Joseph Stalin vs Napoleon: height compared

Drawn to a common scale from sourced heights.

• Napoleon: 168 cm (5′6″). Joseph Stalin: 163 cm (5′4″).
• Napoleon is about 5 cm (2.0 in) taller than Joseph Stalin.
• Napoleon is 1.03x the height of Joseph Stalin.

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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