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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1912–2016 | 103 | American academic and author[1] | ||
1900–2001 | 100 | Ossetian linguist and philologist[2] | ||
1896–1996 | 100 | American physician, anthropologist, and nutritionist[3] | ||
Thelma Davidson Adair | 1920– | American educator, writer, activist, and Presbyterian church leader[4] | ||
1895–1998 | 102 | Austrian-American linguist and literature scholar[5] | ||
1916–2017 | 100 | Spanish academic, professor, and geographer[6] | ||
1878–1979 | 101 | Hawai'ian educator[7] | ||
1917–2019 | 101 | Albanologist, academic and researcher[8] | ||
1861–1961 | 100 | American academic[9] | ||
1891–1991 | 100 | Canadian educator, lawyer and administrator[10] | ||
1865–1967 | 102 | British educator and founder of the Bedales School[11] | ||
1892–1993 | 101 | American academic and Stanford University professor[12] | ||
1897–1999 | 101 | French neuropsychiatrist[13] | ||
1907–2012 | 104 | American historian[14] | ||
1916–2018 | 102 | British literary editor and art scholar, member of the Monuments Men Brigade[15] | ||
1907–2013 | 105 | Israeli linguist and former president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language[16] | ||
1913–2014 | 100 | American clinical professor of psychology[17] | ||
1904–2005 | 101 | Italian linguistics expert[18] | ||
1881–1982 | 101 | American social scientist[19] | ||
1894–1998 | 103 | American chancellor of Vanderbilt University[20] | ||
1888–1989 | 101 | American classical philologist[21] | ||
1919–2020 | 101 | German educator and musicologist[22] | ||
1849–1949 | 100 | African American educator and writer[23] | ||
1915–2016 | 100 | American psychologist[24] | ||
1887–1988 | 100 | American co-founder of Alice Lloyd College[25] | ||
1895–1998 | 102 | American President of Saint Ambrose University[26] | ||
1902–2004 | 101 | American public broadcasting pioneer and educator[27] | ||
1897–2004 | 107 | Chinese sociologist and economist[28] | ||
1914–2017 | 102 | Indian educationist and Roman Catholic priest[29] | ||
1913–2014 | 100 | American academic[30] | ||
1903–2005 | 101 | American historian[31] | ||
1910–2013 | 102 | British economist (Nobel laureate)[32] | ||
1881–1982 | 101 | American Baháʼí educator and author[33] | ||
1858–1964 | 105 | African American educator and civil rights advocate[34] | ||
1904–2004 | 100 | Argentine teacher and pedagogue[35] | ||
1915–2023 | 107 | Canadian-British anthropologist[36] | ||
1912–2012 | 100 | American historian[37] | ||
1865–1967 | 102 | British educator[38] | ||
1891–1993 | 101 | African American educator[39] | ||
1921–2023 | 102 | Italian-born Canadian educator and administrator[40] | ||
1922–2024 | 101 | Prague-born American scholar[41] | ||
1906–2006 | 100 | Indian Sanskrit scholar and poet[42] | ||
1901–2004 | 102 | Ukrainian-American professor[43] | ||
1916–2018 | 101 | Romanian diplomat and historian[44] | ||
Isabella Dryden | 1917–2024 | 106 | Canadian educator[45] | |
1902–2006 | 103 | Irish economist and academic[46] | ||
1920–2023 | 102 | Colombian educator[47] | ||
1913–2018 | 105 | German-born American psychoanalyst and editor[48] | ||
1922–2022 | 100 | Surinamese academic administrator, chancellor of the University of Suriname (1968–1988)[49] | ||
1904–2005 | 101 | American linguist[50] | ||
1905–2013 | 107 | Austrian lecturer and Holocaust survivor[51] | ||
1914–2015 | 101 | Chinese educator and President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University[52] | ||
1917–2018 | 101 | British statistician[53] | ||
1906–2009 | 102 | American space policy expert[54] | ||
1910–2010 | 100 | Guernseyian lexicographer[55] | ||
Edmund W. Gordon | 1921– | American psychologist[56] | ||
1890–1992 | 102 | Breton linguist[57] | ||
1892–1993 | 100 | American social scientist[58] | ||
1916–2017 | 101 | Australian pioneer in cerebral palsy care[59] | ||
1901–2003 | 102 | British first vice-chancellor of the University of Nottingham[60] | ||
1923–2024 | 100 | German-born Israeli researcher and author[61] [62] | ||
Laurin L. Henry | 1921– | American academic and researcher[63] | ||
1905–2006 | 100 | American expert on the music of Stephen Foster | ||
1917–2024 | 106 | American psychologist, scholar of psychoanalytic theory[64] | ||
1915–2018 | 103 | American psychologist, first African-American woman in the U.S. Coast Guard)[65] | ||
1827–1929 | 101 | American philanthropist and educator[66] | ||
1916–2016 | 100 | Turkish historian[67] | ||
1918–2019 | 100 | American psychologist and social scientist[68] | ||
1913–2014 | 100 | American educator and writer [69] | ||
1905–2007 | 101 | Palestinian linguist, broadcaster and scholar[70] | ||
1913–2016 | 102 | English art historian[71] | ||
1917–2018 | 101 | Iranian sociologist and economist[72] | ||
1916–2018 | 101 | Czech-Canadian psychiatrist[73] | ||
