Väinö Myllyrinne
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Väinö Myllyrinne, (1909, Helsinki - 1963, Järvenpää, Finland) was an acromegalic giant who was at one time the world's tallest person. He stood 7 feet 3.5 inches and weighed 31 stone at the age of 21, but experienced a second phase of growth in his late thirties, attaining a height of 8 feet 3 inches. At the time of his death he measured 8 feet 1.2 inches, and so Don Koehler, who Myllyrinne had possibly overtaken during his growth spurt, was then certainly taller, at 8 feet 2 inches. In any event John F. Carroll was by this time the world's tallest person at 8 feet 7.75 inches.
Myllyrinne is considered the tallest soldier ever, having served in the Finnish Defence Forces. He was also voted 12th greatest Finn in the tv-show Suuret suomalaiset (spin-off of the BBC show Great Britons), largely due to a tongue-in-cheek Internet campaign criticising the idea of the show. The advocates of the campaign thought that because you can't pick just one person to be the Greatest Finn for their accomplisments, Väinö Myllyrinne would actually be the "greatest Finn", because of his height.
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