List of centenarians (medical professionals)

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.

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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]
Ana Maria Lajusticia | 1924–2024 | 100 | Spanish biochemist and nutritionist[45]
Ethel Lote | 1920–2024 | 103 | British nurse and yoga instructor[46]
Margaret Morgan Lawrence | 1914–2019 | 105 | American psychiatrist, first black psychoanalyst in the US[47]
Hannah Myrick | 1871–1973 | 101/102 | American superintendent of the New England Hospital for Women and Children[48]
George Nagobads | 1921–2023 | 101 | American sports physician[49]
Frances Oldham Kelsey | 1914–2015 | 101 | Canadian-born American pharmacologist[50]
Lucy Ozarin | 1914–2017 | 103 | American military physician and psychiatrist[51]
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[52]
Wanda Półtawska | 1921–2023 | 101 | Polish psychiatrist[53]
Ingeborg Rapoport | 1912–2017 | 104 | German pediatrician[54]
Zus Ratulangi | 1922–2025 | 102 | Indonesian-Dutch pediatrician[55]
Paul Rohmer | 1876–1977 | 100 | French pediatrician and biologist[56]
Andrew Best Semple | 1912–2013 | 101 | British medical officer[57]
Jennie Smillie Robertson | 1878–1981 | 103 | Canadian physician, first female surgeon in Canada[58]
Su Hongxi | 1915–2018 | 103 | Chinese surgeon[59]
Tang Yuhan | 1913–2014 | 101 | Hong Kong oncologist[60]
Eva Tichauer | 1918–2018 | 100 | German doctor, author and Holocaust survivor[61]
Stanley M. Truhlsen | 1920–2021 | 101 | American ophthalmologist[62]
Howard Tucker | 1922– | 103 | American neurologist[63][64]
Fyodor Uglov | 1904–2008 | 103 | Russian surgeon[65]
Agnès-Marie Valois | 1914–2018 | 103 | French nun and World War II nurse[66]
Wang Shizhen | 1916–2016 | 100 | Chinese nuclear medicine physician[67]
Ken Walker | 1924–2025 | 101 | Canadian obstetrician, gynecologist, and medical columnist[68][69]
Ellsworth Wareham | 1914–2018 | 104 | American cardiothoracic surgeon[70]
P. K. Warrier | 1921–2021 | 100 | Indian Ayurveda practitioner[71]
James Whittico Jr. | 1915–2018 | 102 | American physician[72]
Esther Wilkins | 1916–2016 | 100 | American dentist[73]
Arvo Ylppö | 1887–1992 | 104 | Finnish pediatrician[74]

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