Horacio Celi Mendoza

Horacio Celi Mendoza (3 January 1897 – 25 September 2011) was a Peruvian supercentenarian who, until his death aged 114 years, 265 days, was the world's oldest verified living man following the death of American supercentenarian Walter Breuning on 14 April 2011. He is the fifth-oldest verified man ever, after Jiroemon Kimura, Christian Mortensen, Emiliano Mercado del Toro and Juan Vicente Pérez.

At the time of his death, he was the third-oldest verified living person in the world, behind Besse Cooper and Chiyono Hasegawa. He was also the 3rd-oldest man ever, behind Christian Mortensen and Emiliano Mercado del Toro and he was also the oldest South American man ever, until Juan Vicente Perez Mora from Venezuela surpassed his age on 17 February 2024.