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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
A note on mean versus average heights: Using mean heights instead of averages gives a sense of which countries have the most people who are tall. For example, many Icelandic men are 5 feet 11 inches.
Sultan Kösen (born 10 December 1982) is a Turkish farmer who holds the Guinness World Record for tallest living male at 251 cm (8 ft 2.82 in). [2]Kösen's growth resulted from the conditions gigantism and acromegaly, caused by a tumour affecting his pituitary gland. [3]
A team analyzed information from a database called LifeLines which contains data about more than 94,500 northern Netherlands residents.
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]