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.

Activists/non-profit leaders/philanthropists

• Albert Jean Amateau (1889-1996)
• Melchora Aquino (1812-1919) "Mother of the Filipino Revolution"
• Arnold Beckman (1900-2004), Philanthropist who invented pH meter
• Catherine Bramwell-Booth (1883-1987), Salvation Army Commissioner
• Hope Hale Davis (1903-2004), American feminist and writer
• Rachel Davis DuBois (1892-1993), Quaker pioneer in multiculturalism
• Ruth Ellis (1899-2000)
• George Field (1904-2006), former director of Freedom House
• Emídio Guerreiro (1899-2005), Portuguese freedom fighter and politician
• Alice Hamilton (1869-1970)
• Jenny Humbert-Droz (1892-2000), Swiss feminist and politician
• Esther Hymer (1898-2001), American feminist and peace activist
• Shizue Kato (1897-2001), Japanese feminist and politician
• Fuki Kushida (1899-2001), Japanese feminist
• Paul Moyer Limbert (1897-1998), YMCA Secretary General
• Zofia Morawska (1904-present)
• Margaret Murie (1902-2003), conservationist
• Scott Nearing (1883-1983)
• Sanzo Nosaka (1892-1993)
• Lisa Rees-Stier (1872-1976), German social activist
• 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)
• Rachel Mellon Walton (1899-2006), American philanthropist
• Irvin F. Westheimer (1879-1980)
• Katharina Winter (1901-2005), supporter of the resistance fighter of the July 20 Plot
• Hazel Wolf (1898-2000), American environment activist and civil-rights campaigner
• Marion Gräfin Yorck von Wartenburg (1904-present), German lawyer and resistance fighter
• Paul Graf Yorck von Wartenburg (1902-2002), German resistance fighter

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
• Lydia Bilbrook (1888-1990)
• Margaret Booth (1898-2002)
• Osmond Borradaile (1898-1999), Canadian cameraman
• Renate Brausewetter (1905-present)
• George Burns (1896-1996)
• Alice Cooke (1882-1985), stage and film actress
• Dorothy Dickson (1893-1995)
• Mary Ellis (1897-2003)
• Carl Esmond (1902-2004), German-American actor, possibly born in 1904, 1905 or 1908
• Pierre Fierville (1671-1777), French actor
• 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)
• Roger Karl (1882-1984), French actor
• Hans F. Koenekamp (1891-1992), American cameraman and special effects designer
• Sári Kürthy (1874-1978), Hungarian actress
• Charles Lane (1905-present)
• Lucile Layton (1903-2004), American actress, member of the Ziegfeld Follies
• Erna Lazarus (1903-2006), American scriptwriter
• Francis Lederer (1899-2000)
• René Le Hénaff (1903-2005), French director and cutter
• Martin Magner (1900-2002), German-American director of theatre, radio and TV
• Annemarie Marks-Rocke (1901-2004), German actress and educationalist
• 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)
• Doris Eaton Travis (1904-present)
• Roger Tréville (1902-2005), French actor
• Ninette de Valois (1898-2001)
• Señor Wences (1896-1999)
• Estelle Winwood (1883-1984)
• Miguel Zacarías (1905-2006), Mexican director
• Adolph Zukor (1873-1976)

