# List of centenarians (engineers, mathematicians and scientists)

The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as scientists and mathematicians – known for reasons other than their longevity. For more lists, see lists of centenarians.
| Name | Lifespan | Age | Notability |
| Charles Greeley Abbot | 1872–1973 | 101 | American astronomer and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution |
| Fred Aftalion | 1922–2022 | 100 | French chemical engineer |
| Saleh Ajeery | 1920–2022 | 101 | Kuwaiti astronomer |
| Horace Alexander | 1889–1989 | 100 | British biologist and ornithologist |
| Doris Twitchell Allen | 1901–2002 | 100 | American psychologist and founder of Children's International Summer Villages |
| Franz Alt | 1910–2011 | 100 | Austrian mathematician |
| Heinz Ansbacher | 1904–2006 | 101 | German-American psychologist |
| Guacolda Antoine Lazzerini | 1908–2015 | 107 | Chilean mathematician and educator |
| Rudolf Arnheim | 1904–2007 | 102 | German psychologist of visual perception |
| Ira Baldwin | 1895–1999 | 103 | American bacteriologist and educator |
| David Bannett | 1921–2022 | 100 | Israeli-American electrical engineer |
| Paddy Bassett | 1918–2019 | 101 | New Zealand agricultural scientist |
| Preston Bassett | 1892–1992 | 100 | American inventor and aeronautics pioneer |
| Henry Beachell | 1906–2006 | 100 | American developer of "miracle rice" |
| Wilfried de Beauclair | 1912–2020 | 108 | Swiss-born German engineer and computer scientist |
| Arnold Orville Beckman | 1900–2004 | 104 | American chemist and businessman who founded Beckman Instruments |
| Bei Shizhang | 1903–2009 | 106 | Chinese biologist and educator |
| Julia Bell | 1879–1979 | 100 | British human geneticist |
| Harry Benjamin | 1885–1986 | 101 | German sexologist |
| Leo Beranek | 1914–2016 | 102 | American acoustical scientist |
| Theodor Bergmann | 1916–2017 | 101 | German agronomist and author |
| Bob Berry | 1916–2018 | 102 | New Zealand dendrologist |
| Adam Bielański | 1912–2016 | 103 | Polish chemist |
| Sidney W. Bijou | 1908–2009 | 100 | American child psychologist |
| Heinz Billing | 1914–2017 | 102 | German physicist and computer scientist |
| Marcel Boiteux | 1922–2023 | 101 | French economist |
| William M. Boothby | 1918–2021 | 102 | American mathematician |
| Winnett Boyd | 1916–2017 | 100 | Canadian engineer |
| Per Vilhelm Brüel | 1915–2015 | 100 | Danish physicist and engineer |
| Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat | 1923–2025 | 101 | French mathematician and physicist |
| Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev | 1859–1962 | 103 | Ukrainian mathematician |
| Margaret Burbidge | 1919–2020 | 100 | British-American astrophysicist |
| Colin Gasking Butler | 1913–2016 | 102 | British entomologist |
| Cai Qirui | 1914–2016 | 102 | Chinese chemist |
| Eugenio Calabi | 1923–2023 | 100 | Italian-American mathematician |
| Pierre Camu | 1923–2023 | 100 | Canadian geographer and civil servant |
| Beatrice de Cardi | 1914–2016 | 102 | British archaeologist |
| Henri Cartan | 1904–2008 | 104 | French mathematician |
| Hung-ta Chang | 1914–2016 | 101 | Chinese botanist and ecologist |
| Chen Jingxiong | 1921–2022 | 100 | Chinese engineer |
| Cheng Kaijia | 1918–2018 | 100 | Chinese nuclear physicist and engineer |
| Georgy Chernov | 1906–2009 | 102 | Russian geologist |
