List of Portuguese supercentenarians

Portuguese supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from Portugal or its former colonies who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age. As of January 2015^[update], the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 9 Portuguese supercentenarians, including 7 residents and 2 emigrants.^[1] Maria de Jesus was the oldest Portuguese citizen whose age was validated; she lived 115 years and 114 days, from 1893 to 2009.^[2]

Oldest known Portuguese people

  Deceased   Living

Rank	Name	Sex	Birth date	Death date	Age	Birthplace	Place of death or residence
01	Maria de Jesus^[1]	F	10 September 1893	2 January 2009^[2]	115 years, 114 days	Santarém	Santarém
02	Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes^[1]	F	24 October 1890	25 July 2005	114 years, 274 days	Porto	Porto
03	Adelina Domingues^[1]	F	19 February 1888	21 August 2002	114 years, 183 days	Cape Verde	United States
04	Maria da Encarnação Nunes de Sousa^[3]	F	20 March 1909	20 July 2022	113 years, 122 days	Guarda	Coimbra
05	Maria Luíza Nunes da Silva^[1]	F	7 July 1898	26 September 2011	113 years, 81 days	Porto	Lisbon
06	Catarina Carreiro-Pascoal^[1]	F	9 January 1891	13 February 2004	113 years, 35 days	Castelo Branco	Castelo Branco
07	Maria da Conceição^[4]	F	7 December 1904	9 October 2017	112 years, 306 days	Coimbra	Braga
08	Clara Lopes dos Santos^[1]	F	26 March 1894	25 October 2006	112 years, 213 days	Viseu	Lisbon
09	Carmelina Augusta Delgado^[5]	F	8 November 1900	19 May 2013	112 years, 192 days	Bragança	Bragança
10	Augusto Moreira de Oliveira^[1]	M	6 October 1896	13 February 2009	112 years, 130 days	Aveiro	Porto
11	Isabel Gomes Sarmento^[6]	F	27 December 1910	12 January 2023^[7]	112 years, 16 days	Brazil	Viseu
12	Mary Marques^[1]	F	11 February 1896	3 January 2008	111 years, 326 days	Leiria	United States
13	Joaquina Martins^[8]	F	13 January 1907	14 October 2018	111 years, 274 days	Lisbon	Lisbon
14	Benvinda Marques Matias^[9]	F	15 February 1906	23 September 2017	111 years, 220 days	Coimbra	Leiria
15	Albano Andrade^[10]	M	14 December 1909	29 June 2021^[11]	111 years, 197 days	Aveiro	Aveiro
16	Antonio Fernandes de Castro^[1]	M	6 January 1898	22 June 2009	111 years, 167 days	Braga	Braga
17	Maria da Conceição Brito^[12]	F	22 December 1912	Living	111 years, 143 days	Faro	Faro
18	Ilda da Silva^[13]	F	16 April 1913	Living	111 years, 27 days	Faro	Lisbon
19	Maria Dolores Ferreira^[14]	F	22 July 1902	31 July 2013	111 years, 9 days	Braga	Braga
20	Romana Sousa Marques^[15]	F	22 July 1908	15 June 2019^[16]	110 years, 328 days	Leiria	Leiria
21	Alice Sanders^[1]	F	12 May 1897	7 November 2007	110 years, 179 days	Azores	United States
22	José Fernandes Morgado^[17]	M	10 January 1912	18 June 2022	110 years, 159 days	Leiria	Brazil
23	Olinda Paulo Baeta^[18]	F	9 October 1911	8 January 2022^[19]	110 years, 91 days	Coimbra	Coimbra
24	Custódia Maria Inácia^[20]	F	26 April 1913	14 July 2023	110 years, 79 days	Beja	Faro
25	Herminia dos Santos Correa^[21]	F	17 July 1910	27 September 2020	110 years, 72 days	Bragança	Bragança
26	José Martins^[22]	M	7 March 1912	14 May 2022	110 years, 68 days	Madeira	Madeira
27	Virginia Monteiro^[23]	F	28 March 1895	7 April 2005	110 years, 10 days	Cape Verde	United States

Biographies

Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes

Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes (24 October 1890 – 25 July 2005) is the 2nd longest-lived person to be documented in Portugal. She was born and lived in Grijó, in Vila Nova de Gaia, which is near the city of Porto.

She remembered the day when the last king of Portugal, D. Manuel II, visited the nearby town of Espinho, on 23 November 1908.^[24]

She had a total of eight daughters, seven grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren. Her husband died in 1942. One of her great-granddaughters married a grandson of Portugal's oldest ever man, Augusto Moreira de Oliveira (1896 – 2009).^[25] Maia-Lopes died on 25 July 2005, aged 114 years 274 days.

Alice Sanders

Alice Sanders (São Jorge Island, 12 May 1897 – Merced, California, 7 November 2007)^[1] was one of the last survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Alice Catarina Matos was born in the Azores archipelago. Her family emigrated to Half Moon Bay (California) in 1903, when Alice was 6 years old. The April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake, a few weeks prior to Alice's ninth birthday, was a traumatic experience to her family, since they believed the end of the world had come. In 1912, the Matos family moved to Gustine, where Alice met Clarence Leonard Sanders, who became her husband on Christmas Day in 1913.^{[26] [27]}

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