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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 (GRG) 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 known Portuguese people

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 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). 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) 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 six years old. In 1912, the Matos family moved to Gustine, where Alice met Clarence Leonard Sanders, whom she married in 1913.

Maria da Conceição Brito

Maria da Conceição Brito was born in São Romão (Seia) Faro, Portugal, on 22 December 1912. She worked as a farmer. She married and had at least one son. Da Conceição Brito was reported to be mentally sharp by staff at her nursing home. On 20 August 2023, following the death of Inacia Carmelino, Da Conceição Brito became Portugal's oldest living resident.

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