sibling DNA matching after his death.{{cite web|url=https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/karbaat-gebruikte-eigen-sperma-vermoedelijk-voor-nog-veel-meer-donorkinderen~a298e2fb/|language=nl|title=Karbaat gebruikte eigen sperma vermoedelijk voor nog veel meer donorkinderen}}

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|Chulalongkorn (Rama V)

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|King Chulalongkorn, Thailand's fifth monarch, had 92 consorts during his lifetime who produced 77 children, of whom 33 were sons and 44 were daughters. See list of children of Chulalongkorn

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|Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia

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|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. See descendants of Ibn Saud.

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|Screamin' Jay Hawkins

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|Hawkins, a rock and roll singer, had 57 confirmed children, possibly as many as 75.{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1116345|title=Screamin' Jay Hawkins|publisher=NPR|access-date=26 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304212641/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1116345|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

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|Cecil Byran Jacobson

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|This fertility doctor was suspected of fathering as many as 75 children by impregnating patients with his own sperm.{{cite web| url=https://www.medicalbag.com/home/features/despicable-doctors/cecil-jacobson-the-baby-maker/|title=Cecil Jacobson| website=medicalbag.com|date=25 March 2015}} During trial 15 children were confirmed through his DNA.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/05/us/doctor-is-found-guilty-in-fertility-case.html|title=Doctor Is Found Guilty in Fertility Case'|website=The New York Times|date=5 March 1992|access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160829110520/http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/05/us/doctor-is-found-guilty-in-fertility-case.html|archive-date=29 August 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

style="text-align: center;" |75

|Taeng

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|Thai royal, King Phuttha Yotfa Chulalok's nephew, had 75 children with numerous wives

style="text-align:center;" |74

|Ben Seisler

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|Seisler, who spent three years donating sperm to a Virginia sperm bank to offset law-school expenses, learned that his donations had produced 74 children.{{cite web|url=http://www.parent24.com/Getting_pregnant/conception/Super-dad-fathers-74-children-20111018|title=Super-dad fathers 74 children|access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919064946/http://www.parent24.com/Getting_pregnant/conception/Super-dad-fathers-74-children-20111018|archive-date=19 September 2015|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

style="text-align:center;" |73

|Phuttha Loetla Naphalai (Rama II)

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|King Phuttha Loetla Naphalai, Thailand's second monarch, had 73 children with 40 women.

style="text-align:center;" |72

|Emperor Huizong of Song

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|Emperor Huizong of Song, Emperor of the Song dynasty, fathered 38 sons and 34 daughters from 148 wives.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

style="text-align:center;" |72

|Ramon Revilla Sr.

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|Ramon Revilla Sr. was a Filipino actor and politician. He was known as the "Hari ng Agimat" (literally "King of Amulets") in Philippine films. With his extramarital affairs, his children numbered at least 39; Bong's spokesperson Portia Ilagan claimed that the number reached 72. In a 2004 interview with journalist Jessica Soho, Revilla admitted that he probably has more than 80 children.{{cite web |title=Ramon Revilla Sr. has 72 kids, says spokesperson |url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/nation/11/02/11/ramon-revilla-sr-has-72-kids-says-spokesperson |website=ABS-CBN Corporation |date=2011-11-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220814010941/https://news.abs-cbn.com/nation/11/02/11/ramon-revilla-sr-has-72-kids-says-spokesperson |archive-date=2022-08-14 |url-status=live}}

style="text-align:center;" |72

|Mehtar Aman ul-Mulk

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|Aman ul-Mulk, ruler of Chitral, now part of Pakistan (1821–1892), is known as the Lot Mitar or Great Mehtar. He had 72 children, as reported in Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh by Biddulph.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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|"Louis", a Dutch sperm donor

|

| A Dutch man born 1949/50 in the Netherlands to a Dutch mother and Surinamese father and raised in Suriname, Louis is a pseudonym. He donated between the 1982 and 2002 at three clinics, far exceeding the current limit of 25 donations. 70 live births are confirmed, of whom he has met 40 since 2011, but he estimates 200 in total; he doubts another estimate as high as 1000.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/24/sperm-donor-man-who-fathered-200-children|title='I thought – who will remember me?': the man who fathered 200 children|last=Usborne|first=Simon|work=The Guardian|date=24 November 2018}}

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|John II, Duke of Cleves

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|Duke of Cleves and called "the Babymaker" (German: der Kindermacher) for fathering sixty-three illegitimate children before his marriage to Mathilde of Hesse, with whom he had three children.La Societe Numismatique, Revue de la numismatique belge, Brussels, 1863, page 234

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|Heber C. Kimball

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|First Counselor of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he fathered children through 17 of his 43 wives.{{cite web|url=https://lifeafterministry.com/2012/10/polygamy-and-mormon-church-leaders-9/#more-7388|title=Mormon leader polygamy| website=lifeafterministry.com|date=24 October 2012}}

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|Rulon Jeffs

|

|President of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, he fathered children, including Warren Jeffs, with as many as 75 wives.Wade Goodwyn, Howard Berkes and Amy Walters, [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4629320 "Warren Jeffs and the FLDS Church"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213024557/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4629320 |date=2013-12-13 }}, NPR, 2005-05-03.

