List of centenarians (educators, school administrators, social scientists and linguists)

The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as educators, school administrators, social scientists, and linguists – known for reasons other than their longevity. For more lists, see lists of centenarians.

Name Lifespan Age Notability
Daniel Aaron1912–2016103American academic[1]
Vasily Abaev1900–2001100Ossetian linguist and philologist
Leoncio Afonso1916–2017100Spanish geographer[2]
Lydia Kaʻonohiponiponiokalani Aholo1878–1979101Hawai'ian namesake and hānai daughter of Queen Liliʻuokalani of Hawaii]; educator; the first to formally teach Hawaiian language at Kamehameha Schools[3]
Idriz Ajeti1917–101Albanologist, academic and researcher; one of the main researchers and authorities on the Albanian language studies of post-World War II[4][5]
Encarnacion Alzona1895–2001105Filipino historian and educator
Henry Angus1891–1991100Canadian educator, lawyer and administrator
John Haden Badley1865–1967102English educator and founder of the Bedales School
Ann Barzel1905–2007101American writer, critic and lecturer on dance[6]
Henri Baruk1897–1999101French neuropsychiatrist
Jacques Barzun1907–2012104American historian[7]
Ze'ev Ben-Haim1907–2013105Israeli linguist and former president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language[8]
Martin S. Bergmann1913–2014100American clinical professor of psychology[9]
Giuliano Bonfante1904–2005101Italian linguistics expert
Louise Marion Bosworth1881–1982101American social scientist
Harvie Branscomb1894–1998103American chancellor of Vanderbilt University[10]
Sámuel Brassai1797–1897100Hungarian linguist and teacher
Alice Braunlich1888–1989101American classical philologist[11]
Hallie Quinn Brown1849–1949100African American educator and writer
Jerome Bruner1915–2016100American psychologist[12]
June Buchanan1887–1988100American co-founder of Alice Lloyd College[13]
Ambrose Burke1895–1998102American President of Saint Ambrose University[14]
Elizabeth Campbell1902–2004101American public broadcasting pioneer and educator
Chen Han-seng1897–2004107Chinese sociologist and economist
Gabriel Chiramel1914–2017102Indian educationist and Roman Catholic priest[15]
Thomas D. Clark1903–2005101American historian
Ronald Coase1910–2013102British economist (Nobel laureate)[16]
Stanwood Cobb1881–1982101American Bahá'í educator and author
Anna J. Cooper1858–1964105African American educator and civil rights advocate[17]
Richard N. Current1912–2012100American historian[18]
Nellie Dale1865–1967102British educator[19]
Julia Davis1891–1993101African American educator[20]
P. C. Devassia1906–2006100Indian Sanskrit scholar and poet[21]
Aaron Director1901–2004102Ukrainian-American professor
Neagu Djuvara1916–2018101Romanian diplomat and historian[22]
Isabella Dryden1917–101Canadian educator
George Alexander Duncan1902–2006103Irish economist and academic
Murray Barnson Emeneau1904–2005101American linguist
Leopold Engleitner1905–2013107Austrian lecturer, oldest survivor of Buchenwald, Niederhagen and Ravensbrück concentration camps
Fan Xuji1914–2015101Chinese educator and President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University[23]
Eilene Galloway1906–2009102American space policy expert[24]
Marie de Garis1910–2010100Guernseyian lexicographer[25]
Jules Gros1890–1992102Breton linguist
Luther Gulick1892–1993100American social scientist
Bertrand Hallward1901–2003102British first vice-chancellor of the University of Nottingham
Fletcher Hodges Jr.1905–2006100American expert on the music of Stephen Foster
Emily Howland1827–1929101American philanthropist and educator
Halil İnalcık1916–2016100Turkish historian[26]
Janet Kalven1913–2014100American theologian[27]
Hasan Karmi1905–2007101Palestinian linguist, broadcaster and scholar
Alison Kelly1913–2016102English art historian[28]
Dorothy Knowles1906–2010104British academic[29]
Jaroslav Kozlík1907–2012105Czech reformer of physical education[30]
Emmanuel Kriaras1906–2014107Greek lexicographer[31]
Hans Kurath1891–1992100Austrian-American linguist
Ernest Kurnow1912–2014101American business professor[32]
Karolina Lanckorońska1898–2002104Polish art historian and writer
Margaret Morgan Lawrence1914–104American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst[33]
Harold Lawton1899–2005106British scholar of French literature
Wolf Leslau1906–2006100American leading scholar on Ethiopian languages and culture
Claude Lévi-Strauss1908–2009100French anthropologist[34]
Bernard Lewis1916–2018102British historian of the Middle East[35]
Charles E. Lindblom1917–2018100American academic
Adolph Lowe1893–1995102German sociologist and economist
Seymour Lubetzky1898–2003104Belarusian-American librarian
Ernest Manheim1900–2002102American sociologist, anthropologist and composer[36]
Richard B. Mather1913–2014101Chinese-born American sinologist[37]
Henry Evans Maude1906–2006100British anthropologist[38]
Eduardo Morales Miranda1910–2012102Chilean founder of the Southern University of Chile[39]
John Morton-Finney1889–1998108African American civil rights activist and lawyer
Ruth Munce1898–2001103American educator; founder of the Keswick Christian School
Xue Muqiao1904–2005100Chinese economist
Benzion Netanyahu1910–2012102Polish-born Israeli historian[40]
Dorothy Nyswander1894–1998104American health educator and advocate
Rodolfo Oroz1895–1997101Chilean writer, professor, and philologist[41]
Sybil Plumlee1911–2012100American teacher and police officer[42]
Norman Porteous1898–2003104British Dean at the University of Edinburgh
Eva Gabriele Reichmann1897–1998101German historian and sociologist
Loren Reid1905–2014109American educator and author[43]
Barbara Reynolds1914–2015100British scholar of Italian studies[44]
Fazlollah Reza1915–103Iranian professor of engineering[45]
Laban Lacy Rice1870–1973102American educator, President of Cumberland University
Louise Rosenblatt1904–2005100American literary critic and scholar
María Rostworowski1915–2016100Peruvian historian[46]
Ole Mørk Sandvik1875–1976101Norwegian musicologist[47]
Raymond J. Saulnier1908–2009100American Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers[48]
Laura Scales1879–1990110American Dean at Smith College
Carl Emil Schorske1915–2015100American cultural historian[49]
Robert H. Shaffer1915–2017103American educator[50]
Akaki Shanidze1887–1987100Georgian linguist and philologist
Peter J. Shields1862–1962100American judge and activist who helped establish the University of California, Davis
Manouchehr Sotodeh1913–2016102Iranian geographer and scholar[51]
Theodore Stern1912–2013100American academic, 16th President of the College of Charleston[52]
Dragutin Tadijanović1905–2007101Croatian poet
Cornelius Taiwo1910–2014103Nigerian educator[53]
Patrick Lennox Tierney1914–2015101American Japanologist[54]
Mary Tortorich1914–2017102American voice teacher[55]
Tsien Tsuen-hsuin1910–2015105Chinese-born American sinologist and librarian[56]
G. Venkatasubbiah1913–105Indian Kannada language lexicographer[57]
Marie Wadley1906–2009102American co-founder of the Five Civilized Tribes Museum
T. K. Whitaker1916–2017100Irish economist[58]
Yang Jingnian1908–2016107Chinese economist and translator[59]
Silvio Zavala1909–2014105Mexican historian[60]
Władysław Żeleński1903–2006102Polish lawyer, historian and publicist
Zhou Youguang1906–2017111Chinese linguist and father of Pinyin[61]

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