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The following is a list of living centenarians (living people who have attained the age of at least 100 years) known for reasons other than just their longevity. For more specific lists of people (living or deceased) who are known for these reasons, see lists of centenarians.
Linda Evangelista (/ ˌiːvændʒəliːstə / EE-van-JUH-lee-STUH; born May 10, 1965) is a Canadian fashion model. She is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential models of all time, and has been featured on over 700 magazine covers. Evangelista is primarily known for being the longtime "muse" of photographer Steven Meisel, as ...
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old. She then communicated primarily using home signs until the age of seven, when she met her first teacher and life-long companion Anne ...
Diana Nyad / ˈnaɪˌæd / (née Sneed; born August 22, 1949) is an American author, journalist, motivational speaker, and long-distance swimmer. [ 2 ] Nyad gained national attention in 1975 when she swam around Manhattan (28 mi or 45 km) in record time, and in 1979 when she swam from Bimini, The Bahamas, to Juno Beach, Florida (102 mi or 164 km). [ 3 ]
Maya April Moore (born June 11, 1989) is an American social justice advocate and former professional basketball player. Naming her their inaugural Performer of the Year in 2017, Sports Illustrated called Moore the "greatest winner in the history of women's basketball". [ 2 ] Moore was selected for the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2024.
The Venus de Milo is an over 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) tall [a] Parian marble statue [3] of a Greek goddess, most likely Aphrodite, depicted with a bare torso and drapery over the lower half of her body. [2] The figure stands with her weight on her right leg, and the left leg raised; [6] her head is turned to the left. [7] The statue is missing both arms, the left foot, and the earlobes. [8] There ...
David is a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture in marble [1][2] created from 1501 to 1504 by Michelangelo. With a height of 5.17 metres (17 ft 0 in), the David was the first colossal marble statue made in the High Renaissance, and since classical antiquity, a precedent for the 16th century and beyond. David was originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of twelve prophets ...
Dorothy Height was born in Richmond, Virginia, on March 24, 1912. [ 5 ] When she was five years old, she moved with her family to Mckees Rocks Rankin, Pennsylvania, a steel town in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, where she attended racially integrated schools. Height's mother was active in the Pennsylvania Federation of Colored Women's Clubs and regularly took Dorothy along to meetings where she ...