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

The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as educators, school administrators, social scientists, and linguists – known for reasons other than their longevity

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Name	Lifespan	Age	Notability
Vasily Abaev Vasily Abaev Vaso Ivanovich Abaev was an ethnically Ossetian Soviet linguist specializing in Ossetian and Iranian linguistics. He was born in Kobi, Georgia, Russian Empire....	1900–2001	100	Ossetian Ossetians The Ossetians are an Iranic ethnic group of the Caucasus Mountains, eponymous of the region known as Ossetia.They speak Ossetic, an Iranian language of the Eastern branch, with most also fluent in Russian as a second language.... linguist and philologist
Henry Angus Henry Angus Henry Forbes Angus, was a Canadian lawyer and academic.Born in Victoria, British Columbia, he received a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University in 1911. He received a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Civil Law from Oxford University in 1914. He was awarded the Vinerian Scholarship. He fought...	1891–1991	100	Canadian educator, lawyer Lawyer A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political... and administrator
John Haden Badley John Haden Badley John Haden Badley , author, educator, and founder of Bedales School, which claims to have become the first coeducational public boarding school in England in 1893....	1865–1967	102	English educator and founder of the Bedales School Bedales School Bedales School is a co-educational independent school situated in Hampshire, in the south east of England. Founded in 1893 by John Haden Badley in reaction to the limitations of conventional Victorian schools, today the school is one of the most expensive in the UK, charging £9,985 per term for a...
Ann Barzel Ann Barzel Ann Barzel was an American writer, critic and lecturer on dance.In 1920, Barzel moved to Chicago. Her first Chicago dance teachers were Mark Turbyfill and Adolph Bolm. From about 1931 to 1943, Barzel performed as a dancer...	1905–2007	101	American writer, critic and lecturer on dance
Henri Baruk Henri Baruk Henri Baruk was a French neuropsychiatrist of Jewish descent, an apostle of moral psychiatry, whose studies have been used to advance concepts such as Marxism and other liberal movements of the 1960s.-Biography:Baruk spent his childhood among patients at the Lesvellec's Asylum where his father,...	1897–1999	101	French neuropsychiatrist Neuropsychiatry Neuropsychiatry is the branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders attributable to diseases of the nervous system. It preceded the current disciplines of psychiatry and neurology, in as much as psychiatrists and neurologists had a common training....
Jacques Barzun Jacques Barzun Jacques Martin Barzun is a French-born American historian of ideas and culture. He has written on a wide range of topics, but is perhaps best known as a philosopher of education, his Teacher in America being a strong influence on post-WWII training of schoolteachers in the United...	1907 –		American historian
Giuliano Bonfante Giuliano Bonfante Giuliano Bonfante was an Italian linguistics scholar and expert on the language of the Etruscans and other Italic peoples. He was professor of linguistics at the University of Turin.Bonfante was born in Milan...	1904–2005	101	Italian linguistics Linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context.... expert
Louise Marion Bosworth Louise Marion Bosworth Louise Marion Bosworth was an American researcher at the Women's Educational and Industrial Union who extensively surveyed working women in order to learn about their working and living conditions...	1881–1982	101	American social scientist
Hallie Quinn Brown Hallie Quinn Brown Hallie Quinn Brown was an African American educator, writer and activist.-Biography:Brown was born March 10, 1850 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, one of six children. Her parents Frances Jane Scroggins and Thomas Arthur Brown were freed slaves. She attended Wilberforce University in Ohio, gaining a...	1849–1949	100	African American educator and writer
June Buchanan June Buchanan June Buchanan was an American educator and the co-founder of Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes, Kentucky.-Early life:...	1887-1988	100	American co-founder of Alice Lloyd College Alice Lloyd College Alice Lloyd College is a four-year liberal arts work college in Pippa Passes, Kentucky. It was co-founded by the journalist Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd, a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts and June Buchanan, a native of New York City, in 1923, at first under the name of Caney Junior College, as an...
