List of centenarians
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Here is a list of well-known centenarians (people who lived to be 100) (with living ones bolded and italicized). This list is divided into sub-lists, according to how the centenarian became well known.
[edit] Activists/non-profit leaders/philanthropists
- Albert Jean Amateau (1889-1996), Turkish-born American rabbi and social activist
- Melchora Aquino (1812-1919), "Mother of the Filipino Revolution"
- Arnold Beckman (1900-2004), Philanthropist who invented pH meter
- George Field (1904-2006), Former director of Freedom House
- Alice Hamilton (1869-1970), American toxicologist
- Shizue Kato (1897-2001), Japanese feminist and politician
- Paul Moyer Limbert (1897-1998), YMCA Secretary General
- Enolia McMillan (1904-2006), former NAACP president
- Margaret Murie (1902-2003), conservationist
- Scott Nearing (1883-1983), American conservationist
- Sanzo Nosaka (1892-1993)
- Frederick J. Schlink (1891-1995), cofounder of Consumers Research
- Floyd Schmoe (1895-2001), American peace activist and naturalist
- Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897-2000)
- Thomas Wyatt Turner (1877-1978)
- Edgar Wayburn (1906-present), environmentalist
- Irvin F. Westheimer (1879-1980)
- Hazel Wolf (1898-2000), American environment activist and civil-rights campaigner
[edit] Actors/filmmakers/entertainers
- George Abbott (1887-1995)
- Rosa Albach-Retty (1874-1980)
- Nikolay Annenkov (1899-1999)
- Etta Moten Barnett (1901-2004)
- Bruce Bennett (1906-present)
- Margaret Booth (1898-2002)
- Osmond Borradaile (1898-1999), Canadian cameraman
- Renate Brausewetter (1905-2006)
- George Burns (1896-1996)
- Dorothy Dickson (1893-1995)
- Mary Ellis (1897-2003)
- Carl Esmond (1902-2004), German-American actor, possibly born in 1904, 1905 or 1908
- Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies (1891-1992), English actress
- Marie Glory (1905-present), French actress
- Liane Haid (1895-2000), Austrian actress
- Kathleen Harrison (1892-1995)
- Johannes Heesters (1903-present), Dutch-German actor
- Bob Hope (1903-2003)
- Charles Lane (1905-present)
- Francis Lederer (1899-2000)
- Madeleine Milhaud (1902-present), French actress, widow of Darius Milhaud
- Igor Moiseyev (1906-present), Russian choreographer
- Audrey Munson (1891-1996)
- Myron Natwick (1890-1990), American animator
- Ivan Novikoff (1899-2002), ballet teacher
- Risto Orko (1899-2001), Finnish film producer and director
- Irving Rapper (1898-1999), film director
- Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003), German filmmaker
- Hal Roach (1892-1992)
- Frederica Sagor Maas (1900-present)
- Ivy Sawyer (1898-1999), American singer, actress and dancer
- Tonio Selwart (1896-2002), actor and stage performer
- Athene Seyler (1889-1990)
- Dorothy Stickney (1896-1998), American actress
- Frank M. Thomas (1889-1989), American supporting actor
- Doris Eaton Travis (1904-present)
- Ninette de Valois (1898-2001)
- Señor Wences (1896-1999)
- Estelle Winwood (1883-1984)
- Miguel Zacarías (1905-2006), Mexican director
- Adolph Zukor (1873-1976)
[edit] Artists
- Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902-2002), Mexican photographer
- Ruth Bernhard (1905-present), American photographer
- Alphaeus Philemon Cole (1876-1988)
- Sylvia Daoust (1902-2004), Canadian sculptor
- Boris Efimov (1900-present), Russian cartoonist
- Kathleen Hale (1898-2000), British illustrator
- Hermann Ottomar Herzog (1831-1932) German-American painter
- Ulrich Leman (1885-1988), Germain painter
- Tamás Lossonczy (1904-present), Hungarian painter
- Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
- Kazuo Ohno (1906-present), Japanese dancer
- Don Potter (1902-2004), British sculptor and potter
- Mirko Racki (1879-1982), Croatian painter