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|Christopher Layton

|1896

|President of the St. Joseph Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Thatcher, Arizona, and colonizer of multiple settlements in Arizona and Utah. He had 65 children with 10 wives.{{Cite news |date=12 August 1898 |title=Christopher Layton Obituary |work=Davis County Clipper |url=https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2009/316/123545_125809691088.jpg |access-date=6 June 2022}}

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|John W Hess

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|Lived 1824 to 1903 and was the President of the Davis Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1894. Fathered 64 children with 7 wives as noted in his autobiography.Autobiography of John W Hess His obituary indicated 65 children.Obituary of John W Hess

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|Thiệu Trị

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|Emperor of Vietnam, he fathered children through 24 wives.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}

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|Khuwaja sahib

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|Khuwaja sahib from jib district of udhampur, he had 62 children from just 2 wives. Some of his famous children are Gafoor and Sheema.{{Citation needed|date=March 2022|reason=This was a weird edit https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_with_the_most_children&curid=28274004&diff=1078000019&oldid=1077942348 moving it into the table and leaving a citation needed tag before we can verify or debunk this}}

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|Norodom of Cambodia

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|King of Cambodia, he fathered 61 sons and daughters with 47 wives.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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|Kashemsanta Sobhaga

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|Thai royal, son of Mongkut, fathered 39 sons and 22 daughters.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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|Warren Jeffs

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|President of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, he fathered children through as many as 70 wives.

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|Emperor Xuanzong of Tang

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|Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Emperor of the Tang dynasty, fathered 30 sons and 29 daughters with numerous wives.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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|Thado Minsaw

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|Prince of Burma, fathered 32 sons and 26 daughters{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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|Pinklao

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|Thai royal, Front Palace{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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|Gennadij Raivich

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|Professor of perinatal neuroscience and private sperm donor, he fathered 58 children.{{cite news |last=Grove |first=Jack |title= University College London silent on fate of convicted professor |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/university-college-london-silent-on-fate-of-convicted-professor/2015155.article |date=14 August 2014 |work=Times Higher Education |location=London|access-date=21 April 2020}}

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|John Doyle Lee

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|Utah pioneer and early leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he had 18 wives and 56 children.{{cite encyclopedia |first=Jay M. |last=Haymond |title=Lee, John D. |url=http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/l/LEE_JOHN.html |editor-last=Powell |editor-first=Allan Kent |year=1994 |encyclopedia=Utah History Encyclopedia |location=Salt Lake City, Utah |publisher=University of Utah Press |isbn=978-0874804256 |oclc=30473917 |access-date=16 September 2016 |archive-date=13 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170113125938/http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/l/LEE_JOHN.html |url-status=dead }}

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|Brigham Young

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|President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he fathered 56 children through 16 of his 55 wives.{{cite web |url=http://yfacts.byu.edu/Article?id=214 |title=Brigham Young Biography: Facts of Faith |work=Y Facts (yfacts.byu.edu) |publisher=Brigham Young University|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130920194808/http://yfacts.byu.edu/Article?id=214 |archive-date=2013-09-20 }}

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|Kangxi Emperor

|

|A Chinese emperor of the Qing dynasty who lived 1654–1722, he fathered 35 sons and 20 daughters from numerous wives and concubines.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}}

style="text-align:center;"|55

|Perrigrine Sessions

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|A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a son of Patty Bartlett Sessions, he had 55 children with eight wives.

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|Pan

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|Thai royal, King Phuttha Yotfa Chulalok's nephew, had 34 sons and 18 daughters with numerous wives

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|Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden

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|This Yemeni emigrant to Saudi Arabia married 22 times and fathered at least 54 children.{{Citation |last=Bin Ladin |first=Carmen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QlRWHQAACAAJ |title=Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia |publisher=Hachette Book Group |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-446-61694-2 |pages=65–66 |access-date=2016-08-09 }}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Osama bin Laden is believed to have been his 17th son.