1906–2010 | 104 | British academic[74] | ||
1907–2012 | 105 | Czech reformer of physical education[75] | ||
1906–2014 | 107 | Greek lexicographer and philologist[76] | ||
1891–1992 | 100 | Austrian-American linguist[77] | ||
1912–2014 | 101 | American business professor[78] | ||
1921–2022 | 101 | Indian archaeologist, director general of the ASI (1968–1972)[79] | ||
1898–2002 | 104 | Polish art historian and writer[80] | ||
1917–2019 | 101 | British-Pakistani educator and Army Major[81] | ||
1914–2019 | 105 | American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst[82] | ||
1899–2005 | 106 | British scholar of French literature[83] | ||
1921–2021 | 100 | American academic administrator[84] | ||
1906–2006 | 100 | American leading scholar on Ethiopian languages and culture[85] | ||
William Leuchtenburg | 1922– | American historian[86] | ||
1908–2009 | 100 | Belgian-born French anthropologist[87] | ||
1916–2018 | 101 | British historian of the Middle East[88] | ||
1920–2021 | 100 | Cuban musicologist[89] [90] | ||
1917–2018 | 100 | American academic[91] | ||
1913–2018 | 105 | Chinese historian and scholar[92] | ||
1893–1995 | 102 | German sociologist and economist[93] | ||
1898–2003 | 104 | Belarusian-American librarian[94] | ||
Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow | 1921– | Senegalese educator[95] | ||
1917–2018 | 101 | American psychologist[96] | ||
1900–2002 | 102 | American sociologist, anthropologist and composer[97] | ||
1919–2022 | 102 | American historian[98] | ||
1913–2014 | 101 | Chinese-born American sinologist[99] | ||
1906–2006 | 100 | British anthropologist[100] | ||
E. Gerald Meyer | 1919– | American Emeritus professor of chemistry[101] | ||
1919–2023 | 103 | Japanese economist and historian, member of the Japan Academy.[102] | ||
1922–2023 | 101 | American sociologist[103] | ||
1910–2012 | 102 | Chilean founder of the Southern University of Chile[104] | ||
1889–1998 | 108 | African American civil rights activist and lawyer | ||
1910–2012 | 102 | Polish-born Israeli historian[105] | ||
1894–1998 | 104 | American health educator and advocate[106] | ||
1895–1997 | 101 | Chilean writer, professor and philologist[107] | ||
1918–2018 | 100 | Brazilian sociologist[108] | ||
1911–2012 | 100 | American teacher and police officer[109] | ||
1918–2020 | 102 | Czech-born French-British historian of art and technology, professor and author[110] [111] | ||
1898–2003 | 104 | British academic; Dean at the University of Edinburgh[112] | ||
1897–1998 | 101 | German historian and sociologist[113] | ||
1905–2014 | 109 | American educator and author[114] | ||
1914–2015 | 100 | British scholar of Italian studies[115] | ||
1915–2019 | 104 | Iranian professor of engineering[116] | ||
1870–1973 | 102 | American educator and President of Cumberland University[117] | ||
1918–2022 | 104 | American historian[118] | ||
1921–2021 | 100 | Polish academic[119] [120] | ||
1904–2005 | 100 | American literary critic and scholar[121] | ||
1915–2016 | 100 | Peruvian historian[122] | ||
1875–1976 | 101 | Norwegian musicologist[123] | ||
1908–2009 | 100 | American Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers[124] | ||
1879–1990 | 110 | American Dean at Smith College[125] | ||
1915–2015 | 100 | American cultural historian[126] | ||
1915–2017 | 101 | American educator[127] | ||
1887–1987 | 100 | Georgian linguist and philologist[128] | ||
1920–2021 | 101 | American sociologist, president of the SSRC (1972–1979).[129] | ||
1862–1962 | 100 | American judge and activist who helped establish the University of California, Davis[130] | ||
1918–2022 | 103 | Austrian sociologist[131] | ||
1913–2016 | 102 | Iranian geographer and scholar[132] [133] | ||
1923–2023 | 100 | Austrian literary theorist[134] | ||
1912–2013 | 100 | American academic, 16th President of the College of Charleston[135] | ||
1917–2019 | 101 | Austrian-born British economist and university professor[136] | ||
1910–2014 | 103 | Nigerian educator[137] | ||
1917–2018 | 100 | Japanese scholar[138] | ||
1914–2015 | 101 | American Japanologist[139] | ||
1914–2017 | 102 | American voice teacher[140] | ||
1910–2015 | 105 | Chinese-born American sinologist and librarian[141] | ||
G. Venkatasubbiah | 1913–2021 | 107 | Indian Kannada language lexicographer[142] [143] | |
1906–2009 | 102 | American co-founder of the Five Civilized Tribes Museum[144] | ||
1918–2018 | 100 | Norwegian economist[145] | ||
1886–1991 | 105 | Swedish historian[146] | ||
1916–2017 | 100 | Irish economist[147] | ||
1921–2021 | 100 | Chinese translator, professor, and scholar[148] | ||
1904–2005 | 100 | Chinese economist[149] | ||
1908–2016 | 107 | Chinese economist and translator[150] | ||
1909–2014 | 105 | Mexican historian[151] | ||
1903–2006 | 102 | Polish lawyer, historian and publicist[152] | ||
1906–2017 | 111 | Chinese linguist and father of Pinyin[153] |