- Andrée Ruellan (1905-2006), American painter
- Viktor Schreckengost (1906-present), American Artist and Industrial Designer
- Bernarda Bryson Shahn (1903-2004)
- Koloman Sokol (1902-2003), Slovakian painter and graphic artist
- Beatrice Wood (1893-1998)
- Eva Zeisel (1906-present), industrial designer
[edit] Authors/poets/journalists
- Alicia Moreau de Justo (1885-1986) Argentine writer
- Francisco Ayala (1906-present), Spanish novelist
- Ba Jin (1904-2005), Chinese author
- Georgina Battiscombe, (1905-2006), British biographer
- Pierre Béarn (1902-2004), French poet
- H.J. Blackham (1903-present), British humanist author and philosopher
- Arthur Judson Brown (1856-1963)
- Fulgence Charpentier (1897-2001), Canadian journalist and columnist
- Nirad Chaudhuri (1897-1999)
- Eve Curie LaBouisse (1904-present), author of biography of her mother Marie Curie
- Geoffrey Dearmer (1893-1996)
- The Delany Sisters (1889-1999; 1891-1995)
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890-1998)
- Richard Eberhart (1904-2005), Pulitzer-Prize winning poet
- Dorothy Frooks (1896-1997)
- Edward K. Gaylord (1873-1974), newspaper publisher and philanthropist
- Itche Goldberg (1904-present), Yiddish writer and scholar, and political activist
- Ernst Jünger (1895-1998), German writer (In Stahlgewittern)
- Joseph Nathan Kane (1899-2002)
- Amal Kiran (1904-present) Indian author, poet
- Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006), Poet Laureate of the United States
- Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999), Scottish writer
- Mozume Takakazu（1879-1985）, Japanese writer and philologist
- Niwa Fumio (1904-2005), Japanese novelist
- Lillian Rogers Parks (1897-1997)
- Fernando Pessa (1902-2002), Portuguese journalist and radio broadcaster
- Edith Ballinger Price (1897-1997), American author of children's books
- Carl Rakosi (1903-2004)
- George Seldes (1890-1995)
- Edna Staebler (1906-2006), Canadian writer
- Dragutin Tadijanović (1905-present), Croatian poet and writer
- Ellen Tarry (1906-present)
- Walter Trohan (1903-2003), Chicago Tribune bureau chief and reporter
- Edward Upward (1903-present), English writer
- Edward Wagenknecht (1900-2004), American writer and historian
- Arthur Walworth (1903-2005), American writer, biographer of Woodrow Wilson
- Curt Weibull (1886-1991), Swedish historian and author
- Phyllis A. Whitney (1903-present)
[edit] Businessmen
- Edward Bernays (1891-1995)
- Andrew George Burry (1873-1975)
- Godfrey Lowell Cabot (1861-1962), Cabot Corporation
- Maxwell Cummings (1898-2001), Canadian real estate builder and philanthropist
- A.G. Gaston (1892-1996), Afro-American businessman
- Albert Hamilton Gordon (1901-present), Kidder, Peabody & Co.
- Cecil H. Green (1900-2003), Texas Instruments co-founder
- Hans List (1896-1996), Austrian businessman
- Joseph Moses Juran (1904-present), industrial engineer, management theorist
- Garnet Hercules Mackley (1883-1986), Head of New Zealand Railways
- Ronald Mansbridge (1905-2006)
- Arthur Marshall (engineer) (1903-present), Marshall Aerospace Founder and Aviator
- R. Samuel McLaughlin (1871-1972)
- Walter L. Morgan (1898-1998), founder of the Wellington Fund
- Roy Neuberger (1903-present)
- Mohan Singh Oberoi (1898-2002)
- Frits Philips (1905-2005)
- Günter Reimann (1904-2005), economist
- James Stillman Rockefeller (1902-2004), First National City Bank of New York (see also under Sportspeople)
- Morris Schwartz (1901-2004), Russian-American photographer, inventor and businessman, founded Kalart Company
- Hermann von Siemens (1885-1986)
- Sir Thomas Sopwith (1888-1989), aircraft pioneer
- W. Clement Stone (1902-2002), insurance leader
- Sir James Swinburne (1858-1958)
- Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr. (1906-present), Former president and chairman of Walgreen Drug Company