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|Merril Jessop

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|Bishop and one-time de facto leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he fathered 54 children with his first six wives.{{cite book |author1=Palmer, Laura |author2=Carolyn Jessop |title=Escape |publisher=Broadway Books |location=New York |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-7679-2756-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/escapejess00jess }}

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|Tokugawa Ienari

|1822

|A Shogun of Tokugawa shogunate who lived 1773–1841, he fathered 26 sons and 27 daughters from 16 wives.

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|Wongsa Dhiraj Snid

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| Thai royal, son of Rama II of Siam{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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|Salem Juma'a

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|Salem Juma'a from United Arab Emirates fathered 52 children through 12 wives. By November 2009 he was approximately 75 years old and ten of his children were dead. The other 42 were 21 sons and 21 daughters aged from 13 to 38 years old.{{cite news |url=http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/two-fathers-and-138-children|title=Two fathers – and 138 children – The National|date=5 August 2009|access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817030639/http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/two-fathers-and-138-children|archive-date=17 August 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

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|Shire Sharmarke Adan

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|Shire Sharmarke of the Eidagale fathered a total of 52 children, 23 sons and 29 daughtersCarlos-Swayne, Harald (1900). Seventeen Trips Through Somaliland and a Visit to AbyssiniaGenealogies of the Somal. Eyre and Spottiswoode (London). 1896.

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|Nangklao (Rama III)

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|King Nangklao, Thailand's third monarch, had 51 children with 37 women.{{cite book| author=Christopher John Baker|author2=Pasuk Phongpaichit |title=A History of Thailand| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TEdueeBj1H0C&pg=PA31| year=2009| publisher=Cambridge University Press| isbn=978-0-521-76768-2| page=31| access-date=2016-08-09 }}

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|Ebraucus{{cite web|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Efrawg-ap-Mymbyr-Fictional/6000000001168309366|website=geni.com|title=Efrawg Gadarn ap Mymbyr|date=27 April 2022 |access-date=17 September 2023}}

|

|King of Britain, a legendary man who had 20 sons and 30 daughters by 20 wives, {{circa|1,000 BC}}.{{Cite wikisource |title=Six Old English Chronicles/Geoffrey's British History/Book 2|author=Geoffrey of Monmouth|authorlink=Geoffrey of Monmouth|editor1-first=J.A. |editor1-last=Giles |year=1848 |page=113

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| style="text-align:center;"|50

|Qin Shi Huang

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|First Emperor of the Qin dynasty and founding emperor of China. Fathered around 50 children with numerous concubines.

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|Luiz Costa Oliveira

|

|A Brazilian from Rio Grande do Norte State, he has 50 children from three women (wife, sister-in-law, mother-in-law).{{cite news |title=Brazilian man fathers 50 children|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/8774899/Brazilian-man-fathers-50-children.html|website=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=20 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507202011/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/8774899/Brazilian-man-fathers-50-children.html|archive-date=7 May 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|50

|Jean-Bédel Bokassa

|

|Dictator of the Central African Republic, he lived 1921–1996, and had 17 wives.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}}

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| style="text-align:center;" |49

|Goel Ratzon

|

|Ratzon is a 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). These statistics came to light when he was charged with enslavement and rape.{{cite news |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/02/14/israel.polygamy.charges/index.html|title=Israeli cult leader charged with enslavement, rape |publisher=CNN |access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405064232/http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/02/14/israel.polygamy.charges/index.html|archive-date=5 April 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}{{cite magazine|last=Kalman|first=Matthew|url=http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1954600,00.html|title=In Israel, the Messiah with More Than 30 'Wives'|magazine=Time |date=18 January 2010|access-date=12 July 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130817100254/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1954600,00.html|archive-date=17 August 2013|via=www.time.com|df=dmy-all}}

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|style="text-align:center;"| 48

| Roy Padilla Sr.

|

| Filipino actor and politician; father of actor-turned-senator Robin, actors Royette, Rommel and BB Gandanghari, and politicians Roy Jr. and Ricarte.{{cite news|last=Guerrero|first=Amadís Ma.|title=Zeroing in on the Padillas|url=https://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2017/07/19/1727535/zeroing-padillas|access-date=27 January 2025|work=Philstar.com|publisher=Philstar Global Corp.|date=19 July 2017|location=Manila, Philippines|quote=Officially there are 48 Padilla siblings[...]}}{{cite news|title=Ex-Camarines Norte gov to be transferred to Bilibid|url=https://www.philstar.com/nation/2016/03/21/1565281/ex-camarines-norte-gov-be-transferred-bilibid|access-date=20 January 2025|work=Philstar.com|publisher=Philstar Global Corp.|date=21 March 2016|location=Manila, Philippines|quote=[Roy] Padilla [Jr.], elder brother of action star Robin Padilla, was arrested on Friday[...]}}

