# List of Italian supercentenarians

Italian supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from Italy who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age. As of January 2015, the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 151 Italian supercentenarians, the majority of whom were women. The oldest Italian ever is Emma Morano, who was also the last living person born before the year 1900. As of 17 March 2025, the oldest living person in Italy is Lucia Laura Sangenito born on 22 November 1910 in Campania, aged 114 years, 115 days.

## 100 oldest known Italians

Deceased  Living
| Rank | Name | Sex | Birth date | Death date | Age | Birthplace | Place of death or residence |
| 01 | Emma Morano | F | 29 November 1899 | 15 April 2017 | 117 years, 137 days | Piedmont | Piedmont |
| 02 | Maria Giuseppa Robucci | F | 20 March 1903 | 18 June 2019 | 116 years, 90 days | Apulia | Apulia |
| 03 | Giuseppina Projetto | F | 30 May 1902 | 6 July 2018 | 116 years, 37 days | Sardinia | Tuscany |
| 04 | Dina Guerri-Manfredini [it] | F | 4 April 1897 | 17 December 2012 | 115 years, 257 days | Emilia-Romagna | United States |
| 05 | Marie-Josephine Gaudette | F | 25 March 1902 | 13 July 2017 | 115 years, 110 days | United States | Lazio |
| 06 | Venere Ires Pizzinato | F | 23 November 1896 | 2 August 2011 | 114 years, 252 days | Trentino-Alto Adige | Veneto |
| 07 | Lucia Laura Sangenito | F | 22 November 1910 | Living | 114 years, 115 days | Campania | Campania |
| 08 | Claudia Baccarini [it] | F | 13 October 1910 | 24 December 2024 | 114 years, 72 days | Emilia-Romagna | Emilia-Romagna |
| 09 | Virginia Dighero | F | 24 December 1891 | 28 December 2005 | 114 years, 4 days | Liguria | Liguria |
| 10 | Maria Redaelli | F | 3 April 1899 | 2 April 2013 | 113 years, 364 days | Lombardy | Lombardy |
| 11 | Anna Benericetti [it] | F | 22 March 1906 | 11 December 2019 | 113 years, 264 days | Emilia-Romagna | Emilia-Romagna |
| 12 | Amalia Barone | F | 6 October 1884 | 26 June 1998 | 113 years, 263 days | Campania | United States |
| 13 | Diega Cammalleri | F | 23 October 1905 | 15 June 2019 | 113 years, 235 days | Sicily | Sicily |
| 14 | Amarillide Bufalini | F | 27 November 1876 | 15 May 1990 | 113 years, 169 days | Lazio | United States |
| 15 | Maria Gravigi | F | 3 March 1900 | 15 August 2013 | 113 years, 165 days | Friuli-Venezia Giulia | Friuli-Venezia Giulia |
| 16 | Maria Teresa Fumarola | F | 2 December 1889 | 14 May 2003 | 113 years, 163 days | Apulia | Apulia |
| 17 | Domenica Ercolani | F | 3 July 1910 | 17 November 2023 | 113 years, 137 days | Marche | Marche |
| 18 | Lucia Lauria | F | 4 March 1896 | 28 June 2009 | 113 years, 116 days | Basilicata | Basilicata |
| 19 | Irene Ciuffoletti | F | 19 January 1903 | 7 May 2016 | 113 years, 109 days | Basilicata | United States |
| 20 | Mariannina Genovese | F | 15 October 1905 | 1 January 2019 | 113 years, 78 days | Sicily | Sicily |
| 21 | Francesca Fioriglio | F | 11 January 1912 | Living | 113 years, 65 days | Sicily | Sicily |
| 22 | Stella Nardari | F | 23 December 1898 | 23 February 2012 | 113 years, 62 days | Veneto | Veneto |
| 23 | Ida Frabboni | F | 4 October 1896 | 2 November 2009 | 113 years, 29 days | Emilia-Romagna | Emilia-Romagna |
| 23 | Guerina Amedei | F | 31 January 1906 | 1 March 2019 | 113 years, 29 days | Emilia-Romagna | Emilia-Romagna |
| 25 | Giulia Sani | F | 15 September 1893 | 4 September 2006 | 112 years, 354 days | Tuscany | Tuscany |
| 26 | Renata Bianchi | F | 16 October 1906 | 4 October 2019 | 112 years, 353 days | Emilia-Romagna | Emilia-Romagna |
| 27 | Antonio Todde | M | 22 January 1889 | 3 January 2002 | 112 years, 346 days | Sardinia | Sardinia |
| 28 | Maria Carmela Ricci | F | 16 April 1912 | Living | 112 years, 335 days | Campania | Piedmont |
