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This is a list of the tallest people, ... One of the tallest recorded British men that ever lived, measuring 7 ft 9 in (2.36 m). 1787–1820 (33)
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. Wadlow was born and raised in Alton, Illinois, a small city near St. Louis, Missouri. [1]
Angus MacAskill (1825 – 8 August 1863) was a Scottish-born Canadian giant. In its 1981 edition the Guinness Book of World Records stated he was the strongest man, the tallest non-pathological giant and the largest true giant in recorded history at 7 feet 9 inches (2.36 m), he also had the largest chest measurements of any non-obese man at 80 inches (203 cm).
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.
William Bradley (10 February 1787 – 30 May 1820), known more commonly as Giant Bradley or the Yorkshire Giant, was a British man known as one of the tallest to ever live, measuring 7 feet 9 inches (2.36 m), [1] the same height as Angus MacAskill from Scotland.
In 1889 he remarried, this time to a woman of typical stature, Annette LaVonne Weatherby, [7] and lived a mostly peaceful life until his death in 1919 of nephritis. [8] [9] He was buried beside his first wife and their son in Seville. [10] He is one of the tallest known people to live to at least 80 years.
Igor Vovkovinskiy, a Ukrainian-born man who was declared America’s tallest person about a decade ago, has died in Minnesota, his family confirmed over the weekend. America’s tallest man, Igor ...
Väinö Myllyrinne (27 February 1909 – 13 April 1963) [1] was a Finnish acromegalic giant who was at one time (1940–1963) the world's tallest living person, and may have become the tallest after the death of Robert Wadlow. He stood 224 cm (7 ft 4 in) and weighed 141 kg (22 stone; 311 pounds) at the age of 21, but experienced a second phase ...