Ambrose Burke Ambrose Burke Monsignor Ambrose J. Burke was an English professor and Catholic priest who served as the eighth president of Saint Ambrose University from 1940 through 1956...	1895–1998	102	American President of Saint Ambrose University Saint Ambrose University St. Ambrose University is a private, coeducational, liberal arts university affiliated with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport. It is located in a residential area of Davenport, Iowa.-History:...
Elizabeth Campbell Elizabeth Campbell Elizabeth Pfohl Campbell was one of the first and most prominent public television pioneers in the United States...	1902–2004	101	American public broadcasting Public broadcasting Public broadcasting includes radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service. Public broadcasters receive funding from diverse sources including license fees, individual contributions, public financing and commercial financing.Public broadcasting may be... pioneer and educator
Chen Han-seng Chen Han-seng Chen Han-seng was a Chinese sociologist and considered a pioneer of modern Chinese social science, and also a member of legendary Soviet master-spy Richard Sorge's Tokyo ring;He was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu...	1897–2004	107	Chinese sociologist and economist
Thomas D. Clark Thomas D. Clark Thomas Dionysius Clark was perhaps Kentucky's most notable historian. Clark saved from destruction a large portion of Kentucky's printed history, which later become a core body of documents in the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives...	1903–2005	101	American historian
Ronald Coase Ronald Coase Ronald Harry Coase is a British-born, American-based economist and the Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago Law School. After studying with the University of London External Programme in 1927–29, Coase entered the London School of Economics, where he took...	1910 –		British economist (Nobel laureate Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics, but officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel , is an award for outstanding contributions to the field of economics, generally regarded as one of the... )
Stanwood Cobb Stanwood Cobb Stanwood Cobb was an American educator, author and prominent Bahá'í of the 20th century.He was born in Newton, Massachusetts to Darius Cobb - a Civil War soldier, artist and descendent of Elder Henry Cobb of the second voyage of the Mayflower - and Eunice Hale - founding president of the Ladies...	1881–1982	101	American Bahá'í Bahá'í Faith The Bahá'í Faith is a monotheistic religion founded by Bahá'u'lláh in 19th-century Persia, emphasizing the spiritual unity of all humankind. There are an estimated five to six million Bahá'ís around the world in more than 200 countries and territories.... educator and author
Anna J. Cooper Anna J. Cooper Anna Julia Haywood Cooper was an author, educator, speaker and one of the most prominent African American scholars in United States history. Upon receiving her Ph.D in history from the University of Paris-Sorbonne in 1924, Cooper became the fourth African American woman to earn a doctoral degree...	1858–1964	105	African American educator and civil rights advocate
Nellie Dale Nellie Dale Ellen "Nellie" Dale was a British school teacher who created one of the earliest books on teaching reading....	1865–1967	102	British educator
Julia Davis Julia Davis (educator) Dr. Julia Davis was an African-American women who for more than 60 years served as an educational force in St. Louis.-About Dr. Julia Davis:...	1891–1993	101	African American educator
P. C. Devassia P. C. Devassia Plakil Chacko Devassia, often known as P. C. Devassia , was a Sanskrit scholar and poet from Kerala, India. In 1980 he won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit for his poem Kristubhagavatam.-Notes:...	1906–2006	100	Indian Sanskrit scholar and poet
Aaron Director Aaron Director Aaron Director , a celebrated professor at the University of Chicago Law School, played a central role in the development of the Chicago school of economics...	1901–2004	102	Ukrainian-American professor
Murray Barnson Emeneau Murray Barnson Emeneau Murray Barnson Emeneau was an emeritus professor and founder of the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.-Early life and education:...	1904–2005	101	American linguist
Leopold Engleitner Leopold Engleitner Leopold Engleitner is a Holocaust survivor and conscientious objector who speaks publicly on his experiences with students. He is the subject of the documentary Unbroken Will...	1905 –		Austrian lecturer, oldest survivor of Buchenwald Buchenwald concentration camp Buchenwald concentration camp was a German Nazi concentration camp established on the Ettersberg near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937, one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps on German soil.Camp prisoners from all over Europe and Russia—Jews, non-Jewish Poles and Slovenes,... , Niederhagen and Ravensbrück Ravensbrück concentration camp Ravensbrück was a notorious women's concentration camp during World War II, located in northern Germany, 90 km north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück .... concentration camps Nazi concentration camps Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps throughout the territories it controlled. The first Nazi concentration camps set up in Germany were greatly expanded after the Reichstag fire of 1933, and were intended to hold political prisoners and opponents of the regime...
