Category
page 1British women centenarians
Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother
queen consort of the British Empire from 1936 to 1952; mother of Elizabeth II (1900–2022)
Olivia de Havilland
British actress (1916–2020)
Luise Rainer
German-born actress (1910–2014)
Glynis Johns
British actress (1923–2024)

Margaret Burbidge
British-born American astronomer (1919–2020)
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester
British aristocrat (1900–2004); wife of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester

Ninette de Valois
British dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of classical ballet
Freya Madeline Stark
British travel writer (1893-1993)

Brenda Milner
Canada-based British neuroscientist and neuropsychologist
Ethel May Collins
English supercentenarian (born 1909)
Kathleen Ollerenshaw
English mathematician (1912-2014)
Kathleen Booth
British computer scientist (1922–2022)
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
German-born musician and Holocaust survivor (b. 1925)
Katherine Plunket
Irish artist (1820-1932)
Margaret Ann Neve
Guernsey supercentenarian (1792–1903)
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
British actress (1891-1992)
Charlotte Hughes
British supercentenarian (1877–1993)
Edith Humphrey
British chemist (1875-1978)
Ellaline Terriss
British actress and singer (1871-1971)
Margery Mason
English actress (1913–2014)
Lily Ebert
Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor (1923–2024)
Isabel Crook
Canadian anthropologist and educator

Johanna Weber
German mathematician
Anna Eliza Williams
English supercentenarian (1873–1987)
Harriette Chick
British protein scientist and nutritionist (1875-1977)
Ida Pollock
British writer, referred to as the "world's oldest novelist" who was still active at 105. (1908-2013)
Fanny Waterman
English musician (1920–2020)
Phyllis Latour
Special Operations Executive agent (1921–2023)
Ethel Lang
English supercentenarian

Mary Ellis
British World War II ferry pilot (1917-2018)

Edith Haisman
British supercentenarian, Titanic survivor (1896–1997)

Beatrice De Cardi
British archaeologist
Elsie Tu
Hong Kong politician and social activist (1913-2015)
Ann Hutchinson Guest
American dance notator (1918–2022)
Ada Roe
English supercentenarian (1858–1970)
Adele Bloesch-Stöcker
Swiss composer (1875-1978)
Fortune FitzRoy, Duchess of Grafton
British mistress of the robes
Joyce Reynolds
British classicist (1918-2022)
Yvonne Hackenbroch
German-British museum curator and historian of jewellery
Violet Aitken
British suffragette (1886-1987)
Nancy Sandars
British archaeologist and prehistorian (1914–2015)

Georgina Battiscombe
British writer (1905–2006)
Thelma Ruby
English actress

Helen Burns
British actress (1916-2018)
Mary Pickford
neuroendocrinologist (1902-2002)
Margaret Gardiner
British artist (1904–2005)
Mabel Purefoy FitzGerald
British physiologist (1872-1973)
Elsbeth Juda
British photographer (1911–2014)
Marie de Garis
Guernsey writer (1910-2010)

Felicity Hill
British military personnel (1915-2019)
Elisabeth Kirkby
British-Australian actress and politician (1921–2026)
Eva Gabriele Reichmann
eminent German historian and sociologist (1897–1998)
Edna Child
British diver (1922–2023)