Artists

• Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902-2002), Mexican photographer
• Jean François Berges (1717-1819), Belgian painter
• Ruth Bernhard (1905-present), American photographer
• Theresa Ferber Bernstein (1890?-2002)
• Quita Brodhead (1901-2002), American artist
• Alphaeus Philemon Cole (1876-1988)
• Denise Colomb (1902-2004), French photographer
• Sylvia Daoust (1902-2004), Canadian sculptor
• Mario Delitala (1887-1990), Italian artist and art historian
• Orbán Dezső (1884-1986), Hungarian painter
• Boris Efimov (1900-present), Russian cartoonist
• Hans Gerstmayr (1882-1987), Austrian artist, worked with steel
• Kathleen Hale (1898-2000), British illustrator
• Hermann Ottomar Herzog (1831-1932) German-American painter
• Wilhelm Hillern-Flinsch (1884-1986), German painter and graphic artist
• Hiragushi Denchu (1872-1979), Japanese sculptor
• Karl Lukas Honegger (1902-2003), Swiss painter and sculptor
• Jeanne Hovine (1888-1992), Belgiane comedienne and comic illustrator, pseudonym: Anne-Marie Ferrières
• Fritz Klee (1876-1976), German porcelain artist
• Alfred Kusche (1884-1984), German artist
• Sydney Leff (1901-2005), American artist, illustrated sheets of music
• Ulrich Leman (1885-1988), Germain painter
• Alfred Levitt (1894-2000), Belarusian-American painter
• Tamás Lossonczy (1904-present), Hungarian painter
• Charles Le Maresquier (1870-1972), French architect
• Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
• Gabriele Mucchi (1899-2002), Italian artist
• Alfred Pichon (1817-1918), French painter
• Antoine Pompe (1873-1980), Belgian architect and designer
• Don Potter (1902-2004), British sculptor and potter
• Mirko Racki (1879-1982), Croatian painter
• Albert Reimann (1874-1976), German sculptor
• Bhabesh Chandra Sanyal (1901-2003), Indian artist
• Christian Schiefer (1896-1998), Swiss photographer
• Bernarda Bryson Shahn (1903-2004)
• Margaret Fay Shaw (1903-2004), American-Scottish folklorist, photographer and movie maker
• Koloman Sokol (1902-2003), Slovakian painter and graphic artist
• Adomas Varnas (1879-1979), Lithuanian artist
• Hendrik Wijdeveld (1885-1987), Dutcher architect and publisher
• Max Winders (1882-1982), Belgian architect
• Woldemar Winkler (1902-2004), German painter, graphic artist and sculptor
• Beatrice Wood (1893-1998)

Authors/poets/journalists

• Germán List Arzubide (1898 -1998), Mexican writer
• 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)
• Erik Finnemann Bruun (1898-2002), Danish politician and editor
• Georges Bugnet (1879-1981), French-Canadian writer
• Fulgence Charpentier (1897-2001), Canadian journalist and columnist
• Nirad Chaudhuri (1897-1999)
• Francesco Chiesa (1871-1973), Swiss writer in Italian language
• Hermann Claudius (1878-1980), German poet
• 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
• Otto Färber (1892-1993), German journalist, writer and publisher
• Juan Filloy (1894-2000), Argentine writer
• Dorothy Frooks (1896-1997)
• Edward K. Gaylord (1873-1974), newspaper publisher and philanthropist
• Ernst Jünger (1895-1998), German writer (In Stahlgewittern)
• Joseph Nathan Kane (1899-2002)
• Amal Kiran (1904-present) Indian author, poet
• Zofia Kozarynowa (1890-1992), Polish writer
• Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006), Poet Laureate of the United States
• Arthur Lehning (1899-2000), Dutch writer and anarchist-archivist
• Eduards Līcis (1884-1987), Latvian writer
• Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999), Scottish writer
• El Duque del Morteruelo (1904-2004), Spanish poet
• Niwa Fumio (1904-2005), Japanese novelist
• Elliot Norton (1903-2003), American theatre critic
• Lillian Rogers Parks (1897-1997)
• Frances Partridge (1900-2004)
• Fernando Pessa (1902-2002), Portuguese journalist and radio broadcaster
• Carl Rakosi (1903-2004)
• Berta Ruck (1878-1978), Welsh writer
• Robert St. John (1902-2003)
• Günther Schwab (1904-2006), Austrian writer
• Marcelle Ségal (1896-1998), French journalist
• George Seldes (1890-1995)
• Madame Simone (1877-1985) Pen name for Pauline Benda; French actress, writer; obituary in 1985 Britannica Book of the Year
• Barbosa Lima Sobrinho (1897-2000), Brazilian journalist and lawyer
• Gerty Spies (1897-1997), German writer
• Edna Staebler (1906-present), Canadian writer
• Dragutin Tadijanović (1905-present), Famous Croatian poet and writer
• Walter Trohan (1903-2003), Chicago Tribune bureau chief and reporter
• Tsuchiya Bunmei (1890-1990), Japanese poet
• 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)
• Catherine Woolley (1904-2005), Children's book author

