# 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. For more lists, see lists of centenarians.
| Name | Lifespan | Age | Notability |
| Daniel Aaron | 1912–2016 | 103 | American academic and author |
| Vasily Abaev | 1900–2001 | 100 | Ossetian linguist and philologist |
| Sophie Aberle | 1896–1996 | 100 | American physician, anthropologist, and nutritionist |
| Thelma Davidson Adair | 1920–2024 | 103 | American educator, writer, activist, and Presbyterian church leader |
| Helen Adolf | 1895–1998 | 102 | Austrian-American linguist and literature scholar |
| Leoncio Afonso | 1916–2017 | 100 | Spanish academic, professor, and geographer |
| Lydia Kaʻonohiponiponiokalani Aholo | 1878–1979 | 101 | Hawai'ian educator |
| Idriz Ajeti | 1917–2019 | 101 | Albanologist, academic and researcher |
| Lewis Akeley | 1861–1961 | 100 | American academic |
| Henry Angus | 1891–1991 | 100 | Canadian educator, lawyer and administrator |
| John Haden Badley | 1865–1967 | 102 | British educator and founder of the Bedales School |
| Thomas Swain Barclay | 1892–1993 | 101 | American academic and Stanford University professor |
| Henri Baruk | 1897–1999 | 101 | French neuropsychiatrist |
| Jacques Barzun | 1907–2012 | 104 | American historian |
| Anne Olivier Bell | 1916–2018 | 102 | British literary editor and art scholar, member of the Monuments Men Brigade |
| Ze'ev Ben-Haim | 1907–2013 | 105 | Israeli linguist and former president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language |
| Martin S. Bergmann | 1913–2014 | 100 | American clinical professor of psychology |
| Giuliano Bonfante | 1904–2005 | 101 | Italian linguistics expert |
| Louise Marion Bosworth | 1881–1982 | 101 | American social scientist |
| Harvie Branscomb | 1894–1998 | 103 | American chancellor of Vanderbilt University |
| Alice Braunlich | 1888–1989 | 101 | American classical philologist |
| Hella Brock | 1919–2020 | 101 | German educator and musicologist |
| Hallie Quinn Brown | 1849–1949 | 100 | African American educator and writer |
| Jerome Bruner | 1915–2016 | 100 | American psychologist |
| June Buchanan | 1887–1988 | 100 | American co-founder of Alice Lloyd College |
| Ambrose Burke | 1895–1998 | 102 | American President of Saint Ambrose University |
| Elizabeth Campbell | 1902–2004 | 101 | American public broadcasting pioneer and educator |
| Chen Han-seng | 1897–2004 | 107 | Chinese sociologist and economist |
| Gabriel Chiramel | 1914–2017 | 102 | Indian educationist and Roman Catholic priest |
| Mary T. Clark | 1913–2014 | 100 | American academic |
| Thomas D. Clark | 1903–2005 | 101 | American historian |
| Ronald Coase | 1910–2013 | 102 | British economist (Nobel laureate) |
| Stanwood Cobb | 1881–1982 | 101 | American Baháʼí educator and author |
| Anna J. Cooper | 1858–1964 | 105 | African-American educator and civil rights advocate |
| Leticia Cossettini | 1904–2004 | 100 | Argentine teacher and pedagogue |
| Isabel Crook | 1915–2023 | 107 | Canadian-British anthropologist |
| Richard N. Current | 1912–2012 | 100 | American historian |
| Nellie Dale | 1865–1967 | 102 | British educator |
| Julia Davis | 1891–1993 | 101 | African American educator |
| Frank A. DeMarco | 1921–2023 | 102 | Italian-born Canadian educator and administrator |
| Peter Demetz | 1922–2024 | 101 | Prague-born American scholar |
| P. C. Devassia | 1906–2006 | 100 | Indian Sanskrit scholar and poet |
| Aaron Director | 1901–2004 | 102 | Ukrainian-American professor |
| Neagu Djuvara | 1916–2018 | 101 | Romanian diplomat and historian |
| Rachel Dror | 1921–2024 | 103 | German-Israeli teacher |
| Isabella Dryden | 1917–2024 | 106 | Canadian educator |
| George Alexander Duncan | 1902–2006 | 103 | Irish economist and academic |
| Alicia Dussán de Reichel | 1920–2023 | 102 | Colombian educator |
| Marianne Eckardt | 1913–2018 | 105 | German-born American psychoanalyst and editor |
