List of notable supercentenarians

The following is a list of famous people who have attained the age of at least 110 years known for reasons other than just longevity. As such, this list does not include every person who has reached this age. For more specific lists of people (living or deceased) who are known for these reasons, see lists of centenarians.

For living people known just for their longevity, see List of oldest living people.

Living

Name  | Sex  | Born  | Died  | Age  | Notability

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Leila Denmark | F | 1 February 1898 | 1 April 2012 | 114 years, 60 days | American pediatrician who helped develop the pertussis vaccine[1]
Marita Camacho Quirós | F | 10 March 1911 | Living | 113 years, 314 days | First Lady of Costa Rica; widow of President of Costa Rica Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich[2]
Virginia McLaurin | F | 12 March 1909 | 14 November 2022 | 113 years, 237 days | American community volunteer, seamstress, manager of a laundry and farm worker[3]

* Note: McLaurin’s birth date is disputed. Several sources have claimed she was 105 at the time of her death.

Saalumarada Thimmakka | F | 30 June 1911 | Living | 113 years, 202 days | Indian Environmentalist known for planting nearly 8000 trees[4][5][6][7]
Teresa Hsu | F | 7 July 1898 | 7 December 2011 | 113 years, 153 days | Chinese-born Singaporean charity worker, social worker, yoga teacher and nurse[8]
Ruth Apilado | F | 30 April 1908 | 15 August 2021 | 113 years, 107 days | American newspaper editor, novelist, anti-racism campaigner for African American civil rights, magazine founder, and teacher[9][10]
Shi Ping | M | 1 November 1911 | 29 June 2024 | 112 years, 241 days | Chinese academic administrator and politician[11]
Alphaeus Philemon Cole | M | 12 July 1876 | 25 November 1988 | 112 years, 136 days | American artist, engraver and etcher[12]
Lawrence Brooks | M | 12 September 1909 | 5 January 2022 | 112 years, 115 days | Longest-lived American World War II veteran[13]
Stanisław Kowalski | M | 14 April 1910 | 5 April 2022 | 111 years, 356 days | Polish masters athlete[14]
Theresa Bernstein | F | 1 March 1890 | 13 February 2002 | 111 years, 349 days | Polish-born American artist and writer[15]
Katherine Plunket | F | 22 November 1820 | 14 October 1932 | 111 years, 327 days | Anglo-Irish aristocrat, botanical illustrator and the oldest person ever to die in Ireland[16]
Shivakumara Swami | M | 1 April 1907 | 21 January 2019 | 111 years, 295 days | Indian humanitarian, spiritual leader and educator[17]
Juliana Young Koo | F | 26 September 1905 | 24 May 2017 | 111 years, 240 days | Chinese-American diplomat[18]
Herman Smith-Johannsen | M | 15 June 1875 | 5 January 1987 | 111 years, 204 days | Norwegian-Canadian cross-country skier[19]
Frederica Sagor Maas | F | 6 July 1900 | 5 January 2012 | 111 years, 183 days | American dramatist, playwright, screenwriter, memoirist, and author[20]
Qin Hanzhang | M | 19 February 1908 | 15 August 2019 | 111 years, 177 days | Chinese engineer and scientist[21]
Emma Didlake | F | 13 March 1904 | 16 August 2015 | 111 years, 156 days | American soldier (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps)[22]
Alexander Imich | M | 4 February 1903 | 8 June 2014 | 111 years, 124 days | Polish chemist, parapsychologist, zoologist and writer[23]
Manolita Piña | F | 24 February 1883 | 11 June 1994 | 111 years, 107 days | Painter; widow of Joaquín Torres García[24]
Ruthie Tompson | F | 22 July 1910 | 10 October 2021 | 111 years, 80 days | American camera technician and animation checker[25]
Cecilia Seghizzi | F | 5 September 1908 | 22 November 2019 | 111 years, 78 days | Italian composer, painter and teacher[26][27]