| Michel Eugène Chevreul | 1786–1889 | 102 | French chemist |
| Dame Harriette Chick | 1875–1977 | 102 | British microbiologist, protein scientist and nutritionist |
| Sir Rickard Christophers | 1873–1978 | 104 | British protozoologist |
| Muazzez İlmiye Çığ | 1914–2024 | 110 | Turkish archaeologist |
| Thomas H. Clark | 1893–1996 | 102 | Canadian geologist |
| Seymour S. Cohen | 1917–2018 | 101 | American biochemist |
| H. Basil S. Cooke | 1915–2018 | 102 | Canadian geologist and paleontologist |
| William D. Coolidge | 1873–1975 | 101 | American engineer and developer of the Coolidge tube for production of x-rays |
| Morton Coutts | 1904–2004 | 100 | New Zealand inventor and developer of the continuous fermentation method |
| Ray Crist | 1900–2005 | 105 | American chemist |
| Kathleen Curtis | 1892−1994 | 102 | New Zealand mycologist and first female Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand |
| Max Day | 1915–2017 | 101 | Australian ecologist |
| Sukh Dev | 1923–2024 | 101 | Indian organic chemist |
| Theodor Otto Diener | 1921–2023 | 102 | Swiss-American plant pathologist, discoverer of viroids |
| Nikolay Dollezhal | 1899–2000 | 101 | Russian mechanical engineer |
| Sergio Donadoni | 1914–2015 | 101 | Italian archaeologist |
| William Gould Dow | 1895–1999 | 104 | American scientist and inventor |
| Marion Downs | 1914–2014 | 100 | American audiologist |
| Alicia Dussán de Reichel | 1920–2023 | 102 | Colombian anthropologist |
| Dan Eley | 1914–2015 | 100 | British chemist |
| Frank Ellis | 1905–2006 | 100 | British radiologist |
| Rica Erickson | 1908–2009 | 101 | Australian naturalist |
| Leo Esaki | 1925– | 100 | Japanese physicist |
| Henri Fabre | 1882–1984 | 101 | French aviation pioneer and inventor |
| D. J. Finney | 1917–2018 | 101 | British statistician |
| Sir Raymond Firth | 1901–2002 | 100 | New Zealand anthropologist |
| Edmond H. Fischer | 1920–2021 | 101 | American biochemist and recipient of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Ron Fitch | 1910–2015 | 105 | Australian railroad engineer and executive |
| James C. Floyd | 1914– | 110 | Canadian aerospace engineer |
| Yves Oscar Fortier | 1914–2014 | 100 | Canadian geologist |
| John S. Foster Jr. | 1922– | 102 | American physicist |
| Ronald Martin Foster | 1896–1998 | 101 | American engineer |
| Henry Jacques Gaisman | 1869–1974 | 104 | American philanthropist and inventor |
| Mohammad Hassan Ganji | 1912–2012 | 100 | Iranian meteorologist |
| Augusto Gansser-Biaggi | 1910–2012 | 101 | Swiss geologist |
| Theodore H. Geballe | 1920–2021 | 101 | American physicist |
| Oliver Holmes Gish | 1883–1987 | 103 | American geophysicist |
| Maria Glazovskaya | 1912–2016 | 104 | Russian soil scientist |
| Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch | 1907–2007 | 100 | German-American geneticist |
| Arthur Goddard | 1921–2022 | 101 | English-Australian engineer |
| Maurice Goldhaber | 1911–2011 | 100 | American nuclear physicist |
| David W. Goodall | 1914–2018 | 104 | Australian botanist and ecologist |
| John B. Goodenough | 1922–2023 | 100 | German-American physicist and recipient of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Richard M. Goody | 1921–2023 | 102 | British-American atmospheric physicist |
| Dieter Grau | 1913–2014 | 101 | German rocket scientist |
| Jean-Michel Guilcher | 1914–2017 | 102 | French ethnologist |
| Richard K. Guy | 1916–2020 | 103 | British mathematician |