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| Joseph F. Smith

|

| Sixth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), he fathered 48 children with six wives (though his first wife, Levira Smith, never bore children).Smith. Life of Joseph F. Smith, p.231

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|style="text-align:center;"| 48

| Devawongse Varoprakar

|

| Thai royal, son of Mongkut, fathered 48 sons and daughters.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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|style="text-align:center;"|48

|Svasti Sobhana

|

|Thai royal, son of Mongkut, fathered 48 sons and daughters.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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|style="text-align:center;"|47

|John McAfee

|

|In 2018 the software magnate claimed to have 47 'genetic children'{{Cite tweet|author=John McAfee|user=officialmcafee|number=1078845703340867584|title=I have 47 genetic children.}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|46

|Joe Jessop

|

|As of February 2010 Jessop was 88. He lived in Short Creek, Utah, alongside a community of at least 6,000 followers of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He fathered 46 children with five wives and had 239 grandchildren.{{cite news |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/meet-the-mormon-man-with-239-grandchildren-198614|title=Meet the Mormon man with 239 grandchildren – pic|first=Beth|last=Neil|website=Daily Mirror|date=2 February 2010|access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927013328/http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/meet-the-mormon-man-with-239-grandchildren-198614|archive-date=27 September 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|46

|Marriner W. Merrill

|

|A Mormon and the great-grandfather of Todd Christensen, he fathered 46 children with six out of his eight wives.

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| style="text-align:center;"|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.{{cite book|last1=Van Wagoner |first1=R.S. |last2=Walker |first2=S.C. |title=A Book of Mormons |year=1982 |publisher=Signature Books |location=Salt Lake City |isbn=0941214060 |page=212}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|30–45

|Idi Amin

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|Dictator of Uganda, he lived 1925–2003, and had 17 wives.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|44

|Jesse N. Smith

|

|Jesse Nathaniel Smith, a Mormon pioneer, church leader, colonizer, politician, frontiersman, and member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, fathered 44 children through his five wives.{{cite book| author=Oliver R. Smith|author2=Dorothy Heward Williams |title=The Family of Jesse Nathaniel Smith, 1834–1906: life histories and photographs of his forty-four sons and daughters (born in Utah and Arizona, 1853–1905) and their wives and husbands, with a listing of their posterity to 1978| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GItRAAAAMAAJ| year=1978| publisher=Jesse N. Smith Family Assn.|isbn=9780911712056 |access-date=2016-08-09 }}

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| style="text-align:center;"|44

|Ong Seok Kim

|

|Ong Seok Kim, an educationalist, social worker, philanthropist and entrepreneur. He fathered 44 children through his five wives.{{cite web| url=https://ongseokkim.com/wp-content/uploads/family-book/files/assets/basic-html/page-21.html| title=Family book| page=21/596| access-date=24 October 2021| archive-date=24 October 2021| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024021716/https://ongseokkim.com/wp-content/uploads/family-book/files/assets/basic-html/page-21.html| url-status=dead}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|43

|Abdul Hamid Halim of Kedah||||Sultan of Kedah, had 43 children from 7 spouses. Father of the first Prime Minister of Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman.

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| style="text-align:center;"|43

|Yang Sen

|

|A Chinese general and politician who fathered 43 sons and daughters with at least 12 wives.{{cite web|url=http://www.shuku.net/novels/mingjwx/wuyuewx/wuyue09.html|title=吴越文选|website=www.shuku.net|access-date=2012-11-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202202237/http://www.shuku.net/novels/mingjwx/wuyuewx/wuyue09.html|archive-date=2016-02-02|url-status=live}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|43

|Maha Sura Singhanat

|

|Thai royal, younger brother of Rama I, fathered 43 sons and daughters.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|43

|Philip IV of Spain

|

|He fathered 13 legitimate children through his two wives and is said to have at least 30 illegitimate children with different women of all conditions.{{cite book| last=Donovan| first=Peggy| title=Spain in Your Pocket| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FYKUE3guo1cC&pg=PA55| year=2000| publisher=iUniverse| isbn=978-0-595-00320-4| page=55| access-date=2016-08-09 }}{{self-published source|date=February 2020}}{{self-published inline|date=February 2020}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|43

