The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as jurists and practitioners of law – known for reasons other than their longevity. For more lists, see lists of centenarians.
Name | Lifespan | Age | Notability |
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Smilja Avramov | 1918–2018 | 100 | Serbian academic, authority and educator in international law[1] |
Sampson Salter Blowers | 1742–1842 | 100 | Canadian defence attorney representing the soldiers accused after the Boston Massacre[2] |
William Augustus Bootle | 1902–2005 | 102 | American attorney and District Judge of the Middle District of Georgia[3] |
Marie-Thérèse Bourquin | 1916–2018 | 102 | Belgian lawyer[4] |
Wesley E. Brown | 1907–2012 | 104 | American district court judge[5] |
Joseph Burke | 1888–1990 | 101 | American judge[6] |
Melville Henry Cane | 1879–1980 | 100 | American lawyer and poet[7] |
Jean Murrell Capers | 1913–2017 | 104 | American educator, judge and politician[8] |
Frank Chuman | 1917– | 107 | American lawyer and author[9] |
Arnold Wilson Cowen | 1905–2007 | 101 | American lawyer and judge[10] |
Thomas Simpson Crawford | 1875–1976 | 100 | Australian lawyer and politician[11] |
Tom Denning, Baron Denning | 1899–1999 | 100 | English Master of the Rolls[12] |
Edgar Fay | 1908–2009 | 101 | British judge[13] |
Ben Ferencz | 1920–2023 | 103 | Hungarian-Romanian-born American lawyer and last Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal prosecutor[14] |
Werner Flume | 1908–2009 | 100 | German jurist, legal historian, and professor[15] |
John Gabbert | 1909–2013 | 104 | American judge[16] |
Maurice Gaffney | 1916–2016 | 100 | Irish barrister[17] |
William George | 1865–1967 | 101 | Welsh lawyer[18] |
Samuel Hazard Gillespie Jr. | 1910–2011 | 100 | American counsel[19] |
Nico Gunzburg | 1882–1984 | 101 | Belgian lawyer and criminologist[20] |
Trevor Henry | 1902–2007 | 105 | New Zealand justice on the Supreme Court of New Zealand[21] |
Oliver Hill | 1907–2007 | 100 | American lawyer and civil rights activist[22] |
Henry Hu | 1920– | 104 | Hong Kong barrister[23] |
V. R. Krishna Iyer | 1914–2014 | 100 | Indian judge and minister[24] |
Charles Wycliffe Joiner | 1916–2017 | 101 | American judge[25] |
Irving Kanarek | 1920–2020 | 100 | American defence attorney representing Charles Manson and "The Onion Field" killer[26] |
Alan King-Hamilton | 1904–2010 | 105 | British judge[27] |
George N. Leighton | 1912–2018 | 105 | American judge[28] |
Rush Limbaugh Sr. | 1891–1996 | 104 | American lawyer and grandfather of Rush Limbaugh[29] |
Wilmer W. MacElree | 1859–1960 | 100 | American lawyer and author[30] |
Alice Yotopoulos-Marangopoulos | 1917–2018 | 100 or 101 | Greek lawyer and criminologist[31] |
Ludwig Martin | 1909–2010 | 100 | German lawyer and Attorney General[32] |
Harold Medina | 1888–1990 | 102 | American lawyer, teacher and judge[33] |
Frederick M. Nicholas | 1920– | 103 | American lawyer[34] |
L. Welch Pogue | 1899–2003 | 103 | American aviation attorney[35] |
Jack Pope | 1913–2017 | 103 | American judge, attorney, author and legal scholar; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas[36] |
Carlos P. Scovil | 1804–1904 | 100 | American assemblyman, New York state senator and county judge[37] |
Donald Seawell | 1912–2015 | 103 | American lawyer[38] |
Sir Hartley Shawcross | 1902–2003 | 101 | British barrister and politician; lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials[39] |
Randolph W. Thrower | 1913–2014 | 100 | American attorney[40] |
Arthur L. Thurlow | 1913–2020 | 107 | Canadian judge and politician[41] |
Lawrence Walsh | 1912–2014 | 102 | American lawyer; 4th United States Deputy Attorney General[42] |
Marion Yorck von Wartenburg | 1904–2007 | 102 | German lawyer, jurist, judge, World War II resistance fighter and author[43] |
Roland Weyl | 1919–2021 | 102 | French lawyer and French Resistance militant[44] |
Samuel Williston | 1861–1963 | 101 | American lawyer and law professor[45] |
Joseph William Woodrough | 1873–1977 | 104 | American judge[46] |
Knut Söderwall | 1874–1980 | 105 | Justice of the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden (1923–1943).[47] |