The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as military commanders or soldiers – known for reasons other than their longevity. Living people are listed bolded. For more lists, see lists of centenarians.
Name | Lifespan | Age | Notability |
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Benjamin H. Adams | 1888–1989 | 100 | American admiral[1] |
Hassan Alavikia | 1910–2013 | 102 | Iranian Army general[2] |
Mariano Álvarez | 1818–1924 | 106 | Filipino general and President of the Magdiwang[3] |
Bud Anderson | 1922–2024 | 102 | American Air Force officer and World War II flying ace[4] |
Kurt Andersen | 1898–2003 | 104 | German Luftwaffe general[5] |
Walter Stratton Anderson | 1881–1981 | 100 | American vice admiral of the Navy[6] |
Stuart Archer | 1915–2015 | 100 | British Army officer; recipient of the George Cross[7] |
Millie Bailey | 1918–2022 | 104 | American World War II veteran[8][9] |
Aaron Bank | 1902–2004 | 101 | American army officer; founder of the Special Forces[10] |
Russell Bannock | 1919–2020 | 100 | Canadian fighter pilot[11] |
Bill Bell | 1912–2012 | 100 | British army officer[12] |
Mikhail Beregovoy | 1918–2021 | 103 | Soviet Air Defence Forces officer[13] |
Kakon Bibi | 1915–2018 | 102/103 | Bangladeshi spy[14] |
Sir Clarence Bird | 1885–1986 | 101 | British general[15] |
William Henry Bisbee | 1840–1942 | 102 | American general[16] |
Stephen J. Bonner, Jr. | 1918–2021 | 103 | American World War II flying ace[17] |
Aleksey Botyan | 1917–2020 | 103 | Soviet colonel, spy, partisan and intelligence officer[18] |
Aubrey J. Bourgeois | 1907–2011 | 103 | American Navy officer[19] |
Hugo Broch | 1922– | 103 | German World War II flying ace[20] |
Lady Martha Bruce | 1921–2023 | 101 | British prison governor, Women's Royal Army Corps officer, and aristocrat[21] |
Colette Brull-Ulmann | 1920–2021 | 101 | French Resistance fighter[22] |
Robert Cardenas | 1920–2022 | 102 | American Air Force general[23] |
Waldemar Levy Cardoso | 1900–2009 | 108 | Last surviving Brazilian field marshal[24] |
Robert Carter | 1910–2012 | 102 | British Royal Air Force officer[25] |
Dean Caswell | 1922–2022 | 100 | American World War II flying ace[26] |
Kenneth O. Chilstrom | 1921–2022 | 101 | American air force colonel and test pilot[27] |
Sir Philip Christison | 1893–1993 | 100 | British general[28] |
Richard E. Cole | 1915–2019 | 103 | American Air Force officer and last living participant of the Doolittle Raid[29] |
Lewis Combs | 1895–1996 | 101 | American Navy admiral[30] |
Daniel Cordier | 1920–2020 | 100 | French Resistance fighter (Compagnon de la Libération)[31] |
Michael Lindsay Coulton Crawford | 1917–2017 | 100 | British Royal Navy officer and submariner[32] |
Susan Ahn Cuddy | 1915–2015 | 100 | American Navy officer; first female gunnery officer in U.S. Navy[33] |
Donald L. Custis | 1917–2021 | 103 | American Navy vice admiral[34] |
Aaron S. Daggett | 1837–1938 | 100 | Union Army general of the American Civil War[35] |
Perry J. Dahl | 1923–2024 | 101 | Canadian-born American Air Force officer and World War II flying ace[36] |
Philippe de Gaulle | 1921–2024 | 102 | French Navy admiral[37] |
Udey Chand Dubey | 1909–2009 | 100 | Indian Army general[38] |
Dai Zijin | 1916–2017 | 101 | Chinese Air Force major[39] |
Emma Didlake | 1904–2015 | 111 | American soldier (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps)[40] |
James W. Downing | 1913–2018 | 104 | American Navy lieutenant[41] |
Leo J. Dulacki | 1918–2019 | 100 | American Marine Corps lieutenant general[42] |
James Francis Edwards | 1921–2022 | 100 | Canadian fighter pilot[43] |
William J. Ely | 1911–2017 | 105 | American Army officer[44] |
