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.
| Name | Sex | Born | Died | Age | Notability | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F | 1 February 1898 | 1 April 2012 | American pediatrician who helped develop the pertussis vaccine[1] | |||
| F | 12 March 1909 | 14 November 2022 | American community volunteer, seamstress, manager of a laundry and farm worker[2]
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| Marita Camacho Quirós | F | 10 March 1911 | Living | First Lady of Costa Rica | ||
| F | 7 July 1898 | 7 December 2011 | Chinese-born Singaporean charity worker, social worker, yoga teacher and nurse[4] | |||
| F | 30 April 1908 | 15 August 2021 | American newspaper editor, novelist, anti-racism campaigner for African American civil rights, magazine founder, and teacher[5] [6] | |||
| Shi Ping | M | 1 November 1911 | 29 June 2024 | Chinese academic administrator and politician[7] | ||
| M | 12 July 1876 | 25 November 1988 | American artist, engraver and etcher[8] | |||
| M | 12 September 1909 | 5 January 2022 | Longest-lived American World War II veteran[9] | |||
| Stanisław Kowalski | M | 14 April 1910 | 5 April 2022 | Polish masters athlete[10] | ||
| F | 1 March 1890 | 13 February 2002 | Polish-born American artist and writer[11] | |||
| F | 22 November 1820 | 14 October 1932 | Anglo-Irish aristocrat, botanical illustrator and the oldest person ever to die in Ireland[12] | |||
| M | 1 April 1907 | 21 January 2019 | Indian humanitarian, spiritual leader and educator[13] | |||
| F | 26 September 1905 | 24 May 2017 | Chinese-American diplomat[14] | |||
| M | 15 June 1875 | 5 January 1987 | Norwegian-Canadian cross-country skier[15] | |||
| F | 6 July 1900 | 5 January 2012 | American dramatist, playwright, screenwriter, memoirist, and author[16] | |||
| M | 19 February 1908 | 15 August 2019 | Chinese engineer and scientist[17] | |||
| F | 13 March 1904 | 16 August 2015 | American soldier (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps)[18] | |||
| M | 4 February 1903 | 8 June 2014 | Polish chemist, parapsychologist, zoologist and writer[19] | |||
| F | 24 February 1883 | 11 June 1994 | Painter; widow of Joaquín Torres García[20] | |||
| F | 22 July 1910 | 10 October 2021 | American camera technician and animation checker[21] | |||
| F | 5 September 1908 | 22 November 2019 | Italian composer, painter and teacher[22] [23] | |||
| M | 29 December 1912 | 14 January 2024 | Spanish painter[24] | |||
| M | 14 October 1895 | 29 October 2006 | Longest-lived American semi-professional and professional baseball player[25] | |||
| M | 13 January 1906 | 14 January 2017 | Chinese economist, banker, linguist, sinologist, Esperantist, publisher and "father of Pinyin"[26] | |||
| M | 15 January 1897 | 11 December 2007 | Chinese Trappist priest and oldest person ever to have a cataract operation[27] | |||
| M | 4 June 1891 | 9 April 2002 | Austrian mathematician and World War I veteran[28] | |||
| M | 23 August 1906 | 19 June 2017 | Hungarian-Canadian chess master[29] | |||
| Anita Mackey | F | 1 January 1914 | Living | American social worker[30] | ||
| Huang Mulan | F | 9 July 1906 | 7 February 2017 | Chinese spy[31] | ||
| F | 13 November 1879 | 12 June 1990 | American educator; Smith College dean[32] | |||
| F | 15 March 1902 | 10 October 2012 | Italian essayist and poet[33] | |||
| M | 11 January 1914 | 3 June 2024 | American blogger, writer, and artist; oldest known active blogger in the world[34] | |||
| M | 12 February 1889 | 26 June 1999 | Cambodian-born Theravada monk and educator[35] | |||
| Zhang Lixiong | M | 21 November 1913 | 2 April 2024 | Chinese military officer and politician[36] | ||
| F | 18 September 1907 | 6 January 2018 | Hungarian teacher and artist; humanitarian for Righteous Among the Nations[37] | |||
| Viola Fletcher | F | 10 May 1914 | Living | American woman and longest-lived known survivor of the Tulsa race massacre[38] | ||
| Anne Baker | F | 14 May 1914 | Living | British writer and fundraiser[39] | ||
| F | 26 November 1903 | 23 February 2014 | Austro-Hungarian-born classic pianist, music teacher and one of the oldest Holocaust survivors[40] | |||
| M | 6 May 1900 | 29 July 2010 | Chinese nutritionist and biochemist[41] | |||
| Muazzez İlmiye Çığ | F | 20 June 1914 | Living | Turkish archaeologist, sumerologist, assyriologist and writer[42] | ||
| Edith Renfrow Smith | F | 14 July 1914 | Living | American who was the first African-American woman to graduate from Grinnell College[43] | ||
| F | 30 October 1911 | 3 December 2021 | British cricketer and spy[44] [45] | |||
| M | 13 April 1913 | 9 May 2023 | Chinese-American avaiator and businessman; China National Aviation Corporation pilot[46] | |||
| M | 11 March 1898 | 2 April 2008 | Last surviving Turkish veteran of World War I[47] |
For people known just for their longevity,