- Frank H. Wheaton Sr. (1881-1983) chaired Wheaton Industries until his death
- Abdul Majid Zabuli (1896-1998)
[edit] Educators/school administrators/social scientists/linguists
- John Haden Badley (1865-1967) educator, founder of the Bedales School
- Giuliano Bonfante (1904-2005), linguistics expert
- Thomas D. Clark (1903-2005), American historian
- Anna J. Cooper (1858-1964), educator, civil rights advocate
- Aaron Director (1901-2004)
- Murray Barnson Emeneau (1904-2005), linguist
- John Morton-Finney (1889-1998)
- Emily Howland (1827-1929)
- Karolina Lanckorońska (1898-2002), Polish art historian and writer
- Harold Lawton (1899-2005)
- Seymour Lubetzky (1898-2003), librarian
- Norman Walker Porteous (1898-2003), Dean at University of Edinburgh
- Laura Woolsey Lord Scales (1879-1990), Dean at Smith College
- Sadayoshi Tanabe (1888-2000), Japanese bibliographer
[edit] Explorers
- Alexandra David-Néel (1868-1969)
- Ardito Desio (1897-2001)
- Helge Ingstad (1899-2001)
- Freya Stark (1893-1993)
- Norman Vaughan (1905-2005) Arctic explorer
- Jean-Frédéric Waldeck (1766-1875)
[edit] Jurists/practitioners of law
- Sampson Salter Blowers (1742-1842)
- William A. Bootle (1902-2005)
- Melville Henry Cane (1879-1980), American lawyer and poet
- Arnold Wilson Cowen (1905-present), American lawyer and judge
- Alfred Denning, Baron Denning (1899-1999), Master of the Rolls
- Harold Raymond Medina (1888-1990)
- L. Welch Pogue (1899-2003)
- Hartley Shawcross (1902-2003)
- Samuel Williston (1861-1963)
- Joseph William Woodrough (1873-1977)
[edit] Military commanders
- Aaron Bank (1902-2004), "Father of Special Forces"
- Waldemar Levy Cardoso (1900-present), the only living Brazilian field marshal
- Sir Philip Christison (1893-1993), British general
- Henry Fancourt (1900-2004), Royal Navy officer, pioneering Naval Aviator
- Sir George Higginson (1826-1927), British general
- John L. Hines (1868-1968), General, Chief of Staff, US Army
- Stanislaw Maczek (1892-1994) Polish general
- Masaichi Niimi (1887-1993), Japanese general
- Sir Henry Oliver (1865-1965), Admiral of the Fleet, Royal Navy
- Dorothy C. Stratton (1899-2006), director of the SPARS
- James Alward Van Fleet (1892-1992), US general
- Sir Provo Wallis (1791-1892), Admiral of the Fleet, Royal Navy
- Xue Yue - (1896-1998), Chinese general
[edit] Musicians/Composers/music patrons
- Frances Adaskin (1900-2001), Canadian pianist
- Irving Berlin (1888-1989), composer
- Henri Busser (1872-1973), French composer
- Irving Caesar (1895-1996)
- Hughes Cuénod (1902-present), Swiss tenor
- Jimmie Davis (1899-2000), singer, songwriter, Governor of Louisiana
- Annette Richardson Dinwoodey (1906-present), LDS vocalist
- Manuel Patricio Rodriguez Garcia (1805-1906), music and singing teacher
- Sidonie Goossens (1899-2004), harpist from famous music family
- Roy Henderson (1899-2000)
- Mieczysław Horszowski (1892-1993), Polish pianist
- Bill Johnson (1872-1972)
- Maurice Journeau (1898-1999), French composer
- Allauddin Khan (1862–1972), Indian classical sarod player
- Paul Le Flem (1881-1984) French composer
- Conrad Leonard (1898-2003), pianist and composer
- Sir Robert Mayer (1879-1985)
- Marcel Mule (1901-2001)
- Leo Ornstein (1892-2002)
- Uncle Charlie Osborne (1890-1992), Appalachian mountain music legend
- Elsa Respighi (1894-1996), Italian composer and singer, wife of Ottorino Respighi
- Olga Rudge (1895-1996), American violinist, mistress of Ezra Pound
- Joseph Salemi (1902-2003), jazz trombonist
- Nicolas Slonimsky (1894-1995)
- Jenő Takács (1902-2005), Austrian-Hungarian composer and pianist
- Tillit S. Teddlie (1885-1987), hymn composer
[edit] Nobility
- Judith, Countess of Listowel (1903-2003)
[edit] Philosophers/theologians
- Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002), German philosopher
- Charles Hartshorne (1897-2000), pioneer of process theology
- Mordecai Kaplan (1881-1983)
- Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890-1991)
- Alfred Vaucher (1887-1993), French theologian, church historian
- Paul Weiss (1901-2002)
[edit] Politicians/government servants
- Hastings Banda (1896-1997), president of Malawi
- Mahmud Celal Bayar (1884-1986), President of Turkey
- Nripen Chakraborty (1904-2004), Indian politician, former Chief-minister of Tripura
- Roswell Keyes Colcord (1839-1939)
- Cornelius Cole (1822-1924), longest-lived US senator
- Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres (1721-1824)
- Georges-Casimir Dessaulles (1827-1930), Canadian senator
- Willem Drees (1886-1988), prime minister of the Netherlands
- Eleanor Lansing Dulles (1895-1996), U.S. diplomat
- Jules Ellenberger (1871-1973), British colonial administrator
- Josef Felder (1900-2000)
- Hamilton Fish III (1888-1991), US Congressman
- Henry Richard Gibson (1837-1938), US Congressman
- Marinus van der Goes van Naters (1900-2005), Dutch politician
- John Netherland Heiskell (1872-1972), 2nd US senator to reach 100 years
- Naruhiko Higashikuni (1887-1990)
- Christopher Hornsrud (1859-1960), Prime Minister of Norway
- Wacław Jędrzejewicz (1893-1993), Polish diplomat and politician
- Konstantinos Kallias (1901-2004), Greek politician
- George F. Kennan (1904-2005), Cold War policy architect
- Alfred M. Landon (1887-1987), governor of Kansas and presidential nominee
- Haakon Lie (1905-present), former secretary of Norwegian Labour Party
- Enolia McMillan (1904-2006), former president of NAACP
- Sir Moses Haim Montefiore (1784-1885)
- Sir William Mulock (1844-1944), Canadian politician and cabinet member
- Muhammad al-Muqri (c. 1844 - 1957)
- Oku Mumeo (1895-1997), Japanese feminist activist and a member of The House of Councillors
- George Alexander Parks (1883-1984), territorial governor of Alaska.
- Antoine Pinay (1891-1994), French prime minister
- Edward Raczynski (1891-1993), Polish diplomat and President in exile
- Richard G. Reid (1879-1980), premier of Alberta
- Nellie Tayloe Ross (1876-1977)
- Susanna M. Salter (1860-1961), Mayor of Argonia, Kansas, first woman mayor in the United States
- Murray Seasongood (1878-1983), mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio
- Ramón Serrano Súñer (1901-2003), Spanish politician
- Emanuel Shinwell (1884-1986)
- Soong May-ling (Madame Chiang Kai-shek) (1898-2003)
- John Ward Studebaker (1887-1989)
- Maurice H. Thatcher (1870-1973), US Congressman
- Strom Thurmond (1902-2003), US Senator
- David Wark (1804-1905), Canadian Senator
- Dr. Cornelius Wiebe (1893-1999), Former Manitoba MLA and longtime Family physician
- Zhang Qun (1889-1990), Chinese politician
- Zhang Xueliang (Chang Hsüeh-liang) (1901-2001), Chinese General, but placed in politician section due to his role in Xi'an Incident.
- Xenophon Zolotas (1904-2004), former Prime Minister of Greece
[edit] Relative of someone well-known
- Brooke Astor (1902-present), wife of W. Vincent Astor
- Jean Faircloth (1898-2000), wife to Douglas MacArthur
- Jolie Gabor (ca. 1894-1997), mother of Gabor sisters
- Mabel Grosvenor (1905-2006), granddaughter of Alexander Graham Bell
- Rose Kennedy (1890-1995), mother of John F. Kennedy
- Martin Konigsberg (1900-2001), father of Woody Allen
- Eve Curie LaBouisse (1904-present), daughter of Marie Curie
- Isabel J. Meighen (1882-1985), wife of Canadian Prime Minister Arthur Meighen
- Madge Mickelson (1903-2006), wife of George T. Mickelson and mother of George S. Mickelson, both governors of South Dakota [1]
- Richard Mudd (1901-2002), grandson of Samuel Mudd
- Pauline Pauling (1901-2003), sister of Linus Pauling.