William A. Enemark | 1913–2016 | 102 | American Army officer[45] |
Henry St John Fancourt | 1900–2004 | 103 | British Royal Navy officer[46] |
Fang Huai | 1917–2019 | 101 | Chinese Army major general[47] |
Hubert Faure | 1914–2021 | 106 | French soldier, Grand Croix of the Legion of Honour recipient[48][49][50] |
Edward L. Feightner | 1919–2020 | 100 | American admiral[51] |
John William Finn | 1909–2010 | 100 | American Navy officer; Medal of Honor recipient[52] |
Mario Fiorentini | 1918–2022 | 103 | Italian partisan, spy and mathematician[53] |
James Flint | 1913–2013 | 100 | British Royal Air Force officer and businessman[54] |
Dorothy Frooks | 1896–1997 | 101 | American author, publisher, military officer, and military lawyer[55] |
Robert B. Fulton | 1910–2015 | 104 | American Navy officer[19] |
John F. Gonge | 1921– | 103 | American Air Force officer[56] |
Edward Greer | 1924–2025 | 100 | American army officer[57] |
Harry E. Goldsworthy | 1914–2022 | 107 | American Air Force officer[58] |
Amedeo Guillet | 1909–2010 | 101 | Italian Army officer[59] |
Gail Halvorsen | 1920–2022 | 101 | American Berlin Airlift pilot.[60] |
Julia E. Hamblet | 1916–2017 | 100 | American military officer[61] |
Monique Hanotte | 1920–2022 | 101 | Belgian World War II resistance fighter[62] |
Reinhard Hardegen | 1913–2018 | 105 | German U-boat commander[63] |
James H. Harvey | 1923– | 101 | American Air Force pilot[64] |
Sir Cosmo Haskard | 1916–2017 | 100 | British Army officer[65] |
Bernice Falk Haydu | 1920–2021 | 100 | American aviator and member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots[66] |
Charles D. Herron | 1877–1977 | 100 | American Army general[67] |
Sir George Higginson | 1826–1927 | 100 | British general[68] |
Dame Felicity Hill | 1915–2019 | 103 | British Royal Air Force officer; Director of the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF; 1966–69)[69] |
John L. Hines | 1868–1968 | 100 | American general and Chief of Staff of the United States Army[70] |
Mad Mike Hoare | 1919–2020 | 100 | Irish soldier and mercenary[71] |
James D. Hughes | 1922–2024 | 101 | American Air Force general[72] |
Frederick Augustus Irving | 1894–1995 | 101 | American Army general and West Point Military Academy Superintendent[73] |
Albin F. Irzyk | 1917–2018 | 101 | American brigadier general[74] |
Georgy Vasilyevich Ivanov | 1901–2001 | 100 | Soviet Army major general[75] |
Richard H. Jackson | 1866–1971 | 105 | American Navy admiral[76] |
Wacław Jędrzejewicz | 1893–1993 | 100 | Polish Land Forces officer, diplomat and college professor[77] |
Johnny Johnson | 1921–2022 | 101 | British Royal Air Force officer and last surviving original member of No. 617 Squadron RAF and of Operation Chastise, the "Dambusters" raid of 1943[78] |
Ernst Jünger | 1895–1998 | 102 | German Army officer and notable author[79] |
Ed Keats | 1915–2019 | 104 | American Navy officer[80][81] |
Hedley Kett | 1913–2014 | 100 | British Royal Navy officer[82] |
Dame Marion Kettlewell | 1914–2016 | 102 | British Naval officer; director of the Wrens (1966–1970)[83] |
Bill King | 1910–2012 | 102 | British Navy officer, yachtsman and author[84] |
Nikolai Kirtok | 1921–2022 | 101 | Ukrainian-born Russian Red Army pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union (1945)[85] |
Norman Kleiss | 1916–2016 | 100 | American World War II Navy dive-bomber pilot[86] |
Roy L. Kline | 1914–2020 | 105 | American Marine brigadier general, served as Military Secretary to the Commandant of the Marine Corps |
Franciszek Kornicki | 1916–2017 | 100 | Polish fighter pilot[87][88] |
Hermann von Kuhl | 1856–1958 | 102 | German Army general[89] |
