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List of supercentenarians
People who have lived 110 years or longer
People who have lived 110 years or longer
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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Williams Berry | F | 21 June 1854 | 26 March 1969 | Australian jockey | |||||
| Marita Camacho Quirós | F | 10 March 1911 | 20 June 2025 | First Lady of Costa Rica; widow of President of Costa Rica Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich | |||||
| Leila Denmark | F | 1 February 1898 | 1 April 2012 | American pediatrician who helped develop the pertussis vaccine | |||||
| Syed Mohammad Sharfuddin Quadri | M | 25 December 1901 | 30 December 2015 | Indian independence activist and a physician of the Unani medicine | |||||
| Virginia McLaurin | F | 12 March 1909 | 14 November 2022 | American community volunteer, seamstress, manager of a laundry and farmworker | |||||
| Teresa Hsu | F | 7 July 1898 | 7 December 2011 | Chinese-born Singaporean charity worker, social worker, yoga teacher and nurse | |||||
| Ruth Apilado | F | 30 April 1908 | 15 August 2021 | url=http://sudbury.wickedlocal.com/x1943022733/Cygan-Citizens-should-voice-resolutions-for-our-new-government | title=Cygan: Citizens should voice resolutions for our new government | publisher=Sudbury Town Crier | date=January 16, 2009 | access-date=November 30, 2019}} | |
| Shi Ping | M | 1 November 1911 | 29 June 2024 | Chinese academic and political administrator | |||||
| Ilie Ciocan | M | 10 June 1913 | Living | Romanian soldier and World War II veteran | |||||
| Alphaeus Philemon Cole | M | 12 July 1876 | 25 November 1988 | American artist, engraver and etcher | |||||
| Lawrence Brooks | M | 12 September 1909 | 5 January 2022 | Longest-lived American World War II veteran | |||||
| Stanisław Kowalski | M | 14 April 1910 | 5 April 2022 | Polish masters athlete | |||||
| Theresa Bernstein | F | 1 March 1890 | 13 February 2002 | Polish-born American artist and writer | |||||
| Katherine Plunket | F | 22 November 1820 | 14 October 1932 | Anglo-Irish aristocrat, botanical illustrator and the oldest person ever to die in Ireland | |||||
| Shivakumara Swami | M | 1 April 1907 | 21 January 2019 | Indian humanitarian, spiritual leader and educator | |||||
| Maria Pogonowska | F | 30 October 1897 | 15 July 2009 | Polish-Israeli scientist. | |||||
| Juliana Young Koo | F | 26 September 1905 | 24 May 2017 | Chinese-American diplomat | |||||
| Herman Smith-Johannsen | M | 15 June 1875 | 5 January 1987 | Norwegian-Canadian cross-country skier | |||||
| Viola Fletcher | F | 10 May 1914 | 24 November 2025 | American woman and longest-lived known survivor of the Tulsa race massacre | |||||
| Frederica Sagor Maas | F | 6 July 1900 | 5 January 2012 | American screenwriter, playwright, memoirist and author | |||||
| Qin Hanzhang | M | 19 February 1908 | 15 August 2019 | Chinese engineer and scientist | |||||
| Edith Renfrow Smith | F | 14 July 1914 | 2 January 2026 | First African American woman to graduate from Grinnell College | |||||
| Emma Didlake | F | 13 March 1904 | 16 August 2015 | American soldier (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps) | |||||
| Anne Baker | F | 14 May 1914 | 23 September 2025 | British writer and fundraiser | |||||
| Alexander Imich | M | 4 February 1903 | 8 June 2014 | Polish chemist, parapsychologist, zoologist and writer | |||||
| Manolita Piña | F | 24 February 1883 | 11 June 1994 | Spanish-Uruguayan painter; widow of Joaquín Torres-García | |||||
