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[2]
Leoncio Afonso1916–2017100Spanish geographer[3]
Lydia Kaʻonohiponiponiokalani Aholo1878–1979101Hawai'ian namesake and hānai daughter of Queen Liliʻuokalani of Hawaii, educator and the first to formally teach Hawaiian language at Kamehameha Schools[4]
Idriz Ajeti1917–2019101Albanologist, academic and researcher, one of the main researchers and authorities on the Albanian language studies of post-World War II[5][6]
Encarnacion Alzona1895–2001105Filipino historian and educator[7]
Henry Angus1891–1991100Canadian educator, lawyer and administrator[8]
John Haden Badley1865–1967102English educator and founder of the Bedales School
Ann Barzel1905–2007101American writer, critic and dance lecturer[9]
Henri Baruk1897–1999101French neuropsychiatrist[10]
Jacques Barzun1907–2012104American historian[11]
Anne Olivier Bell1916–2018102English literary editor and art scholar, member of the Monuments Men Brigade[12]
Ze'ev Ben-Haim1907–2013105Israeli linguist and former president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language[13]
Martin S. Bergmann1913–2014100American clinical professor of psychology[14]
Giuliano Bonfante1904–2005101Italian linguistics expert[15]
Louise Marion Bosworth1881–1982101American social scientist[16]
Harvie Branscomb1894–1998103American chancellor of Vanderbilt University[17]
Sámuel Brassai1797–1897100Hungarian linguist and teacher
Alice Braunlich1888–1989101American classical philologist[18]
Hallie Quinn Brown1849–1949100African American educator and writer[19]
Jerome Bruner1915–2016100American psychologist[20]
June Buchanan1887–1988100American co-founder of Alice Lloyd College[21]
Ambrose Burke1895–1998102American President of Saint Ambrose University[22]
Elizabeth Campbell1902–2004101American public broadcasting pioneer and educator[23]
Chen Han-seng1897–2004107Chinese sociologist and economist[24]
Gabriel Chiramel1914–2017102Indian educationist and Roman Catholic priest[25]
Thomas D. Clark1903–2005101American historian[26]
Ronald Coase1910–2013102British economist (Nobel laureate)[27]
Stanwood Cobb1881–1982101American Bahá'í educator and author
Anna J. Cooper1858–1964105African American educator and civil rights advocate[28]
Richard N. Current1912–2012100American historian[29]
Nellie Dale1865–1967102British educator[30]
Julia Davis1891–1993101African American educator[31]
P. C. Devassia1906–2006100Indian Sanskrit scholar and poet[32]
Aaron Director1901–2004102Ukrainian-American professor[33]
Neagu Djuvara1916–2018101Romanian diplomat and historian[34]
Isabella Dryden1917–102Canadian educator[35]
George Alexander Duncan1902–2006103Irish economist and academic[36]
Marianne Eckardt1913–2018105German-born American psychoanalyst and editor[37]
Murray Barnson Emeneau1904–2005101American linguist[38]
Leopold Engleitner1905–2013107Austrian lecturer and oldest Holocaust survivor (of Buchenwald, Niederhagen and Ravensbrück concentration camps)[39]
Fan Xuji1914–2015101Chinese educator and President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University[40]
D. J. Finney1917–2018101British statistician[41]
Eilene Galloway1906–2009102American space policy expert[42]
Marie de Garis1910–2010100Guernseyian lexicographer[43]
Jules Gros1890–1992102Breton linguist[44]
Luther H. Gulick1892–1993100American social scientist[45]
Daphne Lorraine Gum1916–2017101Australian pioneer in cerebral palsy care[46]
Bertrand Hallward1901–2003102British first vice-chancellor of the University of Nottingham[47]
Fletcher Hodges Jr.1905–2006100American expert on the music of Stephen Foster
Olivia Hooker1915–2018103American psychologist, professor, soldier (yeoman, first African-American woman in the U.S. Coast Guard) [48]
Emily Howland1827–1929101American philanthropist and educator[49]
Halil İnalcık1916–2016100Turkish historian[50]
Robert L. Kahn1918–2019100American psychologist and social scientist[51]
Janet Kalven1913–2014100American theologian[52]
Hasan Karmi1905–2007101Palestinian linguist, broadcaster and scholar[53]
Alison Kelly1913–2016102English art historian[54]
Anvar Khamei1917–2018101Iranian sociologist and economist[55]
