History Main / LongLived

** It's TruthInTelevision that turtles (land and sea turtles) can live to a very ripe old age.

* In ''Literature/{{Gor}}'', thanks to Stabilization Serums, people are disease free and don't age, so hypothetically they can live forever, unless they're killed.
** Except for Dar-Kosis, a kind of leprosy. And a plague. And whenever author Norman doesn't remember that he killed off all diseases.
* Members of the "Howard Families" in Creator/RobertAHeinlein's stories are very long-lived, having been established by a foundation in the name of a rich young man who died of old age. [[MeaningfulName Lazarus Long]] is long-lived even amongst his fellow long-lifers: at least 2,379 years. Non-Howards are also long lived (but not as long as the Howards are).

* [[LeonardNimoy King Kashekhim Nedakh]] of {{Atlantis}} from Disney's ''AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' is actually tens of thousands of years old, but dies somewhere in the year 1914, because that's when his film's events take place.
* In ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Avatars live significantly longer than regular humans. Avatar Kyoshi lived over 200 years. It's rumored to have something to do with their chi. Aang however only lives about 80 years or so due to the stress put on his body by a century as a HumanPopsicle.

* Basically all {{Youkai}} in ''{{Touhou}}'' have a lifespan significantly longer than that of a human's. It's unclear exactly how long, though there's been some that are known to be over one thousand. A few, like magicians and vampires, don't age at all.

* The Methuselah/vampires and Kresnik on ''TrinityBlood''.

* In ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Aang and other past Avatars live significantly longer than regular humans. Avatar Kyoshi lived over 200 years. It's rumored to have something to do with their chi.

* Also from ''X-Men'', Wolverine, due to his HealingFactor. He's more than 120 years old.

* Methuselah, according to TheBible, lived 969 years. Adam himself died aged 930. In fact, most of antediluvian humanity lived for many centuries, and only after the Flood did the life spans begin rapidly decreasing.

* In ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'', the Eldar potentially have lifespans in the thousands of years, Space Marines can live for several hundred years, and baseline humans can live for well over a hundred years or more thanks to juvenat treatments.

* The Methuselah/vampires and Kresnik on ''{{Trinity Blood}}''.

* In ''{{Gor}}'', thanks to Stabilization Serums, people are disease free and don't age, so hypothetically they can live forever, unless they're killed.

* [[LeonardNimoy King Kashekhim Nedakh]] of {{Atlantis}} from Disney's ''{{Atlantis The Lost Empire}}'' is actually tens of thousands of years old, but dies somewhere in the year 1914, because that's when his film's events take place.

* Members of the "Howard Families" in RobertHeinlein's stories are very long-lived, having been established by a foundation in the name of a rich young man who died of old age. [[MeaningfulName Lazarus Long]] is long-lived even amongst his fellow long-lifers: at least 2,379 years. Non-Howards are also long lived (but not as long as the Howards are).

* The Vulcans of ''StarTrek'', being SpaceElves, have lifespans that can extend hundreds of years.

* In IsaacAsimov's ''[[Literature/TheCavesOfSteel Robot Trilogy]]'', Spacers (humans who live on one of the 50 colony worlds) regularly live for over 300 Earth years. They measure their lives in decades instead of years.
* In TheBigOne universe, a number of the characters have extended lifetimes, some reaching several millenia. They are not immortal and can be killed or die of disease (the Great Influenza of 1919 wreaked havoc on their ranks). Some are prominent in history (Parmenio, Nell Gwynne, Shakespeare to name a few) but most are normal people trying to cope with the problems caused by unexpected longevity

* The Numenoreons in ''TheLordOfTheRings'' have a lifespan of centuries, as do the Dwarves. Hobbits aren't ''that'' long lived, but still live about half again as long as regular humans. The lifespan of the orcs is unclear, but hinted in some places to be extremely long- like their Elven cousins, they may in fact be TheAgeless.

* In ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Aang and other past Avatars live significantly longer than regular humans. Avatar Kyoshi lived over 200 years. It's rumored to have something to do with their chi.

* Fairies and all sub-species in ''ArtemisFowl'' are implied to live for a few hundred years, or at least long enough for 'decade' to roughly equal 'year' when scaled to human life-span.

When adding examples, please remember that the character is ''only'' long lived and ''not'' [[TheAgeless immortal]].

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment Jeanne Calment]], who currently holds the world record for oldest person of all time, at '''[[BeyondTheImpossible 122 years and 164 days old.]]'''

* Shinigami in ''DeathNote'' can increase their lifespan indefinitely by using their notes to kill humans. The king of the Shinigami has been around so long that he is known simply as The Old Man by other Shinigami.

[[WizardsLiveLonger Wizards often benefit from this]]. See ReallySevenHundredYearsOld, for when these characters look younger than their age. On the other hand, if they still keep getting older-looking and more decrepit as they age past "normal old age" and into "Methuselah is jealous", they may have AgeWithoutYouth. Also compare {{Immortality}}, for when the character in question will live forever.

When adding examples, please remember that the character is ''only'' long lived and ''not'' [[{{Immortality}} immortal]].

[[WizardsLiveLonger Wizards often benefit from this]]. See ReallySevenHundredYearsOld, for when these characters look younger than their age. Also compare {{Immortality}}, for when the character in question will live forever.

* The Numenoreons in ''TheLordOfTheRings'' have a lifespan of centuries.

* [[en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centenarian Centenarians]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercentenarian supercentenarians]], people who live to be (respectively) 100 and 110 years old.

* In IsaacAsimov's ''[[Literature/TheCavesOfSteel Robot Trilogy]]'', Spacers (humans who live on one of the 50 colony worlds) regularly live for over 300 Earth years. They measure their lives in decades instead of years.