List of Multiple Births - Cases By Number - Quadruplets (4)

Quadruplets (4)

• The Smith quadruplets, born 1750 in Kinsale, Ireland, to Jane Smith, a fisherman's wife.

• The Gehri quadruplets (born September 26, 1880, in Switzerland) were the first recorded to have survived to adulthood. There were two boys (Oskar and Arthur) and two girls (Bertha and Rosa).

• The Keys quadruplets (born June 4, 1915, in Hollis, Oklahoma) were the first same-sex quadruplets known to survive to adulthood. They attended Baylor University on scholarships and graduated in 1937. The last surviving, Roberta Keys Torn, died at 96 years in August 2011.

• The Johnson quadruplets (born in 1935 in Dunedin, New Zealand) were the first surviving set of quadruplets in Australasia.

• The Badgett quadruplets (born February 1, 1939, in Galveston, Texas) were the second surviving set of quadruplets in the United States. The four girls, Geraldine, Joan, Jeanette and Joyce, were minor celebrities in the 1940s and 1950s.

• The Fultz quadruplets (born May 23, 1946, in Rockingham County, North Carolina) were the first identical African-American quadruplets on record.

• The Sara quadruplets (born August 17, 1950, in Bellingen, New South Wales) were the first surviving quadruplets in Australia; there were two boys (Mark and Philip) and two girls (Alison and Judith).

• The Alexander quadruplets (born September 2, 1967, in Auckland, New Zealand) were the first set of identical quadruplets born in New Zealand.

• The Hansen quadruplets (born October 24, 1974, in San Antonio, Texas) are Alison, Brooke, Claire, and Darcy. The sisters have appeared on The Tonight Show and other talk shows. They attended Lee High School in San Antonio for high school. For university studies they attended Baylor University on academic scholarships and graduated in 1997.

• The Steeves quadruplets (Carrie Dawn, Jennie Lee, Mary Beth and Patty Ann, born December 17, 1982, in Calgary, Alberta) were the first identical set of quadruplets to be born in Canada.

• The Durst quadruplets (Calli, Kendra, Megan and Sarah) are identical quadruplets born February 10, 1993, in Robbinsdale, Minnesota. They appearined in the reality television series Four of a Kind.

• The Brino quadruplets (born September 21, 1998, in Woodland Hills, California) played the twins Sam and David Camden on the television series 7th Heaven. When they all started to look different, the only girl, Myrinda, stopped appearing on the show. Only Nikolas and Lorenzo have starred on the show since then.

• The Mathias quadruplets (born February 16, 2000, in Lexington, South Carolina) are Grace, Emily, Mary Claire and Anna. A home movie of the girls laughing in unison was featured on America's Funniest Home Videos. Their family was awarded over $250,000 as a result. The girls were featured in three one-hour episodes of a documentary called "Super Quads" in the Discovery Health Channel.

• The Aberdeen / Edwards quadruplets (born November 7, 2006, in San Juan, Trinidad and Tobago) are four girls, born to Lystra Aberdeen (aged 27), already a mother of one girl (aged 10) and two boys (aged 8 and 4), and common-law husband Anderson Edwards (aged 33). This was the first confirmed case in Trinidad.

• The Jepp quadruplets (born August 12, 2007, in Great Falls, Montana) were the first identical set to be born to a Canadian family since 1982. Autumn, Brooke, Calissa and Dahlia were born in the United States, as the hospitals in their hometown of Calgary, Alberta, were at full capacity.