List of youngest grandmasters

This is a list of the players to become Grandmasters before their fifteenth birthday:

Player Country Age
Sergey Karjakin Ukraine Ukraine 12 years, 7 months, 0 days
Parimarjan Negi India 13 years, 4 months, 22 days
Magnus Carlsen Norway 13 years, 4 months, 27 days
Bu Xiangzhi China 13 years, 10 months, 13 days
Teimour Radjabov Azerbaijan 14 years, 0 months, 14 days
Ruslan Ponomariov Ukraine 14 years, 0 months, 17 days
Wesley So Philippines 14 years, 1 month, 28 days [1]
Etienne Bacrot France 14 years, 2 months, 0 days
Maxime Vachier France 14 years, 4 months [2]
Péter Lékó Hungary 14 years, 4 months, 22 days
Yuriy Kuzubov Ukraine 14 years, 7 months, 12 days [3]
Mark Paragua Philippines 14 years, 8 months,[4]
Nguyen Ngoc Truong Vietnam 14 years, 10 months
Fabiano Caruana Italy 14 years, 11 months, 10 days [5]

The youngest ever female to become a grandmaster (not to be confused with the lesser Woman Grandmaster title) is Koneru Humpy, who achieved the title at 15 years, 1 month, 27 days.