List of centenarians

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Here is a list of well-known centenarians (people who lived to be 100) (with living ones bolded and italicized). This list is divided into sub-lists, according to how the centenarian became well known.

[edit] Activists/non-profit leaders/philanthropists

Albert Jean Amateau (1889-1996), Turkish-born American rabbi and social activist
Melchora Aquino (1812-1919), "Mother of the Filipino Revolution"
Arnold Beckman (1900-2004), Philanthropist who invented pH meter
George Field (1904-2006), Former director of Freedom House
Alice Hamilton (1869-1970), American toxicologist
Shizue Kato (1897-2001), Japanese feminist and politician
Paul Moyer Limbert (1897-1998), YMCA Secretary General
Enolia McMillan (1904-2006), former NAACP president
Margaret Murie (1902-2003), conservationist
Scott Nearing (1883-1983), American conservationist
Sanzo Nosaka (1892-1993)
Frederick J. Schlink (1891-1995), cofounder of Consumers Research
Floyd Schmoe (1895-2001), American peace activist and naturalist
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897-2000)
Thomas Wyatt Turner (1877-1978)
Edgar Wayburn (1906-present), environmentalist
Irvin F. Westheimer (1879-1980)
Hazel Wolf (1898-2000), American environment activist and civil-rights campaigner

[edit] Actors/filmmakers/entertainers

George Abbott (1887-1995)
Rosa Albach-Retty (1874-1980)
Nikolay Annenkov (1899-1999)
Etta Moten Barnett (1901-2004)
Bruce Bennett (1906-present), possibly born in 1909
Margaret Booth (1898-2002)
Osmond Borradaile (1898-1999), Canadian cameraman
Renate Brausewetter (1905-2006)
George Burns (1896-1996)
Dorothy Dickson (1893-1995)
Mary Ellis (1897-2003)
Carl Esmond (1902-2004), German-American actor, possibly born in 1904, 1905 or 1908
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies (1891-1992), English actress
Marie Glory (1905-present), French actress
Liane Haid (1895-2000), Austrian actress
Kathleen Harrison (1892-1995)
Johannes Heesters (1903-present), Dutch-German actor
Bob Hope (1903-2003)
Charles Lane (1905-present)
Francis Lederer (1899-2000)
Madeleine Milhaud (1902-present), French actress, widow of Darius Milhaud
Igor Moiseyev (1906-present), Russian choreographer
Audrey Munson (1891-1996)
Myron Natwick (1890-1990), American animator
Ivan Novikoff (1899-2002), ballet teacher
Risto Orko (1899-2001), Finnish film producer and director
Irving Rapper (1898-1999), film director
Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003), German filmmaker
Hal Roach (1892-1992)
Frederica Sagor Maas (1900-present)
Ivy Sawyer (1898-1999), American singer, actress and dancer
Tonio Selwart (1896-2002), actor and stage performer
Athene Seyler (1889-1990)
Dorothy Stickney (1896-1998), American actress
Frank M. Thomas (1889-1989), American supporting actor
Doris Eaton Travis (1904-present)
Ninette de Valois (1898-2001)
Señor Wences (1896-1999)
Estelle Winwood (1883-1984)
Miguel Zacarías (1905-2006), Mexican director
Adolph Zukor (1873-1976)

[edit] Artists

Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902-2002), Mexican photographer
Ruth Bernhard (1905-present), American photographer
Alphaeus Philemon Cole (1876-1988)
Sylvia Daoust (1902-2004), Canadian sculptor
Boris Efimov (1900-present), Russian cartoonist
Kathleen Hale (1898-2000), British illustrator
Hermann Ottomar Herzog (1831-1932) German-American painter
Ulrich Leman (1885-1988), Germain painter
Tamás Lossonczy (1904-present), Hungarian painter
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Kazuo Ohno (1906-present), Japanese dancer
Don Potter (1902-2004), British sculptor and potter
Mirko Racki (1879-1982), Croatian painter
Andrée Ruellan (1905-2006), American painter
Viktor Schreckengost (1906-present), American Artist and Industrial Designer
Bernarda Bryson Shahn (1903-2004)
Koloman Sokol (1902-2003), Slovakian painter and graphic artist
Beatrice Wood (1893-1998)
Eva Zeisel (1906-present), industrial designer