Luís Torras | M | 29 December 1912 | 14 January 2024 | 111 years, 16 days | Spanish painter[28]
Silas Simmons | M | 14 October 1895 | 29 October 2006 | 111 years, 15 days | Longest-lived American semi-professional and professional baseball player[29]
Zhou Youguang | M | 13 January 1906 | 14 January 2017 | 111 years, 1 day | Chinese economist, banker, linguist, sinologist, Esperantist, publisher and "father of Pinyin"[30]
Nicholas Kao Se Tseien | M | 15 January 1897 | 11 December 2007 | 110 years, 330 days | Chinese Trappist priest and oldest person ever to have a cataract operation[31]
Leopold Vietoris | M | 4 June 1891 | 9 April 2002 | 110 years, 309 days | Austrian mathematician and World War I veteran[32]
Zoltan Sarosy | M | 23 August 1906 | 19 June 2017 | 110 years, 300 days | Hungarian-Canadian chess master[33]
Viola Fletcher | F | 10 May 1914 | Living | 110 years, 253 days | American woman and longest-lived known survivor of the Tulsa race massacre[34]
Anne Baker | F | 14 May 1914 | Living | 110 years, 249 days | British writer and fundraiser[35]
Huang Mulan | F | 9 July 1906 | 7 February 2017 | 110 years, 213 days | Chinese spy[36]
Laura Scales | F | 13 November 1879 | 12 June 1990 | 110 years, 211 days | American educator; Smith College dean[37]
Carla Porta Musa | F | 15 March 1902 | 10 October 2012 | 110 years, 209 days | Italian essayist and poet[38]
Edith Renfrow Smith | F | 14 July 1914 | Living | 110 years, 188 days | First African-American woman to graduate from Grinnell College[39]
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ | F | 20 June 1914 | 17 November 2024 | 110 years, 150 days | Turkish archaeologist, sumerologist, assyriologist and writer[40]
Morrie Markoff | M | 11 January 1914 | 3 June 2024 | 110 years, 144 days | American blogger, writer, and artist; oldest known active blogger in the world[41]
Bhante Dharmawara | M | 12 February 1889 | 26 June 1999 | 110 years, 134 days | Cambodian-born Theravada monk and educator[42]
Zhang Lixiong | M | 21 November 1913 | 2 April 2024 | 110 years, 133 days | Chinese military officer and politician[43]
Elza Brandeisz | F | 18 September 1907 | 6 January 2018 | 110 years, 110 days | Hungarian teacher and artist; humanitarian for Righteous Among the Nations[44]
Anita Mackey | F | 1 January 1914 | 16 April 2024 | 110 years, 106 days | American social worker[45]
Lois Holden | F | 2 February 1910 | 5 May 2020 | 110 years, 93 days | American singer, member of The Gospel Stars, who released the first Motown album in the label's history[46]
Alice Herz-Sommer | F | 26 November 1903 | 23 February 2014 | 110 years, 89 days | Czech-born classic pianist, music teacher and one of the oldest Holocaust survivors[47]
Zheng Ji | M | 6 May 1900 | 29 July 2010 | 110 years, 84 days | Chinese nutritionist and biochemist[48]
Eileen Ash | F | 30 October 1911 | 3 December 2021 | 110 years, 34 days | British cricketer and spy[49][50]
Moon Fun Chin | M | 13 April 1913 | 9 May 2023 | 110 years, 26 days | Chinese-American avaiator and businessman; China National Aviation Corporation pilot[51]
Yakup Satar | M | 11 March 1898 | 2 April 2008 | 110 years, 22 days | Last surviving Turkish veteran of World War I[52]
Eileen Kramer | F | 8 November 1914 | 15 November 2024 | 110 years, 7 days | Australian dancer, artist, performer and choreographer[53]
Norman Spencer | M | 13 August 1914 | 16 August 2024 | 110 years, 3 days | British film producer, production manager and screenwriter[54]

## See also

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For people known just for their longevity,

* List of the verified oldest people
* List of the oldest living people

## References

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