Marie de Garis Marie de Garis Marie de Garis , MBE was a Guernsey author and lexicographer, who wrote the Dictiounnaire Angllais-Guernésiais , the first edition of which was published in 1967. This new work largely superseded George Métivier's Dictionnaire Franco-Normand. She published Folklore of Guernsey and the...	1910–2010	100	Guernsey Guernsey Guernsey, officially the Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British Crown dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.The Bailiwick, as a governing entity, embraces not only all 10 parishes on the Island of Guernsey, but also the islands of Herm, Jethou, Burhou, and Lihou and their islet... ian lexicographer Lexicography Lexicography is divided into two related disciplines:*Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries....
Jules Gros Jules Gros Jules Gros, Jul Marcel Gros was a Breton linguist specializing in popular language. He was born in Paris.Gros' collecting, from his grandmother and other people in his village of Lokémo, began very early at beginning of the twentieth century. At this time there were still unilingual Breton speakers...	1890–1992	102	Breton Brittany Brittany is a cultural and administrative region in the north-west of France. Previously a kingdom and then a duchy, Brittany was united to the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province. Brittany has also been referred to as Less, Lesser or Little Britain... linguist
Luther Gulick Luther Gulick (social scientist) -Life:Luther Halsey Gulick was born January 17, 1892 in Osaka, Japan.His father was congregationalist missionary Sidney Lewis Gulick and his mother was Clara May Gulick. He shared his name with his grandfather, missionary Luther Halsey Gulick Sr. , and uncle physician Luther Halsey Gulick Jr....	1892–1993	100	American social scientist
Bertrand Hallward Bertrand Hallward Bertrand Hallward was the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham.Hallward was a pupil at Haileybury College, an undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge and a Classics don at Peterhouse, Cambridge prior to becoming headmaster of Clifton College...	1901–2003	102	British first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public research university based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, with further campuses in Ningbo, China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...
Fletcher Hodges Jr. Fletcher Hodges Jr. Fletcher Hodges, Jr. was a leading American expert on the music of Stephen Collins Foster, who was known as the "father of American music."...	1905–2006	100	American expert on the music of Stephen Foster Stephen Foster Stephen Collins Foster , known as the "father of American music", was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century...