[edit] Authors/poets/journalists

Francisco Ayala (1906-present), Spanish novelist
Ba Jin (1904-2005), Chinese author
Georgina Battiscombe, (1905-2006), British biographer
Pierre Béarn (1902-2004), French poet
H.J. Blackham (1903-present), British humanist author and philosopher
Arthur Judson Brown (1856-1963)
Fulgence Charpentier (1897-2001), Canadian journalist and columnist
Nirad Chaudhuri (1897-1999)
Eve Curie LaBouisse (1904-present), author of biography of her mother Marie Curie
Geoffrey Dearmer (1893-1996)
The Delany Sisters (1889-1999; 1891-1995)
Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890-1998)
Richard Eberhart (1904-2005), Pulitzer-Prize winning poet
Dorothy Frooks (1896-1997)
Edward K. Gaylord (1873-1974), newspaper publisher and philanthropist
Itche Goldberg (1904-present), Yiddish writer and scholar, and political activist
Ernst Jünger (1895-1998), German writer (In Stahlgewittern)
Joseph Nathan Kane (1899-2002)
Amal Kiran (1904-present) Indian author, poet
Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006), Poet Laureate of the United States
Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999), Scottish writer
Mozume Takakazu（1879-1985）, Japanese writer and philologist
Niwa Fumio (1904-2005), Japanese novelist
Lillian Rogers Parks (1897-1997)
Fernando Pessa (1902-2002), Portuguese journalist and radio broadcaster
Carl Rakosi (1903-2004)
George Seldes (1890-1995)
Edna Staebler (1906-2006), Canadian writer
Dragutin Tadijanović (1905-present), Croatian poet and writer
Ellen Tarry (1906-present)
Walter Trohan (1903-2003), Chicago Tribune bureau chief and reporter
Edward Upward (1903-present), English writer
Edward Wagenknecht (1900-2004), American writer and historian
Arthur Walworth (1903-2005), American writer, biographer of Woodrow Wilson
Curt Weibull (1886-1991), Swedish historian and author
Phyllis A. Whitney (1903-present)

[edit] Businessmen

Edward Bernays (1891-1995)
Andrew George Burry (1873-1975)
Godfrey Lowell Cabot (1861-1962), Cabot Corporation
Maxwell Cummings (1898-2001), Canadian real estate builder and philanthropist
A.G. Gaston (1892-1996), Afro-American businessman
Albert Hamilton Gordon (1901-present), Kidder, Peabody & Co.
Cecil H. Green (1900-2003), Texas Instruments co-founder
Hans List (1896-1996), Austrian businessman
Joseph Moses Juran (1904-present), industrial engineer, management theorist
Garnet Hercules Mackley (1883-1986), Head of New Zealand Railways
Ronald Mansbridge (1905-2006)
Arthur Marshall (engineer) (1903-present), Marshall Aerospace Founder and Aviator
R. Samuel McLaughlin (1871-1972)
Walter L. Morgan (1898-1998), founder of the Wellington Fund
Roy Neuberger (1903-present)
Mohan Singh Oberoi (1898-2002)
Frits Philips (1905-2005)
Günter Reimann (1904-2005), economist
James Stillman Rockefeller (1902-2004), First National City Bank of New York (see also under Sportspeople)
Morris Schwartz (1901-2004), Russian-American photographer, inventor and businessman, founded Kalart Company
Hermann von Siemens (1885-1986)
Sir Thomas Sopwith (1888-1989), aircraft pioneer
W. Clement Stone (1902-2002), insurance leader
Sir James Swinburne (1858-1958)
Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr. (1906-present), Former president and chairman of Walgreen Drug Company
Frank H. Wheaton Sr. (1881-1983) chaired Wheaton Industries until his death
Abdul Majid Zabuli (1896-1998)

