List of notable surviving veterans of World War II

This is a list of notable surviving veterans of World War II (1939–1945). A total of 115 veterans are listed.

A

6 veterans

Veteran	Born	Notability	Service	Country	Age
Valdas Adamkus	November 3, 1926	President of Lithuania	Lithuanian resistance	Lithuania	99 years, 33 days
Lee Adams	August 14, 1924	Musician	US Army	United States	101 years, 114 days
Marshall Allen	May 25, 1924	Musician	US Army	United States	101 years, 195 days
Ray Anthony	January 20, 1922	Bandleader and trumpeter	US Navy	United States	103 years, 320 days
George Ariyoshi	March 12, 1926	Governor of Hawaii (1974–1986)	US Army	United States	99 years, 269 days
Stanisław Aronson	May 6, 1925	Order of Polonia Restituta recipient	Home Army	Poland	100 years, 214 days

B

12 veterans

Veteran	Born	Notability	Service	Country	Age
Vincent Ball	December 4, 1923	Actor	Royal Australian Air Force	Australia	102 years, 2 days
Karlheinz Bauer	April 24, 1928	Former head of Bauer Group	Heer	Germany	97 years, 226 days
William J. Bauer	September 15, 1926	Federal judge	US Army	United States	99 years, 82 days
V. J. Bella	July 29, 1927	American politician	US Marine Corps	United States	98 years, 130 days
Walter Bingham	January 5, 1924	Journalist	British Army	United Kingdom	101 years, 335 days
Harry Blank	May 24, 1925	Politician	Canadian Army	Canada	100 years, 196 days
Daoud Bokhary	January 15, 1920	Businessman	British Indian Army	British India	105 years, 325 days
Hugo Broch	January 6, 1922	World War II flying ace	Luftwaffe	Germany	103 years, 334 days
Mel Brooks	June 28, 1926	Director, actor, producer	US Army, Battle of the Bulge	United States	99 years, 161 days
Walt Brown	July 28, 1926	Politician	US Navy	United States	99 years, 131 days
Andrew Bruce, 11th Earl of Elgin	February 17, 1924	11th Earl of Elgin	British Army, Scots Guards	United Kingdom	101 years, 292 days
Arthur E. Bryson	October 7, 1925	Control theorist	US Navy	United States	100 years, 60 days

C

5 veterans

Veteran	Born	Notability	Service	Country	Age
Patrick Skene Catling	February 14, 1925	Journalist, author	Royal Canadian Air Force	Canada	100 years, 295 days
Tony Christopher, Baron Christopher	April 25, 1925	Businessman, trade unionist, tax official	Royal Air Force	United Kingdom	100 years, 225 days
Ena Collymore-Woodstock	September 10, 1917	Solicitor, magistrate	Auxiliary Territorial Service	United Kingdom	108 years, 87 days
Tom Copeland	April 17, 1924	Politician	US Army	United States	101 years, 233 days
John Thomas Copenhaver Jr.	September 29, 1925	Federal judge	US Army	United States	100 years, 68 days

D

5 veterans

Veteran	Born	Notability	Service	Country	Age
Louis Danziger	November 17, 1923	Graphic designer, professor	US Army	United States	102 years, 19 days
Klaus von Dohnanyi	June 23, 1928	Politician, First Mayor of Hamburg	Volkssturm	Germany	97 years, 166 days
Karl-Heinz Drews	December 22, 1929	General	Volkssturm Wehrmacht	Germany	95 years, 349 days
Roy Drinkard	July 12, 1920	Businessman	US Marine Corps	United States	105 years, 147 days
Patrick Duffy	June 17, 1920	President of the NATO Assembly	Fleet Air Arm	United Kingdom	105 years, 172 days

E

2 veterans

Veteran	Born	Notability	Service	Country	Age
Alfred Einwag	March 18, 1928	Lawyer	Heer	Germany	97 years, 263 days
Anthony Eyton	May 17, 1923	Artist	British Army	United Kingdom	102 years, 203 days

F

7 veterans

Veteran	Born	Notability	Service	Country	Age
Josef-Gerhard Farkas	July 13, 1929	Hungariologist	Volkssturm	Germany	96 years, 146 days
Edward Field	June 7, 1924	Poet, author	US Army Air Forces	United States	101 years, 182 days
Sergio Flamigni	October 22, 1925	Politician, writer	Italian Resistance	Italian Resistance	100 years, 45 days
James Clayton Flowers	December 25, 1915	Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen	United States Army Air Forces	United States	109 years, 346 days
Wieland Förster	February 12, 1930	Painter, writer	Volkssturm	Germany	95 years, 297 days
J. Keith Fraser	February 18, 1922	Physical geographer	Royal Canadian Air Force Royal Air Force	Canada United Kingdom	103 years, 291 days
Russell Freeburg	March 4, 1923	Editor of the Chicago Tribune	US Army	United States	102 years, 277 days

