James Madison vs Pelé: height compared

Drawn to a common scale from sourced heights.

• Pelé: 173 cm (5′8″). James Madison: 163 cm (5′4″).
• Pelé is about 10 cm (3.9 in) taller than James Madison.
• Pelé is 1.06x the height of James Madison.

Both heights are as recorded on Wikidata (CC0), retrieved August 27, 2026; recorded heights of real people are approximate, so treat differences of a centimeter or two as noise.

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