[edit] Educators/school administrators/social scientists/linguists

John Haden Badley (1865-1967) educator, founder of the Bedales School
Giuliano Bonfante (1904-2005), linguistics expert
Thomas D. Clark (1903-2005), American historian
Anna J. Cooper (1858-1964), educator, civil rights advocate
Aaron Director (1901-2004)
Murray Barnson Emeneau (1904-2005), linguist
John Morton-Finney (1889-1998)
Emily Howland (1827-1929)
Karolina Lanckorońska (1898-2002), Polish art historian and writer
Harold Lawton (1899-2005)
Seymour Lubetzky (1898-2003), librarian
Norman Walker Porteous (1898-2003), Dean at University of Edinburgh
Laura Woolsey Lord Scales (1879-1990), Dean at Smith College
Sadayoshi Tanabe (1888-2000), Japanese bibliographer

[edit] Explorers

Alexandra David-Néel (1868-1969)
Ardito Desio (1897-2001)
Helge Ingstad (1899-2001)
Freya Stark (1893-1993)
Norman Vaughan (1905-2005) Arctic explorer
Jean-Frédéric Waldeck (1766-1875)

[edit] Jurists/practitioners of law

Sampson Salter Blowers (1742-1842)
William A. Bootle (1902-2005)
Melville Henry Cane (1879-1980), American lawyer and poet
Arnold Wilson Cowen(1905-present), American Lawyer and Judge
Alfred Denning, Baron Denning (1899-1999), Master of the Rolls
Harold Raymond Medina (1888-1990)
L. Welch Pogue (1899-2003)
Hartley Shawcross (1902-2003)
Samuel Williston (1861-1963)
Joseph William Woodrough (1873-1977)

[edit] Military commanders

Aaron Bank (1902-2004), "Father of Special Forces"
Waldemar Levy Cardoso (1900-present), the only living Brazilian field marshal
Sir Philip Christison (1893-1993), British general
Henry Fancourt (1900-2004), Royal Navy officer, pioneering Naval Aviator
Sir George Higginson (1826-1927), British general
John L. Hines (1868-1968), General, Chief of Staff, US Army
Stanislaw Maczek (1892-1994) Polish general
Masaichi Niimi (1887-1993), Japanese general
Sir Henry Oliver (1865-1965), Admiral of the Fleet, Royal Navy
Dorothy C. Stratton (1899-2006), director of the SPARS
James Alward Van Fleet (1892-1992), US general
Sir Provo Wallis (1791-1892), Admiral of the Fleet, Royal Navy
Xue Yue - (1896-1998), Chinese general

[edit] Musicians/Composers/music patrons

Frances Adaskin (1900-2001), Canadian pianist
Irving Berlin (1888-1989), composer
Eubie Blake (1887-1983), composer
Henri Busser (1872-1973), French composer
Irving Caesar (1895-1996)
Hughes Cuénod (1902-present), Swiss tenor
Jimmie Davis (1899-2000), singer, songwriter, Governor of Louisiana
Manuel Patricio Rodriguez Garcia (1805-1906), music and singing teacher
Sidonie Goossens (1899-2004), harpist from famous music family
Roy Henderson (1899-2000)
Mieczysław Horszowski (1892-1993), Polish pianist
Bill Johnson (1872-1972)
Maurice Journeau (1898-1999), French composer
Allauddin Khan (1862–1972), Indian classical sarod player
Paul Le Flem (1881-1984) French composer
Conrad Leonard (1898-2003), pianist and composer
Sir Robert Mayer (1879-1985)
Marcel Mule (1901-2001)
Leo Ornstein (1892-2002)
Uncle Charlie Osborne (1890-1992), Appalachian mountain music legend
Elsa Respighi (1894-1996), Italian composer and singer, wife of Ottorino Respighi
Olga Rudge (1895-1996), American violinist, mistress of Ezra Pound
Joseph Salemi (1902-2003), jazz trombonist
Nicolas Slonimsky (1894-1995)
Jenő Takács (1902-2005), Austrian-Hungarian composer and pianist
Tillit S. Teddlie (1885-1987), hymn composer