| Bill Haast | 1910–2011 | 100 | American director of the Miami Serpentarium |
| Viktor Hamburger | 1900–2001 | 100 | German professor and embryologist |
| Alice Hamilton | 1869–1970 | 101 | American toxicologist |
| Michael Heidelberger | 1888–1991 | 103 | American immunologist |
| Rudolf Hell | 1901–2002 | 100 | German inventor |
| Joel Henry Hildebrand | 1881–1983 | 101 | American chemist |
| Polly Hill | 1907–2007 | 100 | American horticulturist |
| Arthur R. von Hippel | 1898–2003 | 105 | German-American physicist and co-developer of radar |
| Dorrit Hoffleit | 1907–2007 | 100 | American research astronomer |
| Albert Hofmann | 1906–2008 | 102 | Swiss discoverer of LSD |
| Bernard Holden | 1908–2012 | 104 | British railway engineer |
| Philip Hollom | 1912–2014 | 102 | British ornithologist |
| Hu Chengzhi | 1917–2018 | 100 | Chinese paleontologist and paleoanthropologist; discoverer of Keichousaurus |
| Holly Hu | 1910–2012 | 102 | Chinese botanist |
| Friedrich Hund | 1896–1997 | 101 | German physicist |
| Harry Huskey | 1916–2017 | 101 | American computer designer |
| Kees de Jager | 1921–2021 | 100 | Dutch astronomer |
| Katherine Johnson | 1918–2020 | 101 | American mathematician, physicist and NASA employee |
| Robert L. Kahn | 1918–2019 | 100 | American social psychologist |
| Alex Karczmar | 1917–2017 | 100 | American neuroscientist |
| Ke Jun | 1917–2017 | 100 | Chinese metallurgist |
| Frances Oldham Kelsey | 1914–2015 | 101 | Canadian-American pharmacologist and physician |
| Ancel Keys | 1904–2004 | 100 | American biologist |
| Isaak Khalatnikov | 1919–2021 | 101 | Soviet and Russian physicist |
| Barys Kit | 1910–2018 | 107 | Belarusian scientist |
| Charles Kittel | 1916–2019 | 102 | American theoretical solid-state physicist. |
| Nathaniel Kleitman | 1895–1999 | 104 | American sleep researcher |
| Paul E. Klopsteg | 1889–1991 | 101 | American physicist |
| Jaap Korevaar | 1923– | 101 | Dutch-American mathematician |
| Frank L. Lambert | 1918–2018 | 100 | American chemist |
| Stanley Leavy | 1915–2016 | 101 | American psychoanalyst |
| Shih-Ying Lee | 1918–2018 | 100 | American engineer, physicist and inventor |
| Jerome F. Lederer | 1902–2004 | 101 | American engineer |
| Inge Lehmann | 1888–1993 | 104 | Danish seismologist |
| Emma Lehmer | 1906–2007 | 100 | Russian-American mathematician |
| Rita Levi-Montalcini | 1909–2012 | 103 | Italian neurologist, recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and senator |
| Paul A. Libby | 1921–2021 | 100 | American fluid dynamicist |
| Edward J. Lofgren | 1914–2016 | 102 | American physicist |
| James Lovelock | 1919–2022 | 103 | British chemist |
| Lu Yuanjiu | 1920–2023 | 103 | Chinese physicist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Engineering |
| August Luebs | 1889–1989 | 100 | American mechanical engineer |
| John Walter Guerrier Lund | 1912–2015 | 102 | British phycologist |
| James Ross MacDonald | 1923–2024 | 101 | American physicist |
| Amaro Macedo | 1914–2014 | 100 | Brazilian botanist |
| Karl Maramorosch | 1915–2016 | 101 | Austrian-born American virologist |
| Rudolph A. Marcus | 1923– | 101 | Canadian-American chemist and recipient of the 1992 Prize in Chemistry |
| Harris Mayer | 1921–2023 | 102 | American physicist (Manhattan Project) |
| Ernst Mayr | 1904–2005 | 100 | German-American biologist |