Businessmen

• Edward Bernays (1891-1995)
• Victor A. Bonomo (1898-1999), American candy producer (Bonomo's Turkish Taffy)
• 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
• Karl Innerebner (1870-1970), Austrian building contractor
• Jack Liebowitz (1900-2000), American founder of DC Comics
• 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-present)
• R. Samuel McLaughlin (1871-1972)
• Walter L. Morgan (1898-1998), founder of the Wellington Fun
• 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)
• Günther Ruprecht (1898-2001), German publisher
• Jacob Sapirstein (1885-1987) founded American Greetings
• 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)
• Len Vale-Onslow (1900-2004), British motorcycle maker
• Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr. (1906-present), Former president and chairman of Walgreen Drug Company
• Jack Weil (1901-present), founder of Rockmount Ranch Wear and oldest CEO in the United States
• Paul-Louis Weiller (1893-1993), French pilot and industrian
• Frank H. Wheaton Sr. (1881-1983) chaired Wheaton Industries until his death
• Abdul Majid Zabuli (1896-1998)

Educators/school administrators/social scientists/linguists

• John Haden Badley (1865-1967) educator, founder of the Bedales School
• Thomas D. Clark (1903-2005), American historian
• Anna J. Cooper (1858-1964), educator, civil rights advocate
• Aaron Director (1901-2004)
• Rudolf Dörrier (1899-2002), German librarian and chronicler
• Aleksander Elango (1902-2004), Estonian educationalist
• Murray Barnson Emeneau (1904-2005), linguist
• Antonio Ferrua (1901-2003), Italian archaeologist
• John Morton-Finney (1889-1998)
• Wilhelm Flitner (1889-1990), German educationalist
• Jean Fourquet (1899-2001), French Germanist
• Bertrand Leslie Hallward (1901-2003)
• Emily Howland (1827-1929)
• Arthur Montague D'Urban Hughes (1873-1974), English philologist
• Karl Käfer (1898-1999), Swiss professor of business management
• Karolina Lanckorońska (1898-2002), Polish art historian and writer
• Harold Lawton (1899-2005)
• Adolph Lowe (1893-1995), German sociologist and political economist
• Seymour Lubetzky (1898-2003), librarian
• Ernest Manheim (1900-2002), Hungarian sociologist, anthropologist and composer
• Millicent Carey McIntosh (1898-2001), President of Barnard College
• Parker McKenzie (1897-1999), American historian and linguist (Kiowa)
• Albert E. Meyzeek (1862-1963) "Dean of Negro Education"
• Takakazu Mozume (1879-1985), Japanese classicist
• Siegfried Pickert (1898-2002), German co-founder of anthroposophical special education
• Norman Walker Porteous (1898-2003), Dean at University of Edinburgh
• Charles Samaran (1879-1982), French historian
• Laura Woolsey Lord Scales (1879-1990), Dean at Smith College
• Ingeborg Schnack (1896-1997), German librarian and Rilke reseracher
• Richard Schüller (1870-1972), Austrian-American economist
• Wilhelm Seedorf (1881-1984), German professor for agriculture business management
• Sadayoshi Tanabe (1888-2000), Japanese bibliographer
• Louis Round Wilson (1876-1979), librarian

Explorers

• Alexandra David-Néel (1868-1969)
• Ardito Desio (1897-2001)
• Helge Ingstad (1899-2001)
• Christiane Ritter (1897-2000), Austrian adventuress and writer
• Freya Stark (1893-1993)
• Norman Vaughan (1905-2005) Arctic explorer
• Jean-Frédéric Waldeck (1766-1875)

