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The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as educators, school administrators, social scientists and linguists – known for reasons other than their longevity. For more lists, see lists of centenarians.
Park is the most successful Asian player in football history, having won 19 trophies in his career. [163] [164] He is the first Asian footballer to have won the UEFA Champions League, to play in a UEFA Champions League final, as well as the first Asian to have won the FIFA Club World Cup. [165] Shunsuke Nakamura (born 1978), Japanese soccer ...
Al-Suyuti (c. 1445–1505), Egyptian writer, religious scholar, juristic expert and teacher. Ahmed Zewail (1946–2016), Egyptian-American scientist, awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for laser studies in femtochemistry. Mahmud Ahmad Hamdi al-Falaki (1815–1885), Egyptian cartographer, teacher, Minister of Public Instruction.
Perhaps its most famous teacher was history teacher Dr. Irwin Guernsey, known to generations of students as "Doc" Guernsey. He came to Clinton in the fall of 1914 and retired in the spring of 1959, due to illness. Using two "Irish" canes, he taught from the chair and won twice in his lifetime the title of Master Teacher in New York City.
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Horace Mann was born in Franklin, Massachusetts. [4] His father was a farmer without much money. Mann was the great-grandson of Samuel Man. [5]From age ten to age twenty, he had no more than six weeks' schooling during any year, [6] but he made use of the Franklin Public Library, the first public library in America.
Walter Banek – alumnus; bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church; Paul Benware – faculty; pastor, author and former professor of Bible and theology [8]; Mary McLeod Bethune – alumnus; the daughter of former South Carolina slaves, McLeod Bethune also graduated from Scotia Seminary for Girls before starting a school for girls in Florida which has become Bethune-Cookman University; She ...
A. Joseph Hale Abbot; Elizabeth Robinson Abbott; David Abner Jr. Dudley W. Adams; Sadie L. Adams; William L. Adams (pioneer) William Taylor Adams; Julia Addington