The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as educators, school administrators, social scientists and linguists – known for reasons other than their longevity. For more lists, see lists of centenarians.
Name | Lifespan | Age | Notability |
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Daniel Aaron | 1912–2016 | 103 | American academic and author[1] |
Vasily Abaev | 1900–2001 | 100 | Ossetian linguist and philologist[2] |
Sophie Aberle | 1896–1996 | 100 | American physician, anthropologist, and nutritionist[3] |
Thelma Davidson Adair | 1920– | 103 | American educator, writer, activist, and Presbyterian church leader[4] |
Helen Adolf | 1895–1998 | 102 | Austrian–American linguist and literature scholar[5] |
Leoncio Afonso | 1916–2017 | 100 | Spanish academic, professor, and geographer[6] |
Lydia Kaʻonohiponiponiokalani Aholo | 1878–1979 | 101 | Hawai'ian educator[7] |
Idriz Ajeti | 1917–2019 | 101 | Albanologist, academic and researcher[8][9] |
Lewis Akeley | 1861–1961 | 100 | American academic[10] |
Henry Angus | 1891–1991 | 100 | Canadian educator, lawyer and administrator[11] |
John Haden Badley | 1865–1967 | 102 | English educator and founder of the Bedales School[12] |
Thomas Swain Barclay | 1892–1993 | 101 | American academic and Stanford University professor[13] |
Henri Baruk | 1897–1999 | 101 | French neuropsychiatrist[14] |
Jacques Barzun | 1907–2012 | 104 | American historian[15] |
Anne Olivier Bell | 1916–2018 | 102 | English literary editor and art scholar, member of the Monuments Men Brigade[16] |
Ze'ev Ben-Haim | 1907–2013 | 105 | Israeli linguist and former president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language[17] |
Martin S. Bergmann | 1913–2014 | 100 | American clinical professor of psychology[18] |
Giuliano Bonfante | 1904–2005 | 101 | Italian linguistics expert[19] |
Louise Marion Bosworth | 1881–1982 | 101 | American social scientist[20] |
Harvie Branscomb | 1894–1998 | 103 | American chancellor of Vanderbilt University[21] |
Alice Braunlich | 1888–1989 | 101 | American classical philologist[22] |
Hella Brock | 1919–2020 | 101 | German educator and musicologist[23] |
Hallie Quinn Brown | 1849–1949 | 100 | African American educator and writer[24] |
Jerome Bruner | 1915–2016 | 100 | American psychologist[25] |
June Buchanan | 1887–1988 | 100 | American co-founder of Alice Lloyd College[26] |
Ambrose Burke | 1895–1998 | 102 | American President of Saint Ambrose University[27] |
Elizabeth Campbell | 1902–2004 | 101 | American public broadcasting pioneer and educator[28] |
Chen Han-seng | 1897–2004 | 107 | Chinese sociologist and economist[29] |
Gabriel Chiramel | 1914–2017 | 102 | Indian educationist and Roman Catholic priest[30] |
Mary T. Clark | 1913–2014 | 100 | American academic[31] |
Thomas D. Clark | 1903–2005 | 101 | American historian[32] |
Ronald Coase | 1910–2013 | 102 | British economist (Nobel laureate)[33] |
Stanwood Cobb | 1881–1982 | 101 | American Baháʼí educator and author[34] |
Anna J. Cooper | 1858–1964 | 105 | African American educator and civil rights advocate[35] |
Leticia Cossettini | 1904–2004 | 100 | Argentine teacher and pedagogue[36] |
Isabel Crook | 1915–2023 | 107 | Canadian-British anthropologist[37] |
Richard N. Current | 1912–2012 | 100 | American historian[38] |
Nellie Dale | 1865–1967 | 102 | British educator[39] |
Julia Davis | 1891–1993 | 101 | African American educator[40] |
Frank A. DeMarco | 1921–2023 | 102 | Italian-born Canadian educator and administrator[41] |
Peter Demetz | 1922–2024 | 101 | Prague-born American scholar[42] |
P. C. Devassia | 1906–2006 | 100 | Indian Sanskrit scholar and poet[43] |
Aaron Director | 1901–2004 | 102 | Ukrainian-American professor[44] |
Neagu Djuvara | 1916–2018 | 101 | Romanian diplomat and historian[45] |
Isabella Dryden | 1917–2024 | 106 | Canadian educator[46] |
George Alexander Duncan | 1902–2006 | 103 | Irish economist and academic[47] |
Alicia Dussán de Reichel | 1920–2023 | 102 | Colombian educator[48] |
