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American women centenarians

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Rita Levi-Montalcini
Italian neurologist (1909–2012)
Olivia de Havilland
British actress (1916–2020)
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
Luise Rainer
German-born actress (1910–2014)
Gloria Stuart
American actress (1910–2010)
Marsha Hunt
American actress (1917–2022)
Eva Marie Saint
American actress (born 1924)
Margaret Burbidge
British-born American astronomer (1919–2020)
Ève Curie
writer, journalist and pianist, younger daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie (1904–2007)
June Lockhart
June Kathleen Lockhart was an American actress, beginning a film career in the 1930s and 1940s in films such as A Christmas Carol and Meet Me in St. Louis. She appeared primarily in 1950s and 1960s television and with performances on stage and in film. She became most widely known for her work on two television series, Lassie and Lost in Space, in which she played mother roles. Lockhart also portrayed Dr. Janet Craig on the CBS television sitcom Petticoat Junction (1968–70). She was a two-time Emmy Award nominee and a Tony Award winner. With a career spanning nearly 90 years, Lockhart was one of the last surviving actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Grandma Moses
American painter (1860–1961)
Rose Kennedy
American philanthropist and mother of John F. Kennedy
Iris Apfel
American interior designer and fashion icon (1921–2024)
Maria Branyas
former world's oldest verified living person (1907–2024)
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Canadian-American physician and pharmacologist (1914–2015)
Sarah Knauss
American supercentenarian (1880–1999)
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American painter (1910–2012)
Alice Hamilton
American physician and toxicologist (1869–1970)
Nellie Tayloe Ross
First woman state governor in the U.S.
Marge Champion
American dancer and actress (1919–2020)
Beverly Cleary
American writer of children's books (1916–2021)
Mary Carlisle
American actress (1914–2018)
Maria Riva
American actress (1924–2025)
Edna Ruth Parker
American supercentenarian (1893–2008)
Janis Paige
American actress (1922–2024)
Priscilla Pointer
American actress (1924–2025)
Marta Eggerth
American actress, singer
Diana Serra Cary
American child film actress and silent film historian (1918–2020)
Lupita Tovar
Mexican actress (1910-2016)
Susannah Mushatt Jones
American supercentenarian (1899–2016)
Anna J. Cooper
African-American author, educator, speaker and scholar (1858–1964)
Barbara Kent
Canadian actress (1907–2011)
Besse Cooper
American supercentenarian (1896–2012)
Patricia Morison
American stage and film actress (1915-2018)
Audrey Munson
American artist's model and film actress (1891-1996)
Ruth Patrick
American botanist and limnologist (1907–2013)
Connie Sawyer
American actress (1912-2018)
Jeralean Talley
American supercentenarian (1899–2015)
Susanna M. Salter
American politician and activist (1860–1961)
Evelyn Furtsch
American track and field athlete (1914–2015)
Elizabeth Bolden
American supercentenarian (1890–2006)
Julie Gibson
American actress and singer (1913–2019)
Gertrude Weaver
American supercentenarian
Carla Laemmle
American actress (1909-2014)
Ellen Albertini Dow
American actress (1913–2015)
Doris Eaton Travis
American singer, dancer, actress, rancher (1904–2010)
Leila Denmark
American pediatrician (1898–2012)
Bel Kaufman
American novelist, teacher (1911-2014)
Phyllis A. Whitney
American writer
Beatrice Mintz
American biologist (1921–2022)
Licia Albanese
Italian-born American operatic soprano
Grace Lee Boggs
American social activist and feminist (1915-2015)
Beatrice Wood
American artist (1893-1998)
Carmen Herrera
Cuban painter and sculptor (1915–2022)
Eva Zeisel
Hungarian artist, industrial designer (1906–2011)
Dorrit Hoffleit
American astronomer (1907–2007)
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
American activist, journalist and writer (1890–1998)
Gretel Bergmann
German high jumper
Claire Du Brey
actress (1892-1993)
Elizabeth Holloway Marston
psychologist (1893–1993)