List of tall men
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This is a list of famous men who are 196 cm (6 ft 5 in) and over. In several cases these men were among the tallest in their profession, their province, or nation.
Height varies considerably in any given population. In the United States the highest percentile of height given by the FAA is the 99th percentile, which is 75.2 inches (191 cm) or 6 ft 3 in.[1] Pediatricians place tall stature at 2.5 to 3 standard deviations above the mean for age and gender.[1][1] In adult males this begins at around 192 cm. An additional 4 cm is added to this second figure due to height variation and to assure that comparative height is a part of the individuals notability or significance. Even in countries such as the USA and the United Kingdom and where average height is around 5 ft 9 in or 5 ft 10 in (175–178 cm), 6 ft 5 in is significantly far above average.
Note: As basketball players are noted as having above average height this means they will need to be taller than the cut-off point in order to be notable as tall. Exceptions to this are members of teams in countries where a height of over 213 cm is essentially unheard of and historically in the early twentieth century basketball players as they lived in an era where player height was much smaller.
In descending order
272 cm (8 ft 11-11/12 in)
- Robert Wadlow — tallest human recorded in modern times (1918 – 1940) [1]
268 cm (8 ft 9 in)
- John Rogan — tallest African American (1868–1905)[1]
258 cm (8 ft 5 ½ in)
- Leonid Stadnyk — tallest living person recognized Guinness, since August 7, 2007
253 cm (8 ft 4 in)
- Ajaz Ahmed — tallest Pakistani claimant[1]
251 cm (8 ft 3 in)
- Vikas Uppal — tallest Indian claimant[1] (1986–2007)
249 cm (8 ft 2 in)
- Edouard Beaupré — "The Willowbunch Giant" (1881–1904)[1]
- Bernard Coyne — Eunuchoidal (Long-legged) Giant (1897-1921)[1]
- Don Koehler — tallest person 1969 to 1981. Recognized by Guinness Book of Records (1925–1981)[1]
248 cm (8 ft 1 ¾ in)
- Väinö Myllyrinne — tallest recorded European-born person (1909–1963)[1]
246 cm (8 ft 0 ¾ in)
- Gabriel Estavao Monjane — Mozambican who was the tallest man in 1988–1989 according to the Guinness book[1]
- Patrick Cotter O'Brien — tallest recorded Irishman. (1760-1806)[1][1]
245 cm (8 ft 0½ in)
- Suleiman Ali Nashnush — He is believed to be both the tallest Libyan and the tallest basketball player yet recorded.[1] (1943 - 1991)
244 cm (8 ft)
- Mounir Fourar — tallest living man claimant (from Algeria), born in 1972[1][1][1]
- Aurangzeb Khan — tallest living man claimant (from Pakistan)[1]
242 cm (7 ft 11 ½ in)
- Josef Drásal — the tallest recorded Czech (1841 - 1886) [1]
- Sultan Kosen — tallest living basketball player (from Turkey)[1]
241 cm (7 ft 11 in)
- Felipe Birriel 8/16/1916- tallest man in Puerto Rican history, born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, known as "El Gigante de Carolina"
240 cm (7 ft 10 ½ in)
- Alexander Sizonenko — basketball player and tallest living Russian person.[1]
236 cm (7 ft 9 in)
- Bao Xishun — tallest Chinese person, counted as tallest living man before Leonid Stadnyk[1]
- William Bradley — tallest recorded English born person (born 1787; died 1820)[1]
- Angus MacAskill — tallest recorded Scottish person (born 1825; died 1863)[1]
- Naseer Ahmaad Soomro — tallest living person in 1999[1][1]
- Sun Ming Ming — IBL and American Basketball Association basketball Player[1]
- Louis Moilanen — tallest person in Michigan (1900-1926)[1]
- Radhouane Charbib — Tunisian who was counted as the tallest living man before Bao Xishun.[1]
- Martin Van Buren Bates — American Civil War veteran and performer (1837–1919)[1]
235 cm (7 ft 8 ½ in)
- Ri Myung Hun — North Korean basketball player and tallest North Korean.[1]
234 cm (7 ft 8 in)
- Eddie Carmel — "The Jewish Giant" (1936-1972)[1]
- Alam Channa — tallest living man in 1997-1998(1953–1998)[1]