[edit] Nobility

Judith, Countess of Listowel (1903-2003)

[edit] Philosophers/theologians

Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002), German philosopher
Charles Hartshorne (1897-2000), pioneer of process theology
Mordecai Kaplan (1881-1983)
Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890-1991)
Alfred Vaucher (1887-1993), French theologian, church historian
Paul Weiss (1901-2002)

[edit] Politicians/government servants

Hastings Banda (1896-1997), president of Malawi
Mahmud Celal Bayar (1884-1986), President of Turkey
Nripen Chakraborty (1904-2004), Indian politician, former Chief-minister of Tripura
Roswell Keyes Colcord (1839-1939)
Cornelius Cole (1822-1924), longest-lived US senator
Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres (1721-1824)
Georges-Casimir Dessaulles (1827-1930), Canadian senator
Willem Drees (1886-1988), prime minister of the Netherlands
Eleanor Lansing Dulles (1895-1996), U.S. diplomat
Jules Ellenberger (1871-1973), British colonial administrator
Josef Felder (1900-2000)
Hamilton Fish III (1888-1991), US Congressman
Henry Richard Gibson (1837-1938), US Congressman
Marinus van der Goes van Naters (1900-2005), Dutch politician
John Netherland Heiskell (1872-1972), 2nd US senator to reach 100 years
Naruhiko Higashikuni (1887-1990)
Christopher Hornsrud (1859-1960), Prime Minister of Norway
Wacław Jędrzejewicz (1893-1993), Polish diplomat and politician
Konstantinos Kallias (1901-2004), Greek politician
George F. Kennan (1904-2005), Cold War policy architect
Alfred M. Landon (1887-1987), governor of Kansas and presidential nominee
Haakon Lie (1905-present), former secretary of Norwegian Labour Party
Enolia McMillan (1904-2006), former president of NAACP
Sir Moses Haim Montefiore (1784-1885)
Sir William Mulock (1844-1944), Canadian politician and cabinet member
Muhammad al-Muqri (c. 1844 - 1957)
Oku Mumeo (1895-1997), Japanese feminist activist and a member of The House of Councillors
George Alexander Parks (1883-1984), territorial governor of Alaska.
Antoine Pinay (1891-1994), French prime minister
Edward Raczynski (1891-1993), Polish diplomat and President in exile
Richard G. Reid (1879-1980), premier of Alberta
Nellie Tayloe Ross (1876-1977)
Susanna M. Salter (1860-1961), Mayor of Argonia, Kansas, first woman mayor in the United States
Murray Seasongood (1878-1983), mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio
Ramón Serrano Súñer (1901-2003), Spanish politician
Emanuel Shinwell (1884-1986)
Soong May-ling (Madame Chiang Kai-shek) (1898-2003)
John Ward Studebaker (1887-1989)
Maurice H. Thatcher (1870-1973), US Congressman
Strom Thurmond (1902-2003), US Senator
David Wark (1804-1905), Canadian Senator
Dr. Cornelius Wiebe (1893-1999), Former Manitoba MLA and longtime Family physician
Zhang Qun (1889-1990), Chinese politician
Zhang Xueliang (Chang Hsüeh-liang) (1901-2001), Chinese General, but placed in politician section due to his role in Xi'an Incident.
Xenophon Zolotas (1904-2004), former Prime Minister of Greece

[edit] Relative of someone well-known

Brooke Astor (1902-present), wife of W. Vincent Astor
Jean Faircloth (1898-2000), wife to Douglas MacArthur
Jolie Gabor (ca. 1894-1997), mother of Gabor sisters
Mabel Grosvenor (1905-2006), granddaughter of Alexander Graham Bell
Rose Kennedy (1890-1995), mother of John F. Kennedy
Martin Konigsberg (1900-2001), father of Woody Allen
Eve Curie LaBouisse (1904-present), daughter of Marie Curie
Isabel J. Meighen (1882-1985), wife of Canadian Prime Minister Arthur Meighen
Richard Mudd (1901-2002), grandson of Samuel Mudd
Pauline Pauling (1901-2003), sister of Linus Pauling.

