The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as military commanders or soldiers – known for reasons other than their longevity. Living people are listed bolded and italicized. For more lists, see lists of centenarians.
Name | Lifespan | Age | Notability |
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Hassan Alavikia | 1910–2013 | 102 | Iranian Army general[1] |
Mariano Álvarez | 1818–1924 | 106 | Filipino general and President of the Magdiwang[2] |
Bud Anderson | 1922–2024 | 102 | American Air Force officer and World War II flying ace[3] |
Kurt Andersen | 1898–2003 | 104 | German Luftwaffe general[4] |
Walter Stratton Anderson | 1881–1981 | 100 | American vice admiral of the Navy[5] |
Stuart Archer | 1915–2015 | 100 | British Army officer; recipient of the George Cross[6] |
Millie Bailey | 1918–2022 | 104 | American World War II veteran[7][8] |
Aaron Bank | 1902–2004 | 101 | American Army officer; founder of the Special Forces[9] |
Russell Bannock | 1919–2020 | 100 | Canadian fighter pilot[10] |
Bill Bell | 1912–2012 | 100 | British Army officer[11] |
Mikhail Beregovoy | 1918–2021 | 103 | Soviet Air Defence Forces officer[12] |
Bir Protik Noorjahan Kakon Bibi | 1915–2018 | 102/103 | Bangladeshi spy[13] |
Sir Clarence Bird | 1885–1986 | 101 | British Army general[14] |
Stephen J. Bonner, Jr. | 1918–2021 | 103 | American World War II flying ace[15] |
Aleksey Botyan | 1917–2020 | 103 | Soviet colonel, spy, partisan and intelligence officer[16] |
Aubrey J. Bourgeois | 1907–2011 | 103 | American Navy officer[17] |
Hugo Broch | 1922– | 102 | German World War II flying ace[18] |
Lady Martha Bruce | 1921–2023 | 101 | British prison governor, Women's Royal Army Corps officer, and aristocrat[19] |
Colette Brull-Ulmann | 1920–2021 | 101 | French Resistance fighter[20] |
Robert Cardenas | 1920–2022 | 102 | American Air Force general[21] |
Waldemar Levy Cardoso | 1900–2009 | 108 | Last surviving Brazilian field marshal[22] |
Robert Carter | 1910–2012 | 102 | British Royal Air Force officer[23] |
Dean Caswell | 1922–2022 | 100 | American World War II flying ace[24] |
Kenneth O. Chilstrom | 1921–2022 | 101 | American air force colonel and test pilot[25] |
Sir Philip Christison | 1893–1993 | 100 | British Army general[26] |
Richard E. Cole | 1915–2019 | 103 | American Air Force officer and last living participant of the Doolittle Raid[27] |
Lewis Combs | 1895–1996 | 101 | American Navy admiral[28] |
Daniel Cordier | 1920–2020 | 100 | French Resistance fighter (Compagnon de la Libération)[29] |
Michael Lindsay Coulton Crawford | 1917–2017 | 100 | British Royal Navy officer and submariner[30] |
Susan Ahn Cuddy | 1915–2015 | 100 | American Navy officer; first female gunnery officer in U.S. Navy[31] |
Donald L. Custis | 1917–2021 | 103 | American Navy vice admiral[32] |
Aaron S. Daggett | 1837–1938 | 100 | Last surviving Union Army general of the American Civil War [citation needed] |
Perry J. Dahl | 1923– | 101 | American Air Force officer and World War II flying ace[33] |
Philippe de Gaulle | 1921–2024 | 102 | French Navy admiral; eldest child of Charles de Gaulle[34] |
Udey Chand Dubey | 1909–2009 | 100 | Indian Army general[35] |
Dai Zijin | 1916–2017 | 101 | Chinese Air Force major[36] |
Emma Didlake | 1904–2015 | 111 | American soldier (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps)[37] |
James W. Downing | 1913–2018 | 104 | American Navy lieutenant[38] |
Leo J. Dulacki | 1918–2019 | 100 | American Marine Corps lieutenant general[39] |
