List of centenarians (medical professionals)

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.

  Living
Name Lifespan Age Notability
Elizabeth Bagshaw 1881–1982 100 Canadian physician and director of the first birth control clinic in Canada[1]
Constantin Bălăceanu-Stolnici 1923–2023 100 Romanian neurologist[2][3]
Joseph Barnes 1914–2017 102 Irish physician[4]
Grace Barr-Kumarakulasinghe 1908–2013 104 Sri Lankan pediatrician[5]
Aaron T. Beck 1921–2021 100 American psychiatrist[6]
Myra Bennett 1890–1990 100 Canadian nurse[7]
George Berci 1921–2024 103 Hungarian-American surgeon[8]
Elisabeth Bing 1914–2015 100 German-born American physical therapist[9]
Richard Bing 1909–2010 101 German-born American cardiologist[10]
Wanda Błeńska 1911–2014 103 Polish physician and missionary[11]
Sadie Bonnell 1888–1993 105 British FANY ambulance driver who won the Military Medal[12]
Geraldine Branch 1908–2016 107 American gynaecologist[13]
Clifford Brewer 1913–2017 104 British surgeon[14]
Jacinto Convit 1913–2014 100 Venezuelan epidemiologist[15]
Héctor Croxatto 1908–2010 102 Chilean physiologist[16]
Deng Tietao 1916–2019 102 Chinese physician and academic[17]
Leila Denmark 1898–2012 114 American pediatrician who helped develop the pertussis vaccine[18]
Anthony F. DePalma 1904–2005 100 American orthopedic surgeon; father of film director Brian De Palma[19]
Ian Douglas-Wilson 1912–2013 101 British physician[20]
Carola B. Eisenberg 1917–2021 103 Argentine-American psychiatrist[21]
Joel Elkes 1913–2015 101 Prussian-born American medical researcher[22]
Ephraim Engleman 1911–2015 104 American rheumatologist[23]
Sir Anthony Epstein 1921–2024 102 British pathologist and academic[24]
Emmanuel Evans-Anfom 1919–2021 101 Ghanaian physician, scholar, university administrator and public servant[25]
Gordon S. Fahrni 1887–1995 108 Canadian physician and expert on goitre[26]
Loretta Ford 1920– 103 American nurse and academic[27]
William Frankland 1912–2020 108 British allergist and immunologist[28]
Sir George Godber 1908–2009 100 Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom[29]
Charles Godfrey 1917–2022 104 Canadian physician and politician[30]
Francesc Gras Salas 1921–2022 101 Spanish Ophthalmologist and writer[31]
Walter Guralnick 1916–2017 100 American dentist[32]
Norman Guthkelch 1915–2016 100 British-born American Pediatric neurosurgeon[33]
Philip D'Arcy Hart 1900–2006 106 British epidemiologist[34]
Erich Häßler 1899–2005 106 German pediatrician[35]
Shuntaro Hida 1917–2017 100 Japanese physician[36]
Shigeaki Hinohara 1911–2017 105 Japanese physician[37]
Edward Augustus Holyoke 1728–1829 100 American physician[38]
Howard W. Jones 1910–2015 104 American gynecological surgeon and in vitro fertilization specialist[39]
Keith Jones 1911–2012 100 Australian medical practitioner and surgeon[40]
Mavis Kelsey 1912–2013 101 American internist and clinic founder[41]
David Morris Kern 1909–2013 103 American pharmacist and businessman[42]
Fred Kummerow 1914–2017 102 German-born American physiologist[43]
Martha Kyrle 1917–2017 100 Austrian physician[44]
Ethel Lote 1920–2024 103 British nurse and yoga instructor[45]
Margaret Morgan Lawrence 1914–2019 105 American psychiatrist, first black psychoanalyst in the US[46]
Hannah Myrick 1871–1973 101/102 American superintendent of the New England Hospital for Women and Children[47]
George Nagobads 1921–2023 101 American sports physician[48]
Frances Oldham Kelsey 1914–2015 101 Canadian-born American pharmacologist[49]
Lucy Ozarin 1914–2017 103 American military physician and psychiatrist[50]
Sir Harry Platt, 1st Baronet 1886–1986 100 British orthopaedic surgeon, President of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal College of Surgeons of England[51]
Wanda Półtawska 1921–2023 101 Polish psychiatrist[52]
Ingeborg Rapoport 1912–2017 104 German pediatrician[53]
Paul Rohmer 1876–1977 100 French pediatrician and biologist[54]
Andrew Best Semple 1912–2013 101 British medical officer[55]
Jennie Smillie Robertson 1878–1981 103 Canadian physician, first female surgeon in Canada[56]
Su Hongxi 1915–2018 103 Chinese surgeon[57]
Tang Yuhan 1913–2014 101 Hong Kong oncologist[58]
Eva Tichauer 1918–2018 100 German doctor, author and Holocaust survivor[59]
Stanley M. Truhlsen 1920–2021 101 American ophthalmologist[60]
Howard Tucker 1922– 102 American neurologist[61][62]
Fyodor Uglov 1904–2008 103 Russian surgeon[63]
Agnès-Marie Valois 1914–2018 103 French nun and World War II nurse[64]
Wang Shizhen 1916–2016 100 Chinese nuclear medicine physician[65]
Ken Walker 1924– 100 Canadian obstetrician, gynecologist, and medical columnist[66]
Ellsworth Wareham 1914–2018 104 American cardiothoracic surgeon[67]
P. K. Warrier 1921–2021 100 Indian Ayurveda practitioner[68]
James Whittico Jr. 1915–2018 102 American physician[69]
Esther Wilkins 1916–2016 100 American dentist[70]
Arvo Ylppö 1887–1992 104 Finnish pediatrician[71]

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