[edit] Religious leaders/clergymen

Laban Ainsworth (1757-1858), American clergyman and pastor
Ananda Maitreya (1896-1998)
Saint Anthony (251-356)
Corrado Cardinal Bafile (1903-2005)
Henry Boehm (1775-1875)
Arthur Judson Brown (1856-1963) American clergyman, missionary and author
Edward Howard (1877-1983), archbishop
Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri (1900?-2006), Orthodox rabbi and kabbalist
William McElwee Miller (1892-1993), missionary and author
Francesco Minerva (1904-2004), Archbishop emeritus of Lecce, Italy
Ruby Muhammad (1897-present), named 'Mother of the Nation of Islam' by Louis Farrakhan in 1986
Sri Deep Narayan Mahaprabhuji (1828?-1963)
Tillit Sidney Teddlie (1885-1987), American hymnalist and pastor
Marian Tumler (1887-1987), Austrian theologian, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
Daniel Waldo (1762-1864)
Herbert Welch (1862-1969), Methodist Bishop and President of Ohio Wesleyan University
Elazar Shach (1898-2001), Leading Haredi rabbi in Israel.

[edit] Royalty

Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901-2004)
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (1900-2002)

[edit] Scientists/mathematicians

Charles G. Abbot (1872-1973), astronomer and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Horace Alexander (1889-1989), British biologist
Doris Allen (1901-2002), American psychologist
Rudolf Arnheim (1904-present), psychologist of visual perception
Henry Beachell (1906-present), developer of "miracle rice"
Arnold O. Beckman (1900-2004)
Julia Bell (1879-1979) English human geneticist
Harry Benjamin (1885-1986), German sexologist
Boris Yakovych Bukreyev (1859-1962), Russian mathematician
Su Buqing (1902-2003), Chinese mathematician
Henri Cartan (1904-present), French mathematician
Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786-1889), French chemist
Harriette Chick (1875-1977), British biologist
Samuel Rickard Christophers (1873-1978), protozoologist
William David Coolidge (1873-1975), American engineer, developer of the Coolidge tube for production of x rays
Ray Crist (1900-2005), chemist, retired from teaching post in 2004
Philip D’Arcy Hart (1900-2006), British doctor
Leila Denmark (1898-present), pediatrician, discovered pertussis vaccine
Matilda Evans (1872-1975), physician
Henri Fabre (1882-1984), French aviation pioneer, inventor of seaplane
Gordon S. Fahrni (1887-1995), physician, expert on goiter
Raymond Firth (1901-2002), New Zealand anthropologist
Erich Häßler (1899-2005), German paediatrician
Michael Heidelberger (1888-1991), American immunologist
Rudolf Hell (1901-2002), German inventor
Arthur R. von Hippel (1898-2003), German-American physicist, codeveloper of radar
Albert Hofmann (1906-present), Discoverer of LSD
Edward Augustus Holyoke (1728-1829), American physician
Friedrich Hund (1896-1997) German physicist ("Hund's rules" )
Ancel Keys (1904-2004), American biologist
Paul E. Klopsteg (1889-1991), American physicist
Jerome F. Lederer (1902-2004), American engineer
Inge Lehmann (1888-1993), Danish seismologist
Emma Lehmer (1906-living), Russian-American mathematician
Ernst Mayr (1904-2005), German-American biologist
Margaret Alice Murray (1863-1963), British anthropologist
Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina (1899-1999), Russian mathematician
Franco Rasetti (1901-2001), Italian physician
Henry Nicholas Ridley, (1855-1956), British biologist
Waldo Semon (1898-1999), American chemist
Nilakantha Somayaji (1444-1544), Indian mathematician
Dirk Jan Struik (1894-2000), Dutch mathematician
Leopold Vietoris (1891-2002), Austrian mathematician
Arvo Ylppö (1887-1992), Finnish paediatrician
Zheng Ji (1900-present) professor of Nanjing University, Chinese pioneer of nutriology and biochemistry.