| 29 | Cristina Paloscia | F | 15 May 1912 | Living | 112 years, 306 days | Abruzzo | Tuscany |
| 30 | Marietta Capizzi | F | 30 January 1901 | 10 November 2013 | 112 years, 284 days | Sicily | United States |
| 31 | Maria Muraro | F | 29 March 1892 | 2 January 2005 | 112 years, 279 days | Veneto | Veneto |
| 32 | Rosa Bandini | F | 11 September 1901 | 12 June 2014 | 112 years, 274 days | Emilia-Romagna | Emilia-Romagna |
| 33 | Rosa De Vita | F | 8 February 1911 | 11 October 2023 | 112 years, 245 days | Campania | Campania |
| 34 | Emilia Zucchetti | F | 28 August 1903 | 26 April 2016 | 112 years, 242 days | Veneto | Lombardy |
| 35 | Valesca Tanganelli | F | 7 July 1907 | 4 March 2020 | 112 years, 241 days | Tuscany | Tuscany |
| 36 | Ida Zoccarato | F | 24 May 1909 | 16 January 2022 | 112 years, 237 days | Veneto | Veneto |
| 37 | Delio Venturotti | M | 25 October 1909 | 1 June 2022 | 112 years, 219 days | Veneto | Brazil |
| 38 | Anna Maria Rosati | F | 4 May 1905 | 27 November 2017 | 112 years, 207 days | Lombardy | Lombardy |
| 39 | L(o)uisa Chiacchiari | F | 10 December 1886 | 29 June 1999 | 112 years, 201 days | Molise | United States |
| 40 | Lina Grotta | F | 22 November 1896 | 27 May 2009 | 112 years, 186 days | Tuscany | Tuscany |
| 41 | Carmela Velardi | F | 22 October 1906 | 21 April 2019 | 112 years, 181 days | Sicily | Sicily |
| 42 | Catherine Abate | F | 15 November 1909 | 7 May 2022 | 112 years, 173 days | Basilicata | United States |
| 43 | Giovanni Frau | M | 29 December 1890 | 19 June 2003 | 112 years, 172 days | Sardinia | Sardinia |
| 44 | Serafina Naccarato | F | 10 October 1893 | 29 March 2006 | 112 years, 170 days | Calabria | Marche |
| 45 | Lorenza Dotta | F | 7 August 1894 | 11 January 2007 | 112 years, 157 days | Piedmont | Piedmont |
| 46 | Vincenza Colucci | F | 24 January 1903 | 26 June 2015 | 112 years, 153 days | Abruzzo | United States |
| 47 | Maria Oliva | F | 16 April 1909 | 27 August 2021 | 112 years, 133 days | Sicily | Sicily |
| 48 | Ines Sommovigo | F | 6 November 1911 | 16 March 2024 | 112 years, 131 days | Liguria | Liguria |
| 49 | Rosa Pesce | F | 12 September 1902 | 9 January 2015 | 112 years, 119 days | Piedmont | Piedmont |
| 50 | Amelia Addari | F | 25 March 1912 | 20 July 2024 | 112 years, 117 days | Sardinia | Sardinia |
| 51 | Anna Natella | F | 21 November 1912 | Living | 112 years, 116 days | Basilicata | United States |
| 52 | Santa Gennari | F | 23 February 1899 | 18 June 2011 | 112 years, 115 days | Marche | Marche |
| 53 | Giuseppa Salerno | F | 17 June 1911 | 26 September 2023 | 112 years, 101 days | Campania | Campania |
| 54 | Rosaria "Rose" Caleca | F | 5 February 1895 | 6 May 2007 | 112 years, 90 days | Sicily | United States |
| 55 | Erminia Bianchini | F | 23 April 1908 | 23 June 2020 | 112 years, 61 days | Piedmont | Piedmont |
| 56 | Chelidonia Merosi | F | 11 October 1883 | 10 December 1995 | 112 years, 60 days | Lazio | Lazio |
| 57 | Maria Antonia D’Amore | F | 20 October 1909 | 24 November 2021 | 112 years, 35 days | Abruzzo | Lazio |
| 58 | Maria Mallozzi | F | 25 September 1887 | 26 October 1999 | 112 years, 31 days | Lazio | Canada |
| 59 | Angela Case | F | 21 July 1899 | 17 August 2011 | 112 years, 27 days | Veneto | Veneto |
| 60 | Elia Concari | F | 14 July 1905 | 2 August 2017 | 112 years, 19 days | Abruzzo | Lombardy |
| 61 | Angela Tiraboschi [it] | F | 19 April 1910 | 7 May 2022 | 112 years, 18 days | Lombardy | Lombardy |
| 62 | Antonia Manzi | F | 20 February 1912 | 4 March 2024 | 112 years, 13 days | Lazio | Lazio |
| 63 | Irma Ilari | F | 22 September 1907 | 17 September 2019 | 111 years, 360 days | Tuscany | Tuscany |
| 64 | Arturo Licata | M | 2 May 1902 | 24 April 2014 | 111 years, 357 days | Sicily | Sicily |
