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]
Deceased Living
Rank | Name | Sex | Birth date | Death date | Age | Birthplace | Place of death or residence |
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1 | Maria de Jesus [1] | F | 10 September 1893 | 2 January 2009 [2] | 115 years, 114 days | Santarém | Santarém |
2 | Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes [1] | F | 24 October 1890 | 25 July 2005 | 114 years, 274 days | Porto | Porto |
3 | Adelina Domingues [1] | F | 19 February 1888 | 21 August 2002 | 114 years, 183 days | Cape Verde | United States |
4 | Maria da Encarnação Nunes de Sousa [3] | F | 20 March 1909 | 20 July 2022 | 113 years, 122 days | Guarda | Coimbra |
5 | Maria Luíza Nunes da Silva [1] | F | 7 July 1898 | 26 September 2011 | 113 years, 81 days | Porto | Lisbon |
6 | Catarina Carreiro-Pascoal [1] | F | 9 January 1891 | 13 February 2004 | 113 years, 35 days | Castelo Branco | Castelo Branco |
7 | Lourdina Conceição Lobo [4] | F | 8 December 1908 | 3 November 2021 | 112 years, 330 days | Portuguese India | India |
8 | Maria da Conceição [5] | F | 7 December 1904 | 9 October 2017 | 112 years, 306 days | Coimbra | Braga |
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 | Maria Jorge Esteves de Almeida [7] | F | 28 May 1912 | Living | 112 years, 190 days | Coimbra | Brazil |
12 | Augusto Moreira de Oliveira [1] | M | 6 October 1896 | 13 February 2009 | 112 years, 130 days | Aveiro | Porto |
13 | Inacia Carmelinho [8] | F | 17 June 1911 | 20 August 2023 | 112 years, 64 days | Angola | Lisbon |
14 | Isabel Gomes Sarmento [9] | F | 27 December 1910 | 12 January 2023 [10] | 112 years, 16 days | Brazil | Viseu |
15 | Maria da Conceição Brito [11] | F | 22 December 1912 | Living | 111 years, 348 days | Faro | Faro |
16 | Matilda D'Souza [12] | F | 25 October 1911 | 17 September 2023 | 111 years, 327 days | Portuguese India | India |
17 | Mary Marques [1] | F | 11 February 1896 | 3 January 2008 | 111 years, 326 days | Leiria | United States |
18 | Camilia Gonçalves [13] | F | 23 October 1911 | 21 August 2023 | 111 years, 302 days | (unknown) | Brazil |
19 | Joaquina Martins [14] | F | 13 January 1907 | 14 October 2018 | 111 years, 274 days | Lisbon | Lisbon |
20 | Ilda da Silva [15] | F | 16 April 1913 | Living | 111 years, 232 days | Faro | Lisbon |
21 | Benvinda Marques Matias [16] | F | 15 February 1906 | 23 September 2017 | 111 years, 220 days | Coimbra | Leiria |
22 | Albano Andrade [17] | M | 14 December 1909 | 29 June 2021 [18] | 111 years, 197 days | Aveiro | Aveiro |
23 | Antonio Fernandes de Castro [1] | M | 6 January 1898 | 22 June 2009 | 111 years, 167 days | Braga | Braga |
24 | Maria Helena Aguiar [19] | F | 2 November 1913 | Living | 111 years, 32 days | São Tomé and Príncipe | Porto |
25 | Maria Dolores Ferreira [20] | F | 22 July 1902 | 31 July 2013 | 111 years, 9 days | Braga | Braga |
26 | Romana Sousa Marques [21] | F | 22 July 1908 | 15 June 2019 [22] | 110 years, 328 days | Leiria | Leiria |
27 | Fernanda da Costa [23] | F | 2 June 1914 | Living | 110 years, 185 days | Viseu | Viseu |
28 | Alice Sanders [1] | F | 12 May 1897 | 7 November 2007 | 110 years, 179 days | Azores | United States |
29 | José Fernandes Morgado [24] | M | 10 January 1912 | 18 June 2022 | 110 years, 159 days | Leiria | Brazil |
30 | Celestina Rebelo [25] | F | 26 August 1914 | Living | 110 years, 100 days | Guarda | Guarda |
31 | Olinda Paulo Baeta [26] | F | 9 October 1911 | 8 January 2022 [27] | 110 years, 91 days | Coimbra | Coimbra |
32 | Custódia Maria Inácia [28] | F | 26 April 1913 | 14 July 2023 | 110 years, 79 days | Beja | Faro |
33 | Herminia dos Santos Correa [29] | F | 17 July 1910 | 27 September 2020 | 110 years, 72 days | Bragança | Bragança |
34 | José Martins [30] | M | 7 March 1912 | 14 May 2022 | 110 years, 68 days | Madeira | Madeira |
35 | Virginia Monteiro [31] | F | 28 March 1895 | 7 April 2005 | 110 years, 10 days | Cape Verde | United States |
36 | Branca Pinto de Carvalho [32] | F | 27 March 1914 | 30 March 2024 | 110 years, 3 days | Mozambique | Leiria |
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. [33]
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). [34] Maia-Lopes died on 25 July 2005, aged 114 years 274 days.
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. [35] [36]
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