List of centenarians (activists, non-profit leaders and philanthropists)

The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as activists, non-profit leaders, and philanthropists – therefore known for reasons other than just their longevity. For more lists, see lists of centenarians.

Name Lifespan Age Notability
Encarnacion Alzona1895–2001105Filipino suffragette, historian and author[1]
Albert Jean Amateau1889–1996106Turkish rabbi, businessman, lawyer and social activist
Melchora Aquino1812–1919107Filipino revolutionary[2]
Brooke Astor1902–2007105American socialite and philanthropist
George Barasch1910–2013102American labor union leader[3]
Manuel G. Batshaw1915–2016101Canadian social worker[4]
William Sperry Beinecke1914–2018103American philanthropist[5]
Grace Lee Boggs1915–2015100American author and social activist[6]
Hetty Bower1905–2013108British political activist[7]
Amelia Boynton Robinson1911–2015104American civil rights activist[8]
Catherine Bramwell-Booth1883–1987104British Salvation Army officer[9]
Catherine Caradja1893–1993100Romanian aristocrat and philanthropist
Fannie Cobb Carter1872–1973100American integration activist[10]
María Teresa Castillo1908–2012103Venezuelan activist and journalist[11]
Mary T. Clark1913–2014100American academic and civil rights advocate[12]
Leonora Cohen1873–1978105British suffragette
Annie Lee Cooper1910–2010100African-American civil rights activist[13]
John Craighead1916–2016100American conservationist[14]
Sir Naim Dangoor1914–2015101Iraqi-born British philanthropist[15]
Kathryn Wasserman Davis1907–2013106American philanthropist[16]
Dobri Dobrev1914–2018103Bulgarian ascetic and philanthropist[17][18]
Muriel Duckworth1908–2009100Canadian pacifist, feminist and social activist[19]
Charles Duguid1884–1986102Australian activist for Aboriginal rights
Margaret Dunning1910–2015104American philanthropist[20]
Hallie Ford1905–2007102American business woman and philanthropist[21]
Yann Fouéré1910–2011101Breton nationalist[22]
Ruth May Fox1853–1958104American women's rights activist[23]
Miep Gies1909–2010100Austrian-born Dutch humanitarian[24]
Henrietta Greville1861–1964103Australian labour organiser[25]
Aracy de Carvalho1908–2011102Brazilian humanitarian[26]
Lina Haag1907–2012105German World War II resistance fighter[27]
Doris Haddock1910–2010100American political activist[28]
John Hampton1907–2010103American co-founder of Toys for Tots[29]
Ralph Hauenstein1912–2016103American philanthropist[30]
Fumiko Hayashida1911–2014103American activist[31]
Margaret Holmes1909–2009100Australian peace activist[32]
Lucy Somerville Howorth1895–1997102American feminist activist[33]
Teresa Hsu Chih1898–2011113Chinese-born Singaporean social worker[34]
Shidzue Katō1897–2001104Japanese feminist and politician
Ida B. Kinney1904–2009104American civil rights activist[35]
Erik Sture Larre1914–2014100Norwegian resistance member during World War II[36]
Evelyn Lett1896–1999102Canadian women's rights pioneer
Paul Moyer Limbert1897–1998101American former YMCA Secretary General
Enolia McMillan1904–2006102American former NAACP president[37]
K. Madhavan1915–2016101Indian independence activist[38]
Rachel Lambert Mellon1910–2014103American philanthropist, art collector and horticulturalist[39]
Dame Elisabeth Murdoch1909–2012103Australian philanthropist[40]
Margaret Murie1902–2003101American conservationist[41]
Josefina Napravilová1914–2014100Czech humanitarian activist[42]
Scott Nearing1883–1983100American radical economist[43]
Anton Nilson1887–1989101Swedish political activist[44]
Sanzo Nosaka1892–1993101Japanese politician
Poornima Arvind Pakvasa1913–2016102Indian social worker[45]
Everett Parker1913–2015102American civil rights activist[46]
Andrée Peel1905–2010105French Resistance member during World War II[47]
Kayyar Kinhanna Rai1915–2015100Indian independence activist[48]
Gerald Ratner1913–2014100American lawyer and philanthropist[49]
Nittoor Srinivasa Rau1903–2004100Indian independence activist and jurist
Jeanne Robert1914–2017103French Resistance leader[50]
Milton Rogovin1909–2011101American documentary photographer[51]
Isabel Rosado1907–2015107Puerto Rican independence activist and social worker[52]
Dovey Johnson Roundtree1914–2018104American civil rights activist[53]
Frederick J. Schlink1891–1995103American co-founder of Consumers Research
Floyd Schmoe1895–2001105American peace activist and naturalist
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky1897–2000102Austrian architect and political activist
Carl J. Shapiro1913–105American philanthropist and entrepreneur[54]
Shivakumara Swami1907–111Indian humanitarian[55]
Bernice Tannenbaum1913–2015101American Zionist and feminist[56]
Elsie Tu1913–2015102British-born Hong Kong social activist[57]
Thomas Wyatt Turner1877–1978101American civil rights activist, biologist and educator
Millie Dunn Veasey1918–2018100American civil rights activist.[58]
Marie Wadley1906–2009102Native American activist and historian[59]
Rachel Mellon Walton1899–2006107American philanthropist and donor
Mary Warburg1908–2009100American philanthropist[60]
Edgar Wayburn1906–2010103American environmentalist[61]
Irvin F. Westheimer1879–1980101American businessman, banker and philanthropist
Sir Nicholas Winton1909–2015106British humanitarian[62]
Hazel Wolf1898–2000101American environmental activist and civil-rights campaigner[63]
Rose Wolfe1916–2016100Canadian social worker and philanthropist[64]

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