| Hein Eersel | 1922–2022 | 100 | Surinamese academic administrator, chancellor of the University of Suriname (1968–1988) |
| Murray Barnson Emeneau | 1904–2005 | 101 | American linguist |
| Leopold Engleitner | 1905–2013 | 107 | Austrian lecturer and Holocaust survivor |
| Fan Xuji | 1914–2015 | 101 | Chinese educator and President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| D. J. Finney | 1917–2018 | 101 | British statistician |
| Eilene Galloway | 1906–2009 | 102 | American space policy expert |
| Marie de Garis | 1910–2010 | 100 | Guernseyian lexicographer |
| Edmund W. Gordon | 1921– | 103 | American psychologist |
| Jules Gros | 1890–1992 | 102 | Breton linguist |
| Luther H. Gulick | 1892–1993 | 100 | American social scientist |
| Daphne Lorraine Gum | 1916–2017 | 101 | Australian pioneer in cerebral palsy care |
| Bertrand Hallward | 1901–2003 | 102 | British first vice-chancellor of the University of Nottingham |
| Judith Hemmendinger | 1923–2024 | 100 | German-born Israeli researcher and author |
| Laurin L. Henry | 1921– | 103 | American academic and researcher |
| Fletcher Hodges Jr. | 1905–2006 | 100 | American expert on the music of Stephen Foster |
| Robert R. Holt | 1917–2024 | 106 | American psychologist, scholar of psychoanalytic theory |
| Olivia Hooker | 1915–2018 | 103 | American psychologist, first African-American woman in the U.S. Coast Guard) |
| Emily Howland | 1827–1929 | 101 | American philanthropist and educator |
| Halil İnalcık | 1916–2016 | 100 | Turkish historian |
| Robert L. Kahn | 1918–2019 | 100 | American psychologist and social scientist |
| Janet Kalven | 1913–2014 | 100 | American educator and writer |
| Hasan Karmi | 1905–2007 | 101 | Palestinian linguist, broadcaster and scholar |
| Alison Kelly | 1913–2016 | 102 | English art historian |
| Anvar Khamei | 1917–2018 | 101 | Iranian sociologist and economist |
| Ferdinand Knobloch | 1916–2018 | 101 | Czech-Canadian psychiatrist |
| Dorothy Knowles | 1906–2010 | 104 | British academic |
| Jaroslav Kozlík | 1907–2012 | 105 | Czech reformer of physical education |
| Emmanuel Kriaras | 1906–2014 | 107 | Greek lexicographer and philologist |
| Hans Kurath | 1891–1992 | 100 | Austrian-American linguist |
| Ernest Kurnow | 1912–2014 | 101 | American business professor |
| B. B. Lal | 1921–2022 | 101 | Indian archaeologist, director general of the ASI (1968–1972) |
| Karolina Lanckorońska | 1898–2002 | 104 | Polish art historian and writer |
| Geoffrey Langlands | 1917–2019 | 101 | British-Pakistani educator and Army Major |
| Margaret Morgan Lawrence | 1914–2019 | 105 | American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst |
| Harold Lawton | 1899–2005 | 106 | British scholar of French literature |
| Anthony Lazzaro | 1921–2021 | 100 | American academic administrator |
| Wolf Leslau | 1906–2006 | 100 | American leading scholar on Ethiopian languages and culture |
| William Leuchtenburg | 1922–2025 | 102 | American historian |
| Claude Lévi-Strauss | 1908–2009 | 100 | Belgian-born French anthropologist |
| Bernard Lewis | 1916–2018 | 101 | British historian of the Middle East |
| María Teresa Linares Savio | 1920–2021 | 100 | Cuban musicologist |
| Charles E. Lindblom | 1917–2018 | 100 | American academic |
| Liu Xuyi | 1913–2018 | 105 | Chinese historian and scholar |
| Adolph Lowe | 1893–1995 | 102 | German sociologist and economist |
| Seymour Lubetzky | 1898–2003 | 104 | Belarusian-American librarian |
| John Harding Lucas | 1920– | 104 | African-American educator and academic administrator, president of Shaw University (1986–1987). |
| Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow | 1921–2024 | 103 | Senegalese educator |
| Eleanor Maccoby | 1917–2018 | 101 | American psychologist |
| Ernest Manheim | 1900–2002 | 102 | American sociologist, anthropologist and composer |
| Leo Marx | 1919–2022 | 102 | American historian |
| Richard B. Mather | 1913–2014 | 101 | Chinese-born American sinologist |
