Maria Virginia Pestana

Maria Virgínia de Abreu Ferreira de Almeida Pestana (3 April 1899 – 1 August 2010) was a Portuguese supercentenarian whose age is currently unvalidated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). She was the second-oldest person from Portugal and the second to last surviving Portuguese person who was born in the 1800s (after Maria Luiza Nunes da Silva) at the time of her death.

Biography
She was born on 3 April 1899 in Porto, Portugal. Her father was a doctor and her mother when she was five years. She was a member of the first class of women to enter Portuguese higher education in 1917 and founder of the first female student republic of Coimbra. In c.1931‬, she married Ernesto Pestana, who later became Civil Governor of Coimbra. She had 6 children, 13 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren.

She died in Coimbra, Portugal on 29 December 2011 at the age of 111 years, 120 days.