Jurists/practitioners of law

• Sampson Salter Blowers (1742-1842)
• William A. Bootle (1902-2005)
• Melville Henry Cane (1879-1980), American lawyer and poet
• Alfred Denning, Baron Denning (1899-1999), Master of the Rolls
• Wolfgang Fränkel (1905-present), German lawyer and highest prosecuter
• Karl Heck (1896-1997), German lawyer, judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
• Rush Limbaugh Sr. (1891-1996), grandfather of talk radio star Rush Limbaugh
• Harold Raymond Medina (1888-1990)
• L. Welch Pogue (1899-2003)
• Hartley Shawcross (1902-2003)
• Samuel Williston (1861-1963)
• Joseph William Woodrough (1873-1977)

Military commanders

• Kurt Georg Heinrich Andersen (1898-2003), German general and commander of the Federal Border Protection
• Aaron Bank (1902-2004), "Father of Special Forces"
• Maurice Bourgeois (1896-2003), French general
• 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
• Pierre Fourcaud (1898-1998), French officer
• Sir George Higginson (1826-1927), British general
• John L. Hines (1868-1968), General, Chief of Staff, US Army
• Hermann von Kuhl (1856-1958), German general and military historian
• 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-present), 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

Musicians/Composers/music patrons

• Frances Adaskin (1900-2001), Canadian pianist
• Sigrid Antropoff-Hörschelmann (1886-1987), Estonian pianist
• Irving Berlin (1888-1989), composer
• Henri Busser (1872-1973), French composer
• Irving Caesar (1895-1996)
• Gina Cigna (1900-2001), French sopranist
• Hugues Cuénod (1902-present), Swiss tenor
• Jimmie Davis (1899-2000), singer, songwriter, Governor of Louisiana
• Donald N. Ferguson (1882-1985), American musicologist
• Anthony Galla-Rini (1904-present), known as "Mister Accordion"
• 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
• Mykola Kolessa (1903-present), Ukrainian composer and conductor
• Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867-1972), American composer
• Paul Le Flem (1881-1984) French composer
• Conrad Leonard (1898-2003), pianist and composer
• Huey Long (1904-present), American musician, member of The Ink Spots
• Sir Robert Mayer (1879-1985)
• Marcel Mule (1901-2001)
• Leo Ornstein (1892-2002)
• Uncle Charlie Osborne (1890-1992), Appalachian mountain music legend
• Vincenzo Maria Pintorno (1862-1968), Italian conductor and composer
• Hans Rahner (1905-present), Austrian composer and pianist
• Elsa Respighi (1894-1996), Italian composer and singer, wife of Ottorino Respighi
• Anny Roth-Dalbert (1900-2004), Swiss composer
• Olga Rudge (1895-1996), American violinist, mistress of Ezra Pound
• Joseph Salemi (1902-2003), jazz trombonist
• Carlo Scaglia (1863-1965), Italian composer
• Nicolas Slonimsky (1894-1995)
• Willy Sommerfeld (1904-present), German silent film pianist
• Alice Sommer Herz (1903-present), Czech pianist ("the pianist of Theresienstadt")
• Jenő Takács (1902-2005), Austrian-Hungarian composer and pianist
• Tillit S. Teddlie (1885-1987), hymn composer
• Isabella Yurieva (1899-2000), Russian folk music singer
• Grete von Zieritz (1899-2001), pianist and composer

Nobility

• Dominick Geoffrey Edward Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne (1901-2002)
• Ethel Sydney Keith, Countess of Kintore (1874-1974)
• Frank Douglas-Pennant, 5th Baron Penrhyn (1865-1967)
• Judith, Countess of Listowel (1903-2003)
• Jean Pierre Francois Joseph Pineton, Marquis de Chambrun (1903-2004)
• Cora, Countess of Clancarty (1892-1993)
• Countess Elsa Bernadotte (1893-1996)

