List of notable supercentenarians

The following is a list of famous people who have attained the age of at least 110 years known for reasons other than just longevity. As such, this list does not include every person who has reached this age. For more specific lists of people (living or deceased) who are known for these reasons, see lists of centenarians.

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

  Living

Name	Sex	Born	Died	Age	Notability
Leila Denmark	F	1 February 1898	1 April 2012	114 years, 60 days	American pediatrician who helped develop the pertussis vaccine[1]
Marita Camacho Quirós	F	10 March 1911	Living	113 years, 238 days	First Lady of Costa Rica; widow of President of Costa Rica Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich[2]
Virginia McLaurin	F	12 March 1909	14 November 2022	113 years, 237 days	American community volunteer, seamstress, manager of a laundry and farm worker[3] Note: McLaurin’s birth date is disputed. Several sources have claimed she was 105 at the time of her death.
Teresa Hsu	F	7 July 1898	7 December 2011	113 years, 153 days	Chinese-born Singaporean charity worker, social worker, yoga teacher and nurse[4]
Ruth Apilado	F	30 April 1908	15 August 2021	113 years, 107 days	American newspaper editor, novelist, anti-racism campaigner for African American civil rights, magazine founder, and teacher[5][6]
Shi Ping	M	1 November 1911	29 June 2024	112 years, 241 days	Chinese academic administrator and politician[7]
Alphaeus Philemon Cole	M	12 July 1876	25 November 1988	112 years, 136 days	American artist, engraver and etcher[8]
Lawrence Brooks	M	12 September 1909	5 January 2022	112 years, 115 days	Longest-lived American World War II veteran[9]
Stanisław Kowalski	M	14 April 1910	5 April 2022	111 years, 356 days	Polish masters athlete[10]
Theresa Bernstein	F	1 March 1890	13 February 2002	111 years, 349 days	Polish-born American artist and writer[11]
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[12]
Shivakumara Swami	M	1 April 1907	21 January 2019	111 years, 295 days	Indian humanitarian, spiritual leader and educator[13]
Juliana Young Koo	F	26 September 1905	24 May 2017	111 years, 240 days	Chinese-American diplomat[14]
Herman Smith-Johannsen	M	15 June 1875	5 January 1987	111 years, 204 days	Norwegian-Canadian cross-country skier[15]
Frederica Sagor Maas	F	6 July 1900	5 January 2012	111 years, 183 days	American dramatist, playwright, screenwriter, memoirist, and author[16]
Qin Hanzhang	M	19 February 1908	15 August 2019	111 years, 177 days	Chinese engineer and scientist[17]
Emma Didlake	F	13 March 1904	16 August 2015	111 years, 156 days	American soldier (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps)[18]
Alexander Imich	M	4 February 1903	8 June 2014	111 years, 124 days	Polish chemist, parapsychologist, zoologist and writer[19]
Manolita Piña	F	24 February 1883	11 June 1994	111 years, 107 days	Painter; widow of Joaquín Torres García[20]
Ruthie Tompson	F	22 July 1910	10 October 2021	111 years, 80 days	American camera technician and animation checker[21]
Cecilia Seghizzi	F	5 September 1908	22 November 2019	111 years, 78 days	Italian composer, painter and teacher[22][23]
Luís Torras	M	29 December 1912	14 January 2024	111 years, 16 days	Spanish painter[24]
Silas Simmons	M	14 October 1895	29 October 2006	111 years, 15 days	Longest-lived American semi-professional and professional baseball player[25]
Zhou Youguang	M	13 January 1906	14 January 2017	111 years, 1 day	Chinese economist, banker, linguist, sinologist, Esperantist, publisher and "father of Pinyin"[26]
Nicholas Kao Se Tseien	M	15 January 1897	11 December 2007	110 years, 330 days	Chinese Trappist priest and oldest person ever to have a cataract operation[27]
Leopold Vietoris	M	4 June 1891	9 April 2002	110 years, 309 days	Austrian mathematician and World War I veteran[28]
Zoltan Sarosy	M	23 August 1906	19 June 2017	110 years, 300 days	Hungarian-Canadian chess master[29]
Huang Mulan	F	9 July 1906	7 February 2017	110 years, 213 days	Chinese spy[30]
Laura Scales	F	13 November 1879	12 June 1990	110 years, 211 days	American educator; Smith College dean[31]
Carla Porta Musa	F	15 March 1902	10 October 2012	110 years, 209 days	Italian essayist and poet[32]
Viola Fletcher	F	10 May 1914	Living	110 years, 177 days	American woman and longest-lived known survivor of the Tulsa race massacre[33]
Anne Baker	F	14 May 1914	Living	110 years, 173 days	British writer and fundraiser[34]
Morrie Markoff	M	11 January 1914	3 June 2024	110 years, 144 days	American blogger, writer, and artist; oldest known active blogger in the world[35]
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ	F	20 June 1914	Living	110 years, 136 days	Turkish archaeologist, sumerologist, assyriologist and writer[36]
Bhante Dharmawara	M	12 February 1889	26 June 1999	110 years, 134 days	Cambodian-born Theravada monk and educator[37]
Zhang Lixiong	M	21 November 1913	2 April 2024	110 years, 133 days	Chinese military officer and politician[38]
Edith Renfrow Smith	F	14 July 1914	Living	110 years, 112 days	First African-American woman to graduate from Grinnell College[39]
Elza Brandeisz	F	18 September 1907	6 January 2018	110 years, 110 days	Hungarian teacher and artist; humanitarian for Righteous Among the Nations[40]
Anita Mackey	F	1 January 1914	16 April 2024	110 years, 106 days	American social worker[41]
Lois Holden	F	2 February 1910	5 May 2020	110 years, 93 days	American singer, member of The Gospel Stars, who released the first Motown album in the label's history[42]
Alice Herz-Sommer	F	26 November 1903	23 February 2014	110 years, 89 days	Czech-born classic pianist, music teacher and one of the oldest Holocaust survivors[43]
Zheng Ji	M	6 May 1900	29 July 2010	110 years, 84 days	Chinese nutritionist and biochemist[44]
Eileen Ash	F	30 October 1911	3 December 2021	110 years, 34 days	British cricketer and spy[45][46]
Moon Fun Chin	M	13 April 1913	9 May 2023	110 years, 26 days	Chinese-American avaiator and businessman; China National Aviation Corporation pilot[47]
Yakup Satar	M	11 March 1898	2 April 2008	110 years, 22 days	Last surviving Turkish veteran of World War I[48]
Norman Spencer	M	13 August 1914	16 August 2024	110 years, 3 days	British film producer, production manager and screenwriter[49]

See also

For people known just for their longevity,

• List of the verified oldest people
• List of the oldest living people

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