The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as medical professionals – known for reasons other than their longevity. For more lists, see lists of centenarians.
Name | Lifespan | Age | Notability |
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Elizabeth Bagshaw | 1881–1982 | 100 | Canadian physician and director of the first birth control clinic in Canada[1] |
Joseph Barnes | 1914–2017 | 102 | Irish physician[2] |
Aaron T. Beck | 1921–2021 | 100 | American psychiatrist[3] |
Myra Bennett | 1890–1990 | 100 | Canadian nurse[4] |
George Berci | 1921– | 103 | Hungarian surgeon[5] |
Elisabeth Bing | 1914–2015 | 100 | German-born American physical therapist[6] |
Richard Bing | 1909–2010 | 101 | German-born American cardiologist[7] |
Wanda Błeńska | 1911–2014 | 103 | Polish physician and missionary[8] |
Sadie Bonnell | 1888–1993 | 105 | British FANY ambulance driver who won the Military Medal[9] |
Geraldine Branch | 1908–2016 | 107 | American gynaecologist[10] |
Clifford Brewer | 1913–2017 | 104 | British surgeon[11] |
Jacinto Convit | 1913–2014 | 100 | Venezuelan epidemiologist[12] |
Héctor Croxatto | 1908–2010 | 102 | Chilean physiologist[13] |
Deng Tietao | 1916–2019 | 102 | Chinese physician and academic[14] |
Leila Denmark | 1898–2012 | 114 | American pediatrician who helped develop the pertussis vaccine[15] |
Anthony F. DePalma | 1904–2005 | 100 | American orthopedic surgeon; father of film director Brian De Palma[16] |
Ian Douglas-Wilson | 1912–2013 | 101 | British physician[17] |
Carola B. Eisenberg | 1917–2021 | 103 | Argentine-American psychiatrist[18] |
Joel Elkes | 1913–2015 | 101 | Prussian-born American medical researcher[19] |
Ephraim Engleman | 1911–2015 | 104 | American rheumatologist[20] |
Sir Michael Anthony Epstein | 1921–2024 | 102 | British pathologist and academic[21] |
Emmanuel Evans-Anfom | 1919–2021 | 101 | Ghanaian physician, scholar, university administrator and public servant[22] |
Gordon S. Fahrni | 1887–1995 | 108 | Canadian physician and expert on goitre[23] |
Loretta Ford | 1920– | 103 | American nurse and academic[24] |
William Frankland | 1912–2020 | 108 | British allergist and immunologist[25] |
Sir George Godber | 1908–2009 | 100 | Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom[26] |
Charles Godfrey | 1917–2022 | 104 | Canadian physician and politician[27] |
Francesc Gras Salas | 1921–2022 | 101 | Spanish Ophthalmologist and writer[28] |
Walter Guralnick | 1916–2017 | 100 | American dentist[29] |
Norman Guthkelch | 1915–2016 | 100 | British-born American Pediatric neurosurgeon[30] |
Philip D'Arcy Hart | 1900–2006 | 106 | British epidemiologist[31] |
Erich Häßler | 1899–2005 | 106 | German pediatrician[32] |
Shuntaro Hida | 1917–2017 | 100 | Japanese physician[33] |
Shigeaki Hinohara | 1911–2017 | 105 | Japanese physician[34] |
Edward Augustus Holyoke | 1728–1829 | 100 | American physician[35] |
Howard W. Jones | 1910–2015 | 104 | American gynecological surgeon and in vitro fertilization specialist[36] |
Keith Jones | 1911–2012 | 100 | Australian medical practitioner and surgeon[37] |
Mavis Kelsey | 1912–2013 | 101 | American internist and clinic founder[38] |
David Morris Kern | 1909–2013 | 103 | American pharmacist and businessman[39] |
Fred Kummerow | 1914–2017 | 102 | German-born American physiologist[40] |
Martha Kyrle | 1917–2017 | 100 | Austrian physician[41] |
Margaret Morgan Lawrence | 1914–2019 | 105 | American psychiatrist, first black psychoanalyst in the US[42] |
Hannah Myrick | 1871–1973 | 101/102 | American superintendent of the New England Hospital for Women and Children[43] |
George Nagobads | 1921–2023 | 101 | American sports physician[44] |
Frances Oldham Kelsey | 1914–2015 | 101 | Canadian-born American pharmacologist[45] |
Lucy Ozarin | 1914–2017 | 103 | American military physician and psychiatrist[46] |
Sir Harry Platt, 1st Baronet | 1886–1986 | 100 | English orthopaedic surgeon, President of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal College of Surgeons of England[47] |
Wanda Półtawska | 1921–2023 | 101 | Polish psychiatrist[48] |
Ingeborg Rapoport | 1912–2017 | 104 | German pediatrician[49] |
Franco Rasetti | 1901–2001 | 100 | Italian physician[50] |
Paul Rohmer | 1876–1977 | 100 | French pediatrician and biologist[51] |
Andrew Best Semple | 1912–2013 | 101 | British medical officer[52] |
Jennie Smillie Robertson | 1878–1981 | 103 | Canadian physician, first female surgeon in Canada[53] |
Su Hongxi | 1915–2018 | 103 | Chinese surgeon[54] |
Tang Yuhan | 1913–2014 | 101 | Hong Kong oncologist[55] |
Eva Tichauer | 1918–2018 | 100 | German doctor, author and Holocaust survivor[56] |
Stanley M. Truhlsen | 1920–2021 | 101 | American ophthalmologist[57] |
Howard Tucker | 1922– | 101 | American neurologist[58][59] |
Fyodor Uglov | 1904–2008 | 103 | Russian surgeon[60] |
Agnès-Marie Valois | 1914–2018 | 103 | French nun and World War II nurse[61] |
Wang Shizhen | 1916–2016 | 100 | Chinese nuclear medicine physician[62] |
Ellsworth Wareham | 1914–2018 | 104 | American cardiothoracic surgeon[63] |
P. K. Warrier | 1921–2021 | 100 | Indian Ayurveda practitioner[64] |
James Whittico Jr. | 1915–2018 | 102 | American physician[65] |
Esther Wilkins | 1916–2016 | 100 | American dentist[66] |
Arvo Ylppö | 1887–1992 | 104 | Finnish pediatrician[67] |