- Yasutaka Okayama — tallest NBA draft pick, also among the tallest Japanese men ever.[1]
- Johann K. Petursson — "The Viking Giant"(1913–1984)[1]
- Adam Rainer — this is his height at death, at 21 he measured just 118 centimetres or 3 ft 10 ½ in (1899-1950)[1]
- Kali Selei - tallest Fijian (1981-living)[1]
232 cm (7 ft 7 ½ in)
- Hussain Bisad — Somali-born British immigrant born c.1975. Has claimed a height of 7'9".[1]
- Jack Earle — silent film actor (1906-1952)[1]
- Neil Fingleton — recognised by Guinness as the tallest living British-born man, born 1980. He was discovered and validated in the BBC Three documentary Britain's Tallest Men [1]
231 cm (7 ft 7 in)
- Manute Bol — Sudanese born basketball player and activist[1]
- Lock Martin — actor, his height played a crucial role in him getting the part of Gort in The Day the Earth Stood Still. (1916-1959)[1]
- Gheorghe Muresan — Romanian born basketball player, also an actor[1]
230 cm (7 ft 6 ¼ in)
- Christopher Greener — former Britain's tallest living British-born man between 1967 and 2007 (born 1943)[1]
- José Calderón Torres — tallest Mexican[1]
229 cm (7 ft 6 in)
- Shawn Bradley, USA/Germany, former NBA player.[1]
- Giant Gonzales — tallest recorded Latino, professional wrestler (born 1966: living)[1]
- Margarito Machaguay — tallest recorded Peruvian(living)[1]
- Matthew McGrory — actor, played the Giant in Big Fish. (1973-2005)[1]
- Yao Ming — Chinese born NBA player.[1]
226 cm (7 ft 5 in)
- Pavel Podkolzin — basketball player.[1]
- Jerry Sokoloski — tallest Canadian basketball player.[1]
- Clifford Thompson, tallest lawyer, (1904-1955)[1][1]
224 cm (7 ft 4 ¼ in)
223.5 cm (7 ft 4 in)
- Ralph Sampson — former NBA basketball player, Houston Rockets.[1]
- Rik Smits — former NBA basketball player, Indiana Pacers.[1]
- Mark Eaton - former NBA basketball player, Utah Jazz (some sources list him as 7'3").[1]
221 cm (7 ft 3 in)
- Peter Mayhew — actor, got the role of Chewbacca largely because of his height. (born 1944: living)[1]
- Zydrunas Ilgauskas - (born 6/5/1975) Lithuanian born basketball player [1]
- John Lebar - actor [1]
- Dalip Singh - Professional wrestler, currently working in the WWE.
- Montanha Silva - kickboxer [1]
218 cm (7 ft 2 in)
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Shaquille O'Neil 7 ft 1 inches
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995.[1]
- Choi Hong-man — professional kickboxer, competing in K-1, (born 1980: living)[1]
- Bolaji Badejo — monster in Alien. Seattle Weekly describes him as "a 7-foot-2-inch Maasai art-college student in his only film role"[1]
- Kevin Peter Hall (b. (1955) d. 1991), actor (Harry and the Hendersons, 227)
- Richard Kiel — actor, most famous for playing the role of Jaws from the James Bond movies. (born 1939: living)[1]
- Dikembe Mutombo — 4-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award.[1]
216 cm (7 ft 1 in)
- Wilt Chamberlain — basketball player, top scorer when he retired, in the Hall of Fame.[1]
- Shaquille O'Neal — 3-time NBA Finals MVP[1]
- David Robinson — an MVP and in the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History.[1]
- Vlade Divac — basketball player[1]
215 cm (7 ft 0 ½ in)
- Robert Parish — inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2003[1]
214 cm (7 ft 1/4" in)
- Conan Stevens — wrestler, actor.. [1]
213 cm (7 ft)
- John Aasen — movie and carnival giant (1887–1938)
- Andrea Bargnani — basketball player[1]
- Patrick Ewing — on the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History list.[1]
- Pau Gasol — NBA Rookie of the Year Award and MVP at the FIBA World Championship.[1]
- Richard Metcalfe — rugby union player (born 1973)[1][1]
- Bob Martin - American basketball player early 1990s - the original 7feet.com
- Hakeem Olajuwon — National Basketball Association Most Valuable Player Award (1994)[1]
- Paul Rogers — NBL (Australia) Most Valuable Player (2000)[1]
- Carel Struycken — actor, played Mr. Homn (born 1948)[1]
