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Named the shortest man after Pingping died in March 2010, at 27.64 in (70.21 cm), but lost the title in October 2010 to Magar. [12] Edward re-gained the title of World's shortest mobile man living following Magar's death in 2020. [13] He was beaten by Ghaderzadeh in December 2022. [9] 1986– Nepal: 73.43 cm (28.91 in) Dor Bahadur Khapangi
In 2012, at the age of 72, Dangi met the world's shortest woman, Jyoti Amge of Nagpur, India. The pair posed together for the 57th edition of The Guinness Book of Records in 2013. [ 5 ] On 13 November 2014, as part of Guinness World Records Day , Dangi met the world's tallest living man, Sultan Kösen , at an event in London.
Lin Yü-chih (林 煜 智 Lín Yùzhì; born 1972) is an author and social activist, who was one of the shortest people in the world according to Guinness World Records. He resides in Taipei, Taiwan. In May 2008 he appeared in the British Channel 4 documentary called "The World's Smallest Man and Me" hosted by Mark Dolan.
A family from a Ba Aka pygmy village. The term pygmy, as used to refer to diminutive people, comes via Latin pygmaeus from Greek πυγμαῖος pygmaîos, derived from πυγμή pygmḗ, meaning "short cubit", or a measure of length corresponding to the distance from the elbow to the first knuckle of the middle finger, meant to express pygmies' diminutive stature.
Pastrana (Dagul as his stage name) is a Filipino dwarf actor who does roles on the children's gag show Goin' Bulilit, he is the only adult actor. [55] 1958– Canada — Jordan Prentice: Canadian actor, who appeared in In Bruges. 1973– Philippines — Noemi Tesorero: Tesorero (Mahal as her stage name) is a Filipina dwarf actress, comedian and ...
Dwarfism is the condition of being very short, often caused by a medical condition. In a medical context, short stature is typically defined as an adult height that is more than two standard deviations below a population’s mean for age and sex, which corresponds to the shortest 2.3% of individuals in that population. [1]
He Pingping (Chinese: 何平平; pinyin: Hé Píngpíng; 13 July 1988 – 13 March 2010 [2]) was a Chinese man who, according to the Guinness World Records, was the world's shortest mobile man from 2007 until his death in March 2010. [3] [4]
Khagendra Thapa Magar (Nepali: खगेन्द्र थापामगर) (4 October 1992 – 17 January 2020) [2] was a Nepali once known as the shortest man in the world, measuring 0.67 m (2 ft 2 in). [1] [3] Magar, who was a primordial dwarf, won the title of shortest man from Edward Niño Hernández.