# Who is the oldest probably real person we know the name of?

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**Created:** [March 2, 2010, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-probably-real-person-we-know-the-name-of/531057 "2010-03-02T23:48:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-probably-real-person-we-know-the-name-of/531057/41 "2010-03-08T19:38:54Z")

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Given the fallibility of digital data, monuments seem to be a good way to be remembered. Something like Mount Rushmore or Hoover Dam or… some other international monument seems like a good candidate. Any contemporary leaders carving up mountains these days?

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