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

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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 Aaron 1912–2016 103 American academic[1]
Vasily Abaev 1900–2001 100 Ossetian linguist and philologist
Henry Angus 1891–1991 100 Canadian educator, lawyer and administrator
John Haden Badley 1865–1967 102 English educator and founder of the Bedales School
Ann Barzel 1905–2007 101 American writer, critic and lecturer on dance[2]
Henri Baruk 1897–1999 101 French neuropsychiatrist
Jacques Barzun 1907–2012 104 American historian[3]
Ze'ev Ben-Haim 1907–2013 105 Israeli linguist and former president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language[4]
Martin S. Bergmann 1913–2014 100 American clinical professor of psychology[5]
Alice Braunlich 1888–1989 101 American classical philologist[6]
Giuliano Bonfante 1904–2005 101 Italian linguistics expert
Louise Marion Bosworth 1881–1982 101 American social scientist
Harvie Branscomb 1894–1998 103 American chancellor of Vanderbilt University[7]
Hallie Quinn Brown 1849–1949 100 African American educator and writer
Jerome Bruner 1915–2016 100 American psychologist[8]
June Buchanan 1887–1988 100 American co-founder of Alice Lloyd College[9]
Ambrose Burke 1895–1998 102 American President of Saint Ambrose University[10]
Elizabeth Campbell 1902–2004 101 American public broadcasting pioneer and educator
Chen Han-seng 1897–2004 107 Chinese sociologist and economist
Thomas D. Clark 1903–2005 101 American historian
Ronald Coase 1910–2013 102 British economist (Nobel laureate)[11]
Stanwood Cobb 1881–1982 101 American Bahá'í educator and author
Anna J. Cooper 1858–1964 105 African American educator and civil rights advocate[12]
Richard N. Current 1912–2012 100 American historian[13]
Nellie Dale 1865–1967 102 British educator[14]
Julia Davis 1891–1993 101 African American educator[15]
P. C. Devassia 1906–2006 100 Indian Sanskrit scholar and poet[16]
Aaron Director 1901–2004 102 Ukrainian-American professor
Neagu Djuvara 1916– 107 Romanian diplomat and historian[17]
Murray Barnson Emeneau 1904–2005 101 American linguist
Leopold Engleitner 1905–2013 107 Austrian lecturer, oldest survivor of Buchenwald, Niederhagen and Ravensbrück concentration camps
Eilene Galloway 1906–2009 102 American space policy expert[18]
Marie de Garis 1910–2010 100 Guernseyian lexicographer[19]
Jules Gros 1890–1992 102 Breton linguist
Luther Gulick 1892–1993 100 American social scientist
Bertrand Hallward 1901–2003 102 British first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham
Fletcher Hodges Jr. 1905–2006 100 American expert on the music of Stephen Foster
Emily Howland 1827–1929 101 American philanthropist and educator
Halil İnalcık 1916–2016 100 Turkish historian[20]
Janet Kalven 1913–2014 100 American theologian[21]
Hasan Karmi 1905–2007 101 Palestinian linguist, broadcaster and scholar
Dorothy Knowles 1906–2010 104 British academic[22]
Jaroslav Kozlík 1907–2012 105 Czech reformer of physical education[23]
Emmanuel Kriaras 1906–2014 107 Greek lexicographer[24]
Hans Kurath 1891–1992 100 Austrian-American linguist
Ernest Kurnow 1912–2014 101 American business professor[25]
Countess Karolina Lanckorońska 1898–2002 104 Polish art historian and writer
Margaret Morgan Lawrence 1914– 109 American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst[26]
Harold Lawton 1899–2005 106 British scholar of French literature
Wolf Leslau 1906–2006 100 American leading scholar on Ethiopian languages and culture
Bernard Lewis 1916– 107 British historian of the Middle East[27]
Claude Lévi-Strauss 1908–2009 100 French anthropologist[28]
Adolph Lowe 1893–1995 102 German sociologist and economist
Seymour Lubetzky 1898–2003 104 Belarusian-American librarian
Ernest Manheim 1900–2002 102 American sociologist, anthropologist and composer[29]
Henry Evans Maude 1906–2006 100 British anthropologist[30]
Eduardo Morales Miranda 1910–2012 102 Chilean founder of the Southern University of Chile[31]
John Morton-Finney 1889–1998 108 African American civil rights activist and lawyer
Xue Muqiao 1904–2005 100 Chinese economist
Benzion Netanyahu 1910–2012 102 Polish-born Israeli historian[32]
Dorothy Nyswander 1894–1998 104 American health educator and advocate
Rodolfo Oroz 1895–1997 101 Chilean writer, professor, and philologist[33]
Norman Porteous 1898–2003 104 British Dean at the University of Edinburgh
Eva Gabriele Reichmann 1897–1998 101 German historian and sociologist
Loren Reid 1905–2014 109 American educator and author[34]
Barbara Reynolds 1914–2015 100 British scholar of Italian studies[35]
Fazlollah Reza 1915– 109 Iranian professor of engineering[36]
Laban Lacy Rice 1870–1973 102 American educator, President of Cumberland University
Louise Rosenblatt 1904–2005 100 American literary critic and scholar
María Rostworowski 1915–2016 101 Peruvian historian[37]
Ole Mørk Sandvik 1875–1976 101 Norwegian musicologist[38]
Raymond J. Saulnier 1908–2009 100 American Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers[39]
Laura Scales 1879–1990 110 American Dean at Smith College
Carl Emil Schorske 1915–2015 100 American cultural historian[40]
Robert H. Shaffer 1915– 108 American educator[41]
Akaki Shanidze 1887–1987 100 Georgian linguist and philologist
Peter J. Shields 1862–1962 100 American who helped establish the University of California, Davis
Theodore Stern 1912–2013 100 American academic, 16th President of the College of Charleston[42]
Cornelius Taiwo 1910–2014 103 Nigerian educator[43]
Patrick Lennox Tierney 1914–2015 101 American Japanologist[44]
G. Venkatasubbaiah 1913 – 110 Indian Kannada language lexicographer[45]
Fan Xuji 1914–2015 101 Chinese educator and President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University[46]
Yang Jingnian 1908–2016 107 Chinese economist and translator[47]
Silvio Zavala 1909–2014 105 Mexican historian[48]
Władysław Żeleński 1903–2006 102 Polish lawyer, historian and publicist
Zhou Youguang 1906 – 118 Chinese linguist and father of Pinyin[49]

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