Reidar Kvaal | 1916–2016 | 100 | Norwegian Army officer[90] |
Traute Lafrenz | 1919–2023 | 103 | German-American resistance fighter (White Rose)[91] |
Dean S. Laird | 1921–2022 | 101 | American World War II flying ace[92] |
Geoffrey Langlands | 1917–2019 | 101 | British Army officer; educator[93] |
Phyllis Latour | 1921–2023 | 102 | South African-born New Zealand intelligence officer (SOE)[94] |
Li Guang | 1914–2020 | 106 | Chinese Army major general[95] |
Liu Zhonghua | 1917–2018 | 101 | Chinese Navy admiral[96] |
Georges Loinger | 1910–2018 | 108 | French soldier during World War II[97] |
Lu Zhengcao | 1905–2009 | 104 | Chinese Army general[98] |
Ian Lyall Grant | 1915–2020 | 104 | British Army general[99] |
Stanisław Maczek | 1892–1994 | 102 | Polish Army general[100] |
Branko Mamula | 1921–2021 | 100 | Yugoslav army officer and politician[101] |
John Manners | 1914–2020 | 105 | British Royal Navy officer and first-class cricketer[102] |
Leroy J. Manor | 1921–2021 | 100 | American American Air Force lieutenant general, joint commander of Operation Ivory Coast[103] |
Ivan Martynushkin | 1924– | 101 | Soviet Army soldier, Auschwitz concentration camp liberator[104] |
Miloslav Masopust | 1924– | 100 | Czechoslovak Army general[105] |
Roy Matsumoto | 1913–2014 | 101 | American Army officer[106] |
Kenneth Mayhew | 1917–2021 | 104 | British Army officer; recipient of the Military Order of William[107] |
William V. McBride | 1922–2022 | 100 | American Air Force general[108] |
Charles McGee | 1919–2022 | 102 | American fighter pilot and Tuskegee Airman[109] |
Seth J. McKee | 1916–2016 | 100 | American Air Force general[110] |
James Megellas | 1917–2020 | 103 | American Army officer[111] |
Sanford K. Moats | 1921–2023 | 102 | American Air Force officer and WWII flying ace[112] |
Masaichi Niimi | 1887–1993 | 106 | Japanese Navy admiral[113] |
Paul R. Norby | 1913–2015 | 102 | American Navy officer[114] |
Francis W. Nye | 1918–2019 | 100 | American Air Force major general[115] |
Sir Henry Oliver | 1865–1965 | 100 | British Admiral of the Fleet[116] |
Kate Orchard | 1923–2025 | 102 | Veteran of the Women's Auxiliary Corps in India[117] |
Stylianos Pattakos | 1912–2016 | 103 | Greek military officer and politician, member of the Greek junta[118] |
Frederick R. Payne Jr. | 1911–2015 | 104 | American Marine Corps officer[19][119][120] |
Thomas Pearson | 1914–2019 | 105 | British Army general[120] |
Paul D. Phillips | 1918–2023 | 105 | American army general[121][122] |
Erich Priebke | 1913–2013 | 100 | German Nazi SS captain and war criminal[123] |
Yitzhak Pundak | 1913–2017 | 104 | Israeli general[124] |
John C. Raaen Jr. | 1922– | 103 | American major general[125][126][127] |
Mary Louise Rasmuson | 1911–2012 | 101 | American army officer; director, Women's Army Corps[128] |
Vasily Reshetnikov | 1919–2023 | 103 | Soviet colonel-general of aviation, Hero of the Soviet Union[129] |
David C. Richardson | 1914–2015 | 101 | American Navy officer[130] |
Edward Rowny | 1917–2017 | 100 | American Army officer[131] |
Paul Royle | 1914–2015 | 101 | Australian Royal Air Force pilot[132] |
Heinrich Ruhl | 1915–2015 | 100 | German Army officer[133] |
Mary Rundle | 1907–2010 | 103 | English superintendent of the Women's Royal Naval Service[134] |
Du Runsheng | 1913–2015 | 102 | Chinese military officer and agricultural reformer[135] |
Mike Sadler | 1920–2023 | 103 | British Army officer, last original member of the Special Air Service[136] |
Miguel Ángel Sanz Bocos | 1918–2018 | 100 | Spanish Army officer and aviator[137] |
Helmuth Schlömer | 1893–1995 | 102 | German Army general[138] |
