It’s OK to be TALL-Notably & famous by height
STAND UP TALL AND BE PROUD
The webs ultimate list of inspirational tall people, 6ft and upwards.
Tall women over 6ft and Tall men over 6ft 2
Errors or omitted can be reported here
6ft (183cm)
Saffron Burrows – Actor
Geena Davis – Actor
Macy Gray – Singer
Elle Macpherson – Model
Beth Orton - Singer
Brooke Shields – Model
Uma Thurman – Actor
6ft1 (185cm)
Miranda Hart – stand-up comedienne
Brigitte Nielsen - Actor
Jodie Kidd (6ft 1.5) – Model
Venus Williams – Tennis Player
6ft2 (188cm)
Johnny Cash – Singer
Bill Clinton – Ex Us President
Elvis Presley – Singer
Maria Sharapova – Tennis Player
6ft3 (191cm)
Muhammad Ali – Boxer
Sean Connery – Actor
Lindsay Davenport - Tennis Player (6ft2.5)
Brendan Fraser – Actor
Charlton Heston - Actor
Bill Murray – Actor
Clive Owen (6ft 2.5) – Actor
Orson Welles (6ft3.5) Director
Oscar Wilde - Actor
6ft4 (193cm)
Chevy Chase – Actor
Jeremy Clarkson – Presenter
John Cleese -Actor
Jarvis Cocker – Singer from Pulp
Clint Eastwood – Actor/Director
Rupert Everett – Actor
Stephen Fry (6ft 4.5) – Writer/Actor
Jeff Goldblum – Actor
David Hasselhoff - Actor
Howard Hughes – Was the richest man in the world
Aldous Huxley – Writer
Vernon Kay – Presenter
Abraham Lincoln – US President
Liam Neeson – Actor
Michael Phelps – Swimmer
Tom Selleck -Actor
Jamie Theakston – Presenter
Roger Waters – Pink Floyd
John Wayne - Actor
6ft5 (196cm)
Douglas Adams - Author
Mick Fleetwood - Singer of Fleetwood Mac
Andrew Flintoff - England Cricket player
Calvin Harris - Pop Star
Audley Harrison – British Olympic Boxer
George Lamb -TV presenter
Sir Christopher Lee – Actor
Jonah Lomu - New Zealand Rugby Player
Dolph Lundgren – Actor
The Rock – Wrestler
Howard Stern – Radio DJ
Vince Vaughn – Actor
Josephine Anderson – Swedish Model
Roald Dahl- Children’s writer
Martin Johnson CBE – Ex England Rugby capt
Michael Jordan – ex basketball player
James Cromwell – The tallest Oscar-nominated actor of all time
Long John Baldry – Singer
Peter Crouch – tallest professional footballer in the UK
Hulk Hogan – Ex wrestler, turned actor
Peter Jones – Judge on”Dragons Den” and entrepreneur
Dennis Lawrence – (6ft 6.5) footballer Trinidad and Tobago
Stephen Merchant – Writer
David Prowse – Darth Vader
Terry Waite - Writer and Charity Worker
6ft8 (203cm)
Joel Garner – West Indian bowler, remains the tallest Test bowler.
Daniel Kawczynski – tallest MP (6ft 8.5)
Dennis Rodman- Ex Basketball player
Zeljko Kalac – (6ft 7.5) Australian goalkeeper
Jan Koller – (6ft 7.5) Czech Republic footballer
Nikola Zigic – Serbian Footballer
6ft9 (206cm)
Michael Crichton – Author
Caroline Welz – Joint tallest woman in Germany
6ft10 (208cm)
Martin Bayfield - Ex England Rugby Player
Ivo Karlovic – Croatia. Tallest professional tennis player
6ft11 (211cm)
Giant Haystacks – real name Martin Ruane
Will Jefferson – Essex cricket batsman (6ft 10.5)
7ft (213cm)
Carel Struycken – actor
Nicolay Valuev – Russian Boxer
Richard Metcalfe – Scottish Rugby Player
7ft2 (218cm)
Zainab Bibi
Margo Dydek – tallest female basketball player in WNBA history
Richard Kiel - (7ft 1.5) Actor most famous for Jaws
7ft3 (221cm)
Peter Mayhew - Chewbacca
7ft5 (226cm)
Anna Haining Bates – 19th-century Canadian giantess
Maria Feliciana Santos – Brazilian
7ft6 (229cm)
Jorge Gonzalez Tallest wrestler in WWE history.
