# List of centenarians (military commanders and soldiers)

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. For more lists, see lists of centenarians.
| Name | Lifespan | Age | Notability |
| Benjamin H. Adams | 1888–1989 | 100 | American admiral |
| Hassan Alavikia | 1910–2013 | 102 | Iranian Army general |
| Mariano Álvarez | 1818–1924 | 106 | Filipino general and President of the Magdiwang |
| Bud Anderson | 1922–2024 | 102 | American Air Force officer and World War II flying ace |
| Kurt Andersen | 1898–2003 | 104 | German Luftwaffe general |
| Walter Stratton Anderson | 1881–1981 | 100 | American vice admiral of the Navy |
| Stuart Archer | 1915–2015 | 100 | British Army officer; recipient of the George Cross |
| Millie Bailey | 1918–2022 | 104 | American World War II veteran |
| Aaron Bank | 1902–2004 | 101 | American army officer; founder of the Special Forces |
| Russell Bannock | 1919–2020 | 100 | Canadian fighter pilot |
| Bill Bell | 1912–2012 | 100 | British army officer |
| Mikhail Beregovoy | 1918–2021 | 103 | Soviet Air Defence Forces officer |
| Kakon Bibi | 1915–2018 | 102/103 | Bangladeshi spy |
| Sir Clarence Bird | 1885–1986 | 101 | British general |
| William Henry Bisbee | 1840–1942 | 102 | American general |
| Stephen J. Bonner, Jr. | 1918–2021 | 103 | American World War II flying ace |
| Aleksey Botyan | 1917–2020 | 103 | Soviet colonel, spy, partisan and intelligence officer |
| Aubrey J. Bourgeois | 1907–2011 | 103 | American Navy officer |
| Hugo Broch | 1922– | 103 | German World War II flying ace |
| Lady Martha Bruce | 1921–2023 | 101 | British prison governor, Women's Royal Army Corps officer, and aristocrat |
| Colette Brull-Ulmann | 1920–2021 | 101 | French Resistance fighter |
| Robert Cardenas | 1920–2022 | 102 | American Air Force general |
| Waldemar Levy Cardoso | 1900–2009 | 108 | Last surviving Brazilian field marshal |
| Robert Carter | 1910–2012 | 102 | British Royal Air Force officer |
| Dean Caswell | 1922–2022 | 100 | American World War II flying ace |
| Kenneth O. Chilstrom | 1921–2022 | 101 | American air force colonel and test pilot |
| Sir Philip Christison | 1893–1993 | 100 | British general |
| Richard E. Cole | 1915–2019 | 103 | American Air Force officer and last living participant of the Doolittle Raid |
| Lewis Combs | 1895–1996 | 101 | American Navy admiral |
| Daniel Cordier | 1920–2020 | 100 | French Resistance fighter (Compagnon de la Libération) |
| Michael Lindsay Coulton Crawford | 1917–2017 | 100 | British Royal Navy officer and submariner |
| Susan Ahn Cuddy | 1915–2015 | 100 | American Navy officer; first female gunnery officer in U.S. Navy |
| Donald L. Custis | 1917–2021 | 103 | American Navy vice admiral |
| Aaron S. Daggett | 1837–1938 | 100 | Union Army general of the American Civil War |
| Perry J. Dahl | 1923–2024 | 101 | Canadian-born American Air Force officer and World War II flying ace |
| Philippe de Gaulle | 1921–2024 | 102 | French Navy admiral |
| Udey Chand Dubey | 1909–2009 | 100 | Indian Army general |
| Dai Zijin | 1916–2017 | 101 | Chinese Air Force major |
| Emma Didlake | 1904–2015 | 111 | American soldier (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps) |
| James W. Downing | 1913–2018 | 104 | American Navy lieutenant |
| Leo J. Dulacki | 1918–2019 | 100 | American Marine Corps lieutenant general |
| James Francis Edwards | 1921–2022 | 100 | Canadian fighter pilot |