James Francis Edwards | 1921–2022 | 100 | Canadian fighter pilot[40] |
William J. Ely | 1911–2017 | 105 | American Army officer[41] |
William A. Enemark | 1913–2016 | 102 | American Army officer[42] |
Henry St John Fancourt | 1900–2004 | 103 | British Royal Navy officer[43] |
Fang Huai | 1917–2019 | 101 | Chinese Army major general[44] |
Hubert Faure | 1914–2021 | 106 | French World War II hero (Operation Overlord), soldier, Grand Croix of the Legion of Honour recipient[45][46][47] |
Edward L. Feightner | 1919–2020 | 100 | American Navy rear admiral and fighter pilot[48] |
John William Finn | 1909–2010 | 100 | American Navy officer[49] |
Mario Fiorentini | 1918–2022 | 103 | Italian partisan, spy and mathematician[50] |
James Flint | 1913–2013 | 100 | British Royal Air Force officer and businessman[51] |
Dorothy Frooks | 1896–1997 | 101 | American author, publisher, military officer, and military lawyer[52] |
Robert B. Fulton | 1910–2015 | 104 | American Navy officer[17] |
John Gonge | 1921– | 102 | American Air Force officer[53] |
Harry E. Goldsworthy | 1914–2022 | 107 | American Air Force officer[54] |
Amedeo Guillet | 1909–2010 | 101 | Italian Army officer[55] |
Gail Halvorsen | 1920–2022 | 101 | American Berlin Airlift pilot.[56] |
Julia E. Hamblet | 1916–2017 | 100 | American military officer; director of the Marine Corps Women's Reserve (1946–48) and Director of Women Marines (1953–59)[57] |
Monique Hanotte | 1920–2022 | 101 | Belgian World War II resistance fighter[58] |
Reinhard Hardegen | 1913–2018 | 105 | German U-boat commander[59] |
James H. Harvey | 1923– | 100 | American Air Force pilot[60] |
Sir Cosmo Haskard | 1916–2017 | 100 | British Army officer[61] |
Bernice Falk Haydu | 1920–2021 | 100 | American aviator and member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots[62] |
Charles D. Herron | 1877–1977 | 100 | American Army lieutenant general[63] |
Sir George Higginson | 1826–1927 | 100 | British Army general[64] |
Dame Felicity Hill | 1915–2019 | 103 | British Royal Air Force officer; Director of the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF; 1966–69)[65] |
John L. Hines | 1868–1968 | 100 | American general and Chief of Staff of the United States Army[66] |
Mad Mike Hoare | 1919–2020 | 100 | Irish soldier and mercenary[67] |
Olivia Hooker | 1915–2018 | 103 | American psychologist, professor, soldier (yeoman, first African-American woman in the U.S. Coast Guard).[68] |
James D. Hughes | 1922–2024 | 101 | American Air Force general[69] |
Frederick Augustus Irving | 1894–1995 | 101 | American Army general and West Point Military Academy Superintendent[70] |
Albin F. Irzyk | 1917–2018 | 101 | American brigadier general[71] |
Georgy Vasilyevich Ivanov | 1901–2001 | 100 | Soviet Army major general[72] |
Richard H. Jackson | 1866–1971 | 105 | American Navy admiral[73] |
Wacław Jędrzejewicz | 1893–1993 | 100 | Polish Land Forces officer, diplomat and college professor[74] |
Johnny Johnson | 1921–2022 | 101 | British Royal Air Force officer[75] |
Ed Keats | 1915–2019 | 104 | American Navy officer[76][77] |
Hedley Kett | 1913–2014 | 100 | British Royal Navy officer[78] |
Dame Marion Kettlewell | 1914–2016 | 102 | British Naval officer; director of the Wrens (1966–1970)[79] |
Bill King | 1910–2012 | 102 | British Navy officer, yachtsman and author[80] |
Nikolai Kirtok | 1921–2022 | 101 | Ukrainian-born Russian Red Army pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union (1945)[81] |
Franciszek Kornicki | 1916–2017 | 100 | Polish fighter pilot[82][83] |
