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Tallest tracked people
Ranked from sourced heights; every row links to a full page.
The tallest people among the 9,731 this site tracks - athletes dominate, as they do in life.
| # | Name | Who/what | Height |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robert Wadlow | American who was the tallest recorded person in history (1918–1940) | 272 cm (8′11″) |
| 2 | Sultan Kösen | tallest living human | 251 cm (8′3″) |
| 3 | Victor Wembanyama | French basketball player (born 2004) | 234.3 cm (7′8″) |
| 4 | Manute Bol | Sudanese-American basketball player | 231 cm (7′7″) |
| 5 | Gheorghe Mureșan | Romanian basketball player (born 1971) | 231 cm (7′7″) |
| 6 | Yao Ming | Chinese basketball player (born 1980) | 229 cm (7′6″) |
| 7 | Shawn Bradley | American basketball player | 229 cm (7′6″) |
| 8 | Matthew McGrory | American actor (1973–2005) | 228.6 cm (7′6″) |
| 9 | André the Giant | French professional wrestler and actor (1946–1993) | 224 cm (7′4″) |
| 10 | Boban Marjanović | Serbian basketball player (born 1988) | 222 cm (7′3″) |
| 11 | The Great Khali | Indian-American professional wrestler, actor and powerlifter | 221 cm (7′3″) |
| 12 | Žydrūnas Ilgauskas | Lithuanian basketball player (born 1975) | 221 cm (7′3″) |
| 13 | Arvydas Sabonis | Lithuanian basketball player and executive | 220 cm (7′3″) |
| 14 | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | American basketball player (born 1947) | 218 cm (7′2″) |
| 15 | Richard Kiel | European-American actor (1939–2014) | 218 cm (7′2″) |
| 16 | Peter Mayhew | British-American actor | 218 cm (7′2″) |
| 17 | Dikembe Mutombo | Congolese-American basketball player (1966–2024) | 218 cm (7′2″) |
| 18 | Tyson Chandler | American basketball player (born 1982) | 218 cm (7′2″) |
| 19 | Kristaps Porziņģis | Latvian basketball player (born 1995) | 218 cm (7′2″) |
| 20 | Vlade Divac | Serbian basketball player (born 1968) | 217 cm (7′1″) |
| 21 | Shaquille O'Neal | American basketball player (born 1972) | 216 cm (7′1″) |
| 22 | Wilt Chamberlain | American basketball player (1936–1999) | 216 cm (7′1″) |
| 23 | David Robinson | American basketball player (born 1965) | 216 cm (7′1″) |
| 24 | Marc Gasol | Spanish basketball player (born 1985) | 216 cm (7′1″) |
| 25 | Rudy Gobert | French basketball player (born 1992) | 216 cm (7′1″) |
| 26 | Timofey Mozgov | Russian basketball player (born 1986) | 216 cm (7′1″) |
| 27 | Alex Len | Ukrainian basketball player (born 1993) | 216 cm (7′1″) |
| 28 | Pau Gasol | Spanish basketball player (born 1980) | 215 cm (7′1″) |
| 29 | Kane | American professional wrestler, actor, and politician | 213.4 cm (7′0″) |
| 30 | Dirk Nowitzki | German basketball player (born 1978) | 213 cm (7′0″) |
| 31 | Hakeem Olajuwon | Nigerian-American basketball player | 213 cm (7′0″) |
| 32 | Patrick Ewing | Jamaican-American basketball player | 213 cm (7′0″) |
| 33 | Andrew Bogut | Australian basketball player (born 1984) | 213 cm (7′0″) |
| 34 | Darko Miličić | Serbian basketball player (born 1985) | 213 cm (7′0″) |
| 35 | Nikolai Valuev | Russian politician and former heavyweight boxer | 213 cm (7′0″) |
| 36 | Robert Parish | American former basketball player (born 1953) | 213 cm (7′0″) |
| 37 | Andrea Bargnani | Italian basketball player (born 1985) | 213 cm (7′0″) |
| 38 | Joel Embiid | Cameroonian and French basketball player | 213 cm (7′0″) |
| 39 | JaVale McGee | American basketball player (born 1988) | 213 cm (7′0″) |
| 40 | Ömer Aşık | Turkish basketball player (born 1986) | 213 cm (7′0″) |
Heights as recorded on Wikidata (CC0), retrieved August 27, 2026. "Tracked" means the 9,731 well-known people in this site's dataset - these are rankings within that set, not world records.
See also shortest tracked people and tallest landmarks.