[edit] Religious leaders/clergymen
- Laban Ainsworth (1757-1858), American clergyman and pastor
- Ananda Maitreya (1896-1998)
- Saint Anthony (251-356)
- Corrado Cardinal Bafile (1903-2005)
- Henry Boehm (1775-1875)
- Arthur Judson Brown (1856-1963) American clergyman, missionary and author
- Edward Howard (1877-1983), archbishop
- Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri (1900?-2006), Orthodox rabbi and kabbalist
- William McElwee Miller (1892-1993), missionary and author
- Francesco Minerva (1904-2004), Archbishop emeritus of Lecce, Italy
- Ruby Muhammad (1897-present), named 'Mother of the Nation of Islam' by Louis Farrakhan in 1986
- Sri Deep Narayan Mahaprabhuji (1828?-1963)
- Tillit Sidney Teddlie (1885-1987), American hymnalist and pastor
- Marian Tumler (1887-1987), Austrian theologian, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
- Daniel Waldo (1762-1864)
- Herbert Welch (1862-1969), Methodist Bishop and President of Ohio Wesleyan University
- Elazar Shach (1898-2001), Leading Haredi rabbi in Israel.
- Sri Chandrasekhara Saraswathi (1893-1993), Hindu monk, Supreme Pontiff of Kanchi Mutt from 1907 to 1993.
[edit] Royalty
- Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901-2004)
- Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (1900-2002)
[edit] Scientists/mathematicians
- Charles G. Abbot (1872-1973), astronomer and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
- Horace Alexander (1889-1989), British biologist
- Doris Allen (1901-2002), American psychologist
- Rudolf Arnheim (1904-present), psychologist of visual perception
- Henry Beachell (1906-present), developer of "miracle rice"
- Arnold O. Beckman (1900-2004)
- Julia Bell (1879-1979) English human geneticist
- Harry Benjamin (1885-1986), German sexologist
- Boris Yakovych Bukreyev (1859-1962), Russian mathematician
- Su Buqing (1902-2003), Chinese mathematician
- Henri Cartan (1904-present), French mathematician
- Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786-1889), French chemist
- Harriette Chick (1875-1977), British biologist
- Samuel Rickard Christophers (1873-1978), protozoologist
- William David Coolidge (1873-1975), American engineer, developer of the Coolidge tube for production of x rays
- Ray Crist (1900-2005), chemist, retired from teaching post in 2004
- Philip D’Arcy Hart (1900-2006), British doctor
- Leila Denmark (1898-present), pediatrician, discovered pertussis vaccine
- Matilda Evans (1872-1975), physician
- Henri Fabre (1882-1984), French aviation pioneer, inventor of seaplane
- Gordon S. Fahrni (1887-1995), physician, expert on goiter
- Raymond Firth (1901-2002), New Zealand anthropologist
- Erich Häßler (1899-2005), German paediatrician
- Michael Heidelberger (1888-1991), American immunologist
- Rudolf Hell (1901-2002), German inventor
- Arthur R. von Hippel (1898-2003), German-American physicist, codeveloper of radar
- Albert Hofmann (1906-present), Discoverer of LSD
- Edward Augustus Holyoke (1728-1829), American physician
- Friedrich Hund (1896-1997) German physicist ("Hund's rules" )
- Ancel Keys (1904-2004), American biologist
- Paul E. Klopsteg (1889-1991), American physicist
- Jerome F. Lederer (1902-2004), American engineer
- Inge Lehmann (1888-1993), Danish seismologist
- Emma Lehmer (1906-living), Russian-American mathematician
- Ernst Mayr (1904-2005), German-American biologist
- Margaret Alice Murray (1863-1963), British anthropologist
- Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina (1899-1999), Russian mathematician
- Franco Rasetti (1901-2001), Italian physician
- Henry Nicholas Ridley, (1855-1956), British biologist
- Waldo Semon (1898-1999), American chemist
- Nilakantha Somayaji (1444-1544), Indian mathematician
- Dirk Jan Struik (1894-2000), Dutch mathematician
- Leopold Vietoris (1891-2002), Austrian mathematician
- Arvo Ylppö (1887-1992), Finnish paediatrician
- Zheng Ji (1900-present) professor of Nanjing University, Chinese pioneer of nutriology and biochemistry.
