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Tallest person in Michigan history and one of the tallest men in the world during his lifetime. He may have been 8 ft 1 in (246 cm) tall. [60] 1885–1913 (28) Walter Straub Germany: 236 cm: 7 ft 9 in: Tallest man in Germany while he was alive. [61] 1925–1986 (61) Rachid Bara Algeria: 236 cm: 7 ft 9 in: Tallest man in Algeria while he was ...
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.
Siah Khan often claimed 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) and 11 ft 10 in (3.61 m) [1] which if true would have made him easily the tallest person to ever live even dwarfing Robert Wadlow's height of 8 ft 11 + 9 ⁄ 100 in (2.72 m) but Siah Khan was later measured in 1933 by his doctors at 7 ft 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (2.20 m), [2] and later claimed to have grown to 8 ft 6. [3]
Tallest Man in History: Robert Wadlow The world's tallest man was 3 feet tall as a toddler, could carry his father at age 9, and stretched to a fantastic height of 8 feet 11 inches.
John Rogan (February 12, 1867 – September 11, 1905; some sources indicate 1871 as his birth year), [1] was an American sharecropper who was recorded as the tallest non-mobile person ever, and the second-tallest person ever at 8 feet 9 inches (267 cm), behind Robert Wadlow.
U.S. men who once ranked among the third tallest in the world one hundred years ago now find themselves at 37th. While American women dropped from fourth tallest to 42nd.
Donald A. Koehler (September 1, 1925 – February 26, 1981) is one of 24 known people in medical history to have verifiably reached a height of 8 feet (240 cm) or more. He was generally recognized as the tallest living man in the world from at least 1969 until his death in 1981.
A team analyzed information from a database called LifeLines which contains data about more than 94,500 northern Netherlands residents.