| John J. McKetta | 1915–2019 | 103 | American chemical engineer |
| Brockway McMillan | 1915–2016 | 101 | American government official and scientist; Director of the National Reconnaissance Office (1963–1965) |
| Rogers McVaugh | 1909–2009 | 100 | American botanist and educator |
| Wilhelm Meise | 1901–2002 | 101 | German ornithologist |
| Foil A. Miller | 1916–2016 | 100 | American chemist |
| William F. Milliken Jr. | 1911–2012 | 101 | American aerospace engineer and racing driver |
| Brenda Milner | 1918– | 106 | Canadian neuroscientist |
| Beatrice Mintz | 1921–2022 | 100 | American embryologist |
| Russell L. Mixter | 1906–2007 | 100 | American biologist |
| Ralph S. Moore | 1907–2009 | 102 | American horticulturalist |
| Walter Munk | 1917–2019 | 101 | American physical oceanographer |
| Margaret Murray | 1863–1963 | 100 | British anthropologist |
| Nellie May Naylor | 1885–1992 | 107 | American chemistry professor |
| Sterling Newberry | 1915–2017 | 101 | American microscopist |
| Sergey Nikolsky | 1905–2012 | 107 | Russian mathematician |
| Georg Nöbeling | 1907–2008 | 100 | German mathematician |
| Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw | 1912–2014 | 101 | British mathematician |
| Antoni Opolski | 1913–2014 | 100 | Polish physicist |
| Nicanor Parra | 1914–2018 | 103 | Chilean mathematician, physicist and poet |
| Borys Paton | 1918–2020 | 101 | Ukrainian metallurgist, chairman of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine since 1962 |
| Ruth Patrick | 1907–2013 | 105 | American limnologist |
| Ralph Pearson | 1919–2022 | 103 | American chemist (HSAB theory) |
| Luboš Perek | 1919–2020 | 101 | Czech astronomer |
| Luigi Poletti | 1864–1967 | 103 | Italian mathematician |
| Pelageia Yakovlevna Polubarinova Kochina | 1899–1999 | 100 | Russian mathematician |
| Martin Pope | 1918–2022 | 103 | American chemist and educator |
| G. Baley Price | 1905–2006 | 101 | American mathematician |
| Maria Matilde Principi | 1915–2017 | 102 | Italian entomologist |
| Elsie Quarterman | 1910–2014 | 103 | American plant ecologist |
| Simon Ramo | 1913–2016 | 103 | American physicist |
| C. R. Rao | 1920–2023 | 102 | Indian-American statistician |
| Karl Rawer | 1913–2018 | 104 | German physicist |
| Ren Xinmin | 1915–2017 | 101 | Chinese rocket scientist |
| Malcolm Renfrew | 1910–2013 | 103 | American chemist |
| Robert Hallowell Richards | 1844–1945 | 100 | American metallurgist |
| Henry Nicholas Ridley | 1855–1956 | 100 | British biologist |
| George Rosenkranz | 1916–2019 | 102 | Hungarian-born Mexican steroid chemist |
| Nancy Sandars | 1914–2015 | 101 | British archaeologist and prehistorian |
| Tadashi Sasaki | 1915–2018 | 102 | Japanese engineer |
| Victor Blanchard Scheffer | 1906–2011 | 104 | American zoologist and author |
| Helmut Schlesinger | 1924–2024 | 100 | German economist |
| Waldo Semon | 1898–1999 | 100 | American chemist |
| Shen Panwen | 1916–2017 | 100 | Chinese chemist |
| Shen Shanjiong | 1917–2021 | 103 | Chinese microbiologist and geneticist |
| Shen Qihan | 1922–2022 | 100 | Chinese geologist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande | 1917–2020 | 102 | Indian mathematician |
| David Shugar | 1915–2015 | 100 | Polish-Canadian physicist |
| Louis Siminovitch | 1920–2021 | 100 | Canadian molecular biologist |
| Robert Simpson | 1912–2014 | 102 | American meteorologist |
