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This list of Century Association members includes those elected as notable resident- and non-resident members of the Century Association, a social club in New York City. The Century Association counted XX,000 members,. Its members constitute 29 Nobel Prize laureates, eight Presidents of the United States, ten US Supreme Court justices, 43 Members of the Cabinet, members of the Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Roosevelt, and Astor families, and other noted individuals. Members are known as Centurions.

Centurions are noted for their accomplishments in public, professional, and corporate life.

The committee to build and erect the Statue of Liberty was comprised almost entirely of Centurions.

Nobel laureates
Centurions who are Nobel laureates include:

Chemistry
 * Harold Urey
 * John Howard Northrop
 * Willard Libby

Physics
 * Robert A. Millikan
 * Isidor Isaac Rabi
 * Polykarp Kusch
 * Murray Gell-Mann

Peace, literature, or economics
 * Theodore Roosevelt
 * Rudyard Kipling
 * Elihu Root
 * Woodrow Wilson
 * Nicholas Murray Butler
 * John Mott
 * Henry Kissinger
 * Wassily Leontief
 * Saul Bellow
 * George Stigler
 * Robert Solow
 * Toni Morrison

Physiology or medicine
 * Alexis Carrel
 * Thomas Hunt Morgan
 * Herbert Spencer Gasser
 * André Frédéric Cournand
 * Dickinson W. Richards
 * Joshua Lederberg
 * James Watson
 * Francis Peyton Rous
 * Gerald Edelman
 * Eric Kandel

Government
Centurions in federal civil service include:

U.S. Presidents

 * Chester A. Arthur, 21st President
 * Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President
 * Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President
 * William Howard Taft, 27th President
 * Woodrow Wilson, 28th President
 * Herbert C. Hoover, 31st President
 * Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President
 * Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President
 * Relatives of Presidents elected to the Century include John Van Buren and Robert Todd Lincoln.

Candidates for U.S. Presidency

 * John W. Davis
 * Charles Evans Hughes
 * George McGovern
 * Alton B. Parker
 * Adlai Stevenson II
 * Samuel J. Tilden
 * Wendell L. Willkie

U.S. Supreme Court justices

 * Samuel Blatchford
 * William J. Brennan, Jr.
 * Benjamin N. Cardozo
 * John Marshall Harlan
 * Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice
 * Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
 * Edward T. Sanford
 * Potter Stewart
 * Harlan Fiske Stone, Chief Justice
 * William Howard Taft, Chief Justice

U.S. Cabinet and cabinet-level ranks

 * Dean Acheson – Secretary of State
 * Charles F. Adams – Secretary of the Navy
 * Newton D. Baker – Secretary of War
 * George Bancroft – Secretary of the Navy
 * Cornelius N. Bliss – Secretary of the Treasury
 * W. Michael Blumenthal – Secretary of the Treasury
 * Herbert Brownell, Jr. – Attorney General
 * Joseph A. Califano, Jr. – Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
 * C. Douglas Dillon – Secretary of State, Secretary of Treasury
 * John Foster Dulles – Secretary of State
 * Charles Evans Hughes – Secretary of State
 * William M. Evarts – Attorney General, Secretary of State
 * Charles S. Fairchild – Secretary of the Treasury
 * Hamilton Fish – Secretary of State
 * Arthur S. Flemming – Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
 * James V. Forrestal – Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Navy
 * John W. Gardner – Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
 * John Hay – Secretary of State
 * Christian Herter – Secretary of State
 * Herbert C. Hoover – Secretary of Commerce
 * Nicholas Katzenbach – Attorney General
 * Henry Kissinger – Secretary of State
 * Robert P. Lamont – Secretary of Commerce
 * Franklin K. Lane – Secretary of the Interior
 * Robert A. Lovett – Secretary of Defense
 * Andrew W. Mellon – Secretary of Treasury
 * Ogden L. Mills – Secretary of Treasury
 * William D. Mitchell – Attorney General
 * Edwards Pierrepont – Attorney General
 * Henry L. Stimson – Secretary of State, twice Secretary of War
 * Robert P. Patterson – Secretary of War
 * Elihu Root – Secretary of State, Secretary of War
 * Dean Rusk – Secretary of State
 * Harlan Fiske Stone – Attorney General
 * Carl Schurz – Secretary of the Interior
 * William Howard Taft – Secretary of War
 * Cyrus R. Vance – Secretary of State
 * Robert C. Weaver – Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
 * Caspar W. Weinberger – Secretary of Defense; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
 * William C. Whitney – Secretary of the Navy
 * George W. Wickersham – Attorney General
 * Ray Lyman Wilbur – Secretary of the Interior
 * William H. Woodin – Secretary of Treasury

U.S. Governors

 * Grover Cleveland
 * Theodore Roosevelt
 * Franklin D. Roosevelt
 * William Howard Taft
 * Woodrow Wilson

U.S. Senators

 * Bronson Murray Cutting

U.S. Congressmen

 * Thomas Brackett Reed, Speaker of the House

Diplomats

 * Norman Hapgood
 * John Hay
 * David Jayne Hill
 * Whitelaw Reid
 * Bayard Taylor
 * Henry van Dyke Jr.
 * Andrew D. White
 * Brand Whitlock

Justice and law

 * Addison Brown, also a founder of the New York Botanical Garden
 * Charles P. Daly
 * Francis Lieber
 * George W. Wickersham
 * Wendell Willkie
 * John M. Woolsey

Other government

 * August Belmont
 * Seth Low
 * Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Prime Minister of Poland

Military

 * George S. Greene
 * James Harbord
 * Peter A. Porter
 * James S. Wadsworth

Business

 * William H. Aspinwall
 * John Jacob Astor III
 * John Taylor Johnston
 * Henry Gurdon Marquand
 * Robert Bowne Minturn Jr.