[edit] Sportspeople

Constance M. K. Applebee (1873-1981), field hockey
Ray Cunningham (1905-2005), former St. Louis Cardinals third baseman (1931-1932)
D. B. Deodhar (1892-1993), Indian cricket player and Sanskritist
Jacques Gerschwiler (1898-2000), figure skating
Howdy Groskloss (1906-2006), MLB player, possibly born in 1907 or 1908
Chet Hoff (1891-1998), oldest MLB player
Ulrich Inderbinen (1900-2004), Swiss mountain guide
Feroze Khan (1904-2005), Pakistani field hockey olympian
Keizo Miura (1904-2006), Japanese skier and ski instructor
Emilio Navarro (1905-present), Puerto Rican baseball player
Hal Haig Prieste (1896-2001), Armenian-American high diver, 3rd in 1920 Summer Olympics
Philip Rabinowitz, (1904-present), South African sprinter, fastest centenarian over 100 metres
Ted Radcliffe (aka "Double Duty Radcliffe") (1902-2005)
James Stillman Rockefeller (1902-2004), rowing, Olympic gold medal (see also under Business)
Silas Simmons (1895 or 1898-2006), Afro-American semi-professional and professional baseball player
Herman Smith-Johannsen (1875-1987), Norwegian-Canadian cross-country skier
Amos Alonzo Stagg (1862-1965), American football
Rollie Stiles, (1906-present), American Major League Baseball Player
Leon Štukelj (1898-1999), Slovenian gymnast, won six Olympic medails
Rhys Thomas (1904-2004), rugby union

[edit] Miscellaneous or extras

Percy & Florence Arrowsmith, (1900-2005; 1904-present), longest marriage for a living couple and the oldest aggregate age of a married couple (according to the Guinness Book of Records). After Percy Arrowsmith died, Guinness recognized Herbert (March 15, 1900 - December 27, 2005) and Magda (two weeks younger than Florence) Brown as oldest couple. However, Le Monde newspaper revealed that one couple in France was even older than the Arrowsmiths or Browns: André Debry (June 15, 1898-August 31, 2005) and Marguerite Pingaud (born October 10, 1904) were married on August 12, 1924 and celebrated their 81st wedding anniversary in August 2005 shortly before his death. John Rocchio of North Providence, Rhode Island (age 101) and his wife Emelia, 99, celebrated their 82nd wedding anniversary February 10, 2005 and were recognized by Guinness in late July.Sorry to report that Mr. Rocchio died Monday.He was 102 year old,his wife might have died as well.
Indra Devi (1899-2002)
Milt Dunnell (1905-present), Canadian sportswriter
Leopold Engleitner (1905-present), oldest survivor of the concentration camps Buchenwald and Niederhagen
Gregorio Fuentes (1897-2002)
Ida May Fuller (1874-1975), first U.S. citizen to receive a social security check
Eleanor Lambert (1903-2003), U.S. fashion pioneer
Goethe Link (1879-1980), U.S. surgeon, aviation pioneer and amateur astronomer
Irene Wells Pennington (1898-2003), multimillionaire oil widow
Connie Douglas Reeves (1901-2003), cowgirl
Saadi (1184-1283/1291), Iranian poet
Catherine Uhlmyer (1893-2002), last survivor to remember, and Adella Wotherspoon (1903-2004), last survivor of, the General Slocum disaster of 1904

[edit] Known for attaining high age

Anne Samson (February 27, 1891 - November 29, 2004 at age 113), oldest-ever nun documented
Daphne Brann (August 4, 1890 - March 10, 2001 at age 110), oldest-ever minister (Assembly of God)
Jeanne Calment (February 21, 1875 - August 4, 1997 at age 122), longest confirmed lifespan ever

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