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How tall is Douglas Adams?

Q: How tall is Douglas Adams?

Douglas Adams is 196 cm tall, which is 6′5″, as recorded on Wikidata (retrieved September 21, 2026). Recorded heights of real people are approximate.

British science fiction writer and humorist (1952–2001)

Recorded height
196 cm 6′5″ · 1.96 m · 77.2 inches

Douglas Adams is 196 cm tall (6′5″) as recorded on Wikidata, retrieved September 21, 2026.
That is 21 cm taller than the average U.S. man (175.3 cm, 5′9″; CDC/NCHS, NHANES 2015-2018 (Vital and Health Statistics Series 3, Number 46, 2021)).

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