As he celebrates his big day, we’re going to take a look through the history of the world’s tallest people, as featured within the pages of guinness world records 2025 And over the coming weeks and months, we’ll be looking at each of them in depth. Read on to learn the stories of some of the tallest people ever, from the verified tallest person of all time to the tallest people alive right now — including sultan kösen, the tallest living man in the world. Who is the tallest person in the world He gained the title of tallest living man in 2009, according to. Robert pershing wadlow was born on february 22, 1918 in alton, illinois
His height of 8' 11.1 qualifies him as the tallest person in history, as recorded in the guinness book of records Robert was the first born of addie and harold wadlow. This is a list of the tallest people, verified by guinness world records or other reliable sources. The tallest person alive in the world today is sultan kösen, who measures 2.51m in height Kösen, a farmer from turkey, has held the record for the world’s tallest man since guinness world records measured him back in 2009.
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