Lucile Randon

On her 118th birthday in February 2022, Randon received a birthday note from French President Emmanuel Macron. On 19 April 2022, she became the world's oldest verified living person after the death of Kane Tanaka. Randon stated she felt this was a "sad honour" as she would "be better off in heaven"; however, she also expressed joy at being "pampered" by her family. She continues to enjoy chocolate and a glass of wine every day.

After the death of Honorine Rondello on 19 October 2017, she became the oldest living person in France. When she turned 115 in 2019, Pope Francis sent her a personal letter and blessed rosary. In 2021, she said she was happy at her home, although wished to join her grandparents and brother André in heaven.

Randon is now blind and has been confined to a wheelchair since the early 2010s. In January 2021, Randon tested positive for COVID-19 in an outbreak at her retirement home. She was asymptomatic and tested negative days before her 117th birthday, making her the oldest known survivor of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Randon is a Roman Catholic nun, having converted to Catholicism as a young adult, working as a governess, teacher, and missionary before retiring at the age of 75. She has resided in a nursing home in Toulon, France, since 2009.

Randon grew up in a Protestant family and her grandfather was a pastor. She converted to Catholicism in 1923 at the age of 19. She later joined the Catholic order Daughters of Charity in 1944, taking the name Sister André in honour of her elder brother. After World War II ended, Randon went on a mission to a hospital in Vichy, where she served orphans and elders. Her mission lasted 18 years until she was sent to another hospital at La Baume-d'Hostun, Drôme for night duty in 1963. Randon retired from full-time work in 1979 and entered the EHPAD in the Marches at Savoie, where she continued to care for the elderly until she was 100 years old herself. She moved to a retirement home in Toulon on 25 October 2009, at the age of 105, where she still resides.

Lucile Randon (French: [ly.sil ʁɑ̃.dɔ̃]; born 11 February 1904), also known as Sister André (French: Sœur André), is a French supercentenarian. At the age of 118 years and 332 days, she has been the world's oldest verified living person since 19 April 2022, following the death of Kane Tanaka. She is the oldest known survivor of the COVID-19 pandemic, having tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 a month before her 117th birthday.

Randon was born on 11 February 1904 in Alès, France, to Paul Randon and Alphonsine Delphine Yéta Soutoul. Her living siblings included three older brothers and a twin sister named Lydie who died a year after they were born. She became a governess to three children in Marseille when she was twelve years old in 1916. She took on more responsibility when she was hired as both a governess and teacher to a prominent family at Versailles in 1922. Her work as a governess and teacher at Versailles lasted until 1936.