Ferdinand Knobloch1916–2018101Czech-Canadian psychiatrist[56]
Dorothy Knowles1906–2010104British academic[57]
Jaroslav Kozlík1907–2012105Czech reformer of physical education[58]
Emmanuel Kriaras1906–2014107Greek lexicographer[59]
Hans Kurath1891–1992100Austrian-American linguist[60]
Ernest Kurnow1912–2014101American business professor[61]
Karolina Lanckorońska1898–2002104Polish art historian and writer[62]
Geoffrey Langlands1917–2019101British-Pakistani educator and Army Major[63]
Margaret Morgan Lawrence1914–2019105American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst[64]
Harold Lawton1899–2005106British scholar of French literature[65]
Wolf Leslau1906–2006100American leading scholar on Ethiopian languages and culture[66]
Claude Lévi-Strauss1908–2009100Belgian-born French anthropologist[67]
Bernard Lewis1916–2018101British historian of the Middle East[68]
Charles E. Lindblom1917–2018100American academic[69]
Liu Xuyi1913–2018105Chinese historian and scholar[70]
Adolph Lowe1893–1995102German sociologist and economist[71]
Seymour Lubetzky1898–2003104Belarusian-American librarian[72]
Eleanor Maccoby1917–2018101American psychologist[73]
Ernest Manheim1900–2002102American sociologist, anthropologist and composer[74]
Richard B. Mather1913–2014101Chinese-born American sinologist[75]
Henry Evans Maude1906–2006100British anthropologist[76]
Eduardo Morales Miranda1910–2012102Chilean founder of the Southern University of Chile[77]
John Morton-Finney1889–1998108African American civil rights activist and lawyer
Benzion Netanyahu1910–2012102Polish-born Israeli historian[78]
Dorothy Nyswander1894–1998104American health educator and advocate[79]
Rodolfo Oroz1895–1997101Chilean writer, professor and philologist[80]
Maria Isaura Pereira de Queiróz1918–2018100Brazilian sociologist[81]
Sybil Plumlee1911–2012100American teacher and police officer[82]
Norman Porteous1898–2003104British Dean at the University of Edinburgh[83]
Eva Gabriele Reichmann1897–1998101German historian and sociologist[84]
Loren Reid1905–2014109American educator and author[85]
Barbara Reynolds1914–2015100British scholar of Italian studies[86]
Fazlollah Reza1915–2019104Iranian professor of engineering[87]
Laban Lacy Rice1870–1973102American educator and President of Cumberland University[88]
Louise Rosenblatt1904–2005100American literary critic and scholar[89]
María Rostworowski1915–2016100Peruvian historian[90]
Ole Mørk Sandvik1875–1976101Norwegian musicologist[91]
Raymond J. Saulnier1908–2009100American Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers[92]
Laura Scales1879–1990110American Dean at Smith College[93]
Carl Emil Schorske1915–2015100American cultural historian[94]
Robert H. Shaffer1915–2017101American educator[95]
Akaki Shanidze1887–1987100Georgian linguist and philologist[96]
Peter J. Shields1862–1962100American judge and activist who helped establish the University of California, Davis[97]
Manouchehr Sotoudeh1913–2016102Iranian geographer and scholar[98][99]
Theodore Stern1912–2013100American academic, 16th President of the College of Charleston[100]
Paul Streeten1917–2019101Austrian-born British economist and university professor[101]
Cornelius Taiwo1910–2014103Nigerian educator[102]
Takeda Kiyoko1917–2018100Japanese scholar[103]
Patrick Lennox Tierney1914–2015101American Japanologist[104]
Mary Tortorich1914–2017102American voice teacher[105]
Tsien Tsuen-hsuin1910–2015105Chinese-born American sinologist and librarian[106]
G. Venkatasubbiah1913–106Indian Kannada language lexicographer[107]
Marie Wadley1906–2009102American co-founder of the Five Civilized Tribes Museum[108]
Frøystein Wedervang1918–2018100Norwegian economist[109]
Curt Weibull1886-1991105Swedish historian[110]
T. K. Whitaker1916–2017100Irish economist[111]
Xue Muqiao1904–2005100Chinese economist[112]
Yang Jingnian1908–2016107Chinese economist and translator[113]
Silvio Zavala1909–2014105Mexican historian[114]
Władysław Żeleński1903–2006102Polish lawyer, historian and publicist[115]
Zhou Youguang1906?–2017111?Chinese linguist and father of Pinyin[116]

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