| William J. Ely | 1911–2017 | 105 | American Army officer |
| William A. Enemark | 1913–2016 | 102 | American Army officer |
| Henry St John Fancourt | 1900–2004 | 103 | British Royal Navy officer |
| Fang Huai | 1917–2019 | 101 | Chinese Army major general |
| Hubert Faure | 1914–2021 | 106 | French soldier, Grand Croix of the Legion of Honour recipient |
| Edward L. Feightner | 1919–2020 | 100 | American admiral |
| John William Finn | 1909–2010 | 100 | American Navy officer; Medal of Honor recipient |
| Mario Fiorentini | 1918–2022 | 103 | Italian partisan, spy and mathematician |
| James Flint | 1913–2013 | 100 | British Royal Air Force officer and businessman |
| Dorothy Frooks | 1896–1997 | 101 | American author, publisher, military officer, and military lawyer |
| Robert B. Fulton | 1910–2015 | 104 | American Navy officer |
| John Gonge | 1921– | 103 | American Air Force officer |
| Edward Greer | 1924–2025 | 100 | American army officer |
| Harry E. Goldsworthy | 1914–2022 | 107 | American Air Force officer |
| Amedeo Guillet | 1909–2010 | 101 | Italian Army officer |
| Gail Halvorsen | 1920–2022 | 101 | American Berlin Airlift pilot. |
| Julia E. Hamblet | 1916–2017 | 100 | American military officer |
| Monique Hanotte | 1920–2022 | 101 | Belgian World War II resistance fighter |
| Reinhard Hardegen | 1913–2018 | 105 | German U-boat commander |
| James H. Harvey | 1923– | 101 | American Air Force pilot |
| Sir Cosmo Haskard | 1916–2017 | 100 | British Army officer |
| Bernice Falk Haydu | 1920–2021 | 100 | American aviator and member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots |
| Charles D. Herron | 1877–1977 | 100 | American Army general |
| Sir George Higginson | 1826–1927 | 100 | British general |
| Dame Felicity Hill | 1915–2019 | 103 | British Royal Air Force officer; Director of the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF; 1966–69) |
| John L. Hines | 1868–1968 | 100 | American general and Chief of Staff of the United States Army |
| Mad Mike Hoare | 1919–2020 | 100 | Irish soldier and mercenary |
| James D. Hughes | 1922–2024 | 101 | American Air Force general |
| Frederick Augustus Irving | 1894–1995 | 101 | American Army general and West Point Military Academy Superintendent |
| Albin F. Irzyk | 1917–2018 | 101 | American brigadier general |
| Georgy Vasilyevich Ivanov | 1901–2001 | 100 | Soviet Army major general |
| Richard H. Jackson | 1866–1971 | 105 | American Navy admiral |
| Wacław Jędrzejewicz | 1893–1993 | 100 | Polish Land Forces officer, diplomat and college professor |
| Johnny Johnson | 1921–2022 | 101 | British Royal Air Force officer and last surviving original member of No. 617 Squadron RAF and of Operation Chastise, the "Dambusters" raid of 1943 |
| Ed Keats | 1915–2019 | 104 | American Navy officer |
| Hedley Kett | 1913–2014 | 100 | British Royal Navy officer |
| Dame Marion Kettlewell | 1914–2016 | 102 | British Naval officer; director of the Wrens (1966–1970) |
| Bill King | 1910–2012 | 102 | British Navy officer, yachtsman and author |
| Nikolai Kirtok | 1921–2022 | 101 | Ukrainian-born Russian Red Army pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union (1945) |
| Norman Kleiss | 1916–2016 | 100 | American World War II Navy dive-bomber pilot |
| Roy L. Kline | 1914–2020 | 105 | American Marine brigadier general, served as Military Secretary to the Commandant of the Marine Corps |
| Franciszek Kornicki | 1916–2017 | 100 | Polish fighter pilot |