Hermann von Kuhl | 1856–1958 | 102 | German Army general[84] |
Reidar Kvaal | 1916–2016 | 100 | Norwegian Army officer[85] |
Traute Lafrenz | 1919–2023 | 103 | German-American resistance fighter (White Rose)[86] |
Dean S. Laird | 1921–2022 | 101 | American World War II flying ace[87] |
Geoffrey Langlands | 1917–2019 | 101 | British Army officer; educator[88] |
Phyllis Latour | 1921–2023 | 102 | South African-born New Zealand intelligence officer (SOE)[89] |
Li Guang | 1914–2020 | 106 | Chinese Army major general[90] |
Liu Zhonghua | 1917–2018 | 101 | Chinese Navy admiral[91] |
Georges Loinger | 1910–2018 | 108 | French soldier during World War II[92] |
Lu Zhengcao | 1905–2009 | 104 | Chinese Army general[93] |
Bill Lucas | 1917–2018 | 101 | British RAF officer and Olympic long-distance runner (1948)[94] |
Ian Lyall Grant | 1915–2020 | 104 | British Army general[95] |
Stanisław Maczek | 1892–1994 | 102 | Polish Army general[96] |
Branko Mamula | 1921–2021 | 100 | Yugoslav army officer and politician[97] |
John Manners | 1914–2020 | 105 | British Royal Navy officer and first-class cricketer[98] |
Leroy J. Manor | 1921–2021 | 100 | American American Air Force lieutenant general, joint commander of Operation Ivory Coast[99] |
Roy Matsumoto | 1913–2014 | 101 | American Army officer[100] |
Kenneth Mayhew | 1917–2021 | 104 | British Army officer; recipient of the Military Order of William[101] |
William V. McBride | 1922–2022 | 100 | American Air Force general[102] |
Seth J. McKee | 1916–2016 | 100 | American Air Force general[103] |
Vasily Michurin | 1916–2021 | 105 | Soviet World War II veteran, last surviving person to receive the Hero of the Soviet Union before the Great Patriotic War.[104] |
James Megellas | 1917–2020 | 103 | American Army officer[105] |
Sanford K. Moats | 1921–2023 | 102 | American Air Force officer and WWII flying ace[106] |
Masaichi Niimi | 1887–1993 | 106 | Japanese Navy admiral[107] |
Paul R. Norby | 1913–2015 | 102 | American Navy officer[108] |
Francis W. Nye | 1918–2019 | 100 | American Air Force major general[109] |
Sir Henry Oliver | 1865–1965 | 100 | British Admiral of the Fleet[110] |
Stylianos Pattakos | 1912–2016 | 103 | Greek military officer and politician, member of the Greek junta[111] |
Frederick R. Payne Jr. | 1911–2015 | 104 | American Marine Corps officer[17][112][113] |
Thomas Pearson | 1914–2019 | 105 | British Army general[113] |
Erich Priebke | 1913–2013 | 100 | German Nazi SS captain and war criminal[114] |
Yitzhak Pundak | 1913–2017 | 104 | Israeli general (also diplomat and politician)[115] |
Mary Louise Rasmuson | 1911–2012 | 101 | American Army officer; director, Women's Army Corps[116] |
Vasily Reshetnikov | 1919–2023 | 103 | Soviet colonel-general of aviation, Hero of the Soviet Union[117] |
David C. Richardson | 1914–2015 | 101 | American Navy officer[118] |
Edward Rowny | 1917–2017 | 100 | American Army officer[119] |
Paul Royle | 1914–2015 | 101 | Australian Royal Air Force pilot[120] |
Heinrich Ruhl | 1915–2015 | 100 | German Army officer[121] |
Mary Rundle | 1907–2010 | 103 | English superintendent of the Women's Royal Naval Service[122] |
Du Runsheng | 1913–2015 | 102 | Chinese military officer and agricultural reformer[123] |
Mike Sadler | 1920–2023 | 103 | British Army officer, last original member of the Special Air Service[124] |
Miguel Ángel Sanz Bocos | 1918–2018 | 100 | Spanish Army officer and aviator[125] |
Helmuth Schlömer | 1893–1995 | 102 | German Army general[126] |
