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At 54.6 cm (21.5 in), Nepalese-born Chandra Bahadur Dangi was, at the time of his death in 2015, the world's shortest person ever verified.. This list includes the shortest ever verified people in their lifetime or profession.
The term pygmy, as used to refer to diminutive people, derives from Greek πυγμαῖος pygmaios via Latin Pygmaei (sing. Pygmaeus), derived from πυγμή – meaning a short forearm cubit, or a measure of length corresponding to the distance from the wrist to the elbow or knuckles. [6] (. See also Greek πῆχυς pēkhys.)
Bridgette Jordan. Bridgette Marie Jordan (June 9, 1989 – June 12, 2019) was the smallest living woman according to Guinness World Records at 2 ft 3in (69 cm). She was also one of the shortest living siblings according to Guinness World Records; her younger brother Brad was 38 inches tall at 20 years old. The siblings were born with a rare ...
Jyoti Amge may be the world's smallest woman, but her dreams are larger than life. Fans will get to know more about the 26-year-old Indian actress, who stands at 24 inches tall and weighs just 12 ...
Jyoti Amge. Jyoti Kishanji Amge (born 16 December 1993) [ 1 ] is an Indian actress notable for being the world's shortest living woman according to the Guinness World Records. [ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ] Following Amge's 18th birthday on 16 December 2011, she was officially declared the world's shortest living woman by Guinness World Records with a height ...
In 2012, at the age of 72, Dangi met the world's shortest woman, Jyoti Amge of Nagpur, India. The pair posed together for the 57th edition of The Guinness Book of Records in 2013. [ 5 ] On 13 November 2014, as part of Guinness World Records Day , Dangi met the world's tallest living man, Sultan Kösen , at an event in London.
The Toto people are one of the world's smallest indigenous ethnic groups, living in a village of Totopara on India's border with Bhutan. [2][3] Totos were nearly becoming extinct in the 1950s, but recent measures to safeguard their areas from being swamped with outsiders have helped preserve their unique heritage and also helped the population ...
Indian. Known for. Former shortest verified adult human being (1990–2011) Height. 57 cm (1 ft 10 + 7⁄16 in) Gul Mohammed (February 15, 1957 – October 1, 1997) of New Delhi, India, according to Guinness World Records, was the shortest adult human being of his time whose existence and height have been independently verified. [1]