| Ruthie Tompson | F | 22 July 1910 | 10 October 2021 | American camera technician and animation checker | |||||
| Cecilia Seghizzi | F | 5 September 1908 | 22 November 2019 | Italian composer, painter and teacher | |||||
| Ram Nath Sharma | M | 5 November 1904 | 1 December 2015 | Indian judge | |||||
| Luís Torras | M | 29 December 1912 | 14 January 2024 | Spanish painter | |||||
| Silas Simmons | M | 14 October 1895 | 29 October 2006 | Longest-lived American semi-professional and professional baseball player | |||||
| Zhou Youguang | M | 13 January 1906 | 14 January 2017 | Chinese economist, banker, linguist, sinologist, Esperantist, publisher and "father of Pinyin" | |||||
| Nicholas Kao Se Tseien | M | 15 January 1897 | 11 December 2007 | Chinese Trappist priest and oldest person ever to have a cataract operation | |||||
| Dorothy Burnham | F | 22 March 1915 | Living | American civil rights activist and microbiologist | |||||
| Leopold Vietoris | M | 4 June 1891 | 9 April 2002 | Austrian mathematician and World War I veteran | |||||
| Zoltan Sarosy | M | 23 August 1906 | 19 June 2017 | Hungarian-Canadian chess master | |||||
| Huang Mulan | F | 9 July 1906 | 7 February 2017 | Chinese spy | |||||
| Laura Scales | F | 13 November 1879 | 12 June 1990 | American educator and Smith College dean | |||||
| Carla Porta Musa | F | 15 March 1902 | 10 October 2012 | Italian essayist and poet | |||||
| Donald Rose | M | 24 December 1914 | 11 July 2025 | British World War II veteran | |||||
| Muazzez İlmiye Çığ | F | 20 June 1914 | 17 November 2024 | Turkish archaeologist, sumerologist, assyriologist and writer | |||||
| Morrie Markoff | M | 11 January 1914 | 3 June 2024 | American blogger, writer, and artist; oldest known active blogger in the world | |||||
| Bhante Dharmawara | M | 12 February 1889 | 26 June 1999 | Cambodian-born Theravada monk and educator | |||||
| Zhang Lixiong | M | 21 November 1913 | 2 April 2024 | Chinese military officer and politician | |||||
| Elza Brandeisz | F | 18 September 1907 | 6 January 2018 | Hungarian teacher and artist; humanitarian for Righteous Among the Nations | |||||
| Anita Mackey | F | 1 January 1914 | 16 April 2024 | American social worker | |||||
| Lois Holden | F | 2 February 1910 | 5 May 2020 | url=https://michiganchronicle.com/2019/02/06/motown-legend-lois-holden-celebrates-her-109th-birthday/ | title=Motown legend Lois Holden celebrates her 109th birthday | newspaper=Michigan Chronicle | date=February 6, 2020 | accessdate=January 28, 2023}} | |
| Alice Herz-Sommer | F | 26 November 1903 | 23 February 2014 | Czech-born classic pianist, music teacher and one of the oldest Holocaust survivors | |||||
| Abby Crawford Milton | F | 6 February 1881 | 2 May 1991 | American suffragist | |||||
| Zheng Ji | M | 6 May 1900 | 29 July 2010 | Chinese nutritionist and biochemist | |||||
| James Clayton Flowers | M | 25 December 1915 | Living | American Tuskegee Airman | |||||
| Eileen Ash | F | 30 October 1911 | 3 December 2021 | British cricketer and spy | |||||
| Moon Fun Chin | M | 13 April 1913 | 9 May 2023 | Chinese-American aviator and businessman; China National Aviation Corporation pilot | |||||
| Yakup Satar | M | 11 March 1898 | 2 April 2008 | Last surviving Turkish veteran of World War I | |||||
| Eileen Kramer | F | 8 November 1914 | 15 November 2024 | Australian dancer, artist, performer and choreographer | |||||
| Norman Spencer | M | 13 August 1914 | 16 August 2024 | British film producer, production manager and screenwriter |
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