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 and italicized. For more lists, see lists of centenarians.

Name	Lifespan	Age	Notability
Hassan Alavikia	1910–2013	102	Iranian Army General[1]
Mariano Álvarez	1818–1924	106	Filipino General and President of the Magdiwang[2]
Kurt Andersen	1898–2003	104	German Luftwaffe General[3]
Walter Stratton Anderson	1881–1981	100	American Vice Admiral of the Navy[4]
Stuart Archer	1915–2015	100	British Army Officer; recipient of the George Cross[5]
Aaron Bank	1902–2004	101	American Army Officer; founder of the Special Forces[6]
Bill Bell	1912–2012	100	British Army Officer[7]
Bir Protik Noorjahan Kakon Bibi	1915–2018	102/103	Bangladeshi spy and freedom fighter.[8]
Sir Clarence Bird	1885–1986	101	British Army General[9]
Aleksey Botyan	1917–2020	103	Soviet colonel, spy, partisan and intelligence officer[10]
Aubrey J. Bourgeois	1907–2011	103	American Navy Officer[11]
Waldemar Levy Cardoso	1900–2009	108	Last surviving Brazilian Field Marshal[12]
Robert Carter	1910–2012	102	British Royal Air Force Officer[13]
Sir Philip Christison	1893–1993	100	British Army General[14]
Lewis Combs	1895–1996	101	American Navy Admiral[15]
Michael Lindsay Coulton Crawford	1917–2017	100	British Royal Navy officer and submariner[16]
Susan Ahn Cuddy	1915–2015	100	American Navy Officer; first female gunnery officer in U.S. Navy[17]
Aaron S. Daggett	1837–1938	100	Last surviving Union Army General of the American Civil War
Dai Zijin	1916–2017	101	Chinese Air Force Major[18]
Emma Didlake	1904–2015	111	American soldier (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps)[19]
James W. Downing	1913–2018	104	American Navy Lieutenant[20]
Leo J. Dulacki	1918–2019	100	American Marine Corps lieutenant general[21]
William J. Ely	1911–2017	105	American Army Officer[22]
William A. Enemark	1913–2016	102	American Army Officer[23]
Henry St John Fancourt	1900–2004	103	British Royal Navy Officer[24]
Fang Huai	1917–2019	101	Chinese Army Major General[25]
John William Finn	1909–2010	100	American Navy Officer[26]
James Flint	1913–2013	100	British Royal Air Force Officer and businessman[27]
Dorothy Frooks	1896–1997	101	American author, publisher, military officer, and military lawyer[28]
Robert B. Fulton	1910–2015	104	American Navy Officer[11]
Harry E. Goldsworthy	1914–	106	American Air Force Officer[29]
Amedeo Guillet	1909–2010	101	Italian Army Officer[30]
Julia E. Hamblet	1916–2017	100	American military officer; Director of the Marine Corps Women's Reserve (1946–48) and Director of Women Marines (1953–59)[31]
Reinhard Hardegen	1913–2018	105	German U-boat commander[32]
Sir Cosmo Haskard	1916–2017	100	British Army Officer[33]
Charles D. Herron	1877–1977	100	American Army Lieutenant-General[34]
Sir George Higginson	1826–1927	100	British Army General[35]
Dame Felicity Hill	1915–2019	103	British Royal Air Force officer; Director of the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF; 1966–69)[36]
John L. Hines	1868–1968	100	American General and Chief of Staff of the United States Army[37]
Olivia Hooker	1915–2018	103	American psychologist, professor, soldier (yeoman, first African-American woman in the U.S. Coast Guard).[38]
Frederick Augustus Irving	1894–1995	101	American Army General and West Point Military Academy Superintendent[39]
Albin F. Irzyk	1917–2018	101	American Brigadier General[40]
Richard H. Jackson	1866–1971	105	American Navy Admiral[41]
Wacław Jędrzejewicz	1893–1993	100	Polish Land Forces Officer, diplomat and college professor[42]
Ed Keats	1915–2019	104	American Navy Officer[43][44]
Hedley Kett	1913–2014	100	British Royal Navy Officer[45]
Dame Marion Kettlewell	1914–2016	102	British Naval Officer; Director of the Wrens (1966–1970)[46]
Bill King	1910–2012	102	British Navy Officer, yachtsman and author[47]
Franciszek Kornicki	1916–2017	100	Polish fighter pilot[48][49]
Hermann von Kuhl	1856–1958	102	German Army General[50]
Reidar Kvaal	1916–2016	100	Norwegian Army Officer[51]
Geoffrey Langlands	1917–2019	101	British Army Officer; educator[52]
Liu Zhonghua	1917–2018	101	Chinese Navy Admiral[53]
Georges Loinger	1910–2018	108	French soldier during World War II[54]