|Mr Pennant

|c. 1573

|Born William ap Dafydd ap Howel ap Iorwerth, he later adopted the family name Pennant and lived in Anglesey, Wales, dying on the 12th of March 1581. Pennant married three times, with his first wife he had twenty-two children, second wife ten and then with his third wife four kids with more out of wedlock. At the time of Mr. Pennant's death, his eldest son was 84 and had over 300 descendants.{{google books |id=RWYIAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA29|page=29 |title=The Gwyneddion, 1832}}{{google books| id=vHA_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA354|page=354 |title=A history of the island of Mona or Anglesey}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|42

|Hongwu Emperor

|

|First Emperor of the Ming dynasty. Fathered 26 sons and 16 daughters with numerous wives.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|42

|Phuttha Yotfa Chulalok (Rama I)

|

|King Phuttha Yotfa Chulalok, Thailand's first monarch, had 42 children from 28 women.

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| style="text-align:center;"|42

|Lorenzo Snow

|

|President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he fathered children through his nine wives.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|42

|Joseph Kony

|

|Joseph Kony, the Ugandan leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), has 42 children{{cite web|url=http://mg.co.za/article/2006-02-10-portrait-of-ugandas-rebel-prophet-painted-by-wives|title=Portrait of Uganda's rebel prophet, painted by wives|first=Beatrice|last=Debut|date=9 February 2006|access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529005321/http://mg.co.za/article/2006-02-10-portrait-of-ugandas-rebel-prophet-painted-by-wives/|archive-date=29 May 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}} with 88 spouses.

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| style="text-align:center;"|41

|Friedrich von Kahlbutz

|

|A minor Prussian nobleman who lived 1651–1702, he fathered 11 children by his wife, and 30 by peasant women in his domain.[http://www.deseretnews.com/article/158122/DADDY-TO-41-GAINS-FAME-AS-A-MUMMY.html?pg=all Daddy to 41 gains fame as a mummy, article in Deseret News, 21 April 1991 ] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304062931/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/158122/DADDY-TO-41-GAINS-FAME-AS-A-MUMMY.html?pg=all |date=4 March 2016 }} accessed 4 July 2013 His mummy is preserved in a church in Neustadt in Brandenburg.

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| style="text-align:center;"|41

|Aston "Family Man" Barrett

|

|Aston Francis Barrett (born 22 November 1946), often called "Family Man" or "Fams" for short, is a Jamaican musician and Rastafarian. His nickname came about before he had any children of his own. Aston foresaw his role as a band leader and started to call himself "Family Man". He has fathered 41 children since.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24238993|title=Keeping Bob Marley's Legend alive|date=25 September 2013|publisher=BBC News|access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160213222651/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24238993|archive-date=13 February 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|41

|Muhammad Yusaf

|

|Muhammad Yousaf of Sargodha, Pakistan, had at least 41 children from seven wives.{{cite web|url=http://www.pakistanhotline.com/2016/03/pakistanis-with-most-children.html|title=Pakistanis with the most Children ~ Pakistan Hotline|website=www.pakistanhotline.com|date=10 March 2016 |access-date=2016-03-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311022953/http://www.pakistanhotline.com/2016/03/pakistanis-with-most-children.html|archive-date=2016-03-11|url-status=usurped}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|41

|Emperor Gaozu of Tang

|

|Emperor Gaozu of Tang, Emperor of the Tang dynasty, fathered 41 children with numerous wives.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|40

|Maha Senanurak

|

|Thai royal, son of Rama I, fathered 40 sons and daughters.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|40

|Emperor Daizong of Tang

|

|Emperor of the Tang dynasty, fathered 20 sons and 20 daughters from numerous wives.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|40

|Hsinbyushin

|

|King of Burma, fathered 20 sons and 20 daughters{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|39+

|Emperor Wu of Jin

|

|Sima Yan, founder of China's Jin dynasty, had 26 sons and at least 13 daughters. Details are here.

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| style="text-align:center;"|38

|Emperor Xianzong of Tang

|

|Emperor of the Tang dynasty. Fathered a total of 20 sons and 18 daughters from numerous wives.

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| style="text-align:center;"|38

|Qian Liu

|

|Emperor of the Wuyue Kingdom. Fathered at least 38 sons and an uncertain number of daughters.

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| style="text-align:center;"|38

|Ramon Revilla

|

|A Filipino actor and former senator, he fathered children through 16 different women.{{cite news |url=http://www.gmanews.tv/story/237491/special-reports/shocking-crime-stirs-interest-in-agimats-prolific-life |location=Philippines |work=GMA News |title=Shocking crime stirs interest in Agimat's prolific life |date=4 November 2011 |access-date=5 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111106212522/http://www.gmanews.tv/story/237491/special-reports/shocking-crime-stirs-interest-in-agimats-prolific-life |archive-date=6 November 2011 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }} Claims to have fathered up to 72 children.