Emily Howland Emily Howland Emily Howland was a philanthropist and educator. An active abolitionist, Howland taught at Normal School for Colored Girls in Washington, D.C. from 1857 to 1859. During the Civil War she worked in Arlington, Virginia teaching freed slaves to read and write as well as administering to the sick...	1827–1929	101	American philanthropist and educator
Jaroslav Kozlík Jaroslav Kozlík Jaroslav Kozlík is a Czech pedagogue, theorist of pedagogy, senior member of Sokol, pioneer of Volleyball in Czechoslovakia, and former Czechoslovak Volleyball champion. He was born in Bystřice pod Hostýnem. Kozlík is an author of 30 books and over 300 articles, mostly devoted to theory of...	1907 –		Czech reformer of physical education
Emmanuel Kriaras Emmanuel Kriaras Emmanuel G Kriaras is a Greek lexicographer and philologist, he is Emeritus Professor of the School of Philosophy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki...	1906 –		Greek lexicographer
Hasan Karmi Hasan Karmi Hasan Sa'id Karmi was a distinguished Palestinian linguist, broadcaster, and scholar.Hasan Karmi was born in Tulkarem, Palestine. The son of an eminent shari'a court judge, Sheikh Sa'id al-Karmi, Karmi studied in a local Qur'anic school and later attended English College in Jerusalem...	1905–2007	101	Palestinian linguist, broadcaster and scholar
Hans Kurath Hans Kurath Hans Kurath was an American linguist of Austrian origin. He was full professor for English and Linguistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor...	1891–1992	100	Austrian-American linguist
Countess Karolina Lanckorońska Countess Karolina Lanckoronska Countess Karolina Maria Adelajda Franciszka Ksawera Małgorzata Edina Lanckorońska was a Polish World War II resistance fighter, historian and art historian.-Life:...	1898–2002	104	Polish art historian and writer
Harold Lawton Harold Lawton Professor Harold Lawton was a scholar of French literature and, prior to his death, one of the last surviving veterans of World War I in Britain....	1899–2005	106	British scholar of French literature
Wolf Leslau Wolf Leslau Wolf Leslau ]] November 18, 2006) was a scholar of Semitic languages and one of the foremost authorities on Semitic languages of Ethiopia.-Youth and Education:Leslau was born in Krzepice, a small town near Częstochowa, Poland...	1906–2006	100	American leading scholar on Ethiopian languages and culture
Claude Lévi-Strauss Claude Lévi-Strauss Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, and has been called, along with James George Frazer, the "father of modern anthropology"....	1908–2009	100	French anthropologist
Adolph Lowe Adolph Lowe Adolph Lowe born Adolf Löwe was a German sociologist and economist.- Major publications of Adolph Lowe :*Arbeitslosigkeit und Kriminalität, 1914....	1893–1995	102	German sociologist Sociology Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity... and economist
Seymour Lubetzky Seymour Lubetzky Seymour Lubetzky was a major cataloging theorist and a prominent librarian. Born in Belarus as Shmaryahu Lubetzky, he worked for years at the Library of Congress. He worked as a teacher before he immigrated to the United States in 1927. He earned his BA from UCLA in 1931, and his MA from UC...	1898–2003	104	Belarussian-American librarian Librarian A librarian is an information professional trained in library and information science, which is the organization and management of information services or materials for those with information needs...
Ernest Manheim Ernest Manheim Ernest Manheim was an US sociologist, anthropologist and composer born in Hungary, at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire....	1900–2002	102	American sociologist, anthropologist and composer Composer A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
Henry Evans Maude Henry Evans Maude Henry "Harry" Evans Maude, OBE was a British civil servant and anthropologist. He was the husband of Honor Maude.Harry Maude was born 1 October 1906, in Bankipore, India....	1906–2006	100	British anthropologist
Eduardo Morales Miranda Eduardo Morales Miranda Eduardo Morales Miranda was one of the founders of Universidad Austral de Chile, and its first rector. He was born to Abdón Morales and Amelia Miranda, who lived in Constitución, Maule Region, Chile...	1910 –		Chilean founder of the Southern University of Chile
John Morton-Finney John Morton-Finney John Morton-Finney, was a civil rights activist, lawyer and educator. He was born in Indiana. He served in World War I as a Buffalo Soldier . He earned his law degree in 1911 and practiced law until he was 106, a period of nearly 85 years...	1889–1998	108	African American civil rights activist and lawyer
Xue Muqiao Xue Muqiao Xue Muqiao was a Chinese economist. He was instrumental in introducing and implementing economic reforms that transformed China into a market economy....	1904–2005	100	Chinese economist
Benzion Netanyahu Benzion Netanyahu Benzion Netanyahu is an Israeli historian and a professor emeritus at Cornell University. He is a specialist in the golden age of Jewish History in Spain, and is known for his opus, the Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain...	1910 –		Polish-born Israeli historian
Dorothy Nyswander Dorothy Nyswander Dorothy Bird Nyswander , was an American health educator. She graduated with masters and bachelors degrees from the University of Nevada and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. She is considered the Mother of Health education.-Professional life and vision:Her career...	1894–1998	104	American health educator and advocate
Norman Porteous	1898–2003	104	British Dean at the University of Edinburgh University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a public research university located in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city, with many of the buildings in the historic Old Town belonging to the university...