G

10 veterans

Veteran	Born	Notability	Service	Country	Age
Arnald Gabriel	May 31, 1925	Conductor of the US Air Force Band	US Army	United States	100 years, 189 days
Stanley Michael Gartler	June 9, 1923	Biologist, geneticist	US Army Air Forces	United States	102 years, 180 days
Eddie Germano	November 15, 1924	Cartoonist	US Army	United States	101 years, 21 days
Roy Gibson	July 4, 1924	Aerospace engineer	British Army	United Kingdom	101 years, 155 days
I. Leo Glasser	April 6, 1924	Judge	US Army	United States	101 years, 244 days
René Henry Gracida	June 9, 1923	Bishop	Flying Tigers	United States	102 years, 180 days
Bill Grayden	August 5, 1920	Politician	Australian Army	Australia	105 years, 123 days
Bill Greason	September 3, 1924	Baseball player	US Marine Corps	United States	101 years, 94 days
Maurice R. Greenberg	May 4, 1925	CEO of American International Group (1967–2005)	US Army	United States	100 years, 216 days
Frank J. Guarini	August 20, 1924	Politician; New Jersey Representative (1979–1990)	US Navy	United States	101 years, 108 days

H

7 veterans

Veteran	Born	Notability	Service	Country	Age
Jürgen Habermas	June 18, 1929	Philosopher; sociologist	Luftwaffenhelfer	Germany	96 years, 171 days
G. Homer Harding	December 7, 1925	Politician	US Army	United States	99 years, 364 days
Robert Harlow	November 19, 1923	Writer, academic	Royal Canadian Air Force	Canada	102 years, 17 days
Helmut Hauptmann	March 12, 1928	Writer	Heer	Germany	97 years, 269 days
Józef Hen	November 8, 1923	Writer	Polish People's Army	Poland	102 years, 28 days
Werner Henninger	April 7, 1929	Admiral	Volkssturm	Germany	96 years, 243 days
Cyril Hilsum	May 17, 1925	Physicist, academic	Royal Navy	United Kingdom	100 years, 203 days

J

3 veterans

Veteran	Born	Notability	Service	Country	Age
Stephen A. Jarislowsky	September 9, 1925	Businessman, billionaire	US Army	United States	100 years, 88 days
George Joseph	September 11, 1921	Founder of Mercury Insurance Group	US Army	United States	104 years, 86 days
George Judge	May 2, 1925	Professor, econometrician	US Army Air Forces	United States	100 years, 218 days

K

3 veterans

Veteran	Born	Notability	Service	Country	Age
Sydney Kentridge	November 5, 1922	Lawyer, judge	South African Army	South Africa	103 years, 31 days
Elisabeth Kirkby	January 26, 1921	Actress, writer, broadcaster	Auxiliary Territorial Service	United Kingdom	104 years, 314 days
Helma Kissner	December 23, 1923	Accused of war crimes by SWC	Wehrmacht	Germany	101 years, 348 days

L

8 veterans

Veteran	Born	Notability	Service	Country	Age
Horst Langes	December 2, 1928	Member of state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate	Wehrmacht	Germany	97 years, 4 days
James Lees	February 14, 1924	Maritime expert, curator	Royal Navy British Merchant Navy	United Kingdom	101 years, 295 days
Marv Levy	August 3, 1925	Football coach	US Army Air Corps	United States	100 years, 125 days
Guenter Lewy	August 22, 1923	Author, professor	British Army	United Kingdom	102 years, 106 days
Nina Lobkovskaya	March 8, 1925	Sniper	Red Army	Soviet Union	100 years, 273 days
Ernst Löschner	June 20, 1929	Conductor	Wehrmacht	Germany	96 years, 169 days
Dick Lucas	September 10, 1925	Anglican minister	Royal Navy	United Kingdom	100 years, 87 days
Bernt H. Lund	August 14, 1924	Civil servant, diplomat, politician	Norwegian resistance movement	Norway	101 years, 114 days

M

16 veterans

Veteran	Born	Notability	Service	Country	Age
Ray Marshall	August 22, 1928	US Secretary of Labor (1977-1981)	US Navy	United States	97 years, 106 days
Gordon Eugene Martin	August 22, 1925	Physicist, author	US Navy	United States	100 years, 106 days
Ivan Martynushkin	January 18, 1924	Last surviving liberator of the Auschwitz concentration camp	Red Army	Soviet Union	101 years, 322 days
Anthony Mason	April 21, 1925	Judge; ninth Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia	Royal Australian Air Force	Australia	100 years, 229 days
Miloslav Masopust	September 26, 1924	General	1st Czechoslovak Army Corps in the USSR	Czechoslovakia	101 years, 71 days
Francis Terry McNamara	November 2, 1927	Diplomat	US Navy	United States	98 years, 34 days
Kirke Mechem	August 16, 1925	Composer	US Army	United States	100 years, 112 days
Harald Metzkes	January 23, 1929	Painter	Heer	Germany	96 years, 317 days
Jim Miller	May 30, 1919	Australian rules football player	Australian Army Royal Australian Air Force	Australia	106 years, 190 days
John H. Miller	April 16, 1925	General	US Marine Corps	United States	100 years, 234 days
Gwen Moffat	July 3, 1924	Climber, writer	Auxiliary Territorial Service	United Kingdom	101 years, 156 days
Henry Moore	November 2, 1923	Bishop of Cyprus and The Gulf	British Army British Indian Army	United Kingdom British India	102 years, 34 days
Shigehiro Mori	January 7, 1928	General; Chief of the Joint Staff of the JSDF (1986–1987), Chief of Staff, JASDF (1983–1986)	Imperial Japanese Army	Japan	97 years, 333 days
Edgar Morin	July 8, 1921	Philosopher, sociologist	French Resistance	Free France	104 years, 151 days
Georg Müller	October 1, 1930	Mineralogist	Hitlerjugend	Germany	95 years, 66 days
Sumio Murai	February 24, 1925	General; Chief of the Joint Staff of the JSDF (1983–1984), Chief of Staff, JGSDF (1981–1983)	Imperial Japanese Army	Japan	100 years, 285 days