| Hermann von Kuhl | 1856–1958 | 102 | German Army general |
| Reidar Kvaal | 1916–2016 | 100 | Norwegian Army officer |
| Traute Lafrenz | 1919–2023 | 103 | German-American resistance fighter (White Rose) |
| Dean S. Laird | 1921–2022 | 101 | American World War II flying ace |
| Geoffrey Langlands | 1917–2019 | 101 | British Army officer; educator |
| Phyllis Latour | 1921–2023 | 102 | South African-born New Zealand intelligence officer (SOE) |
| Li Guang | 1914–2020 | 106 | Chinese Army major general |
| Liu Zhonghua | 1917–2018 | 101 | Chinese Navy admiral |
| Georges Loinger | 1910–2018 | 108 | French soldier during World War II |
| Lu Zhengcao | 1905–2009 | 104 | Chinese Army general |
| Ian Lyall Grant | 1915–2020 | 104 | British Army general |
| Stanisław Maczek | 1892–1994 | 102 | Polish Army general |
| Branko Mamula | 1921–2021 | 100 | Yugoslav army officer and politician |
| John Manners | 1914–2020 | 105 | British Royal Navy officer and first-class cricketer |
| Leroy J. Manor | 1921–2021 | 100 | American American Air Force lieutenant general, joint commander of Operation Ivory Coast |
| Ivan Martynushkin | 1924– | 101 | Soviet Army soldier, Auschwitz concentration camp liberator |
| Miloslav Masopust | 1924– | 100 | Czechoslovak Army general |
| Roy Matsumoto | 1913–2014 | 101 | American Army officer |
| Kenneth Mayhew | 1917–2021 | 104 | British Army officer; recipient of the Military Order of William |
| William V. McBride | 1922–2022 | 100 | American Air Force general |
| Charles McGee | 1919–2022 | 102 | American fighter pilot and Tuskegee Airman |
| Seth J. McKee | 1916–2016 | 100 | American Air Force general |
| James Megellas | 1917–2020 | 103 | American Army officer |
| Sanford K. Moats | 1921–2023 | 102 | American Air Force officer and WWII flying ace |
| Masaichi Niimi | 1887–1993 | 106 | Japanese Navy admiral |
| Paul R. Norby | 1913–2015 | 102 | American Navy officer |
| Francis W. Nye | 1918–2019 | 100 | American Air Force major general |
| Sir Henry Oliver | 1865–1965 | 100 | British Admiral of the Fleet |
| Stylianos Pattakos | 1912–2016 | 103 | Greek military officer and politician, member of the Greek junta |
| Frederick R. Payne Jr. | 1911–2015 | 104 | American Marine Corps officer |
| Thomas Pearson | 1914–2019 | 105 | British Army general |
| Paul D. Phillips | 1918–2023 | 105 | American army general |
| Erich Priebke | 1913–2013 | 100 | German Nazi SS captain and war criminal |
| Yitzhak Pundak | 1913–2017 | 104 | Israeli general |
| John C. Raaen Jr. | 1922– | 102 | American major general |
| Mary Louise Rasmuson | 1911–2012 | 101 | American army officer; director, Women's Army Corps |
| Vasily Reshetnikov | 1919–2023 | 103 | Soviet colonel-general of aviation, Hero of the Soviet Union |
| David C. Richardson | 1914–2015 | 101 | American Navy officer |
| Edward Rowny | 1917–2017 | 100 | American Army officer |
| Paul Royle | 1914–2015 | 101 | Australian Royal Air Force pilot |
| Heinrich Ruhl | 1915–2015 | 100 | German Army officer |
| Mary Rundle | 1907–2010 | 103 | English superintendent of the Women's Royal Naval Service |
| Du Runsheng | 1913–2015 | 102 | Chinese military officer and agricultural reformer |
| Mike Sadler | 1920–2023 | 103 | British Army officer, last original member of the Special Air Service |
| Miguel Ángel Sanz Bocos | 1918–2018 | 100 | Spanish Army officer and aviator |
| Helmuth Schlömer | 1893–1995 | 102 | German Army general |
