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Lists of centenarians

Wikimedia list of lists of persons

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ641400 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following is a list of lists of notable centenarians by categorized occupation (people who lived to be or are currently living at 100 years or more of age) that are known for reasons other than just longevity.

Famous people by career

List of centenarians (activists, nonprofit leaders and philanthropists)

List of centenarians (actors, filmmakers and entertainers) (age 100-104)

List of semi-supercentenarians (actors, filmmakers and entertainers) (age 105-109)

List of centenarians (artists, painters and sculptors)

List of centenarians (authors, editors, poets and journalists)

List of centenarians (businesspeople)

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

List of centenarians (engineers, mathematicians and scientists)

List of centenarians (explorers)

List of centenarians (jurists and practitioners of law)

List of centenarians (medical professionals)

List of centenarians (military commanders and soldiers)

List of centenarians (musicians, composers and music patrons)

List of centenarians (philosophers and theologians)

List of centenarians (politicians and civil servants)

List of centenarians (religious figures)

List of centenarians (royalty and nobility)

List of centenarians (sportspeople)

List of centenarians (Major League Baseball players)

List of centenarians (National Football League players)

List of centenarian masters track and field athletes

List of centenarian masters track and field records

List of centenarians (miscellaneous)

Supercentenarians

The following is a list of lists of known supercentenarians (people who lived to be or are currently living at 110 years or more of age).

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“Lists of centenarians” enters the record as wikimedia list of lists of persons. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lists, centenarians and Wikimedia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 225-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lists, centenarians and Wikimedia.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q641400. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lists of centenarians” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.