List of supercentenarians

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The following is a list of supercentenarians (people who have attained the age of at least 110 years) known for reasons other than just their longevity. For more lists of centenarians, see lists of centenarians. Bold people are living.

For people known just for their longevity, see List of the verified oldest people and List of the oldest living people.

Name Sex Born Died Age Notability
Ruth Apilado F April 30, 1908 August 15, 2021 113 years, 107 days American magazine editor and activist[1][2]
Eileen Ash F October 30, 1911 December 3, 2021 110 years, 34 days British cricketer and spy[3][4]
Theresa Bernstein F March 1, 1890 February 13, 2002 111 years, 349 days Polish-born American painter[5]
Elza Brandeisz F 18 September 1907 6 January 2018 110 years, 110 days Hungarian humanitarian, Righteous Among the Nations[6]
Alphaeus Philemon Cole M July 12, 1876 November 25, 1988 112 years, 136 days American painter[7]
Leila Denmark F February 1, 1898 April 1, 2012 114 years, 60 days American pediatrician who helped develop the pertussis vaccine[8]
Bhante Dharmawara M February 12, 1889 June 26, 1999 110 years, 134 days Cambodian-born monk and educator[9]
Emma Didlake F March 13, 1904 August 16, 2015 111 years, 156 days American soldier (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps)[10]
Qin Hanzhang M February 19, 1908 15 August 2019 111 years, 177 days Chinese engineer and scientist[11]
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[12]
Teresa Hsu F 7 July 1898 7 December 2011 113 years, 153 days Chinese-born Singaporean social worker[13]
Huang Mulan F July 9, 1906 February 7, 2017 110 years, 213 days Chinese spy[14]
Alexander Imich M February 4, 1903 June 8, 2014 111 years, 124 days Polish parapsychologist[15]
Juliana Young Koo F September 26, 1905 May 24, 2017 111 years, 240 days Chinese-American diplomat[16]
Stanisław Kowalski M April 14, 1910 Living 111 years, 332 days Polish masters athlete[17]
Hon. 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[18]
Carla Porta Musa F 15 March 1902 10 October 2012 110 years, 209 days Italian essayist and poet[19]
Marita Camacho Quirós F March 10, 1911 Living 111 years, 2 days First Lady of Costa Rica; widow of President of Costa Rica Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich[20]
Frederica Sagor Maas F July 6, 1900 January 5, 2012 111 years, 183 days American screenwriter, playwright and essayist[21]
Zoltan Sarosy M August 23, 1906 June 19, 2017 110 years, 300 days Hungarian-Canadian chess master[22]
Laura Scales F November 13, 1879 June 12, 1990 110 years, 211 days American Dean at Smith College[23]
Cecilia Seghizzi F 5 September 1908 22 November 2019 111 years, 78 days Italian composer[24][25]
Silas Simmons M October 14, 1895 October 29, 2006 111 years, 15 days Longest-lived American semi-professional and professional baseball player[26]
Herman Smith-Johannsen M 15 June 1875 5 January 1987 111 years, 204 days Norwegian-Canadian cross-country skier[27]
Shivakumara Swami M 1 April 1907 21 January 2019 111 years, 295 days Indian religious leader[28]
Ruthie Tompson F July 22, 1910 October 10, 2021 111 years, 81 days American animator and artist[29]
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[30]
Leopold Vietoris M 4 June 1891 9 April 2002 110 years, 309 days Austrian mathematician[31]
Zhou Youguang M 13 January 1906 14 January 2017 111 years, 1 day Chinese linguist and father of Pinyin[32]
Zheng Ji M 6 May 1900 29 July 2010 110 years, 84 days Chinese nutritionist and biochemist[33]

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