The tallest man in history was Robert Wadlow, who stood at 8 feet 11.1 inches tall. He was born on Feb. 22, 1918. Wadlow's height came as a result of pituitary gigantism.

In the U.S., the average height for an adult man over the age of 20 is 5 feet 9 inches, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For an adult woman, the average height is about ...

More than 100 of some of the tallest people in the world are visiting West Michigan for the annual Tall Clubs International ...

The world's tallest man revealed that he asked Guinness World Records officials to keep him away from the world's shortest man when they met back in 2014, because he feared that he would step on him.

Dutch people born in 1980 may have been the tallest in the country's history, with the average heights of 6 feet (183.9 centimeters) for men and 5.6 feet (170.7 centimeters) for women.

[Guinness] named Robert Wadlow as the tallest man "of whom there is irrefutable evidence". When last measured on 27 June 1940, the mild-mannered American stretched a staggering 2.72 m (8 ft 11.1 ...

Sultan Kosen, the world's tallest man, measuring a mighty 8 feet, 1 inch tall, met one of the world's smallest men, He Pingping for the first time in Turkey. Pingping, who stands 2 feet, 5 inches ...

BEIJING – The world's tallest man married a woman who only comes up to his elbow on Thursday, holding a traditional Mongolian ceremony with great fanfare at the tomb of Kublai Khan. Bao Xishun ...

The tallest and the fattest men in this picture are likely Egon Cannon Colossus and Cornelius Brun, while the third person in this photo remains unidentified. By Dan Evon Dan Evon is a former ...