Shawn Bradley Former NBA player who was just as tall as Yao Ming.
Yao Ming Currently the tallest player in the NBA.
Slavko Vraneš Tallest Montenegrin.
Matthew McGrory Was the world’s tallest actor when he died in 2005
Hussain Bisad Somali, considered to be one of the tallest living men.
Alam Channa Pakistani, considered to be the tallest living man when he died in 1998
Neil Fingleton Tallest person born in the UK.
Max Palmer Actor and pro wrestler.
Manute Bol Tied for tallest in NBA history.
Gheorghe Mureşan Tied for tallest in NBA history.
Kenny George Tallest Division I basketball player.
Sandy Allen Listed as tallest living female until her death on August 13, 2008.
Paul Sturgess – tallest British teenager
7ft8 (234cm)
Ri Myung Hun Former basketball player with the North Korean national team.
George Bell Tallest living American.
Yasutaka Okayama Tallest basketball player drafted in National Basketball Association
Igor Vovkovinskiy – Ukranian
7ft9 (236cm)
William Bradley – The tallest recorded British man that ever lived.
Radhouane Charbib Listed by Guinness World Records as tallest man until January 15, 2005
Sun Ming-Ming Chinese basketball player. Formerly second tallest living person.
Bao Xishun Considered the tallest living person by until September 2009
Rigardus Rijnhout Tallest Dutchman, nicknamed Giant from Rotterdam
Gogea Mitu Romanian boxer.
Yao Defen Claimant as tallest living female.
7ft11 (241cm)
Gustaf Edman Listed as the eleventh tallest in Guinness World Records.
Alexander Sizonenko Soviet Union basketball player
Vikas Kumar Uppal – Was India’s tallest person
Jane Bunford Former world’s tallest woman
8ft (244cm)
Julius Koch Le Geant Constantin
Suleiman Ali Nashnush Libyan who may be the tallest basketball player
John F. Carroll Standing height, 8 ft 7¾ in (264 cm) assuming normal spinal curvature
8ft1 (246cm)
Sultan Kösen Tallest living person since September 17, 2009.
Väinö Myllyrinne Recognized as the tallest living person from 1940 to his death in 1963.
Patrick Cotter O’Brien Bristol Giant. Tallest person ever at the time and the first in medical history to stand at a verified height of eight feet.
Gabriel Estêvão Monjane Tallest man from 1988 to 1990. He remains perhaps the tallest African yet known.
8ft2 (249cm)
Don Koehler Tallest in world for most of 1970s.
8ft4 (249cm)
Bernard Coyne World War I draft registration card, lists his height as 8 feet, and he may have reached a height of 8 feet 4 inches
Trijntje Keever Tallest recorded woman.
8ft5 (257cm)
Leonid Stadnik -Ukrainian – Formerly listed as the world’s tallest living man
8ft6 (262cm)
Maximinus Thrax - Roman Emperor
John Rogan Second tallest male in recorded history. Tallest African-American.
8ft11 (272cm)
Robert Wadlow Confirmed tallest person by Guinness World Records.
9ft3 (282cm)
John Middleton On his grave “the Childe of Hale. Nine feet three” 1578- 1623.
9ft6 (290cm)
Goliath – biblical warrior
10ft6 (320cm)
Eleazer -Tallest human in historians records
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