How tall is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?
American basketball player (born 1947)
Recorded height
218 cm 7′2″ · 2.18 m · 85.8 inches
218 cm 7′2″ · 2.18 m · 85.8 inches
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is 218 cm tall (7′2″) as recorded on Wikidata, retrieved .
- That is 43 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)).
Compared with people of similar fame
Bryan Cranston (180 cm) · Diego Forlán (179 cm) · Gisele Bündchen (180 cm) · Rupert Grint (173 cm) · Ben Stiller (170 cm) · Spencer Tracy (175 cm)
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Height as recorded on Wikidata (CC0), retrieved August 27, 2026. Recorded heights of real people are approximate. Silhouettes are stylized pictograms, not likenesses.