The Men who reached Height:
6 TALLEST MEN
In The World
“The Illinois Giant.” Wadlow is the tallest person approved to have ever lived, standing at 8 ft 11 in. He was born in Alton, Illinois, in 1918 and suffered from pituitary gland hypertrophy,
Robert Wadlow
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John William “Bud” Rogan, at 8 ft 9 in, is the second tallest person in recorded history – and the tallest of African descent. Rogan, born in Tennessee in 1868,
Johan Rogan
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John Carroll, who was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1932, was dubbed the “Buffalo Giant” in medical journals. Carroll’s extraordinary growth spurt began when he was 16, and it continued until he died in 1969.
John F. Carroll
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Väinö Myllyrinne was born in 1909 in Helsinki, Finland, and by the age of 21, he was 7 ft 3.4 in tall. Furthermore, in his late thirties, he experienced a second growth spurt, and by the time of his death in 1963,
Väinö Myllyrinne
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Edouard Beaupre was born in Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1881 and grew to an impressive height of 8 ft 3 in. Beaupre had aspirations of becoming a cowboy as a teenager,
Édouard Beaupré
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Sultan Kosen, a Turkish part-time farm laborer, is the world’s tallest living man at 8 ft 3. Kosen’s disease, like many others on this list, is caused by a pituitary gland tumor that has been related to acromegaly.
Sultan Kosen
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