How tall is Recep Tayyip Erdoğan?
President of Turkey since 2014
Recorded height
185 cm 6′1″ · 1.85 m · 72.8 inches
185 cm 6′1″ · 1.85 m · 72.8 inches
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is 185 cm tall (6′1″) as recorded on Wikidata, retrieved .
- That is 10 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
Richard Nixon (182 cm) · Hugo Chávez (173 cm) · Charlemagne (184 cm) · John Adams (170 cm) · Alfred Hitchcock (170 cm) · Muammar Gaddafi (185 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.