| 65 | Maria Crescini | F | 20 January 1904 | 17 December 2015 | 111 years, 331 days | Lombardy | Lombardy |
| 66 | Margherita Carossio | F | 10 August 1905 | 30 June 2017 | 111 years, 324 days | Piedmont | Argentina |
| 67 | Frances Pisano | F | 2 April 1910 | 18 February 2022 | 111 years, 322 days | Calabria | United States |
| 68 | Margherita Venzo | F | 21 February 1903 | 8 January 2015 | 111 years, 321 days | Veneto | Veneto |
| 69 | Maria Novara | F | 4 May 1913 | Living | 111 years, 317 days | Sicily | Sicily |
| 70 | Maria Zaccaria | F | 24 November 1905 | 2 October 2017 | 111 years, 312 days | Sicily | France |
| 71 | Valerio Piroddi | M | 13 November 1905 | 18 September 2017 | 111 years, 309 days | Sardinia | Sardinia |
| 72 | Maria Negri | F | 12 March 1895 | 13 January 2007 | 111 years, 307 days | Veneto | Veneto |
| 73 | Lidia Menis Peresini | F | 30 November 1906 | 22 September 2018 | 111 years, 296 days | Friuli-Venezia Giulia | Costa Rica |
| 74 | Matilde Coulter | F | 30 March 1909 | 19 January 2021 | 111 years, 295 days | Apulia | United Kingdom |
| 75 | Maria-Elisa Moro | F | 11 February 1897 | 2 November 2008 | 111 years, 265 days | Veneto | Lazio |
| 76 | Rita Lotta | F | 17 November 1912 | 1 August 2024 | 111 years, 258 days | Apulia | Apulia |
| 77 | Giuseppa Campagna | F | 1 January 1903 | 15 September 2014 | 111 years, 257 days | Sicily | United States |
| 78 | Lilla De Geronimi | F | 2 December 1892 | 14 August 2004 | 111 years, 256 days | Liguria | Liguria |
| 79 | Ida Ortolani | F | 4 October 1912 | 14 June 2024 | 111 years, 254 days | United States | Lombardy |
| 80 | Onorina Apprato de Tagliaferro | F | 7 July 1913 | Living | 111 years, 253 days | Piedmont | Argentina |
| 81 | Maria Ciuffreda | F | 21 June 1899 | 28 February 2011 | 111 years, 252 days | Apulia | Apulia |
| 82 | Maria Granello | F | 11 December 1904 | 11 August 2016 | 111 years, 244 days | Veneto | Veneto |
| 83 | Lucia Soliman | F | 17 April 1911 | 15 December 2022 | 111 years, 242 days | Veneto | Veneto |
| 84 | Anita Tiburni | F | 3 May 1900 | 27 December 2011 | 111 years, 238 days | Tuscany | Tuscany |
| 85 | Carolina Peretti | F | 21 October 1897 | 15 June 2009 | 111 years, 237 days | Aosta Valley | Piedmont |
| 86 | Maria Antonia Zuccalà | F | 15 March 1905 | 15 October 2016 | 111 years, 214 days | Calabria | Calabria |
| 87 | Ebe Luisa Tosi | F | 11 July 1913 | 5 February 2025 | 111 years, 209 days | Emilia-Romagna | Liguria |
| 88 | Gesuina Donati | F | 9 June 1893 | 1 January 2005 | 111 years, 206 days | Lazio | Lazio |
| 89 | Anna DiFelice | F | 10 March 1892 | 30 September 2003 | 111 years, 204 days | Abruzzo | United States |
| 90 | Luigia Gorla | F | 28 January 1911 | 16 August 2022 | 111 years, 200 days | Lombardy | Lombardy |
| 91 | Giuseppa Comandè | F | 23 December 1910 | 8 July 2022 | 111 years, 197 days | Sicily | Sicily |
| 92 | Rosa Frau | F | 12 August 1901 | 14 February 2013 | 111 years, 186 days | Sardinia | Sardinia |
| 93 | Maria Mattivi | F | 29 November 1904 | 29 May 2016 | 111 years, 182 days | Trentino-Alto Adige | Trentino-Alto Adige |
| 94 | Carmela Villani | F | 1 May 1909 | 25 October 2020 | 111 years, 177 days | Apulia | Apulia |
| 95 | Maria Gentilini | F | 12 May 1894 | 4 November 2005 | 111 years, 176 days | Emilia-Romagna | Emilia-Romagna |
| 96 | Ernesta Pizzocri | F | 20 August 1901 | 6 February 2013 | 111 years, 170 days | Lombardy | Lombardy |
| 97 | Ilde Coletti | F | 28 January 1911 | 26 June 2022 | 111 years, 149 days | Veneto | Lombardy |
| 98 | Nora Ettori | F | 5 April 1907 | 22 August 2018 | 111 years, 139 days | Brazil | Lombardy |
| 99 | Tripolino Giannini | M | 20 August 1912 | 31 December 2023 | 111 years, 133 days | Tuscany | Tuscany |
| 100 | Alba Benatti-Togni | F | 21 March 1902 | 31 July 2013 | 111 years, 132 days | Lombardy | France |

