The following is a list of famous supercentenarians (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 lists of centenarians, see lists of centenarians. People highlighted in blue are 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] |
Virginia McLaurin | F | 12 March 1909 | 14 November 2022 | 113 years, 237 days | American activist and social worker [2] |
Teresa Hsu | F | 7 July 1898 | 7 December 2011 | 113 years, 153 days | Chinese-born Singaporean social worker [3] |
Ruth Apilado | F | 30 April 1908 | 15 August 2021 | 113 years, 107 days | American magazine editor and activist [4] [5] |
Marita Camacho Quirós | F | 10 March 1911 | Living | 113 years, 75 days | First Lady of Costa Rica; widow of President of Costa Rica Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich [6] |
Alphaeus Philemon Cole | M | 12 July 1876 | 25 November 1988 | 112 years, 136 days | American painter [7] |
Stanisław Kowalski | M | 14 April 1910 | 5 April 2022 | 111 years, 356 days | Polish masters athlete [8] |
Theresa Bernstein | F | 1 March 1890 | 13 February 2002 | 111 years, 349 days | Polish-born American painter [9] |
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 [10] |
Shivakumara Swami | M | 1 April 1907 | 21 January 2019 | 111 years, 295 days | Indian religious leader [11] |
Juliana Young Koo | F | 26 September 1905 | 24 May 2017 | 111 years, 240 days | Chinese-American diplomat [12] |
Shi Ping | M | 1 November 1912 | Living | 111 years, 205 days | Chinese academic administrator and politician [13] |
Herman Smith-Johannsen | M | 15 June 1875 | 5 January 1987 | 111 years, 204 days | Norwegian-Canadian cross-country skier [14] |
Frederica Sagor Maas | F | 6 July 1900 | 5 January 2012 | 111 years, 183 days | American screenwriter, playwright and essayist [15] |
Qin Hanzhang | M | 19 February 1908 | 15 August 2019 | 111 years, 177 days | Chinese engineer and scientist [16] |
Emma Didlake | F | 13 March 1904 | 16 August 2015 | 111 years, 156 days | American soldier (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps) [17] |
Alexander Imich | M | 4 February 1903 | 8 June 2014 | 111 years, 124 days | Polish parapsychologist [18] |
Manolita Piña | F | 24 February 1883 | 11 June 1994 | 111 years, 107 days | Wife of Joaquín Torres García [19] |
Ruthie Tompson | F | 22 July 1910 | 10 October 2021 | 111 years, 80 days | American animator and artist [20] |
Cecilia Seghizzi | F | 5 September 1908 | 22 November 2019 | 111 years, 78 days | Italian composer [21] [22] |
Luís Torras | M | 29 December 1912 | 14 January 2024 | 111 years, 16 days | Spanish painter [23] |
Silas Simmons | M | 14 October 1895 | 29 October 2006 | 111 years, 15 days | Longest-lived American semi-professional and professional baseball player [24] |
Zhou Youguang | M | 13 January 1906 | 14 January 2017 | 111 years, 1 day | Chinese linguist and father of Pinyin [25] |
Nicholas Kao Se Tseien | M | 15 January 1897 | 11 December 2007 | 110 years, 330 days | Chinese Catholic priest and oldest person ever to have a cataract operation [26] |
Leopold Vietoris | M | 4 June 1891 | 9 April 2002 | 110 years, 309 days | Austrian mathematician [27] |
Zoltan Sarosy | M | 23 August 1906 | 19 June 2017 | 110 years, 300 days | Hungarian-Canadian chess master [28] |
Huang Mulan | F | 9 July 1906 | 7 February 2017 | 110 years, 213 days | Chinese spy [29] |
Laura Scales | F | 13 November 1879 | 12 June 1990 | 110 years, 211 days | American Dean at Smith College [30] |
Carla Porta Musa | F | 15 March 1902 | 10 October 2012 | 110 years, 209 days | Italian essayist and poet [31] |
Anita Mackey | F | 1 January 1914 | Living | 110 years, 144 days | American social worker [32] |
Bhante Dharmawara | M | 12 February 1889 | 26 June 1999 | 110 years, 134 days | Cambodian-born monk and educator [33] |
Zhang Lixiong | M | 21 November 1913 | 2 April 2024 | 110 years, 133 days | Chinese military officer and politician [34] |
Elza Brandeisz | F | 18 September 1907 | 6 January 2018 | 110 years, 110 days | Hungarian humanitarian, Righteous Among the Nations [35] |
Alice Herz-Sommer | F | 26 November 1903 | 23 February 2014 | 110 years, 89 days | Austro-Hungarian-born pianist and one of the oldest Holocaust survivors [36] |
Zheng Ji | M | 6 May 1900 | 29 July 2010 | 110 years, 84 days | Chinese nutritionist and biochemist [37] |
Eileen Ash | F | 30 October 1911 | 3 December 2021 | 110 years, 34 days | British cricketer and spy [38] [39] |
Moon Fun Chin | M | 13 April 1913 | 9 May 2023 | 110 years, 26 days | CNAC pilot [40] |
Viola Fletcher | F | 10 May 1914 | Living | 110 years, 14 days | American woman who is the oldest survivor of the Tulsa race massacre [41] |
Anne Baker | F | 14 May 1914 | Living | 110 years, 10 days | British writer and fundraiser [42] |
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