| William Seach | 1877–1978 | 101 | American Medal of Honor recipient from the Boxer Rebellion |
| Dave Severance | 1919–2021 | 102 | American Marine Corps colonel, who led the company responsible for raising the flag on Iwo Jima |
| Dawn Seymour | 1917–2017 | 100 | American Women Airforce Service Pilot and activist |
| Surindra Nath Sharma | 1923– | 101 | Indian Army general |
| John K. Singlaub | 1921–2022 | 100 | American general |
| Ralph C. Smith | 1893–1998 | 104 | American major general |
| Sergei Sokolov | 1911–2012 | 101 | Marshal of the Soviet Union, Hero of the Soviet Union and Soviet Minister of Defence |
| Deryck Stapleton | 1918–2018 | 100 | British Royal Air Force Air Marshal |
| Guy Stern | 1922–2023 | 101 | German-American decorated member of the Ritchie Boys |
| Dorothy C. Stratton | 1899–2006 | 107 | American SPARS director |
| Elliott B. Strauss | 1903–2003 | 100 | American Navy rear admiral |
| Sun Yuanliang | 1904–2007 | 103 | Chinese National Revolutionary Army general |
| Teiichi Suzuki | 1888–1989 | 100 | Japanese lieutenant general |
| Josef Schütz | 1920–2023 | 102 | Lithuanian-born German Nazi concentration camp guard |
| Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski | 1917–2018 | 101 | Polish brigadier general |
| Arsène Tchakarian | 1916–2018 | 101 | Armenian-born French resistance fighter (FTP-MOI) and historian |
| Robert E. Thacker | 1918–2020 | 102 | American test pilot and bomber pilot of three wars |
| Radu Theodoru | 1924– | 101 | Romanian general |
| Connell Thode | 1911–2014 | 103 | New Zealand Naval officer |
| Andrey Titenko | 1918–2022 | 103 | Soviet soldier, Hero of the Soviet Union (1945) |
| Dan Tolkowsky | 1921– | 104 | Israeli Air Force officer |
| Necdet Üruğ | 1921–2021 | 100 | Turkish military officer |
| Ivan Ustinov | 1920–2020 | 100 | Soviet lieutenant general |
| James Van Fleet | 1892–1992 | 100 | American Army general |
| Neil D. Van Sickle | 1915–2019 | 104 | American Air Force general |
| Ronald R. Van Stockum | 1916–2022 | 105 | American Marine brigadier general, who commanded Marine Corps Reserve |
| Telmo Vargas | 1912–2013 | 100 | Ecuadorian general (Chief of Staff) |
| Zisis Verros | 1880–1985 | 104 | Greek chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle; recipient of the Black Emblem of the Macedonian Struggle |
| Eugene Vielle | 1913–2015 | 101 | British Royal Air Force officer |
| Võ Nguyên Giáp | 1911–2013 | 102 | Vietnamese general and Minister of Defence |
| Herbert Wahler | 1921–2023 | 101 | German Einsatzgruppe C member. |
| Sir Hereward Wake, 14th Baronet | 1916–2017 | 101 | British Army officer |
| Sir Provo Wallis | 1791–1892 | 100 | British Admiral of the Fleet |
| Wan Haifeng | 1920–2023 | 102 | Chinese general |
| Ralph Weymouth | 1917–2020 | 102 | American Vice Admiral |
| Neville Wigram, 2nd Baron Wigram | 1915–2017 | 101 | British Army Major |
| D. B. H. Wildish | 1914–2017 | 102 | British Royal Navy officer |
| Gus Winckel | 1912–2013 | 100 | Dutch military officer and pilot |
| Xiao Ke | 1907–2008 | 101 | Chinese general |
| Xue Yue | 1896–1998 | 101 | Chinese general |
| Yang Yongsong | 1919–2022 | 103 | Chinese military officer |
| Dov Yermiya | 1914–2016 | 101 | Israeli lieutenant-colonel in the Israeli Defence Forces |
| Zhang Xueliang | 1901–2001 | 100 | Chinese general |
| Zhang Zhen | 1914–2015 | 100 | Chinese general |
| Nikolai Zhugan | 1917–2017 | 100 | Soviet Air Force major general |