## Biographies
### Antonio Todde

Antonio Todde (22 January 1889 – 3 January 2002) was an Italian supercentenarian who, at the time of his death just a few days shy of his 113th birthday, 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, at age 31, 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 and 346 days on 3 January 2002.

### Venere Pizzinato

Venere Ires Pizzinato (married Papo; 23 November 1896 – 2 August 2011) 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.
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 the Second World War, 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. Pizzinato remained in Verona for the rest of her life, spending her final years in a retirement home.
On 23 November 2010, marking her 114th birthday, Pizzinato was visited by Italy's president, Giorgio Napolitano, who wrote her a congratulatory letter.

### Marie-Josephine Gaudette

Marie-Josephine Clarice Gaudette (25 March 1902 – 13 July 2017) 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, to French Canadian immigrants, 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 from 1958 until her death, and was considered "the world's oldest nun". Gaudette died on 13 July 2017, aged 115 years and 110 days, as the 5th-oldest living person in the world.

### Giuseppina Projetto

Giuseppina Projetto (married Frau; 30 May 1902 – 6 July 2018) was, at age 116 years and 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 the last surviving validated person born in 1902.
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.

### Delio Venturotti

Delio Venturotti (25 October 1909 – 1 June 2022) was the oldest living Italian-born person and the second oldest man in the world at the time of his death.
He was born in Calto, Veneto, Italy. He left Italy at the age of three with his parents and two sisters, after his father had been informed of the potential for a large war in Europe. The family arrived in Rio de Janeiro and took another ship to Espírito Santo, where Venturotti worked on plantations. He would later go on to work as a driver, and, starting in the 1940s, in a fabric store. He married Dulcina Gama (born 1921) on 15 March 1946 and had four children. The couple later moved to São Paulo, and 29 years later to Florianópolis. In December 2021, at the age of 112, Venturotti donated to the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in the Campania region of Italy. He became the oldest Italian-born person upon the death of Ida Zoccarato on 16 January 2022. When he died in June 2022, aged 112 years and 219 days, he was the second oldest man in the world after Juan Vicente Pérez; his death left Pérez as the last verified man born in the 1900s decade.

### Lucia Laura Sangenito

Lucia Laura Sangenito-Abbondandolo was born in Sturno, Campania, Italy on 22 November 1910; she has lived there her entire life. As a young woman, she worked in the fields. She married on 2 February 1939 and had four children; two of whom died as infants, with the other two, daughter Maria and son Michele, still living. Her interests are football, politics, and watching religious programs on TV.
She lost her home in the 1962 Irpinia earthquake and a new house was rebuilt in a different location in 1970. Her husband died at the age of 98 in September 2010. When she was 107, she had surgery for a fractured femur. She quietly celebrated her 110th birthday in November 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 1 June 2024, she was visited by LongeviQuest, one of the top age validation organizations, who gave her a certificate recognizing her for being (at that time) the second oldest living person in Italy. She is the oldest person ever from the Campania region of Italy, and, when Claudia Baccarini died on 24 December 2024, she became the oldest living person in Italy.