Lu Zhengcao	1905–2009	104	Chinese Army General[55]
Bill Lucas	1917–2018	101	British RAF officer and Olympic long-distance runner (1948)[56]
Stanisław Maczek	1892–1994	102	Polish Army General[57]
John Manners	1914–2020	105	British Royal Navy officer and first-class cricketer[58]
Roy Matsumoto	1913–2014	101	American Army Officer[59]
Kenneth Mayhew	1917–	104	British Army Officer; recipient of the Military Order of William[60]
Seth J. McKee	1916–2016	100	American Air Force Officer[61]
James Megellas	1917–2020	103	American Army Officer[62]
Masaichi Niimi	1887–1993	106	Japanese Navy Admiral[63]
Paul R. Norby	1913–2015	102	American Navy Officer[64]
Francis W. Nye	1918–2019	100	American Air Force Major General[65]
Sir Henry Oliver	1865–1965	100	British Admiral of the Fleet[66]
Stylianos Pattakos	1912–2016	103	Greek military officer and politician[67]
Frederick R. Payne Jr.	1911–2015	104	American Marine Corps Officer[11][68][69]
Thomas Pearson	1914–2019	105	British Army general[69]
Erich Priebke	1913–2013	100	German Nazi SS captain and war criminal[70]
Yitzhak Pundak	1913–2017	104	Israeli General (also diplomat and politician)[71]
Mary Louise Rasmuson	1911–2012	101	American Army Officer; director, Women's Army Corps[72]
Vasily Reshetnikov	1919–	101	Soviet Colonel-General of Aviation, Hero of the Soviet Union[73]
David C. Richardson	1914–2015	101	American Navy Officer[74]
Edward Rowny	1917–2017	100	American Army officer[75]
Paul Royle	1914–2015	101	Australian Royal Air Force pilot
Heinrich Ruhl	1915–2015	100	German Army Officer[76]
Mary Rundle	1907–2010	103	English superintendent of the Women's Royal Naval Service[77]
Du Runsheng	1913–2015	102	Chinese military officer and agricultural reformer[78]
Miguel Ángel Sanz Bocos	1918–2018	100	Spanish Army officer and aviator[79]
Helmuth Schlömer	1893–1995	102	German Army General[80]
Dave Severance	1919–	101	American Marine Corps colonel, who led the company responsible for raising the flag on Iwo Jima[81]
Dawn Seymour	1917–2017	100	American Women Airforce Service Pilot and activist[82]
Ralph C. Smith	1893–1998	104	American Major-General[83]
Sergey Leonidovich Sokolov	1911–2012	101	Russian Marshal of the Soviet Union and Soviet Minister of Defence[84]
Deryck Stapleton	1918–2018	100	British Royal Air Force Air Marshal[85]
Dorothy C. Stratton	1899–2006	107	American SPARS director[86]
Elliott B. Strauss	1903–2003	100	American Navy Rear Admiral
Sun Yuanliang	1904–2007	103	Chinese National Revolutionary Army General[87]
Teiichi Suzuki	1888–1989	100	Japanese Lieutenant General[88]
Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski	1917–2018	101	Polish Brigadier General[89]
Arsène Tchakarian	1916–2018	101	Armenian-born French resistance fighter (FTP-MOI) and historian[90]
Connell Thode	1911–2014	103	New Zealand Naval Officer[91]
Ivan Ustinov	1920–2020	100	Soviet Lieutenant General[92]
James Van Fleet	1892–1992	100	American Army General[93]
Neil D. Van Sickle	1915–2019	104	American Air Force general[94]
Ronald R. Van Stockum	1916–	104	American Marine Brigadier general, who commanded Marine Corps Reserve.[95]
Telmo Vargas	1912–2013	100	Ecuadorian General (Chief of Staff)[96]
Zisis Verros	1880–1985	105	Greek chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle; recipient of the Black Emblem of the Macedonian Struggle[97]
Eugene Vielle	1913–2015	101	British Royal Air Force Officer[98]
Võ Nguyên Giáp	1911–2013	102	Vietnamese General and Minister of Defence[99]
Sir Hereward Wake, 14th Baronet	1916–2017	101	British Army officer[100]
Sir Provo Wallis	1791–1892	100	British Admiral of the Fleet[101]
Neville Wigram, 2nd Baron Wigram	1915–2017	101	British Army Major[102]
D. B. H. Wildish	1914–2017	102	British Royal Navy officer[103]
Gus Winckel	1912–2013	100	Dutch military officer and pilot[104]
Xiao Ke	1907–2008	101	Chinese General
Xue Yue	1896–1998	101	Chinese General[105]
Dov Yermiya	1914–2016	101	Israeli lieutenant-colonel in the Israeli Defence Forces[106]
Zhang Xueliang	1901–2001	100	Chinese General[107]
Zhang Zhen	1914–2015	100	Chinese General[108]
Nikolai Zhugan	1917–2017	100	Soviet Air Force Major General[109]

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