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| style="text-align:center;"|37

|Damrong Rajanubhab

|1928

|Thai royal, son of Mongkut, fathered 37 sons and daughters.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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| style="text-align:center;" |37+

|Peter Ellenstein

|

|Ellenstein is an American actor, stage director and producer, who has fathered a confirmed 37 children through sperm donation.{{Cite news |url=https://www.insideedition.com/meet-dad-who-has-25-children-after-donating-sperm-decades-ago-50351|title=Peter Ellenstein: Meet the Dad Who Has 25 Children After Donating Sperm Decades Ago|date=30 January 2019|website=Inside Edition}}{{Cite web |last=El-Hai |first=Jack |date=2022-06-06 |title=Father Figure |url=https://medium.com/cryptocurrency-hub/father-figure-ee228afcc859 |website=Medium |language=en}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|37

|Tokugawa Nariaki||1858||Lord of Mito, had 37 children from 10 spouses.

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| style="text-align: center;" |36

|Adisara Udomdej

|1914

|Thai royal, King Mongkut's son, had 22 sons and 14 daughters with numerous wives.

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| style="text-align:center;" |36

|Sultan Husain Bayqara

|

|Ruler of Timurid Herat and Samarqand. Fathered 18 sons and 18 daughters from 12 wives{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|36

|Emperor Shunzong of Tang

|

|Emperor of the Tang dynasty. Fathered 23 sons and 13 daughters from numerous wives.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|36

|Tharrawaddy Min

|

|King of Burma, fathered 18 sons and 18 daughters{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|36

|Mswati III

|

|The king of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) has 36 children by 15 wives (as of 2021).{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|35+

|King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

|

|The former King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, born in 1924, he fathered at least 35 children, by thirteen wives.{{cite web|url=http://asianhistory.about.com/od/profilesofasianleaders/p/AbdullahProfile.htm|title=King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia|publisher=Asian History|date=1 August 2005|access-date=23 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005014730/http://asianhistory.about.com/od/profilesofasianleaders/p/AbdullahProfile.htm|archive-date=5 October 2011|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|35

|Emperor Taizong of Tang

|

|Emperor Taizong of Tang, Second Emperor of the Tang dynasty. Fathered 14 sons and 21 daughters from numerous wives. Considered one of the greatest Chinese Emperors, having conquered an Empire up to 12,400,000 squared km in size.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|35

|Narathip Praphanphong

|

|Thai royal, son of Mongkut, fathered 21 sons and 14 daughters{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|35

|Kanaung Mintha

|

|Prince of Burma, fathered 20 sons and 15 daughters{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|35

|Anurak Devesh

|

|Thai royal, Rear Palace

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| style="text-align:center;"|34

|John Taylor

|

|President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he fathered children through his seven wives.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|34

|Taejo of Goryeo

|

|Founding as well as first king of Goryeo, he fathered 34 children (25 sons & 9 daughters) through 32 consorts (6 queens & 26 concubines).{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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| style="text-align:center;" |33

|Dr. Jan Muhammad

|

|Jan Muhammad is from Quetta, Pakistan. He has 14 sons and 19 daughters.

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| style="text-align:center;" |33

|Nicholas C. Strohl

|

|Farmer who lived in the Lehigh Valley area of Pennsylvania. Strohl fathered 33 children through three wives.{{Cite news|date=1971-07-28|title=Nicholas C Strohl article, Morning Call, 28 July 1971|page=20|work=The Morning Call|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/11170207/nicholas-c-strohl-article-morning/|access-date=2021-10-13}}{{Cite web|last=Gower|first=Ron|title=How life can change in the blink of an eye |work=Times News Online|url=https://www.tnonline.com/20131026/how-life-can-change-in-the-blink-of-an-eye/|access-date=2021-10-13|language=en-US}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|33+

|Sun Hao

|

|As Emperor of Eastern Wu, he promoted his 33 sons as prince.Records of the Three Kingdoms Vol.48