- Tiny Ron Taylor — actor [1]
- Ted van der Parre — (born 1955) former strongman from the Netherlands who won the World's Strongest Man contest in 1992[1]
- Nikolai Valuev — boxer (born 1973)[1]
- The Big Show — professional wrestler (born 1972)[1]
- Panagiotis Fasoulas — politician (born 1963)[1]
- Dirk Nowitzki — basketball player and NBA most valuable player award winner[1]
- Zeljko Rebraca — basketball player [1]
211 cm (6 ft 11 in)
- André the Giant — professional wrestler (1946–1993)
- Giant Haystacks — professional wrestler (1947–1998)[1]
- Jon Rauch — baseball player (born 1978)[1]
- Aaron Sandilands — Australian rules football player (born 1982)[1]
- Peter Street — Australian rules football player (born 1980)[1]
- Kevin Garnett — NBA basketball player (born May 19 1976: Living)[1]
- Tim Duncan — basketball player[1]
- Semmy Schilt — kickboxer (born 1973: Living)[1]
- Daniel Borges Jeraige — kickboxer [1]
- big Jason Henderson — marketing expert [1]
208 cm (6 ft 10 in)
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Cricketer Will Jefferson with team-mate Grant Flower
- Will Jefferson — cricketer (born 1979: living)[1]
- Randy Johnson — baseball player (born 1963: living)[1]
- Derwyn Jones — rugby union player (born 1970: living)[1]
- Ivo Karlović — tennis player (born 1979: living)[1]
- Sam McDonald — Scotsman, British soldier, renowned as one of the tallest and strongest men of 18th century England.[1]
- George Mikan — one of the first significant "big men" of basketball, inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1959.[1]
- Chris Young — baseball pitcher (born 1979: living) [1]
- Nathan Jones (wrestler) — wrestler, actor.. [1]
207 cm (6 ft 9 ½ in)
206 cm (6 ft 9 in)
- Tom Bradley novelist [1]
- Ted Cassidy actor, known for playing Lurch (1932�1979)[1]
- Zdeno Chára the tallest player in National Hockey League history. (born 1977: living)[1]
- Michael Crichton author (born 1942: living)[1]
- Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck movie director (born 1973; living)[1]
- Phil Gordon professional poker player. (born 1970: living)[1]
- John Isner tennis player (born 1985)[1]
- Ed "Too Tall" Jones American football player (born 1951: living)[1]
- Edmund Kemper serial killer (born 1948: living)[1]
- Karl Malone NBA basketball player (born 1963: living)[1]
- Paul Salmon Australian rules football player (born 1965: living)[1]
- Bill Russell NBA basketball player (born 1934: living)[1]
- Ben Wallace NBA basketball player (born 1974: living)[1]
- Sun Yue — Beijing Aoshen Olympian basketball player (born 1985: living)[1]
- Glen Davis — basketball player [1]
204.5 cm (6 ft 8½ in)
- Daniel Kawczynski — British politician (born 1972: living); tallest British Member of Parliament[1]
203 cm (6 ft 8 in)
- Mark Calaway — professional wrestler (born 1965: living) [1]
- Daniel Cudmore — actor (born 1981: living)[1]
- Wade Dooley — rugby union player (born 1957: living)[1]
- John Kenneth Galbraith — economist (1908-2006)[1]
- Brad Garrett — comic actor (born 1960: living)[1]
- Glen Jacobs — actor and professional wrestler (born 1967: living) [1]
- LeBron James - professional basketball player (born 1984)[1]
- Montell Jordan — singer/songwriter and record producer (born 1968: living)[1]
- Solomon King — singer (1932-2005)[1]
- Marcelo Melo - tennis player (born 1983: living)[1]
- Dick Norman — tennis player (born 1971: living)[1]
- Hans Rausing — businessman (born 1926: living)[1]
- Richie Sexson — baseball player (born 1974: living)[1]
- Kotoōshū Katsunori — sumo wrestler (born as Kaloyan Stefanov Mahlyanov in 1983: living)[1]
- Akebono Tarō — sumo wrestler (born as Chad George Rowan in 1969: living)[1]
- Tim Sylvia — MMA Fighter (born 1976: living)[1]
- Tracy McGrady — NBA basketball player Houston Rockets
- Tyler Mane - Actor (born 1966: living) [1]
202 cm (6 ft 7 ½ in)
- Gustavo Borges — swimmer (born 1972: living)[1]
- Arjen Anthony Lucassen — musician (born 1960: living)[1]
