Ana María Vela Rubio

This is a list of Spanish supercentenarians (people from Spain who have attained the age of at least 110 years). There have been, including 4 emigrant supercentenarians, 61 verified Spanish supercentenarians, the oldest of whom, and the oldest living person in Spain and Europe as of 16 May 2017, is Ana María Vela Rubio, born 29 October 1901, age 115 years, 199 days.

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†^ denotes age at death, or, if living, age as of 17 May 2017

Spanish emigrant supercentenarians

a^ Moreno was born in Spanish Morocco, which was then part of the Spanish Empire. It is now in Morocco.

Galo Leoz

Galo Leoz Ortín (22 April 1879 – 23 January 1990) was a Spanish supercentenarian and Spain's oldest recognized living person when he died aged 110 years 276 days. He became Spain's oldest recognized male ever when he surpassed Aurelio Diaz. Leoz's record was surpassed in 1993 by Josep Armengol Jover (23 July 1881 – 20 January 1994), who lived to the age of 112 years 181 days. Galo Leoz was a noted ophthalmologist.

Manuela Fernández-Fojaco

Manuela Fernández Fojaco (18 June 1895 – 6 January 2009) was the fifth-oldest living person, the oldest person in Europe and the oldest living person in Spain at the time of her death, at the age of 113 years, 202 days.

Manuela Fernández Fojaco was born in Llamas, in the municipality of Aller, Asturias. On 2 January 2009, she became the oldest living European after the death of 115-year-old Portuguese woman Maria de Jesus. Her reign lasted for 4 days until her death on 6 January 2009. After her death, 112-year-old Lucia Lauria Vigna from Italy became Europe's oldest person (although Eugénie Blanchard was from Saint Barthélemy, which is part of the European Union).

Ana María Vela Rubio

Ana María Vela Rubio (born 29 October 1901), age 7004422040000000000♠115 years, 200 days, is Spanish supercentenarian, and she has been the oldest verified Spaniard since 6 June 2016 when, aged 114 years 221 days, she surpassed the record of María Antonia Castro who died in 1996, aged 114 years, 220 days. She is also the fourth-oldest living person in the world behind Violet Brown, Nabi Tajima and Chiyo Miyako. She became the oldest living European upon the death of former world's oldest person Emma Morano in April 2017.

Vela Rubio was born 29 October 1901 in Puente Genil, Andalucia. She worked as a dressmaker in her youth. She never married her partner as her parents objected to him, but the two had several children. Her daughter, also named Ana, lives with her.

Francisco Núñez Olivera

Francisco Núñez Olivera (born 13 December 1904), age 7004410630000000000♠112 years, 155 days, is currently the oldest man in Europe and the world's second oldest man behind Yisrael Kristal. He was born at Extremadura, and joined the army at 19 to fight in the Rif War. He had his kidney removed when he was 90 and a cataract operation aged 98, and is one of the only surviving veterans of the Spanish Civil War. He was nicknamed "Marchena" after Pepe Marchena, due to his resemblance to the singer.