Philosophers/theologians

• Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002), German philosopher
• Maurice de Gandillac (1906-2006), French philosopher
• Charles Hartshorne (1897-2000), pioneer of process theology
• Mordecai Kaplan (1881-1983)
• Erich Kleineidam (1905-2005), German philosopher and theologican
• Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890-1991)
• Alfred Vaucher (1887-1993), French theologian, church historian
• Paul Weiss (1901-2002)

Politicians/government servants

• Hastings Banda (1896-1997), president of Malawi
• Mahmud Celal Bayar (1884-1986), President of Turkey
• Gilberto Bosques (1892-1995), Mexican diplomat ("the Schindler of Mexico")
• Samuel Brawand (1898-2001), Swiss politician
• Nripen Chakraborty (1904-2004), Indian politician, former Chief-minister of Tripura
• Roswell Keyes Colcord (1839-1939)
• Cornelius Cole (1822-1924), longest-lived US senator
• Robert de Caix de Saint-Aymour (1869-1970), French diplomat
• 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
• James N. Folks (1897-2001), American politician
• Henry Richard Gibson (1837-1938), US Congressman
• Marinus van der Goes van Naters (1900-2005), Dutch politician
• Emil Freiherr von Guttenberg (1841-1941), Austrian officer and railway minister
• Oskar Hagen (1895-1996), German politician
• John Netherland Heiskell (1872-1972), 2nd US senator to reach 100 years
• Pál Hevesy (1883-1888), Hungarian diplomat
• Naruhiko Higashikuni (1887-1990)
• Christopher Hornsrud (1859-1960), Prime Minister of Norway
• Wacław Jędrzejewicz (1893-1993), Polish diplomat and politician
• Russell Jump (1895-2000), American politician, mayor of Wichita, Kansas
• Konstantinos Kallias (1901-2004), Greek politician
• Paula Karpinski (1897-2005), German politician
• Toshikazu Kase (1903-2004), Japanese diplomat
• Piet Kasteel (1901-2003), Dutch diplomat, governor of Curaçao
• George F. Kennan (1904-2005), Cold War policy architect
• Alfred M. Landon (1887-1987), governor of Kansas and presidential nominee
• Olga Lauristin (1903-2005), Estonian communist politician
• Haakon Lie (1905-present), former secretary of Norwegian Labour Party
• Toni Menzinger (1905-present), German politician
• Sir Moses Haim Montefiore (1784-1885)
• Sir William Mulock (1844-1944), Canadian politician and cabinet member
• Muhammad al-Muqri (c. 1844 - 1957)
• Heinz Maria Oeftering (1903-2004), German financial expert, president of Deutsche Bundesbahn and Bundesrechnungshof
• 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
• Karl Richter (1904-2005), German politician and trade unionist
• Nellie Tayloe Ross (1876-1977)
• Susanna M. Salter (1860-1961), Mayor of Argonia, Kansas, first woman mayor in the United States
• Wilhelmine Schirmer-Pröscher (1889-1992), German politician in the GDR
• 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)
• Erika Steinke (1905-2005), German politician
• John Ward Studebaker (1887-1989)
• Reginald H. Sullivan (1876-1980), mayor of Indianapolis, Indiana
• Maurice H. Thatcher (1870-1973), US Congressman
• Strom Thurmond (1902-2003), US Senator
• Marie Torhorst (1888-1989), German politician and educationalist
• Tassilo Tröscher (1902-2003), German politician, minister for agriculture and forests in Hessen
• John Voorhis (1829-1932), Grand Sachem of Tammany Hall
• David Wark (1804-1905), Canadian Senator
• Rosalie Weiss (1900-2000), German politician
• Dr. Cornelius Wiebe (1893-1999), Former Manitoba MLA and longtime Family physician
• Ella Goldberg Wolfe (1896-2000), co-founder of Communist Party USA, wife of Bertram Wolfe
• 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

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
• Mary Hanford (1901-2004), mother of Elizabeth Dole
• 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
• Cecelia Gertrude Lenerz Pulvermacher (1895-1999), mother of Lucian Pulvermacher, self-made Antipope Pius XIII.