[edit] Sportspeople
- Constance M. K. Applebee (1873-1981), field hockey
- Ray Cunningham (1905-2005), former St. Louis Cardinals third baseman (1931-1932)
- D. B. Deodhar (1892-1993), Indian cricket player and Sanskritist
- Jacques Gerschwiler (1898-2000), figure skating
- Howdy Groskloss (1906-2006), MLB player, possibly born in 1907 or 1908
- Chet Hoff (1891-1998), oldest MLB player
- Ulrich Inderbinen (1900-2004), Swiss mountain guide
- Feroze Khan (1904-2005), Pakistani field hockey olympian
- Keizo Miura (1904-2006), Japanese skier and ski instructor
- Emilio Navarro (1905-present), Puerto Rican baseball player
- Hal Haig Prieste (1896-2001), Armenian-American high diver, 3rd in 1920 Summer Olympics
- Philip Rabinowitz, (1904-present), South African sprinter, fastest centenarian over 100 metres
- Ted Radcliffe (aka "Double Duty Radcliffe") (1902-2005)
- James Stillman Rockefeller (1902-2004), rowing, Olympic gold medal (see also under Business)
- Silas Simmons (1895 or 1898-2006), Afro-American semi-professional and professional baseball player
- Herman Smith-Johannsen (1875-1987), Norwegian-Canadian cross-country skier
- Amos Alonzo Stagg (1862-1965), American football
- Rollie Stiles, (1906-present), American Major League Baseball Player
- Leon Štukelj (1898-1999), Slovenian gymnast, won six Olympic medails
- Rhys Thomas (1904-2004), rugby union
[edit] Miscellaneous or extras
- Percy & Florence Arrowsmith, (1900-2005; 1904-present), longest marriage for a living couple and the oldest aggregate age of a married couple (according to the Guinness Book of Records). After Percy Arrowsmith died, Guinness recognized Herbert (March 15, 1900 - December 27, 2005) and Magda (two weeks younger than Florence) Brown as oldest couple. However, Le Monde newspaper revealed that one couple in France was even older than the Arrowsmiths or Browns: André Debry (June 15, 1898-August 31, 2005) and Marguerite Pingaud (born October 10, 1904) were married on August 12, 1924 and celebrated their 81st wedding anniversary in August 2005 shortly before his death. John Rocchio of North Providence, Rhode Island (age 101) and his wife Emelia, 99, celebrated their 82nd wedding anniversary February 10, 2005 and were recognized by Guinness in late July.Sorry to report that Mr. Rocchio died Monday.He was 102 year old,his wife might have died as well.
- Indra Devi (1899-2002)
- Milt Dunnell (1905-present), Canadian sportswriter
- Leopold Engleitner (1905-present), lecturer and survivor of Buchenwald and Niederhagen concentration camps
- Gregorio Fuentes (1897-2002)
- Ida May Fuller (1874-1975), first U.S. citizen to receive a social security check
- Eleanor Lambert (1903-2003), U.S. fashion pioneer
- Goethe Link (1879-1980), U.S. surgeon, aviation pioneer and amateur astronomer
- Irene Wells Pennington (1898-2003), multimillionaire oil widow
- Connie Douglas Reeves (1901-2003), cowgirl
- Saadi (1184-1283/1291), Iranian poet
- Catherine Uhlmyer (1893-2002), last survivor to remember, and Adella Wotherspoon (1903-2004), last survivor of, the General Slocum disaster of 1904
[edit] Known for attaining high age
See also supercentenarian, longevity myths.
- Anne Samson (February 27, 1891 - November 29, 2004 at age 113), oldest-ever nun documented
- Daphne Brann (August 4, 1890 - March 10, 2001 at age 110), oldest-ever minister (Assembly of God)
- Jeanne Calment (February 21, 1875 - August 4, 1997 at age 122), longest confirmed lifespan ever
