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Centenarian

A centenarian is a person who has attained the age of 100 years or more. Much rarer, a supercentenarian is a person who has lived to the age of 110 or more.

Many notable and famous individuals have become centenarians. They include the following:

• George Abbott
• Laban Ainsworth
• Rosa Albach-Retty
• Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester
• Albert Jean Amateau[?]
• Constance M. K. Applebee[?]
• Mahmud Celal Bayar
• Irving Berlin
• Edward Bernays
• Theresa Ferber Bernstein[?]
• Eubie Blake
• Sampson Salter Blowers
• Henry Boehm
• Margaret Booth
• Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
• Manuel Alvarez Bravo[?]
• Andrew George Burry
• Su Buqing
• George Burns
• Irving Caesar[?]
• Melville Henry Cane
• Nirad Chaudhuri[?]
• Michel-Eugene Chevreul
• Harriette Chick
• Rickard Christophers
• Roswell Keyes Colcord
• Alphaeus Philemon Cole
• Cornelius Cole
• William David Coolidge[?]
• Alexandra David-Neel
• Jimmie Davis[?]
• Geoffrey Dearmer
• The Delany Sisters
• Lord Denning
• Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres
• Georges-Casimir Dessaulles
• Dorothy Dickson
• Marjory Stoneman Douglas[?]
• Ninette de Valois
• Willem Drees
• Eleanor Lansing Dulles[?]
• Gordon S. Fahrni
• Jean Faircloth(MacArthur)
• Josef Felder[?]
• Hamilton Fish III
• Dorothy Frooks
• Hans-Georg Gadamer
• Cecil H. Green
• Liane Haid
• Viktor Hamburger[?]
• John Netherland Heiskell
• Rudolf Hell
• Roy Henderson
• Naruhiko Higashikuni
• Edward Augustus Holyoke
• Bob Hope
• Christopher Hornsrud
• Helge Ingstad
• Bill Johnson
• Mother Jones
• Ernst Jünger
• Joseph Nathan Kane
• Mordecai Kaplan
• Rose Kennedy
• Alfred M. Landon
• Inge Lehmann
• Paul Moyer Limbert
• Seymour Lubetzky
• Sir Robert Mayer
• Sir Moses Haim Montefiore
• John Morton-Finney
• Grandma Moses
• Richard Mudd
• Marcel Mule
• Sir William Mulock
• Muhammad al-Muqri?
• Margaret Alice Murray
• Scott Nearing
• Oswald von Nell-Breuning
• Sanzo Nosaka
• Ivan Novikoff
• Mohan Singh Oberoi[?]
• Risto Orko
• Leo Ornstein
• George Alexander Parks
• Lillian Rogers Parks[?]
• Antoine Pinay
• L.Welch Pogue
• Irving Rapper
• Leni Riefenstahl
• Hal Roach[?]
• Nellie Tayloe Ross
• Saadi
• Robert St. John[?]
• Joseph Salemi
• George Seldes[?]
• Tonio Selwart
• Waldo Semon
• Emanuel Shinwell[?]
• Hermann von Siemens
• Nicolas Slonimsky
• Soong May-ling (Madame Chiang Kai-Shek)
• Thomas Sopwith[?]
• Amos Alonzo Stagg[?]
• Freya Stark[?]
• W. Clement Stone[?]
• John Ward Studebaker
• Sir James Swinburne
• Strom Thurmond
• Thomas Wyatt Turner[?]
• Leopold Vietoris
• Jean Frederic Waldeck
• Daniel Waldo
• David Wark
• Paul Weiss[?]
• Señor Wences[?]
• Irvin F. Westheimer[?]
• Beatrice Wood
• Zhang Xue-liang (Chang Hsüeh-liang)
• Adolph Zukor

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