How tall is Mao Zedong?
1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China
Recorded height
180 cm 5′11″ · 1.80 m · 70.9 inches
180 cm 5′11″ · 1.80 m · 70.9 inches
- Mao Zedong is 180 cm tall (5′11″) as recorded on Wikidata, retrieved .
- That is 5 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
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (174 cm) · John F. Kennedy (185 cm) · Martin Luther King Jr. (176.5 cm) · Franklin Delano Roosevelt (188 cm) · Bill Gates (177 cm) · Marilyn Monroe (166 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.