List of people with gigantism
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This is a list of notable people who have or had a form of gigantism. People not listed in Category:People with gigantism or Category:People over eight feet tall should be removed unless credible sources state they have or had gigantism.
Note: This is not a list of tall people. There are several instances of men well over 213 centimetres who did not have any form of gigantism. For example Angus MacAskill and Yao Ming did not or do not have gigantism and should not be listed here. This list is solely for people with medical conditions in the gigantism family.
Note: This will be organized chronologically by date of birth. Those whose birth year is unknown will be placed alphabetically, by last name, at the bottom until birth year is discovered.
- Pier Gerlofs Donia - Grote Pier (1480–1520) Enormous Frisian Freedom fighter
- John Middleton (1578–1623)
- Patrick Murphy (1834–1862)
- Martin Van Buren Bates (1837–1919)
- Anna Haining Bates (1846–1888)
- Julius Koch (1872–1902) eunuchoidal-infantile gigantism, his legs ultimately had to amputated due to gangrene.[1]
- Jane Bunford (1895–1922) Tallest woman ever until Zeng Jinlian.
- Bernard Coyne (1897–1921)
- Clifford Thompson (1904–1955)
- Jack Earle (1906–1952)
- Väinö Myllyrinne (1909–1963)
- Johann K. Petursson (1913–1984) Dubbed "The Viking giant"
- Henry Hite (1915–1972)
- Felipe Birriel (August 16, 1916-March 15, 1994) El Gigante de Carolina honored in Carolina, Puerto Rico
- Robert Pershing Wadlow (1918–1940) Recognized as tallest human being ever
- Don Koehler (1925–1981)
- Max Palmer (1928–1984)
- John F. Carroll (1932–1969)
- Eddie Carmel (1936–1972) "The Jewish Giant" photographed by Diane Arbus.
- Richard Kiel (born September 13, 1939.), Actor (Jaws from James Bond)
- Suleiman Ali Nashnush (born in Libya in 1943; died 1991)
- Christopher Greener (born in 1943; tallest living Englishman)
- André Roussimoff ("André the Giant") (1946–1993)
- Carel Struycken (born July 30, 1948 in The Hague, Netherlands) Actor with acromegalic gigantism.
- Sandy Allen (b. 1955) Pituitary gigantism, tallest living woman currently recognized.[1]
- Zeng Jinlian (1964–1982): Believed to be the tallest woman ever, but scoliosis kept her from standing erect.
- Jorge Gonzales (b. 1966)
- Radhouane Charbib (b. 1968)
- Gheorghe Mureşan (born February 14, 1971) Tallest NBA player in history
- Leonid Stadnyk (b. 1971), tallest living man
- Paul Wight ("The Big Show") (born February 8, 1972) wrestler
- Yao Defen (born July 15, 1972) Tallest living woman claimant
- Matthew McGrory (1973–2005): Actor in Big Fish and other films.
- Nikolai Valuev (1973): Former WBA boxing champion of the world.
- Sun Ming Ming (b. 1983)[1][1]
- Vikas Uppal (b. 1986-2007)
- Alexander Sizonenko - Tallest living Russian, formerly a basketball player.
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Acknowledgement and Attribution Regarding Sources of Content
Some of the initial content on this page may be incorporated in part from copyleft sources in the public domain including wikis such as Wikipedia and AskDrWiki. Drug information for patients came from the The National Library of Medicine. Infectious disease information may have come from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Differential Diagnoses are drawn from clinicians as well as an amalgamation of 3 sources: 1.The Disease Database; 2. Kahan, Scott, Smith, Ellen G. In A Page: Signs and Symptoms. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2004:3; 3. Sailer, Christian, Wasner, Susanne. Differential Diagnosis Pocket. Hermosa Beach, CA: Borm Bruckmeir Publishing LLC, 2002:7 .
