List of Italian supercentenarians


Italian supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from Italy who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age., the Gerontology Research Group had validated the longevity claims of 151 Italian supercentenarians. There are currently 12 known Italians alive over age 110; the oldest as of is Maria Oliva, born 16 April 1909, aged,. The oldest Italian ever was Emma Morano, who was also the last person in the world to have been born before the year 1900. She died on 15 April 2017, aged 117 years and 137 days.

100 oldest Italian people



RankNameSexBirth dateDeath dateAgeRegion or country
of birth		Region or country
of death
or residence
1Emma MoranoF29 November 189915 April 2017PiedmontPiedmont
2Maria Giuseppa RobucciF20 March 190318 June 2019ApuliaApulia
3Giuseppina ProjettoF30 May 19026 July 2018SardiniaTuscany
4Dina ManfrediniF4 April 189717 December 2012Emilia-RomagnaUnited States
5Marie Josephine GaudetteF25 March 190213 July 2017United StatesLazio
6Venere PizzinatoF23 November 18962 August 2011Trentino-Alto AdigeVeneto
7Virginia DigheroF24 December 189128 December 2005LiguriaLiguria
8Maria RedaelliF3 April 18992 April 2013LombardyLombardy
9Anna BenericettiF22 March 190611 December 2019Emilia-RomagnaEmilia-Romagna
10Amalia BaroneF6 October 188426 June 1998CampaniaUnited States
11Diega CammalleriF23 October 190515 June 2019SicilySicily
12Maria GravigiF3 March 190015 August 2013Friuli-Venezia GiuliaFriuli-Venezia Giulia
13Maria Teresa FumarolaF2 December 188914 May 2003ApuliaApulia
14Lucia LauriaF4 March 189628 June 2009BasilicataBasilicata
15Irene Ciuffoletti F19 January 19037 May 2016BasilicataUnited States
16Mariannina GenoveseF15 October 19051 January 2019SicilySicily
17Stella NardariF23 December 189823 February 2012VenetoVeneto
18Ida FrabboniF4 October 18962 November 2009Emilia-RomagnaEmilia-Romagna
18Guerina AmedeiF31 January 19061 March 2019Emilia-RomagnaEmilia-Romagna
20Giulia SaniF15 September 18934 September 2006TuscanyTuscany
21Renata BianchiF16 October 19064 October 2019Emilia-RomagnaEmilia-Romagna
22Antonio ToddeM22 January 18893 January 2002SardiniaSardinia
23Marietta CapizziF30 January 190110 November 2013SicilyUnited States
24Maria MuraroF29 March 18922 January 2005VenetoVeneto
25Rosa BandiniF11 September 190112 June 2014Emilia-RomagnaEmilia-Romagna
26Emilia ZucchettiF28 August 190326 April 2016VenetoLombardy
27Valesca TanganelliF7 July 19074 March 2020TuscanyTuscany
28Anna Maria RosatiF4 May 190527 November 2017LombardyLombardy
29Luisa Chiacchiari
F10 December 188629 June 1999MoliseUnited States
30Lina GrottaF22 November 189627 May 2009TuscanyTuscany
31Carmela VelardiF22 October 190621 April 2019SicilySicily
32Giovanni FrauM29 December 189019 June 2003SardiniaSardinia
33Serafina NaccaratoF10 October 189329 March 2006CalabriaMarche
34Lorenza DottaF7 August 189411 January 2007PiedmontPiedmont
35Vincenza BalassoneF24 January 190326 June 2015AbruzzoUnited States
36Rosa PesceF12 September 19029 January 2015PiedmontPiedmont
37Santa GennariF23 February 189918 June 2011MarcheMarche
38Rosaria CalecaF5 February 18956 May 2007SicilyUnited States
39Erminia BianchiniF23 April 190823 June 2020PiedmontPiedmont
40Chelidonia MerosiF11 October 188310 December 1995LazioLazio
41Maria MallozziF25 September 188726 October 1999LazioCanada
42Angela CaseF21 July 189917 August 2011VenetoVeneto
43Elia ConcariF14 July 19052 August 2017AbruzzoLombardy
44Irma IlariF22 September 190717 September 2019TuscanyTuscany
45Arturo LicataM2 May 190224 April 2014SicilySicily
46Maria CresciniF20 January 190417 December 2015LombardyLombardy
47Margherita VenzoF21 February 19038 January 2015VenetoVeneto
48Maria ZaccariaF24 November 19052 October 2017SicilyFrance
49Valerio PiroddiM13 November 190518 September 2017SardiniaSardinia
50Maria NegriF12 March 189513 January 2007VenetoVeneto
51Maria-Elisa MoroF11 February 18972 November 2008VenetoLazio
52Lilla De GeronimiF2 December 189214 August 2004LiguriaLiguria
53Maria CiuffredaF21 June 189928 February 2011ApuliaApulia
54Maria GranelloF11 December 190411 August 2016VenetoVeneto
55Anita TiburniF3 May 190027 December 2011TuscanyTuscany
56Carolina PerettiF21 October 189715 June 2009Aosta ValleyPiedmont
57Maria Antonia ZuccalàF15 March 190515 October 2016CalabriaCalabria
58Gesuina DonatiF9 June 18931 January 2005LazioLazio
59Anna Di FeliceF10 March 189230 September 2003AbruzzoUnited States
60Rosa FrauF12 August 190114 February 2013SardiniaSardinia
61Maria MattiviF29 November 190429 May 2016Trentino-Alto AdigeTrentino-Alto Adige
62Maria GentiliniF12 May 18944 November 2005Emilia-RomagnaEmilia-Romagna
63Ernesta PizzocriF20 August 19016 February 2013LombardyLombardy
64Nora EttoriF5 April 190722 August 2018BrazilLombardy
65Alba Benatti-TogniF21 March 190231 July 2013LombardyFrance
66Filomena MarongiuF23 October 190423 February 2016SardiniaSardinia
67Maria OlivaF16 April 1909LivingSicilySicily
68Elvira RaimondiF13 February 189025 May 2001Emilia-RomagnaEmilia-Romagna
69Carmela VillaniF1 May 1909LivingApuliaApulia
70Luigina PavoncelliF22 May 190819 August 2019VenetoVeneto
71Maria FedericiF4 April 190829 June 2019AbruzzoTuscany
72Linda ZappettiniF26 February 189220 May 2003LiguriaLiguria
72Carmela MileoF27 November 189918 February 2011CalabriaCalabria
74Natalina CresciF25 December 189013 March 2002LiguriaUnited States
74Cecilia SeghizziF5 September 190822 November 2019Friuli-Venezia GiuliaFriuli-Venezia Giulia
76Angela Maria FrigerioF10 April 190525 June 2016PiedmontPiedmont
77Ida ZoccaratoF24 May 1909LivingVenetoVeneto
78Angela RoggesF19 November 190023 January 2012ApuliaApulia
78Maria Teresa FossatiF9 September 190513 November 2016PiedmontLiguria
80Theresia StafflerF15 November 189811 January 2010Trentino-Alto AdigeTrentino-Alto Adige
81Domenica Di TomassoF11 February 19007 April 2011AbruzzoAbruzzo
82Antonio BaldoM6 July 188728 August 1998VenetoVeneto
82Teresa RubertoF3 November 189626 December 2007CampaniaCampania
84Salvina MartinelliF2 August 189218 September 2003VenetoVeneto
84Grazia SpadafinoF13 October 189329 November 2004ApuliaApulia
84Lidia RisoF23 December 19058 February 2017VenetoTuscany
87Orsola Virgina PeregoF10 January 189223 February 2003LombardyLombardy
88Maria Santa ButeraF2 December 190414 January 2016SicilySicily
89Iasir GallesiF14 July 1909LivingEmilia-RomagnaLazio
90Giovanni LigatoM18 February 19012 March 2012CalabriaLiguria
91Domenico MinervinoM10 May 188022 May 1991CalabriaCalabria
92Maddalena FigoneF1 March 18816 March 1992LiguriaLiguria
93Valentino StellaM2 January 18861 January 1997VenetoVeneto
94Lucia PrataF20 October 188315 October 1994AbruzzoUnited States
95Ida SeveriniF12 February 18936 February 2004Emilia-RomagnaEmilia-Romagna
96Lida BertonatiF30 April 186717 April 1978LiguriaTuscany
97Antonio PierroM22 February 18968 February 2007BasilicataUnited States
99Giuseppina DeiddaF25 January 19002 January 2011SardiniaSardinia
99Cirilla ZenariF28 February 19022 February 2013VenetoVeneto
100Eleonora CasagrandeF9 July 18866 June 1997LiguriaLiguria

