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 Alavikia1910–2013102Iranian Army General[1]
Mariano Álvarez1818–1924106Filipino General and President of the Magdiwang[2]
Kurt Andersen1898–2003104German Luftwaffe General[3]
Walter Stratton Anderson1881–1981100American Vice Admiral of the Navy[4]
Stuart Archer1915–2015100British Army Officer; recipient of the George Cross[5]
Aaron Bank1902–2004101American Army Officer; founder of the Special Forces[6]
Bill Bell1912–2012100British Army Officer[7]
Bir Protik Noorjahan Kakon Bibi1915–2018102/103Bangladeshi spy and freedom fighter.[8]
Sir Clarence Bird1885–1986101British Army General[9]
Aleksey Botyan1917–2020103Soviet colonel, spy, partisan and intelligence officer[10]
Aubrey J. Bourgeois1907–2011103American Navy Officer[11]
Waldemar Levy Cardoso1900–2009108Last surviving Brazilian Field Marshal[12]
Robert Carter1910–2012102British Royal Air Force Officer[13]
Sir Philip Christison1893–1993100British Army General[14]
Lewis Combs1895–1996101American Navy Admiral[15]
Michael Lindsay Coulton Crawford1917–2017100British Royal Navy officer and submariner[16]
Susan Ahn Cuddy1915–2015100American Navy Officer; first female gunnery officer in U.S. Navy[17]
Aaron S. Daggett1837–1938100Last surviving Union Army General of the American Civil War
Dai Zijin1916–2017101Chinese Air Force Major[18]
Emma Didlake1904–2015111American soldier (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps)[19]
James W. Downing1913–2018104American Navy Lieutenant[20]
Leo J. Dulacki1918–2019100American Marine Corps lieutenant general[21]
William J. Ely1911–2017105American Army Officer[22]
William A. Enemark1913–2016102American Army Officer[23]
Henry St John Fancourt1900–2004103British Royal Navy Officer[24]
Fang Huai1917–2019101Chinese Army Major General[25]
John William Finn1909–2010100American Navy Officer[26]
James Flint1913–2013100British Royal Air Force Officer and businessman[27]
Dorothy Frooks1896–1997101American author, publisher, military officer, and military lawyer[28]
Robert B. Fulton1910–2015104American Navy Officer[11]
Harry E. Goldsworthy1914–106American Air Force Officer[29]
Amedeo Guillet1909–2010101Italian Army Officer[30]
Julia E. Hamblet1916–2017100American military officer; Director of the Marine Corps Women's Reserve (1946–48) and Director of Women Marines (1953–59)[31]
Reinhard Hardegen1913–2018105German U-boat commander[32]
Sir Cosmo Haskard1916–2017100British Army Officer[33]
Charles D. Herron1877–1977100American Army Lieutenant-General[34]
Sir George Higginson1826–1927100British Army General[35]
Dame Felicity Hill1915–2019103British Royal Air Force officer; Director of the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF; 1966–69)[36]
John L. Hines1868–1968100American General and Chief of Staff of the United States Army[37]
Olivia Hooker1915–2018103American psychologist, professor, soldier (yeoman, first African-American woman in the U.S. Coast Guard).[38]
Frederick Augustus Irving1894–1995101American Army General and West Point Military Academy Superintendent[39]
Albin F. Irzyk1917–2018101American Brigadier General[40]
Richard H. Jackson1866–1971105American Navy Admiral[41]
Wacław Jędrzejewicz1893–1993100Polish Land Forces Officer, diplomat and college professor[42]
Ed Keats1915–2019104American Navy Officer[43][44]
Hedley Kett1913–2014100British Royal Navy Officer[45]
Dame Marion Kettlewell1914–2016102British Naval Officer; Director of the Wrens (1966–1970)[46]
Bill King1910–2012102British Navy Officer, yachtsman and author[47]
Franciszek Kornicki1916–2017100Polish fighter pilot[48][49]
Hermann von Kuhl1856–1958102German Army General[50]
Reidar Kvaal1916–2016100Norwegian Army Officer[51]
Geoffrey Langlands1917–2019101British Army Officer; educator[52]
Liu Zhonghua1917–2018101Chinese Navy Admiral[53]
Georges Loinger 1910–2018 108 French soldier during World War II[54]
