Emma Morano, born 29 November 1899, is an Italian supercentenarian who is at the age of 116 years, the oldest living person in Italy and Europe and the second oldest living person in the world behind American woman Susannah Mushatt Jones.
 
She is the oldest verified Italian person ever, the second oldest person from Europe ever behind Jeanne Calment and the last living European person to have been born in the 19th century.
 
Emma Martina Luigia Morano was born in Civiasco, Vercelli, Piedmont, Italy to Giovanni Morano and Matilde Bresciani, the eldest of eight children, five daughters and three sons. She had a long-lived family: her mother, an aunt and some of her siblings turned 90 and her sister, Angela Morano (1908–2011) died at 102.
 
In 2011, Morano was visited as part of a worldwide study conducted by George Church for Harvard Medical School of Boston, to study the secret of her longevity. In December 2011, she was awarded the honor of Knight of Order of Merit of the Italian Republic by President Giorgio Napolitano.

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