The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as medical professionals – known for reasons other than their longevity. For more lists, see lists of centenarians.
Name | Lifespan | Age | Notability |
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Elizabeth Bagshaw | 1881–1982 | 100 | Canadian physician and director of the first birth control clinic in Canada[1] |
Constantin Bălăceanu-Stolnici | 1923–2023 | 100 | Romanian neurologist[2][3] |
Joseph Barnes | 1914–2017 | 102 | Irish physician[4] |
Grace Barr-Kumarakulasinghe | 1908–2013 | 104 | Sri Lankan pediatrician[5] |
Aaron T. Beck | 1921–2021 | 100 | American psychiatrist[6] |
Myra Bennett | 1890–1990 | 100 | Canadian nurse[7] |
George Berci | 1921–2024 | 103 | Hungarian-American surgeon[8] |
Elisabeth Bing | 1914–2015 | 100 | German-born American physical therapist[9] |
Richard Bing | 1909–2010 | 101 | German-born American cardiologist[10] |
Wanda Błeńska | 1911–2014 | 103 | Polish physician and missionary[11] |
Sadie Bonnell | 1888–1993 | 105 | British FANY ambulance driver who won the Military Medal[12] |
Geraldine Branch | 1908–2016 | 107 | American gynaecologist[13] |
Clifford Brewer | 1913–2017 | 104 | British surgeon[14] |
Jacinto Convit | 1913–2014 | 100 | Venezuelan epidemiologist[15] |
Héctor Croxatto | 1908–2010 | 102 | Chilean physiologist[16] |
Deng Tietao | 1916–2019 | 102 | Chinese physician and academic[17] |
Leila Denmark | 1898–2012 | 114 | American pediatrician who helped develop the pertussis vaccine[18] |
Anthony F. DePalma | 1904–2005 | 100 | American orthopedic surgeon; father of film director Brian De Palma[19] |
Ian Douglas-Wilson | 1912–2013 | 101 | British physician[20] |
Carola B. Eisenberg | 1917–2021 | 103 | Argentine-American psychiatrist[21] |
Joel Elkes | 1913–2015 | 101 | Prussian-born American medical researcher[22] |
Ephraim Engleman | 1911–2015 | 104 | American rheumatologist[23] |
Sir Anthony Epstein | 1921–2024 | 102 | British pathologist and academic[24] |
Emmanuel Evans-Anfom | 1919–2021 | 101 | Ghanaian physician, scholar, university administrator and public servant[25] |
Gordon S. Fahrni | 1887–1995 | 108 | Canadian physician and expert on goitre[26] |
Loretta Ford | 1920–2025 | 104 | American nurse and academic[27] |
William Frankland | 1912–2020 | 108 | British allergist and immunologist[28] |
Sir George Godber | 1908–2009 | 100 | Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom[29] |
Charles Godfrey | 1917–2022 | 104 | Canadian physician and politician[30] |
Francesc Gras Salas | 1921–2022 | 101 | Spanish Ophthalmologist and writer[31] |
Walter Guralnick | 1916–2017 | 100 | American dentist[32] |
Norman Guthkelch | 1915–2016 | 100 | British-born American Pediatric neurosurgeon[33] |
Philip D'Arcy Hart | 1900–2006 | 106 | British epidemiologist[34] |
Erich Häßler | 1899–2005 | 106 | German pediatrician[35] |
Shuntaro Hida | 1917–2017 | 100 | Japanese physician[36] |
Shigeaki Hinohara | 1911–2017 | 105 | Japanese physician[37] |
Edward Augustus Holyoke | 1728–1829 | 100 | American physician[38] |
Howard W. Jones | 1910–2015 | 104 | American gynecological surgeon and in vitro fertilization specialist[39] |
Keith Jones | 1911–2012 | 100 | Australian medical practitioner and surgeon[40] |
Mavis Kelsey | 1912–2013 | 101 | American internist and clinic founder[41] |
David Morris Kern | 1909–2013 | 103 | American pharmacist and businessman[42] |
Fred Kummerow | 1914–2017 | 102 | German-born American physiologist[43] |
Martha Kyrle | 1917–2017 | 100 | Austrian physician[44] |
Ethel Lote | 1920–2024 | 103 | British nurse and yoga instructor[45] |
Margaret Morgan Lawrence | 1914–2019 | 105 | American psychiatrist, first black psychoanalyst in the US[46] |
Hannah Myrick | 1871–1973 | 101/102 | American superintendent of the New England Hospital for Women and Children[47] |
George Nagobads | 1921–2023 | 101 | American sports physician[48] |
Frances Oldham Kelsey | 1914–2015 | 101 | Canadian-born American pharmacologist[49] |
Lucy Ozarin | 1914–2017 | 103 | American military physician and psychiatrist[50] |
Sir Harry Platt, 1st Baronet | 1886–1986 | 100 | British orthopaedic surgeon, President of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal College of Surgeons of England[51] |
Wanda Półtawska | 1921–2023 | 101 | Polish psychiatrist[52] |
Ingeborg Rapoport | 1912–2017 | 104 | German pediatrician[53] |
Zus Ratulangi | 1922–2025 | 102 | Indonesian-Dutch pediatrician[54] |
Paul Rohmer | 1876–1977 | 100 | French pediatrician and biologist[55] |
Andrew Best Semple | 1912–2013 | 101 | British medical officer[56] |
Jennie Smillie Robertson | 1878–1981 | 103 | Canadian physician, first female surgeon in Canada[57] |
Su Hongxi | 1915–2018 | 103 | Chinese surgeon[58] |
Tang Yuhan | 1913–2014 | 101 | Hong Kong oncologist[59] |
Eva Tichauer | 1918–2018 | 100 | German doctor, author and Holocaust survivor[60] |
Stanley M. Truhlsen | 1920–2021 | 101 | American ophthalmologist[61] |
Howard Tucker | 1922– | 102 | American neurologist[62][63] |
Fyodor Uglov | 1904–2008 | 103 | Russian surgeon[64] |
Agnès-Marie Valois | 1914–2018 | 103 | French nun and World War II nurse[65] |
Wang Shizhen | 1916–2016 | 100 | Chinese nuclear medicine physician[66] |
Ken Walker | 1924– | 101 | Canadian obstetrician, gynecologist, and medical columnist[67] |
Ellsworth Wareham | 1914–2018 | 104 | American cardiothoracic surgeon[68] |
P. K. Warrier | 1921–2021 | 100 | Indian Ayurveda practitioner[69] |
James Whittico Jr. | 1915–2018 | 102 | American physician[70] |
Esther Wilkins | 1916–2016 | 100 | American dentist[71] |
Arvo Ylppö | 1887–1992 | 104 | Finnish pediatrician[72] |