Biographies

Antonio Todde

Antonio Todde was an Italian supercentenarian who, at the time of his death, was the oldest man in the world. Todde was born in the village of Tiana, in the province of Nuoro, Sardinia, an area noted for its centenarian density. Born to a poor shepherd family in the medieval center of Tiana, Todde was the third of 12 children. In 1920, he married Maria Antonia, then aged 25, and they had four daughters and a son. She died in 1990, aged 95. He left Sardinia only to fight in the First World War, where he was injured in the shoulder by a grenade. He died at age 112 years, 346 days on 3 January 2002.

Venere Pizzinato

Venere Pizzinato was an Italian supercentenarian who lived for 114 years and 252 days. At the time of her death she was the oldest person ever from Italy, and the world's third oldest living person. Pizzinato was also the oldest person ever to have been born in the Austro-Hungarian empire.
She was born in Ala, Trentino, then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, on 23 November 1896. In 1902 the family moved to Verona, where they had relatives. In 1903, they moved back to Trentino, where Pizzinato attended a boarding school in Trento. World War I forced her to take refuge in Bazzano, Bologna. After the war, she moved to Milan, where she took Italian citizenship and met her future husband Isidoro Papo. During the outbreak of World War II, in 1939, the couple moved to Nice, France, to escape the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini. They married in France, and after the war they moved back to Milan. Upon retirement in 1964, they finally settled in Verona. Mr. Papo died in 1981, and the couple remained childless. Pizzinato remained in Verona for the rest of her life, her final years in a retirement home there.
On 23 November 2010, marking her 114th birthday, Pizzinato was visited by Italy's president, Giorgio Napolitano, who wrote her a congratulations letter.

Marie Josephine Gaudette

Marie-Josephine Clarice Gaudette was the oldest living Italian from the death of Emma Morano on 15 April 2017 until her own death three months later, Born in Manchester, New Hampshire, she was also the oldest living person born in the United States from May 2016 to July 2017.
A nun known as Mother Cecilia, she lived in Canada and France before settling in Rome. She lived at the Convento di Gesù e Maria convent from 1958 until her death, and was considered "the world's oldest nun". Gaudette died on 13 July 2017, aged 115 years, 110 days, as the 5th-oldest living person in the world.

Giuseppina Projetto

Giuseppina Projetto was, at age 116 years, 37 days, the oldest living person in Italy from the death of Marie Josephine Gaudette on 13 July 2017, and the world's second-oldest verified living person upon the death of Nabi Tajima on 21 April 2018, until her own death on 6 July 2018.
She was born in La Maddalena, but was of Sicilian origin. Her maternal grandfather had moved from Sicily with the expedition of Giuseppe Garibaldi. In 1946, she married Giuseppe Frau, a widower with three children. At the time of her death, Projetto lived in Tuscany with her daughter-in-law and grandchildren.