Tallest Man Ever Recorded

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272 cm (8 ft 11-1/10 in) ,Robert Pershing Wadlow.
At age 18 his height was 8'4 (254 cm) and he weighed 390 pounds (177 kg). His size 37 shoes cost $100.00 a pair.
Tallest Man living is 253 cm (8 ft 4 in)
Leonid Stadnyk,:Leonid Stadnyk's excessive growth began after brain surgery when he was 13 years old. He developed a pituitary gland tumor which caused the gland to secrete large amounts of growth hormone, resulting in what doctors describe as acromegalic gigantism.
Although claiming to be the tallest man in the world, he refused to be measured by Guinness World Records.



Tallest Woman Ever Recorded
250 cm (8 ft 2 in)
Zeng Jinlian (June 26, 1964 – February 13, 1982) was the tallest woman ever recorded. Born in China with gigantism, she grew to be 8 ft 1¾ in (248 cm) tall, making her the tallest known woman. However, she could not stand up straight due to a severely deformed spine. She died in Hunan, China at age 17.

At 4 years of age, she was 5 ft 1½ in (156 cm) tall.

Tallest Woman - Living Sandy Allen - 231 cm (7 ft 7 in) from Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Sandy Allen was a 2.95-kg (6.5-lb) baby, and her abnormal growth began soon after her birth in June 1955. By the age of 10 she stood 1.905 m (6 ft 3 in) tall, and was 2.16 m (7 ft 1 in) by 16 years old. Sandy had a dream to break free of a world, that she felt she had outgrown. In her first letter to Guinness World Records in 1974 she wrote, "

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the smallest person in the world

Khagendra Thapa Magar, a fourteen-year-old boy, weighs only 4.5 kg (10 lbs). He currently holds the world record for being the smallest person in the world.