William Seach | 1877–1978 | 101 | American Medal of Honor recipient from the Boxer Rebellion[139] |
Dave Severance | 1919–2021 | 102 | American Marine Corps colonel, who led the company responsible for raising the flag on Iwo Jima[140] |
Dawn Seymour | 1917–2017 | 100 | American Women Airforce Service Pilot and activist[141] |
Surindra Nath Sharma | 1923– | 101 | Indian Army general[142] |
John K. Singlaub | 1921–2022 | 100 | American general[143] |
Ralph C. Smith | 1893–1998 | 104 | American major general[144] |
Sergei Sokolov | 1911–2012 | 101 | Marshal of the Soviet Union, Hero of the Soviet Union and Soviet Minister of Defence[145] |
Deryck Stapleton | 1918–2018 | 100 | British Royal Air Force Air Marshal[146] |
Guy Stern | 1922–2023 | 101 | German-American decorated member of the Ritchie Boys[147][148] |
Dorothy C. Stratton | 1899–2006 | 107 | American SPARS director[149] |
Elliott B. Strauss | 1903–2003 | 100 | American Navy rear admiral[citation needed] |
Sun Yuanliang | 1904–2007 | 103 | Chinese National Revolutionary Army general[150] |
Teiichi Suzuki | 1888–1989 | 100 | Japanese lieutenant general[151] |
Josef Schütz | 1920–2023 | 102 | Lithuanian-born German Nazi concentration camp guard[152] |
Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski | 1917–2018 | 101 | Polish brigadier general[153] |
Arsène Tchakarian | 1916–2018 | 101 | Armenian-born French resistance fighter (FTP-MOI) and historian[154] |
Robert E. Thacker | 1918–2020 | 102 | American test pilot and bomber pilot of three wars[155] |
Radu Theodoru | 1924– | 101 | Romanian general[156] |
Connell Thode | 1911–2014 | 103 | New Zealand Naval officer[157] |
Andrey Titenko | 1918–2022 | 103 | Soviet soldier, Hero of the Soviet Union (1945)[158] |
Dan Tolkowsky | 1921– | 104 | Israeli Air Force officer[159] |
Necdet Üruğ | 1921–2021 | 100 | Turkish military officer[160] |
Ivan Ustinov | 1920–2020 | 100 | Soviet lieutenant general[161] |
James Van Fleet | 1892–1992 | 100 | American Army general[162] |
Neil D. Van Sickle | 1915–2019 | 104 | American Air Force general[163] |
Ronald R. Van Stockum | 1916–2022 | 105 | American Marine brigadier general, who commanded Marine Corps Reserve[164] |
Telmo Vargas | 1912–2013 | 100 | Ecuadorian general (Chief of Staff)[165] |
Zisis Verros | 1880–1985 | 104 | Greek chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle; recipient of the Black Emblem of the Macedonian Struggle[166] |
Eugene Vielle | 1913–2015 | 101 | British Royal Air Force officer[167] |
Võ Nguyên Giáp | 1911–2013 | 102 | Vietnamese general and Minister of Defence[168] |
Herbert Wahler | 1921–2023 | 101 | German Einsatzgruppe C member.[169] |
Sir Hereward Wake, 14th Baronet | 1916–2017 | 101 | British Army officer[170] |
Sir Provo Wallis | 1791–1892 | 100 | British Admiral of the Fleet[171] |
Wan Haifeng | 1920–2023 | 102 | Chinese general[172] |
Ralph Weymouth | 1917–2020 | 102 | American Vice Admiral[173] |
Neville Wigram, 2nd Baron Wigram | 1915–2017 | 101 | British Army Major[174] |
D. B. H. Wildish | 1914–2017 | 102 | British Royal Navy officer[175] |
Gus Winckel | 1912–2013 | 100 | Dutch military officer and pilot[176] |
Xiao Ke | 1907–2008 | 101 | Chinese general[177] |
Xue Yue | 1896–1998 | 101 | Chinese general[178] |
Yang Yongsong | 1919–2022 | 103 | Chinese military officer[179] |
Dov Yermiya | 1914–2016 | 101 | Israeli lieutenant-colonel in the Israeli Defence Forces[180] |
Zhang Xueliang | 1901–2001 | 100 | Chinese general[181] |
Zhang Zhen | 1914–2015 | 100 | Chinese general[182] |
Nikolai Zhugan | 1917–2017 | 100 | Soviet Air Force major general[183] |
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