- Željko Kalac — football (soccer) player (born 1972: living)[1]
- Jan Koller — football (soccer) player (born 1973: living)[1]
- Richard Moll — actor (born 1943: living)[1]
- Nikola Žigić — football (soccer) player. (born 1980: living)[1]
201 cm (6 ft 7 in)
- Curtly Ambrose — cricketer (born 1963: living)[1]
- James Arness — actor, possibly the tallest actor to play a lead role (born 1923: living)[1][1]
- Long John Baldry — singer (1941-2005)[1]
- Abraham Benrubi — actor (born 1969: living)[1]
- Bernard Bresslaw — actor (1934-1993)[1]
- James Cromwell — actor (born 1940: living)[1]
- Peter Crouch — association football player (born 1981: living)[1]
- Clyde Drexler — member of Basketball Hall of Fame (born 1962: living)[1]
- Leo Felton — biracial white supremacist (born 1970: living)[1]
- Michael Gross — swimmer (born 1964: living)[1]
- Martin Johnson — rugby union player (born 1970: living)[1]
- Vitali Klitschko — boxer [1]
- David Knijnenburg — actor (born 1967: living)[1]
- Tahu Matheson — pianist and conductor (born 1977: living)[1]
- Stephen Merchant — writer and actor (born 1974: living)[1]
- Alexandros Nikolaidis — Taekwondo player (born 1979: living)[1]
- Krist Novoselic — musician (Nirvana) (born 1965: living)[1]
- Charles Olson — poet and writer (1910-1970)[1]
- Peter the Great — Tsar of Russia (1672–1725)[1]
- Brian Posehn — actor and comedian (born 1966: living)[1]
- Oliver Riedel — Rammstein bassist (born 1971: living)[1]
- Tony Robbins — motivational speaker (born 1960: living)[1]
- RuPaul — entertainer (born 1960: living)[1][1]
- Magnus Samuelsson - Strongman
- Bubba Smith — actor and former American football player (born 1945: living)[1]
- Peter Steele — singer and guitarist for the band Type O Negative(born 1962: living)[1]
- Martti Talvela — opera singer (1935-1989)[1]
- Chris Tremlett — England cricketer (born 1981: living)[1]
- David Williamson — Australian Playwright (born 1942: living)[1]
- Robert Jones - Professional Football (soccer) player (born 1979: living)[1]
- Joe Akerman - (Boxer) Nick name (Joabbuac) (born 1989: living)
- Primo Carnera — boxer [1]
199 cm (6 ft 6 ½ in)
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Wladimir Klitschko 6 ft 6 ½ in
- Matt Biondi — swimmer (born 1965)[1]
- Andreas Isaksson — Swedish football (soccer) player (born 1981)[1]
- John Maynard Keynes — economist (1883–1946)[1]
- Wladimir Klitschko — boxer [1]
- Götz Otto — actor (born 1967)[1]
- Simon Raiwalui — Rugby Player[1]
- Lars Riedel — Discus thrower (born 1967; living)[1]
- Koji Kitao - sumo wrestler (born 1963)[1]
198 cm (6 ft 6 in)
- Steve Agee — actor [1]
- Faris Badwan — musician [1]
- Kobe Bryant — basketball player[1]
- Buckethead — guitarist[1]
- Roald Dahl — author[1]
- Abdou Diouf — Senegalese politician[1]
- Kevin Durand — actor [1]
- Neil Flynn — actor[1]
- Mark Foster — swimmer[1]
- Ed de Goeij — football (soccer) player[1]
- Kendall Grove — MMA fighter [1]
- Shaka Hislop — football (soccer) player[1]
- Uwe Hohn - javelin thrower
- Geoffrey Holder — actor[1]
- Allan Houston — basketball
- Howlin' Wolf — Blues musician
- Uday Hussein (approx.) — Iraqi politician, eldest son of Saddam Hussein[1]
- Michael Jordan — basketball player[1]
- Phil Pfister - Strongman
- David Prowse — actor and former weightlifter (born 1935: living))[1]
- JaMarcus Russell - American football player[1]
- Joey Ramone - American punk rock musician
- Fred Thompson — US politician and actor
- Clint Walker — actor (born 1927; living)
- Template:Peter Toth family (living)
- Dave Bautista — professional wrestler [1]
197 cm (6 ft 5 ½ in)
- Ken Kirzinger — actor
- Clive Mantle — actor
- Ralf Moeller — actor and bodybuilder
- Edwin Van Der Sar — Manchester United Goalkeeper
- Vincent Schiavelli — actor
- Stephen Fry - actor
196 cm (6 ft 5 in)
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6' 5" Sven-Ole Thorsen (as Tigris of Gaul) battles 5' 11" Russell Crowe (as Maximus) in the film Gladiator.