| Hobart Muir Smith | 1912–2013 | 100 | American herpetologist |
| Ralph Solecki | 1917–2019 | 101 | American archaeologist |
| Esther Somerfeld-Ziskind | 1901–2002 | 101 | American psychiatry researcher |
| Arnold Spielberg | 1917–2020 | 103 | American electrical engineer |
| Jeremiah Stamler | 1919–2022 | 102 | American scientist |
| Epaminondas Stassinopoulos | 1921–2022 | 101 | German-born American astrophysicist |
| Gerolf Steiner | 1908–2009 | 101 | German professor of zoology |
| Clarence F. Stephens | 1917–2018 | 100 | American mathematician |
| Ralph Randles Stewart | 1890–1993 | 103 | American botanist |
| Dirk Jan Struik | 1894–2000 | 106 | Dutch-born American mathematician |
| Su Buqing (aka Su Bu-Chin) | 1902–2003 | 101 | Chinese mathematician, educator and poet |
| F. William Sunderman | 1898–2003 | 104 | American physician and scientist |
| Ralph Tambs Lyche | 1890–1991 | 100 | Norwegian mathematician |
| Tang Youqi | 1920–2022 | 102 | Chinese physical chemist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Wilmer W. Tanner | 1909–2011 | 101 | American zoologist |
| Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley | 1915–2017 | 102 | British mathematician |
| John Kenneth Terres | 1905–2006 | 100 | American naturalist and author |
| Lise Thiry | 1921–2024 | 102 | Belgian scientist and politician |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson | 1900–2001 | 100 | American classical archaeologist and art historian |
| Peter Thonemann | 1917–2018 | 100 | Australian-born British physicist |
| Georg von Tiesenhausen | 1914–2018 | 104 | German-American rocket scientist |
| Germaine Tillion | 1907–2008 | 100 | French anthropologist |
| Constance Tipper | 1894–1995 | 101 | British metallurgist and crystallographer |
| László Tisza | 1907–2009 | 101 | Hungarian-American physicist |
| Graham Turbott | 1914–2014 | 100 | New Zealand ornithologist and zoologist |
| Victor Vacquier | 1907–2009 | 101 | Russian-American geophysicist |
| Joan Henri van der Waals | 1920–2022 | 102 | Dutch physicist |
| Ruth van Heyningen | 1917–2019 | 102 | British biochemist |
| Gordon John Van Wylen | 1920–2020 | 100 | American physicist and textbook author |
| Leopold Vietoris | 1891–2002 | 110 | Austrian mathematician |
| Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya | 1861–1962 | 100 | Indian engineer |
| Marthe Vogt | 1903–2003 | 100 | German-English neuroscientist |
| Wang Xiji | 1921– | 103 | Chinese aerospace engineer |
| Sir Frederick Warner | 1910–2010 | 100 | British chemical engineer |
| Floyd R. Watson | 1872–1974 | 101 | American physicist and acoustician |
| Walter Francis Willcox | 1861–1964 | 103 | American statistician |
| Evelyn M. Witkin | 1921–2023 | 102 | American geneticist |
| Xu Xurong | 1922–2022 | 100 | Chinese physicist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Yang Chen-Ning | 1922– | 102 | Chinese theoretical physicist and recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Filippo Zappata | 1894–1994 | 100 | Italian aircraft designer and pioneer |
| Zhang Guangdou | 1912–2013 | 101 | Chinese engineer |
| Zhang Tianfu | 1910–2017 | 106 | Chinese agronomist and tea expert |
| Zhang Xingqian | 1921–2022 | 100 | Chinese metal physicist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Zheng Ji | 1900–2010 | 110 | Chinese nutritionist and biochemist |
| Zhuang Qiaosheng | 1916–2022 | 105 | Chinese plant geneticist |