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| style="text-align:center;"|33

|Wilford Woodruff

|

|President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he fathered children through his five (possibly six) wives.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|32

|Yuan Shikai

|

|An important Chinese general and politician, he fathered 32 children (17 sons and 15 daughters) through his wife and nine concubines.{{cite web |url=http://history.news.163.com/08/0606/09/4DODJOQB00011KUQ.html |script-title=zh:袁世凯: 一妻九妾 |language=zh |trans-title=Yuan: a wife and nine concubines |publisher=网易 (163.com) |work=网易 |date=6 June 2008 |access-date=2 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721205010/http://history.news.163.com/08/0606/09/4DODJOQB00011KUQ.html |archive-date=21 July 2011 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}

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| style="text-align:center;"|32

|Gia Long

|

|Emperor of Vietnam, he fathered 32 children.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|32

|Albert Emund Barlow

|

|A follower of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints living in Utah, he was arrested for polygamy at age 52 in 1955.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1906&dat=19551028&id=4lofAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4dgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2130,2833128 3 Wives, 32 Children, Charged to Utah Man, article in The Fort Scott Tribune, 2 November 1955], accessed on 4 July 2013 He was said to have fathered 32 children by his three wives.

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| style="text-align:center;"|32

|Mr. Catra

|

|Brazilian funk carioca singer, fathered 32 children with 3 wives.{{cite web|url=https://www.otvfoco.com.br/apos-morte-32-filhos-de-mr-catra-encaram-a-divisao-de-bens-do-funkeiro/|title=Após morte, 32 filhos de Mr Catra encaram a divisão de bens do funkeiro|first=TV|last=Foco|date=11 September 2018}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|32

|Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

|

|Saudi royal, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|31+

|Cao Cao

|

|Cao Cao had 25 sons (including Cao Pi, founder of China's Wei dynasty) and at least six daughters. Details are here.

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| style="text-align:center;"|31

|Prince Fushimi Kuniie

|

|Japanese royalty, fathered 17 sons and 14 daughters with ten wives.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|31

|Benjamin Clark

|

|A cousin of the explorer William Clark, he fathered 31 children by his two wives; seven of them died in infancy.[https://web.archive.org/web/20030528224942/http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/encounter/projects/homesteads/genealogy/clarks2.html The Clarks and Their descendents] on the University of Virginia website, accessed 4 July 2013

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| style="text-align:center;"|30+

|Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

|

|The ruler of United Arab Emirates has over 30 children, from 6 wives. 12 of which are from his first and most senior wife Hind bint Maktoum Al Maktoum.{{cite news |url=https://metro.co.uk/2021/02/19/how-many-wives-and-children-does-dubai-ruler-sheikh-mohammed-have-14100030/| website=metro.co.uk| title=How many wives and children does Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed have?| date=19 February 2021| access-date=19 February 2021}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|30+

|Jonas Savimbi

|

|An Angolan politician and guerrilla leader, he lived 1934–2002, and had fathered 29–31 children by 1999; his number of wives is not recorded.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/503018.stm|title='Son' hits out at Savimbi|date=3 November 1999|access-date=12 July 2016|via=bbc.co.uk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917042416/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/503018.stm|archive-date=17 September 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|30+

|Omar Bongo

|

|President of Gabon, he lived 1935–2009; his number of wives is not recorded.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|30

|Taksin, King of Thonburi

|

|Taksin, the King of the Thonburi Kingdom, had 21 sons and nine daughters.{{cite book| last=ʿĀyuwatthana| first=Thamrongsak| script-title=th:ราชสกุลจักรีวงศ์ และราชสกุลสมเด็จพระเจ้าตากสินมหาราช| trans-title=The children of the Chakri Dynasty and the children of King Taksin |year=2001| publisher=สำนักพิมพ์บรรณกิจ| location=Bangkok| language=th| isbn=978-974-222-648-0| page=490 }}

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| style="text-align:center"|30

|Kashemsri Subhayok

|

|Thai royal, son of Mongkut, fathered 18 sons and 12 daughters{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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| style="text-align:center"|30

|Parley Pratt

|

|Early Mormon leader who fathered 30 children with 9 wives. Brother of Orson Pratt (q.v.).{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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| style="text-align:center;"|30

|Miles Park Romney

|

|A Mormon and great-grandfather of Mitt Romney, he fathered 30 children with five wives;{{Cite web |url=http://worldcrunch.com/eyes-on-the-u.s./unpacking-ann-romney-how-a-would-be-mormon-first-lady-looks-abroad/c5s5168/ |title=Unpacking Ann Romney: How A Would-Be Mormon First Lady Looks Abroad |date=2 May 2012 |publisher=Le Monde |access-date=13 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130312105353/http://worldcrunch.com/eyes-on-the-u.s./unpacking-ann-romney-how-a-would-be-mormon-first-lady-looks-abroad/c5s5168/#.UPPToaw9N6o |archive-date=12 March 2013 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }} he married the last in 1890, just before the 1890 Manifesto.