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
• Archbishop Alfonso Carinci (1862-1963), official of the Roman Curia
• Edward Howard (1877-1983), archbishop
• Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri (1900?-2006), Orthodox rabbi and kabbalist
• Antonio Rosario Mennonna (1906-present), Italian bishop of Muro Lucano and Nardò
• 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
• Antoine Nguyên Van Thien (1906-present), Vietnamese bishop of Vinh Long
• Ryokei Onishi (1875-1983), chief priest of Kiyomizu-dera, Japan
• John Linus Paschang (1895-1999), bishop of Grand Island, Nebraska
• Sophronius IV of Alexandria (1798-1899), Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria
• 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

Royalty

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

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
• Wilson Baker, FRS (1900-2002) headed school of chemistry at University of Bristol, England
• Arnold O. Beckman (1900-2004)
• Harry Benjamin (1885-1986), German sexologist
• Hans Erhard Bock (1903-2004), German physician, Tübingen
• Boris Yakovlovic Bukreev (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-present), British doctor
• Leila Denmark (1898-present), pediatrician, discovered pertussis vaccine
• Jacques Eugène Duclaux (1877-1978), French biologist
• Griffith Evans (1835-1935), British bacteriologist
• 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
• Milton Garland (1895-2000}, American inventor of refrigeration systems, named "Mr. Refrigeration"
• Béla Grunberger (1903-2005), Hungarian-French psychoanalyst
• Alexandre Gueniot (1832-1935), French doctor
• Viktor Hamburger (1900-2001). German biologist
• Erich Häßler (1899-2005), German paediatrician
• Otto Haupt (1887-1988), German mathematican
• Michael Heidelberger (1888-1991), American immunologist
• Adolf Helke (1902-present), German geologist
• Rudolf Hell (1901-2002), German inventor
• Arthur R. von Hippel (1898-2003), German-American physicist, codeveloper of radar
• Paul C. Hodges (1893-1996), American radiologist
• Albert Hofmann (1906-present), Discoverer of LSD
• Edward Augustus Holyoke (1728-1829), American physician
• Friedrich Hund (1896-1997) German physicist ("Hund´s rules" )
• Arnold Hutschnecker (1898-2000), Austrian-American psychotherapist (e.g. of Richard Nixon)
• Shokichi Iyanaga (1906-2006), Japanese mathematician
• Theodor Jacobsen (1901-2003), Danish-American astronomer
• Jasper H. Kane (1903-2004), American biochemist
• Walter Keller (1900-2001), American geologist
• Ancel Keys (1904-2004), American biologist
• Edward E. Kleinschmidt (1875-1977), German-American inventor
• Nathaniel Kleitman (1895-1999), American physician, discoverer of REM sleep
• Paul E. Klopsteg (1889-1991), American physicist
• Jerome F. Lederer (1902-2004), American engineer
• Inge Lehmann (1888-1993), Danish seismologist
• Marco Marchesan (1899-1991), Italian psychologist, analyst of handwritings
• Ernst Mayr (1904-2005), German-American biologist
• Victor Mills (1897-1997), American chemical engineer, inventor of Pampers
• 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
• Erwin Schliephake (1894-1995), German doctor, created shortwave treatment
• Eduard Schneider-Davids (1869-1970), German engineer, master builder and writer
• Werner Schulze (1890-1993), German agronomist
• Charlotte Selver (1901-2003), German-American psychologist
• Waldo Semon (1898-1999), American chemist
• Brian Duncan Shaw (1898-1999), chemist famous for his lectures on explosives
• Nilakantha Somayaji (1444-1544), Indian mathematician
• Esther Somerfeld-Ziskind (1901-2002), American neurologist
• Georg Sticker (1860-1960), German doctor
• Dirk Jan Struik (1894-2000), Dutch mathematician
• F. William Sunderman (1898-2003), American physician
• Juan Manuel Tato (1902-2004), Argentinian ear, nose, and throat specialist
• Lauriston S. Taylor (1902-2004), American physicist, radiation expert
• Neil Tillotson (1898-2001), American chemist and businessman, inventor of latex balloon
• Thomas B. Turner (1902-2002), American doctor
• Olga von Ungern-Sternberg (1895-1997), German astrologer and doctor
• Robert de Vernejoul (1890-1992), French doctor and resistance fighter
• Leopold Vietoris (1891-2002), Austrian mathematician
• Mokshagandam Visvesvarayya (1861-1962), Indian Inventor
• Wilhelm Winkler (1884-1984), Austrian mathematican
• Walter Wolman (1901-2003), German electronics engineer
• René Wurmser (1890-1993), French biophysicist
• Arvo Ylppö (1887-1992), Finnish paediatrician
• Zheng Ji (1900-present) professor of Nanjing University, Chinese pioneer of nutriology and biochemistry.

