According to statistics, the average height of a man in Russia is 176 cm, and a woman is 168 cm. People whose height exceeds these indicators are considered tall.
Often the cause of high growth is dysfunction of the pituitary gland, which continues to release growth hormones throughout a person's life. This condition is called acromegaly. Almost all tallest people in the worldthose included in our rating suffered from it. Various videos show how difficult it is for them to move (many do this with a cane or crutches) due to their disproportionate height and weight. Well, Mother Nature doesn't ask if the giants want popularity at this price.
It is noteworthy that none of the tallest women on the planet did not make this list.
10. Bernard Coyne - 254 cm
One of the tallest people on the planet, Bernard Coyne, was born in America in 1897 and immediately began to grow. According to eyewitnesses, at the end of his life (and she was short, 23 years old), Coyne was 254 cm tall. Although in the draft card his height is “only” 236 cm.
9. Donald Koehler - 239 cm
Donald rested on the laurels of the tallest man on Earth from 1969 until his death in 1981. His height was 239 cm.It is interesting that his twin sister was of normal height - only 175 cm.For some time Don performed in the show, however, the constant desire of skeptics to prick him with pins to check if he was on stilts forced him to leave scene. He later successfully worked as a salesman and died at the age of 55 from a heart attack.
8. Vikas Appal - 251 cm
Unlike people in the 10th and 9th positions in the rankings, Vikas did not seem to have acromegaly. Judging by the photo, he was proportionally built. Vikas, whose height was 251 cm, was the tallest man in India. He died in 2007 at the age of 23 from an unsuccessful operation to remove a brain tumor.
7. Sultan Kösen - 251 cm
The Sultan is officially recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as the highest living person. The height of the tallest man in the world is 251 cm. He currently lives in Turkey, is engaged in farming and recently married a woman who is waist-high.
The constant growth of the Sultan due to the increased activity of the pituitary gland posed a direct threat to his life, but doctors from the University of Virginia managed to stop him with the help of hormone therapy. And now the only inconvenience the giant is experiencing is the need for individual tailoring of shoes and clothes.
6. Edouard Beaupre - 252 cm
Edward had to give up his dream of becoming a rider when his height exceeded 215 cm at the age of 17. He began to make a living in a circus show, where he bent iron beams and carried horses on his shoulder. Edward died in 1904, and at the time of his death his height was 252 cm.The body of the giant, at the request of the owners of the circus where he performed, was embalmed, and then demonstrated at the University of Montreal. And only in 1990 was he cremated, and the ashes were scattered near his hometown.
5. Vaino Müllirinne - 251 cm
Vaino was considered the tallest man in the world for only 2 years, from 1961 to 1963. Then his height reached 251 cm. At the age of 20, Vaino's height was "only" 220 cm, which allowed him, despite acromegaly and the attendant problems, to serve in the army. He managed to fight in the war between Finland and the USSR in 1939, and at the end of his life he took up a farm and raised chickens.In history, he took the place of the tallest soldier.
4. Leonid Stadnik - 253 cm
Leonidas' gigantism is not congenital, but acquired - he began to grow after he underwent brain surgery at the age of twelve, as a result of which a pituitary tumor developed. The stadnik did not want hype around his name, so for a long time he refused the services of representatives of the Guinness Book of Records. According to some reports, his growth was 253 cm. In 2014, Stadnik died of a hemorrhagic stroke.
3. John Carroll - 264 cm
John suffered from a curvature of the spine, so he measured 244 cm in 1959, but if we take into account the distortion, he could have been 264 cm. John continued to grow until his death; he is said to have grown a whopping 17.78 cm in one year.He died in 1969.
2. John Rogan - 267 cm
The only African American giant in the top 10, born in the United States in 1865. He began to grow at the age of 13 and grew until the very end, when his height was 267 cm. All his life he suffered from ankylosis and at the end of his life was forced to move on a cart. John made a living trading his own photos at the train station. He was buried in a solid block of concrete to prevent the curious from digging up the corpse.
1.Robert Wadlow - 272 cm
The tallest man in history whose height has been documented is Robert Wadlow. His height reached 272 cm, and his body weight was 199 kg. The largest man in the world continued to grow, and who knows what heights he could have reached if not for his death in 1940 from infection.
The tallest man in Russia and the world was probably the peasant Fyodor Makhnov, born in 1878. According to unverified data, his height was about 285 cm.