Lu Zhengcao1905–2009104Chinese Army General[55]
Bill Lucas1917–2018101British RAF officer and Olympic long-distance runner (1948)[56]
Stanisław Maczek1892–1994102Polish Army General[57]
John Manners1914–2020105British Royal Navy officer and first-class cricketer[58]
Roy Matsumoto1913–2014101American Army Officer[59]
Kenneth Mayhew1917–104British Army Officer; recipient of the Military Order of William[60]
Seth J. McKee1916–2016100American Air Force Officer[61]
James Megellas1917–2020103American Army Officer[62]
Masaichi Niimi1887–1993106Japanese Navy Admiral[63]
Paul R. Norby1913–2015102American Navy Officer[64]
Francis W. Nye1918–2019100American Air Force Major General[65]
Sir Henry Oliver1865–1965100British Admiral of the Fleet[66]
Stylianos Pattakos1912–2016103Greek military officer and politician[67]
Frederick R. Payne Jr.1911–2015104American Marine Corps Officer[11][68][69]
Thomas Pearson1914–2019105British Army general[69]
Erich Priebke1913–2013100German Nazi SS captain and war criminal[70]
Yitzhak Pundak1913–2017104Israeli General (also diplomat and politician)[71]
Mary Louise Rasmuson1911–2012101American Army Officer; director, Women's Army Corps[72]
Vasily Reshetnikov1919–101Soviet Colonel-General of Aviation, Hero of the Soviet Union[73]
David C. Richardson1914–2015101American Navy Officer[74]
Edward Rowny1917–2017100American Army officer[75]
Paul Royle1914–2015101Australian Royal Air Force pilot
Heinrich Ruhl1915–2015100German Army Officer[76]
Mary Rundle1907–2010103English superintendent of the Women's Royal Naval Service[77]
Du Runsheng1913–2015102Chinese military officer and agricultural reformer[78]
Miguel Ángel Sanz Bocos1918–2018100Spanish Army officer and aviator[79]
Helmuth Schlömer1893–1995102German 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 Seymour1917–2017100American Women Airforce Service Pilot and activist[82]
Ralph C. Smith1893–1998104American Major-General[83]
Sergey Leonidovich Sokolov1911–2012101Russian Marshal of the Soviet Union and Soviet Minister of Defence[84]
Deryck Stapleton1918–2018100British Royal Air Force Air Marshal[85]
Dorothy C. Stratton1899–2006107American SPARS director[86]
Elliott B. Strauss1903–2003100American Navy Rear Admiral
Sun Yuanliang1904–2007103Chinese National Revolutionary Army General[87]
Teiichi Suzuki1888–1989100Japanese Lieutenant General[88]
Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski1917–2018101Polish Brigadier General[89]
Arsène Tchakarian1916–2018101Armenian-born French resistance fighter (FTP-MOI) and historian[90]
Connell Thode1911–2014103New Zealand Naval Officer[91]
Ivan Ustinov1920–2020100Soviet Lieutenant General[92]
James Van Fleet1892–1992100American Army General[93]
Neil D. Van Sickle1915–2019104American Air Force general[94]
Ronald R. Van Stockum1916–104American Marine Brigadier general, who commanded Marine Corps Reserve.[95]
Telmo Vargas1912–2013100Ecuadorian General (Chief of Staff)[96]
Zisis Verros1880–1985105Greek chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle; recipient of the Black Emblem of the Macedonian Struggle[97]
Eugene Vielle1913–2015101British Royal Air Force Officer[98]
Võ Nguyên Giáp1911–2013102Vietnamese General and Minister of Defence[99]
Sir Hereward Wake, 14th Baronet1916–2017101British Army officer[100]
Sir Provo Wallis1791–1892100British Admiral of the Fleet[101]
Neville Wigram, 2nd Baron Wigram1915–2017101British Army Major[102]
D. B. H. Wildish1914–2017102British Royal Navy officer[103]
Gus Winckel1912–2013100Dutch military officer and pilot[104]
Xiao Ke1907–2008101Chinese General
Xue Yue1896–1998101Chinese General[105]
Dov Yermiya1914–2016101Israeli lieutenant-colonel in the Israeli Defence Forces[106]
Zhang Xueliang1901–2001100Chinese General[107]
Zhang Zhen1914–2015100Chinese General[108]
Nikolai Zhugan1917–2017100Soviet Air Force Major General[109]

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