Dave Severance | 1919–2021 | 102 | American Marine Corps colonel, who led the company responsible for raising the flag on Iwo Jima[127] |
Dawn Seymour | 1917–2017 | 100 | American Women Airforce Service Pilot and activist[128] |
Surindra Nath Sharma | 1923– | 100 | Indian Army general.[129] |
John K. Singlaub | 1921–2022 | 100 | American general[130] |
Ralph C. Smith | 1893–1998 | 104 | American major general[131] |
Sergey Leonidovich Sokolov | 1911–2012 | 101 | Marshal of the Soviet Union, Hero of the Soviet Union and Soviet Minister of Defence[132] |
Deryck Stapleton | 1918–2018 | 100 | British Royal Air Force Air Marshal[133] |
Guy Stern | 1922–2023 | 101 | German-American decorated member of the Ritchie Boys[134][135] |
Dorothy C. Stratton | 1899–2006 | 107 | American SPARS director[136] |
Elliott B. Strauss | 1903–2003 | 100 | American Navy rear admiral |
Sun Yuanliang | 1904–2007 | 103 | Chinese National Revolutionary Army general[137] |
Teiichi Suzuki | 1888–1989 | 100 | Japanese lieutenant general[138] |
Josef Schütz | 1920–2023 | 102 | Lithuanian-born German Nazi concentration camp guard[139] |
Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski | 1917–2018 | 101 | Polish brigadier general[140] |
Arsène Tchakarian | 1916–2018 | 101 | Armenian-born French resistance fighter (FTP-MOI) and historian[141] |
Connell Thode | 1911–2014 | 103 | New Zealand Naval officer[142] |
Andrey Titenko | 1918–2022 | 103 | Soviet soldier, Hero of the Soviet Union (1945)[143] |
Dan Tolkowsky | 1921– | 103 | Israeli Air Force officer[144] |
Necdet Üruğ | 1921–2021 | 100 | Turkish military officer, chief of the General Staff (1983–1987), commander of the First Army (1978–1981) and Land Forces (1983)[145] |
Ivan Ustinov | 1920–2020 | 100 | Soviet lieutenant general[146] |
James Van Fleet | 1892–1992 | 100 | American Army general[147] |
Neil D. Van Sickle | 1915–2019 | 104 | American Air Force general[148] |
Ronald R. Van Stockum | 1916–2022 | 105 | American Marine brigadier general, who commanded Marine Corps Reserve.[149] |
Telmo Vargas | 1912–2013 | 100 | Ecuadorian general (Chief of Staff)[150] |
Thomas Franklin Vaughns | 1920– | 103 | American pilot and member of the Tuskegee Airmen[151] |
Zisis Verros | 1880–1985 | 104 | Greek chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle; recipient of the Black Emblem of the Macedonian Struggle[152] |
Eugene Vielle | 1913–2015 | 101 | British Royal Air Force officer[153] |
Võ Nguyên Giáp | 1911–2013 | 102 | Vietnamese general and Minister of Defence[154] |
Herbert Wahler | 1921– | 102 | German Einsatzgruppe C member.[155] |
Sir Hereward Wake, 14th Baronet | 1916–2017 | 101 | British Army officer[156] |
Sir Provo Wallis | 1791–1892 | 100 | British Admiral of the Fleet[157] |
Wan Haifeng | 1920–2023 | 102 | Chinese general[158] |
Ralph Weymouth | 1917-2020 | 102 | American Vice Admiral[159] |
Neville Wigram, 2nd Baron Wigram | 1915–2017 | 101 | British Army Major[160] |
D. B. H. Wildish | 1914–2017 | 102 | British Royal Navy officer[161] |
Gus Winckel | 1912–2013 | 100 | Dutch military officer and pilot[162] |
Xiao Ke | 1907–2008 | 101 | Chinese general[163] |
Xue Yue | 1896–1998 | 101 | Chinese general[164] |
Yang Yongsong | 1919–2022 | 103 | Chinese military officer[165] |
Dov Yermiya | 1914–2016 | 101 | Israeli lieutenant-colonel in the Israeli Defence Forces[166] |
Zhang Xueliang | 1901–2001 | 100 | Chinese general[167] |
Zhang Zhen | 1914–2015 | 100 | Chinese general[168] |
Nikolai Zhugan | 1917–2017 | 100 | Soviet Air Force major general[169] |