List of Portuguese supercentenarians
People from Portugal who have attained or surpassed the age of 110 years
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
0 1
Maria de Jesus[ 1]
F
10 September 1893
2 January 2009[ 2]
115 years, 114 days
Santarém
Santarém
0 2
Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes [ 1]
F
24 October 1890
25 July 2005
114 years, 274 days
Porto
Porto
0 3
Adelina Domingues [ 1]
F
19 February 1888
21 August 2002
114 years, 183 days
Cape Verde
United States
0 4
Maria da Encarnação Nunes de Sousa[ 3]
F
20 March 1909
20 July 2022
113 years, 122 days
Guarda
Coimbra
0 5
Maria Luíza Nunes da Silva[ 1]
F
7 July 1898
26 September 2011
113 years, 81 days
Porto
Lisbon
0 6
Catarina Carreiro-Pascoal[ 1]
F
9 January 1891
13 February 2004
113 years, 35 days
Castelo Branco
Castelo Branco
0 7
Lourdina Conceição Lobo[ 4]
F
8 December 1908
3 November 2021
112 years, 330 days
Portuguese India
India
0 8
Maria da Conceição[ 5]
F
7 December 1904
9 October 2017
112 years, 306 days
Coimbra
Braga
0 9
Clara Lopes dos Santos[ 1]
F
26 March 1894
25 October 2006
112 years, 213 days
Viseu
Lisbon
10
Carmelina Augusta Delgado[ 6]
F
8 November 1900
19 May 2013
112 years, 192 days
Bragança
Bragança
11
Augusto Moreira de Oliveira[ 1]
M
6 October 1896
13 February 2009
112 years, 130 days
Aveiro
Porto
12
Isabel Gomes Sarmento[ 7]
F
27 December 1910
12 January 2023[ 8]
112 years, 16 days
Brazil
Viseu
13
Matilda D'Souza[ 9]
F
25 October 1911
17 September 2023
111 years, 327 days
Portuguese India
India
14
Mary Marques[ 1]
F
11 February 1896
3 January 2008
111 years, 326 days
Leiria
United States
15
Maria da Conceição Brito[ 10]
F
22 December 1912
Living
111 years, 282 days
Faro
Faro
16
Joaquina Martins[ 11]
F
13 January 1907
14 October 2018
111 years, 274 days
Lisbon
Lisbon
17
Benvinda Marques Matias[ 12]
F
15 February 1906
23 September 2017
111 years, 220 days
Coimbra
Leiria
18
Albano Andrade[ 13]
M
14 December 1909
29 June 2021[ 14]
111 years, 197 days
Aveiro
Aveiro
19
Antonio Fernandes de Castro[ 1]
M
6 January 1898
22 June 2009
111 years, 167 days
Braga
Braga
20
Ilda da Silva[ 15]
F
16 April 1913
Living
111 years, 166 days
Faro
Lisbon
21
Maria Dolores Ferreira[ 16]
F
22 July 1902
31 July 2013
111 years, 9 days
Braga
Braga
22
Romana Sousa Marques[ 17]
F
22 July 1908
15 June 2019[ 18]
110 years, 328 days
Leiria
Leiria
23
Alice Sanders [ 1]
F
12 May 1897
7 November 2007
110 years, 179 days
Azores
United States
24
José Fernandes Morgado[ 19]
M
10 January 1912
18 June 2022
110 years, 159 days
Leiria
Brazil
25
Olinda Paulo Baeta[ 20]
F
9 October 1911
8 January 2022[ 21]
110 years, 91 days
Coimbra
Coimbra
26
Custódia Maria Inácia[ 22]
F
26 April 1913
14 July 2023
110 years, 79 days
Beja
Faro
27
Herminia dos Santos Correa[ 23]
F
17 July 1910
27 September 2020
110 years, 72 days
Bragança
Bragança
28
José Martins[ 24]
M
7 March 1912
14 May 2022
110 years, 68 days
Madeira
Madeira
29
Virginia Monteiro[ 25]
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.[ 26]
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).[ 27] 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.[ 28]
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