Eva Gabriele Reichmann Eva Gabriele Reichmann Eva Gabriele Reichmann was an eminent German historian and sociologist. From 1945 on she became famous for her research on anti-Semitism. Reichmann was Jewish.-Life:...	1897–1998	101	German historian and sociologist
Laban Lacy Rice Laban Lacy Rice Laban Lacy Rice was an educator, author, and President of Cumberland University.He was born in Dixon, Kentucky to Laban Marchbanks Rice, a Confederate veteran and prominent tobacco merchant, and his wife Martha Lacy. He was an older brother of the poet Cale Young Rice...	1870–1973	102	American educator, President of Cumberland University Cumberland University Cumberland University is a private university in Lebanon, Tennessee, United States. It was founded in 1842, though the current campus buildings were constructed between 1892 and 1896.-History:...
Louise Rosenblatt Louise Rosenblatt Louise Michelle Rosenblatt was an American university professor. She is best-known as a researcher into the teaching of literature.-Biography:...	1904–2005	100	American literary critic and scholar
Ole Mørk Sandvik Ole Mørk Sandvik Ole Mørk Sandvik was a Norwegian educator, musicologist and folk-song collector.-Early life:He was born on the island Helgøya as a son of school inspector Paul Knutsen Barstad Sandvik and his wife Nikoline Petrine Mørk . His parents hailed from Ørsta and Volda...	1875-1976	101	Norwegian musicologist Musicology Musicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture...
Raymond J. Saulnier Raymond J. Saulnier Raymond Joseph Saulnier was an American economist, who was Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1956 to 1961 under President Dwight David Eisenhower. He was born in Hamilton, Massachusetts....	1908–2009	100	American Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Council of Economic Advisers The Council of Economic Advisers is an agency within the Executive Office of the President that advises the President of the United States on economic policy...
Laura Scales	1879–1990	110	American Dean at Smith College Smith College Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. It is the largest member of the Seven Sisters...
Akaki Shanidze Akaki Shanidze Akaki Shanidze was a Georgian linguist and philologist. He was one of the founders of the Tbilisi State University and Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences ; Doctor of Philological Sciences , Professor .Shanidze graduated from the St. Petersburg University in 1909...	1887–1987	100	Georgian Georgia (country) Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of... linguist and philologist
Peter J. Shields Peter J. Shields Peter J. Shields is best known for his contributions leading to the establishment of the University of California, Davis, beginning in 1908 as the University Farm. The main library of UC Davis, Shields Library, is named in honor of Peter J. Shields.-External links:**...	1862–1962	100	American who helped establish the University of California, Davis University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment...
Silvio Zavala Silvio Zavala Silvio Arturo Zavala Vallado is a pioneer in law history studies and Mexico’s institutions. Born in Mérida, Yucatán, he studied at the National University of Mexico and at the University of Madrid, obtaining a Ph.D. in law from the latter...	1909 –		Mexican historian
Władysław Żeleński	1903–2006	102	Polish lawyer, historian and publicist
Zhou Youguang Zhou Youguang Zhou Youguang is a Chinese linguist who is often credited as the "father of Hanyu Pinyin", the official romanization for Mandarin in the People's Republic of China. He was born in Changzhou.-Education and early career:...	1906 –		Chinese linguist and father of Pinyin Pinyin Pinyin is the official system to transcribe Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet in China, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. It is also often used to teach Mandarin Chinese and spell Chinese names in foreign publications and used as an input method to enter Chinese characters into...

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