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[2]
Melchora Aquino1812–1919107Filipino revolutionary[3]
Brooke Astor1902–2007105American socialite and philanthropist[4]
George Barasch1910–2013102American labor union leader[5]
Manuel G. Batshaw1915–2016101Canadian social worker[6]
William Sperry Beinecke1914–2018103American philanthropist[7]
Grace Lee Boggs1915–2015100American author and social activist[8]
Hetty Bower1905–2013108British political activist[9]
Amelia Boynton Robinson1911–2015104American civil rights activist[10]
Catherine Bramwell-Booth1883–1987104British Salvation Army officer[11]
Elza Brandeisz1907–2018110Hungarian humanitarian, Righteous Among the Nations[12]
Catherine Caradja1893–1993100Romanian aristocrat and philanthropist[13]
Fannie Cobb Carter1872–1973100American integration activist[14]
María Teresa Castillo1908–2012103Venezuelan activist and journalist[15]
Naseem Mirza Changezi1910–2018108Indian independence activist[16]
Guy Charmot1914–2019104French military doctor and resistance member during World War II[17]
Mary T. Clark1913–2014100American academic and civil rights advocate[18]
Leonora Cohen1873–1978105British suffragette[19]
Annie Lee Cooper1910–2010100African-American civil rights activist[20]
John Craighead1916–2016100American conservationist[21]
Sir Naim Dangoor1914–2015101Iraqi-born British philanthropist[22]
Kathryn Wasserman Davis1907–2013106American philanthropist[23]
Dobri Dobrev1914–2018103Bulgarian ascetic and philanthropist[24][25]
H. S. Doreswamy1918–102Indian independence activist[26]
Bill DuBois Sr.1916–2017100American farmer and philanthropist[27]
Muriel Duckworth1908–2009100Canadian pacifist, feminist and social activist[28]
Charles Duguid1884–1986102Australian activist for Aboriginal rights[29]
Margaret Dunning1910–2015104American philanthropist[30]
Hilda Eisen1917–2017100Polish-American business woman, philanthropist and Holocaust survivor[31]
Hallie Ford1905–2007102American business woman and philanthropist[32]
Yann Fouéré1910–2011101Breton nationalist[33]
Ruth May Fox1853–1958104American women's rights activist[34]
Frankie Muse Freeman1916–2018101American civil rights attorney[35]
Miep Gies1909–2010100Austrian-born Dutch humanitarian[36]
Henrietta Greville1861–1964103Australian labour organiser[37]
Aracy de Carvalho1908–2011102Brazilian humanitarian[38]
Lina Haag1907–2012105German World War II resistance fighter[39]
Doris Haddock1910–2010100American political activist[40]
John Hampton1907–2010103American co-founder of Toys for Tots[41]
Ralph Hauenstein1912–2016103American philanthropist[42]
Fumiko Hayashida1911–2014103American activist[43]
Drue Heinz1915–2018103British-born American actress, arts patron and philanthropist[44][45][46]
Margaret Holmes1909–2009100Australian peace activist[47]
Lucy Somerville Howorth1895–1997102American feminist activist[48]
Teresa Hsu1898?–2011113?Chinese-born Singaporean social worker[49]
Shidzue Katō1897–2001104Japanese feminist and politician[50]
Rose Kennedy1890–1995104American socialite, philanthropist and the matriarch of the Kennedy family[51]
Ida B. Kinney1904–2009104American civil rights activist[52]
Erik Sture Larre1914–2014100Norwegian resistance member during World War II[53]
Evelyn Lett1896–1999102Canadian women's rights pioneer[54]
Max Levitas1915–2018103Irish-born Scottish Communist and labour activist[55]
Paul Moyer Limbert1897–1998101American Secretary General of the YMCA[56]
Georges Loinger1910–2018108French resistance member during World War II[57]
Enolia McMillan1904–2006102American President of the NAACP[58]
K. Madhavan1915–2016101Indian independence activist[59]
Sir Denis Mahon1910–2011100British art collector and historian[60]
Rachel Lambert Mellon1910–2014103American philanthropist, art collector and horticulturalist[61]
Dame Elisabeth Murdoch1909–2012103Australian philanthropist[62]
Margaret Murie1902–2003101American conservationist[63]
Josefina Napravilová1914–2014100Czech humanitarian activist[64]
Scott Nearing1883–1983100American radical economist[65]
Anton Nilson1887–1989101Swedish political activist[66]
Sanzo Nosaka1892–1993101Japanese politician[67]
Poornima Arvind Pakvasa1913–2016102Indian social worker[68]
Everett Parker1913–2015102American civil rights activist[69]
Andrée Peel1905–2010105French Resistance member during World War II[70]
Veikko Porkkala1908–2009100Finnish trade union leader and communist activist[71]
Kayyar Kinhanna Rai1915–2015100Indian independence activist[72]
Gerald Ratner1913–2014100American lawyer and philanthropist[73]
Nittoor Srinivasa Rau1903–2004100Indian independence activist and jurist[74]
Jeanne Robert1914–2017103French Resistance leader[75]
Milton Rogovin1909–2011101American documentary photographer[76]
Isabel Rosado1907–2015107Puerto Rican independence activist and social worker[77]
Dovey Johnson Roundtree1914–2018104American civil rights activist[78]
Frederick J. Schlink1891–1995103American co-founder of Consumers Research[79]
Floyd Schmoe1895–2001105American peace activist and naturalist[80]
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky1897–2000102Austrian architect and political activist[81]
Bernice Tannenbaum1913–2015101American Zionist and feminist[82]
Elsie Tu1913–2015102British-born Hong Kong social activist[83]
Thomas Wyatt Turner1877–1978101American civil rights activist, biologist and educator[84]
Millie Dunn Veasey1918–2018100American civil rights activist[85]
Marie Wadley1906–2009102Native American activist and historian[86]
Rachel Mellon Walton1899–2006107American philanthropist and donor[87]
Mary Warburg1908–2009100American philanthropist[88]
Edgar Wayburn1906–2010103American environmentalist[89]
Irvin F. Westheimer1879–1980101American businessman, banker and philanthropist[90]
Nicholas Winton1909–2015106British humanitarian[91]
Hazel Wolf1898–2000101American environmental activist and civil rights campaigner[92]
Rose Wolfe1916–2016100Canadian social worker and philanthropist[93]

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