N

1 veteran

Veteran	Born	Notability	Service	Country	Age
Joe Negri	June 10, 1926	Musician, educator	US Army	United States	99 years, 179 days

O

2 veterans

Veteran	Born	Notability	Service	Country	Age
Jiro Ono	October 27, 1925	Sushi Chef	Japanese Imperial Army	Japan	100 years, 40 days
Donald Owens	September 12, 1926	General Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene	US Army	United States	99 years, 85 days

P

2 veterans

Veteran	Born	Notability	Service	Country	Age
Johnny Pate	December 5, 1923	Bass player, arranger	US Army; played with the 218th AGF Army Band	United States	102 years, 1 day
John Peoples	August 26, 1926	President of Jackson State University	US Marine Corps	United States	99 years, 102 days

R

5 veterans

Veteran	Born	Notability	Service	Country	Age
Fred Risser	May 5, 1927	Politician	US Navy	United States	98 years, 215 days
John Roberts	April 4, 1924	Admiral	Royal Navy	United Kingdom	101 years, 246 days
Arthur Rock	August 19, 1926	Businessman, investor	US Army	United States	99 years, 109 days
Richard Rohmer	January 24, 1924	Military writer; Ultimatum	Royal Canadian Air Force	Canada	101 years, 316 days
Philip Ruppe	September 29, 1926	United States Congressman	V-12 Navy College Training Program	United States	99 years, 68 days

S

11 veterans

Veteran	Born	Notability	Service	Country	Age
Howard F. Sachs	September 13, 1925	Judge	US Navy	United States	100 years, 84 days
Walter Franz Schleser	October 25, 1930	Representative of the Vereinigung Heimatvertriebener Deutscher Studenten	Volkssturm	Germany	95 years, 42 days
Wolfgang Schumann	June 5, 1929	Member of Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate	Wehrmacht	Germany	96 years, 184 days
Doc Severinsen	July 7, 1927	Trumpeter	US Army	United States	98 years, 152 days
Bobby Shantz	September 26, 1925	Baseball player	US Army	United States	100 years, 71 days
Robert G. Shulman	March 3, 1924	Biophysicist	US Navy	United States	101 years, 278 days
Władysław Siemaszko	June 8, 1919	Author, Lawyer	Home Army	Poland	106 years, 181 days
Edward H. Sims	May 29, 1923	Author	US Army Air Forces	United States	102 years, 191 days
Richard T. Spooner	September 10, 1926	Author	US Marine Corps	United States	99 years, 87 days
Irena Stankiewicz	February 28, 1925	Graphic artist	Home Army	Poland	100 years, 281 days
Heinz Stöcker	January 22, 1929	General	Volkssturm	Germany	96 years, 318 days

T

1 veteran

Veteran	Born	Notability	Service	Country	Age
James Wesley Turpin	December 18, 1927	Founder of Project Concern International, physician, activist	US Navy	United States	97 years, 353 days

V

2 veterans

Veteran	Born	Notability	Service	Country	Age
Dick Van Dyke	December 13, 1925	Actor and comedian	US Army Air Corps	United States	99 years, 358 days
Thomas Franklin Vaughns	July 7, 1920	Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen	United States Army Air Force	United States	105 years, 152 days

W

4 veterans

Veteran	Born	Notability	Service	Country	Age
Joe Wallach	September 10, 1923	Businessman	US Army	United States	102 years, 87 days
G. William Whitehurst	March 12, 1925	Politician	US Navy	United States	100 years, 269 days
Louis Witten	April 13, 1921	Theoretical physicist	US Army Air Forces	United States	104 years, 237 days
Woody Woodbury	February 9, 1924	Comedian, actor	US Marine Corps	United States	101 years, 300 days

Z

2 veterans

Veteran	Born	Notability	Service	Country	Age
Franklin B. Zimmerman	June 20, 1923	Musicologist, conductor	US Army	United States	102 years, 169 days
Leszek Żukowski	February 11, 1929	President of World Association of Home Army Soldiers	Gray Ranks	Poland	96 years, 298 days