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| style="text-align:center;"|30

|Tom Green

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|A Mormon fundamentalist, he fathered children through ten women.{{cite news |last1=Janofsky |first1=Michael |title=Trial Opens in Rare Case of a Utahan Charged With Polygamy |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/15/us/trial-opens-in-rare-case-of-a-utahan-charged-with-polygamy.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=19 June 2018 |language=en |date=16 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180620004708/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/15/us/trial-opens-in-rare-case-of-a-utahan-charged-with-polygamy.html |archive-date=20 June 2018 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}

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|Fally Diallo

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|Senegalese Imam El Hadji Fally Diallo has, up to 2014, fathered 30 children with three wives. He campaigns against family planning in Senegal, claiming that it is his God-given duty to multiply.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/family-planning-program-in-senegal-drawn-into-conflict-with-religious-leaders/2014/03/15/8c33b692-860e-11e3-b85b-b305db87fb90_story.html|title=In Senegal, Muslim leaders speak out against a government program encouraging family planning.|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=12 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822081624/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/family-planning-program-in-senegal-drawn-into-conflict-with-religious-leaders/2014/03/15/8c33b692-860e-11e3-b85b-b305db87fb90_story.html|archive-date=22 August 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

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|Sisowath of Cambodia

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|Sisowath of Cambodia, King of Cambodia, fathered 29 sons and daughters.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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|Henry I of England

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|Henry I of England, King of England, had 16 daughters and 11 sons, but only 3 of the children were legitimate{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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|Emperor Zhaozong of Tang

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|Emperor Zhaozong of Tang, penultimate Emperor of the Tang dynasty fathered 17 sons and 11 daughters from numerous wives. He was the father of Emperor Ai of Tang.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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|Wichaichan

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|Thai royal, Front Palace{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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|Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu

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|The king of the Zulu nation, who reigned from 1968 until his death in 2021, had six wives and 28 children.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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|François Maxim Gamache

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|Gamache was a farmer originally from L'Acadie, Québec, Canada, between his two wives he fathered 15 daughters and 13 sons between 1838 and 1880. With his first wife Osithe Martin he had 10 children. After her death he married Marguerite Duteau and they had 18 children together. There were no multiple births. He died on 19 May 1882 in Cohoes, New York, at the age of 67.{{cite web |title=Family Tree 113656387 |url=https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/113656387/person/410118766436/facts |website=Ancestry.com |access-date=26 December 2019}}Baptismal Records accessed via the Drouin Collection (accessible from FamilySearch.org, Ancestry.com, or GenealogieQuebec.com)

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|Qianlong Emperor

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|The Qianlong Emperor, Emperor of the Qing dynasty, fathered 17 sons and 10 daughters from 38 wives.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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|Gregorio Dati

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|Florentine merchant who had 4 wives, all of whom died in childbirth: Only 7 of his children survived into adulthood, and a few died of the Bubonic plague.

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|Roch Thériault

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| The leader of the Ant Hill Kids cult, he fathered children through eight women.

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|Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair

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|King of Connacht and High King of Ireland who had 26 children by 6 known wives.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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|Edward Hess

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|Hess was an innkeeper from Safe Harbor, Pennsylvania, who also owned a shad fishery. One of the richest men in the area, he had four children with his first wife Elizabeth Ann Shenk, 17 with his second wife Mary Ann Lewis, and four with his third wife Catherine Rankin, who was 37 years his junior.{{cite web|title=Edward Hess (1813–1883)|url=http://familyharttng.com/getperson.php?personID=I672504&tree=FamilyHartTNG|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308112431/http://familyharttng.com/getperson.php?personID=I672504&tree=FamilyHartTNG|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 March 2016|website=The FamilyHart Online Database|access-date=8 March 2016}}

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|Tobe Liston

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|Arkansas sharecropper; had 15 children from his first marriage and 10 from his second marriage. His 24th child was boxer Sonny Liston.{{Cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=59YDAAAAMBAJ |title=?? |magazine=Ebony |date=1962-08-01|page=46|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Riess|first=Steven A.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DnCsBwAAQBAJ|title=Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century: An Encyclopedia: An Encyclopedia|date=2015-03-26|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-45947-7|page=565|language=en}}

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|Louis XV of France

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|King of France from 1 September 1715 to 10 May 1774. Had 10 legitimate children with his wife Marie Leszczyńska, with the rest from several mistresses. He reputedly had more, but the difficulty in fully documenting all such births restricts the number only to the better-known.

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