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Robert Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918 – July 15, 1940), also known as the Alton Giant and the Giant of Illinois, was an American man. He is the tallest person in recorded history for whom there is irrefutable evidence. Wadlow was born and raised in Alton, Illinois, a small city near St. Louis, Missouri. [1]
This is a list of the tallest people, verified by Guinness World Records or other reliable sources. According to Guinness World Records, Robert Wadlow of the United States (1918–1940) was the tallest person in recorded history , measuring 272 cm (8 ft 11 in) at the time of his death.
Jakob Hudson Nacken or Jacob Nacken (15 February 1906 – 29 March 1987) was a German circus performer active in Europe and the United States. He began his career as an exceptionally tall person while a teenager, performing in a traveling circus, and appeared in the 1939 New York World's Fair.
Bao Xishun (also known as Xi Shun; born November 2, 1951) is a Chinese herdsman from Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, recognized by Guinness World Records as one of the world's tallest living men at 7 feet 9 inches (236 cm) tall. [1]
Leonid Stepanovych Stadnyk (Ukrainian: Леонід Степанович Стадник; 5 August 1970 – 24 August 2014) was a Ukrainian man who claimed to have stood at 2.57 m (8 ft 5 in) though photographic evidence suggests he was not taller than 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m).
Zeng was born on 26 June 1964 in Yuanjiang, Hunan, to a poor farming family, as the youngest of four children, [a] growing up in Nanzui Town by Muping Lake. Her parents Zeng Xianmao and Yu Xuemei [b] were 163 cm (5 ft 4.2 in) and 156 cm (5 ft 1.4 in) respectively, with all her siblings being in within similar height range, with a brother being measured at 158 cm (5 ft 2 in) at age 18. [1]
Clifford Marshall Thompson (October 18, 1904 – October 15, 1955) was one of the world's tallest men, the world's tallest lawyer, [1] and remains the tallest man to ever appear in a Hollywood film. [2] Born in Rugby, North Dakota, as a child Thompson moved with his parents to Scandinavia, Wisconsin. [3]
Zhang was verified as China's tallest man on 23 November 2010 at 2.42 meters (7 ft 11 in). He went to the hospital in April 2009, to visit his friend, the 2.33-meter (7 ft 8 in) tallest living woman Yao Defen .