Founders

 * J. P. Morgan (Admissions Committee member)
 * Daniel Carter Beard
 * William E. Dodge, Jr.
 * Samuel Gray Ward
 * Andrew D. White
 * Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge

Chairpersons, CEOs, executives

 * James Harbord
 * Theodore N. Vail

Natural sciences and related fields

 * Alexander Agassiz
 * Thomas Barbour
 * Alfred W. Craven
 * Bashford Dean
 * Daniel Giraud Elliot
 * William T. Hornaday
 * Clarence King
 * Othniel Charles Marsh
 * William Barclay Parsons
 * Raphael Pumpelly
 * Chandler Robbins

Inventors

 * Samuel F. B. Morse
 * Frank J. Sprague

Literature

 * Robert W. Chambers
 * John Jay Chapman
 * Winston Churchill
 * Frederick Swartwout Cozzens
 * George William Curtis
 * Clarence Shepard Day, Jr.
 * John Watts DePeyster
 * Edward Eggleston
 * Paul Leicester Ford
 * Edward Everett Hale
 * Norman Hapgood
 * Robert Herrick
 * Henry James (Pulitzer Prize winner)


 * Thomas A. Janvier
 * Rudyard Kipling
 * Oliver La Farge (Pulitzer Prize winner)
 * Brander Matthews
 * Howard Pyle
 * Francis Hopkinson Smith
 * Arthur Train
 * Henry van Dyke Jr.

Poetry

 * Stephen Vincent Benét
 * John Hay
 * Richard Watson Gilder
 * Edmund Clarence Stedman
 * Richard Henry Stoddard
 * Bayard Taylor
 * Samuel Gray Ward

History

 * Henry Adams
 * Edward Eggleston
 * Henry Osborn Taylor

Religion

 * Lyman Abbott
 * John Grier Hibben

Music

 * Aurelio Giorni
 * Ignacy Jan Paderewski
 * Ernest Schelling

Architecture and design

 * Henry Bacon
 * Karl Bitter
 * Daniel H. Burnham
 * Walker O. Cain, also the club's resident architect
 * William Adams Delano
 * Cass Gilbert
 * Bertram Goodhue
 * Henry G. Harrison
 * Thomas Hastings
 * Richard Morris Hunt
 * William Mitchell Kendall
 * Charles Follen McKim
 * William Rutherford Mead
 * Benjamin Wistar Morris
 * Frederick Law Olmsted (Admissions Committee member)
 * James Renwick Jr.
 * Calvert Vaux (Admissions Committee member)
 * Stanford White

Fine arts and photography

 * Herbert Adams
 * J. Carroll Beckwith
 * Albert Bierstadt
 * Edwin Blashfield
 * Henry Kirke Brown
 * William Cullen Bryant
 * Bryson Burroughs
 * Frederic Church (Vice President in 1871)
 * Asher B. Durand
 * Daniel C. French
 * George Fuller
 * Charles Dana Gibson
 * Edward Lamson Henry
 * Winslow Homer (Art Committee member)
 * George Inness
 * Eastman Johnson (Admissions Committee member)
 * Will Hicok Low
 * Homer Dodge Martin
 * George W. Maynard
 * Charles Henry Miller
 * John Frederick Kensett
 * John La Farge (Art, Admissions Committee member)
 * Francis Lathrop
 * Samuel F. B. Morse
 * Ernest Peixotto
 * Joseph Pennell
 * Howard Pyle
 * John Rogers
 * W. A. Rogers
 * Augustus Saint-Gaudens
 * George H. Smillie
 * Launt Thompson
 * Louis Comfort Tiffany
 * Henry T. Tuckerman
 * Elihu Vedder
 * John Quincy Adams Ward
 * Olin Levi Warner
 * Harry Watrous
 * J. Alden Weir
 * Worthington Whittredge
 * Alexander Helwig Wyant

All historical presidents of the Metropolitan Museum of Art were Centurions, save for Rhinelander, Coffin, Blumenthal, and Weiss; the first seven directors of the museum were also club members.

Journalism

 * Edward L. Burlingame
 * E. L. Godkin
 * Manton Marble
 * Edward Sandford Martin
 * Whitelaw Reid
 * William Allen White
 * Brand Whitlock
 * Talcott Williams

Film, radio, television, and theater

 * Lawrence Barrett
 * David Bispham
 * Edwin Booth
 * William Gillette
 * Sidney Howard
 * Joseph Jefferson
 * Otis Skinner
 * E. H. Sothern
 * Augustus Thomas
 * Lester Wallack

Publishers

 * Frank Nelson Doubleday
 * George Haven Putnam
 * George P. Putnam
 * Charles Scribner III
 * Melville E. Stone

Printers

 * Theodore Low De Vinne

Explorers

 * Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
 * Raphael Pumpelly

Education

 * Frederick P. Keppel
 * J. Howard Van Amringe
 * Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge

University heads

 * John H. Finley
 * Arthur T. Hadley
 * John Grier Hibben
 * Hamilton Holt
 * Seth Low
 * Andrew D. White
 * Woodrow Wilson

Presidents of the association

 * Gulian Crommelin Verplanck (1857-1864)
 * George Bancroft (1864-1867)
 * William Cullen Bryant (1868-1879)
 * Daniel Huntington (1879-1885)
 * Henry Codman Potter (1895-1906)
 * John Bigelow (1906-1911)
 * Joseph Hodges Choate (1912-1917)
 * Elihu Root (1918-1927)
 * Charles Adams Platt (1928-1930)
 * Gari Melchers (1931-1932)
 * Royal Cortissoz (1933-1944)


 * Louis Auchincloss (c. 2002)