| Henry Evans Maude | 1906–2006 | 100 | British anthropologist |
| E. Gerald Meyer | 1919– | 105 | American Emeritus professor of chemistry |
| Hiroshi Mizuta | 1919–2023 | 103 | Japanese economist and historian, member of the Japan Academy. |
| David O. Moberg | 1922–2023 | 101 | American sociologist |
| Eduardo Morales Miranda | 1910–2012 | 102 | Chilean founder of the Southern University of Chile |
| John Morton-Finney | 1889–1998 | 108 | African American civil rights activist and lawyer |
| Benzion Netanyahu | 1910–2012 | 102 | Polish-born Israeli historian |
| Dorothy Nyswander | 1894–1998 | 104 | American health educator and advocate |
| Rodolfo Oroz | 1895–1997 | 101 | Chilean writer, professor and philologist |
| Maria Isaura Pereira de Queiróz | 1918–2018 | 100 | Brazilian sociologist |
| Sybil Plumlee | 1911–2012 | 100 | American teacher and police officer |
| Frank Popper | 1918–2020 | 102 | Czech-born French-British historian of art and technology, professor and author |
| Norman Porteous | 1898–2003 | 104 | British academic; Dean at the University of Edinburgh |
| Eva Gabriele Reichmann | 1897–1998 | 101 | German historian and sociologist |
| Loren Reid | 1905–2014 | 109 | American educator and author |
| Barbara Reynolds | 1914–2015 | 100 | British scholar of Italian studies |
| Fazlollah Reza | 1915–2019 | 104 | Iranian professor of engineering |
| Laban Lacy Rice | 1870–1973 | 102 | American educator and President of Cumberland University |
| Charles P. Roland | 1918–2022 | 104 | American historian |
| Justus Rosenberg | 1921–2021 | 100 | Polish academic |
| Louise Rosenblatt | 1904–2005 | 100 | American literary critic and scholar |
| María Rostworowski | 1915–2016 | 100 | Peruvian historian |
| Ole Mørk Sandvik | 1875–1976 | 101 | Norwegian musicologist |
| Raymond J. Saulnier | 1908–2009 | 100 | American Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers |
| Laura Scales | 1879–1990 | 110 | American Dean at Smith College |
| Carl Emil Schorske | 1915–2015 | 100 | American cultural historian |
| Robert H. Shaffer | 1915–2017 | 101 | American educator |
| Akaki Shanidze | 1887–1987 | 100 | Georgian linguist and philologist |
| Eleanor Bernert Sheldon | 1920–2021 | 101 | American sociologist, president of the SSRC (1972–1979). |
| Peter Joseph Shields | 1862–1962 | 100 | American judge and activist who helped establish the University of California, Davis |
| Maria Simon | 1918–2022 | 103 | Austrian sociologist |
| Manouchehr Sotoudeh | 1913–2016 | 102 | Iranian geographer and scholar |
| Franz Karl Stanzel | 1923–2023 | 100 | Austrian literary theorist |
| Theodore Stern | 1912–2013 | 100 | American academic, 16th President of the College of Charleston |
| Paul Streeten | 1917–2019 | 101 | Austrian-born British economist and university professor |
| Cornelius Taiwo | 1910–2014 | 103 | Nigerian educator |
| Takeda Kiyoko | 1917–2018 | 100 | Japanese scholar |
| Patrick Lennox Tierney | 1914–2015 | 101 | American Japanologist |
| Mary Tortorich | 1914–2017 | 102 | American voice teacher |
| Tsien Tsuen-hsuin | 1910–2015 | 105 | Chinese-born American sinologist and librarian |
| G. Venkatasubbiah | 1913–2021 | 107 | Indian Kannada language lexicographer |
| Marie Wadley | 1906–2009 | 102 | American co-founder of the Five Civilized Tribes Museum |
| Frøystein Wedervang | 1918–2018 | 100 | Norwegian economist |
| Curt Weibull | 1886–1991 | 105 | Swedish historian |
| T. K. Whitaker | 1916–2017 | 100 | Irish economist |
| Xu Yuanchong | 1921–2021 | 100 | Chinese translator, professor, and scholar |
| Xue Muqiao | 1904–2005 | 100 | Chinese economist |
| Yang Jingnian | 1908–2016 | 107 | Chinese economist and translator |
| Silvio Zavala | 1909–2014 | 105 | Mexican historian |
| Władysław Żeleński | 1903–2006 | 102 | Polish lawyer, historian and publicist |
| Zhou Youguang | 1906–2017 | 111 | Chinese linguist and father of Pinyin |