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., the Gerontology Research Group had validated the longevity claims of 9 Portuguese supercentenarians, including 7 residents and 2 emigrants. Maria de Jesus was the oldest Portuguese citizen whose age was validated; she lived 115 years and 114 days, from 1893 to 2009..

Oldest Portuguese people ever

RankNameSexBirth dateDeath dateAgeDistrict or region
of birth		District or country
of death
1Maria de JesusF10 September 18932 January 2009115 years, 114 daysSantarémSantarém
2Maria do Couto Maia-LopesF24 October 189025 July 2005114 years, 274 daysPortoPorto
3Adelina DominguesF19 February 188821 August 2002114 years, 183 daysCape VerdeUnited States
4Maria Luíza Nunes da SilvaF7 July 189826 September 2011113 years, 81 daysPortoLisbon
5Catarina Carreiro-PascoalF9 January 189113 February 2004113 years, 35 daysCastelo BrancoCastelo Branco
6Clara Lopes dos SantosF26 March 189425 October 2006112 years, 213 daysViseuLisbon
7Augusto Moreira de OliveiraM6 October 189613 February 2009112 years, 130 daysAveiroPorto
8Mary MarquesF11 February 18963 January 2008111 years, 326 daysLeiriaUnited States
9Benvinda Marques MatiasF15 February 190623 September 2017111 years, 220 daysCoimbraLeiria
10Antonio Fernandes de CastroM6 January 189822 June 2009111 years, 167 daysBragaBraga
11Maria Dolores FerreiraF22 July 190229 July 2013111 years, 7 daysBragaBraga
12Romana Sousa MarquesF22 July 190815 June 2019110 years, 328 daysLeiriaLeiria
13Albano AndradeM14 December 1909LivingAveiroAveiro
14[|Alice Sanders]F12 May 18977 November 2007110 years, 179 daysAzoresUnited States

Biographies

Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes

Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes 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.
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. Maia-Lopes died 25 July 2005, aged 114 years 274 days.

Alice Sanders

Alice Sanders 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 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.