Sportspeople

• Constance M. K. Applebee (1873-1981), field hockey
• Ray Cunningham (1905-2005), former St. Louis Cardinals third baseman (1931-1932)
• Jim Davis (1896-2000), American motorcyclist
• D. B. Deodhar (1892-1993), Indian cricket player and Sanskritist
• Jacques Gerschwiler (1898-2000), figure skating
• Howdy Groskloss (1906-present), MLB player, possibly born in 1907 or 1908
• Ernst Jakob Henne (1904-2005), German motorcyclist
• Chet Hoff (1891-1998), oldest MLB player
• Fred W. Hooper (1897-2000), racehorse owner
• Ulrich Inderbinen (1900-2004), Swiss mountain guide
• Feroze Khan (1904-2005), Pakistani field hockey olympian
• Don Malarkey (1905-present), American golfer
• Keizo Miura (1904-2006), Japanese skier and ski instructor
• Phyllis Mudford King (1905-2006), British tennis player, won the Wimbledon Championships doubles in 1931
• 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)
• Herman Smith-Johannsen (1875-1987), Norwegian-Canadian cross-country skier
• Amos Alonzo Stagg (1862-1965), American football
• Leon Štukelj (1898-1999), Slovenian gymnast, won six olympic medails
• Rhys Thomas (1904-2004), rugby union
• Alida van den Bos (1902-2003), Dutch gymnast, 1st with her team in 1928 Summer Olympics

Miscellaneous

• 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.
• Joseph Henry Jarvis (1899-present) and Annie Jarvis (1904-present), second-longest marriage of a living couple, married since 1921.
• Indra Devi (1899-2002)
• Henri Dufaux (1879-1980), aviator
• 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
• John M. Miller (1905-present), American test pilot
• Mozume Takakazu (1879-1985), Japanese literature scholar
• Irene Wells Pennington (1898-2003), multimillionaire oil widow
• Connie Douglas Reeves (1901-2003), cowgirl
• Saadi (1184-1283/1291), Iranian poet
• Gladys Tantaquidgeon (1899-2005), Mohegan tribal matriarch
• Catherine Uhlmyer (1893-2002), last survivor to remember, and Adella Wotherspoon (1903-2004), last survivor of, the General Slocum disaster of 1904
• Väterchen Timofej (1894-2004), Russian hermit of Munich

Known exclusively for attaining high age

See also supercentenarian, longevity myths.

• Anne Samson (February 27, 1891 - November 29,2004 at age 113), oldest nun ever documented
• Daphne Brann (August 4, 1890 - March 10, 2001 at age 110), oldest Assembly of God minister
• Hilda Erickson (November 11, 1859 - Jan 1, 1968 at age 108), oldest surviving Utah pioneer
• Jeanne Calment (February 21, 1875 - August 4, 1997 at age 122), longest confirmed lifespan ever

See also

• Centenarian
• Oldest people

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