Marianne Eckardt | 1913–2018 | 105 | German-born American psychoanalyst and editor[49] |
Hein Eersel | 1922–2022 | 100 | Surinamese academic administrator, chancellor of the University of Suriname (1968–1988)[50] |
Murray Barnson Emeneau | 1904–2005 | 101 | American linguist[51] |
Leopold Engleitner | 1905–2013 | 107 | Austrian lecturer and Holocaust survivor[52] |
Fan Xuji | 1914–2015 | 101 | Chinese educator and President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University[53] |
D. J. Finney | 1917–2018 | 101 | British statistician[54] |
Eilene Galloway | 1906–2009 | 102 | American space policy expert[55] |
Marie de Garis | 1910–2010 | 100 | Guernseyian lexicographer[56] |
Edmund W. Gordon | 1921– | 103 | American psychologist[57] |
Jules Gros | 1890–1992 | 102 | Breton linguist[58] |
Luther H. Gulick | 1892–1993 | 100 | American social scientist[59] |
Daphne Lorraine Gum | 1916–2017 | 101 | Australian pioneer in cerebral palsy care[60] |
Bertrand Hallward | 1901–2003 | 102 | British first vice-chancellor of the University of Nottingham[61] |
Judith Hemmendinger | 1923–2024 | 100 | German-born Israeli researcher and author[62][63] |
Fletcher Hodges Jr. | 1905–2006 | 100 | American expert on the music of Stephen Foster |
Robert R. Holt | 1917–2024 | 106 | American psychologist, scholar of psychoanalytic theory[64] |
Olivia Hooker | 1915–2018 | 103 | American psychologist, first African-American woman in the U.S. Coast Guard)[65] |
Emily Howland | 1827–1929 | 101 | American philanthropist and educator[66] |
Halil İnalcık | 1916–2016 | 100 | Turkish historian[67] |
Robert L. Kahn | 1918–2019 | 100 | American psychologist and social scientist[68] |
Janet Kalven | 1913–2014 | 100 | American educator and writer [69] |
Hasan Karmi | 1905–2007 | 101 | Palestinian linguist, broadcaster and scholar[70] |
Alison Kelly | 1913–2016 | 102 | English art historian[71] |
Anvar Khamei | 1917–2018 | 101 | Iranian sociologist and economist[72] |
Ferdinand Knobloch | 1916–2018 | 101 | Czech-Canadian psychiatrist[73] |
Dorothy Knowles | 1906–2010 | 104 | British academic[74] |
Jaroslav Kozlík | 1907–2012 | 105 | Czech reformer of physical education[75] |
Emmanuel Kriaras | 1906–2014 | 107 | Greek lexicographer and philologist[76] |
Hans Kurath | 1891–1992 | 100 | Austrian-American linguist[77] |
Ernest Kurnow | 1912–2014 | 101 | American business professor[78] |
B. B. Lal | 1921–2022 | 101 | Indian archaeologist, director general of the ASI (1968–1972)[79] |
Karolina Lanckorońska | 1898–2002 | 104 | Polish art historian and writer[80] |
Geoffrey Langlands | 1917–2019 | 101 | British-Pakistani educator and Army Major[81] |
Margaret Morgan Lawrence | 1914–2019 | 105 | American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst[82] |
Harold Lawton | 1899–2005 | 106 | British scholar of French literature[83] |
Anthony Lazzaro | 1921–2021 | 100 | American academic administrator[84] |
Wolf Leslau | 1906–2006 | 100 | American leading scholar on Ethiopian languages and culture[85] |
William Leuchtenburg | 1922– | 101 | American historian[86] |
Claude Lévi-Strauss | 1908–2009 | 100 | Belgian-born French anthropologist[87] |
Bernard Lewis | 1916–2018 | 101 | British historian of the Middle East[88] |
María Teresa Linares Savio | 1920–2021 | 100 | Cuban musicologist[89][90] |
Charles E. Lindblom | 1917–2018 | 100 | American academic[91] |
Liu Xuyi | 1913–2018 | 105 | Chinese historian and scholar[92] |
Adolph Lowe | 1893–1995 | 102 | German sociologist and economist[93] |
Seymour Lubetzky | 1898–2003 | 104 | Belarusian-American librarian[94] |
Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow | 1921– | 103 | Senegalese educator[95] |
Eleanor Maccoby | 1917–2018 | 101 | American psychologist[96] |
Ernest Manheim | 1900–2002 | 102 | American sociologist, anthropologist and composer[97] |
Leo Marx | 1919–2022 | 102 | American historian[98] |
Richard B. Mather | 1913–2014 | 101 | Chinese-born American sinologist[99] |