- Peyton Manning - American football player
- Andrew Bryniarski — actor
- Jeremy Clarkson - TV's Top Gear presenter
- Michael Clarke Duncan — actor
- Lou Ferrigno — actor and bodybuilder
- Sven-Ole Thorsen — actor and bodybuilder
- Ian Thorpe — former Olympic swimmer
- Tim Robbins — actor
- Ben Roethlisberger — football player
- Aaron Sele — baseball player
- Latrell Spreewell — basketball player
- Howard Stern — radio personality
- Darryl Strawberry — baseball player
- Tony Todd — actor
- Francesco Toldo — football (soccer) player
- Vince Vaughn — actor
- Michael Waltrip — NASCAR driver
- Reggie White — American football player
- Lennox Lewis — Boxer
- Enoch Showunmi — Nigerian football (soccer) player
- Chuck Connors — actor, basketball player, baseball player (born 1921; deceased)
- Howie Long — American football player, TV sportscaster, actor, spokkesman (born 1960)
- Fred Gwynne — American actor, "The Munsters" (1926-1993) [3]
Historical
Historical figures noted for being tall, but with no exact height being known for certain.
- Johnny Appleseed — Swedenborgian missionary and American pioneer conservationist, but some accounts call him "small and wiry".
- Eleazar — given as 7 cubits in Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews, book 18 chapter 4[1]
- Edward I of England. "Edward Longshanks", King of England, celebrated for his height at 6'2"
- Peter Francisco - American Revolutionary war hero. Said to be 6 ft 6 inches when he was 15 years old.
- Harald Hardråde — King of Norway. Unknown official height.
- Childe of Hale — English giant from the turn of the 17th century, supposedly 9 feet, 3 inches.
- Porus (Purushotthama) — Indian king during the 4th century BC, supposedly 7ft 6 in.
- Richard the Lionheart — King of England. Unknown height.
- Rollo of Normandy — Viking leader, supposedly so big no horse could carry him.
- Venture Smith — Referred to as "the black Paul Bunyan", but was a real person. He claimed he "descended from a very large, tall and stout race of beings." Also claimed that he was well over six feet tall, weighed 300 pounds.[1]
- Maximinus Thrax — Roman emperor supposedly 8 ft 6 in.[1]
- Caliph Umar — Rashidun Caliph, during 634-644 A.D, was tallest man of his time. Supposedly over 7ft.
- Pier Gerlofs Donia - Frisian freedom fighter and rebel, who handled a 2.15 metre long sword.
- Khalid ibn Walid - Undefeated military general of early Islamic conquest during Rashidun Caliphate. Supposedly 7ft tall.
- William Wallace — Scottish knight from Wars of Scottish Independence. Unknown height.
See also
- List of tall women
- List of short men
- List of short women
- Average adult height around the world
- Oldest people
- List of the most obese humans
External links
- Tall Clubs International - tall.org
- TallPeople.org
- CelebHeights.com
- Famous Heights.com
- Tallest by country
Web sources
Additional notes (primarily for disputed cases)
- ^ John Aasen claimed to be 267 cm but it has never been confirmed, he was more likely closer to 213 cm (7 ft) Photo.
- ^ Leonid Stadnik was recorded by a Ukrainian representative, but he has refused to be officially measured by Guinness.
- ^ Andre the Giant's reported height was inconsistent during his lifetime. Details are in his article.
- ^ Primo Carnera's height has been disputed by different sources. Details are in his article.
- ^ [1] Other sources give him "only" 6 ft 4 in ([1]).it:Elenco degli uomini più alti del mondonl:Lijst van beroemde lange mannen
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