Henry Evans Maude | 1906–2006 | 100 | British anthropologist[100] |
Hiroshi Mizuta | 1919–2023 | 103 | Japanese economist and historian, member of the Japan Academy.[101] |
David O. Moberg | 1922–2023 | 101 | American sociologist[102] |
Eduardo Morales Miranda | 1910–2012 | 102 | Chilean founder of the Southern University of Chile[103] |
John Morton-Finney | 1889–1998 | 108 | African American civil rights activist and lawyer |
Benzion Netanyahu | 1910–2012 | 102 | Polish-born Israeli historian[104] |
Dorothy Nyswander | 1894–1998 | 104 | American health educator and advocate[105] |
Rodolfo Oroz | 1895–1997 | 101 | Chilean writer, professor and philologist[106] |
Maria Isaura Pereira de Queiróz | 1918–2018 | 100 | Brazilian sociologist[107] |
Sybil Plumlee | 1911–2012 | 100 | American teacher and police officer[108] |
Frank Popper | 1918–2020 | 102 | Czech-born French-British historian of art and technology, professor and author[109][110] |
Norman Porteous | 1898–2003 | 104 | British academic; Dean at the University of Edinburgh[111] |
Eva Gabriele Reichmann | 1897–1998 | 101 | German historian and sociologist[112] |
Loren Reid | 1905–2014 | 109 | American educator and author[113] |
Barbara Reynolds | 1914–2015 | 100 | British scholar of Italian studies[114] |
Fazlollah Reza | 1915–2019 | 104 | Iranian professor of engineering[115] |
Laban Lacy Rice | 1870–1973 | 102 | American educator and President of Cumberland University[116] |
Charles P. Roland | 1918–2022 | 104 | American historian[117] |
Justus Rosenberg | 1921–2021 | 100 | Polish academic[118][119] |
Louise Rosenblatt | 1904–2005 | 100 | American literary critic and scholar[120] |
María Rostworowski | 1915–2016 | 100 | Peruvian historian[121] |
Ole Mørk Sandvik | 1875–1976 | 101 | Norwegian musicologist[122] |
Raymond J. Saulnier | 1908–2009 | 100 | American Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers[123] |
Laura Scales | 1879–1990 | 110 | American Dean at Smith College[124] |
Carl Emil Schorske | 1915–2015 | 100 | American cultural historian[125] |
Robert H. Shaffer | 1915–2017 | 101 | American educator[126] |
Akaki Shanidze | 1887–1987 | 100 | Georgian linguist and philologist[127] |
Eleanor Bernert Sheldon | 1920–2021 | 101 | American sociologist, president of the SSRC (1972–1979).[128] |
Peter Joseph Shields | 1862–1962 | 100 | American judge and activist who helped establish the University of California, Davis[129] |
Maria Simon | 1918–2022 | 103 | Austrian sociologist[130] |
Manouchehr Sotoudeh | 1913–2016 | 102 | Iranian geographer and scholar[131][132] |
Franz Karl Stanzel | 1923–2023 | 100 | Austrian literary theorist[133] |
Theodore Stern | 1912–2013 | 100 | American academic, 16th President of the College of Charleston[134] |
Paul Streeten | 1917–2019 | 101 | Austrian-born British economist and university professor[135] |
Cornelius Taiwo | 1910–2014 | 103 | Nigerian educator[136] |
Takeda Kiyoko | 1917–2018 | 100 | Japanese scholar[137] |
Patrick Lennox Tierney | 1914–2015 | 101 | American Japanologist[138] |
Mary Tortorich | 1914–2017 | 102 | American voice teacher[139] |
Tsien Tsuen-hsuin | 1910–2015 | 105 | Chinese-born American sinologist and librarian[140] |
G. Venkatasubbiah | 1913–2021 | 107 | Indian Kannada language lexicographer[141][142] |
Marie Wadley | 1906–2009 | 102 | American co-founder of the Five Civilized Tribes Museum[143] |
Frøystein Wedervang | 1918–2018 | 100 | Norwegian economist[144] |
Curt Weibull | 1886–1991 | 105 | Swedish historian[145] |
T. K. Whitaker | 1916–2017 | 100 | Irish economist[146] |
Xu Yuanchong | 1921–2021 | 100 | Chinese translator, professor, and scholar[147] |
Xue Muqiao | 1904–2005 | 100 | Chinese economist[148] |
Yang Jingnian | 1908–2016 | 107 | Chinese economist and translator[149] |
Silvio Zavala | 1909–2014 | 105 | Mexican historian[150] |
Władysław Żeleński | 1903–2006 | 102 | Polish lawyer, historian and publicist[151] |
Zhou Youguang | 1906–2017 | 111 | Chinese linguist and father of Pinyin[152] |