Interesting Facts - Tallest, Shortest Male and Female

Below are the list of tallest, smallest, heaviest person alive and ever.

Tallest Man Alive - Sultan Kösen

Sultan Kösen - born on 10 December 1982, Sultan Kösen is a Turkish farmer and is the tallest man in the world. He is 251 centimetres or 8 ft 2.82 in tall.

Kösen's growth resulted from the conditions gigantism and acromegaly, caused by a tumour affecting his pituitary gland. Due to his condition, he uses crutches to walk.

Born to a Kurdish family in the southeastern city Mardin, he is the seventh tallest man in history.

Tallest Man Ever - Robert Pershing Wadlow

Robert Pershing Wadlow - (February 22, 1918 – July 15, 1940), also known as the Alton Giant and the Giant of Illinois, was an American man who was the tallest person in recorded history for whom there is irrefutable evidence. He was born and raised in Alton, Illinois, a small city near St. Louis, Missouri.

Wadlow's height was 8 ft 11.1 in (2.72 m) while his weight reached 439 lb (199 kg) at his death at age 22. His great size and his continued growth in adulthood were due to hypertrophy of his pituitary gland, which results in an abnormally high level of human growth hormone (HGH). Even by the time of his death, there was no indication that his growth had ended.

Shortest Man Alive - Lin Yü-chih

Lin Yü-chih - Lin Yü-chih is the shortest man alive in the world. He resides in Taipei, Taiwan, where he works as an author and social activist. His name has sometimes been misspelled as Lin Yih-chih. In May 2008 he appeared in the British Channel 4 documentary called "The World's Smallest Man and Me" hosted by Mark Dolan.

Lin suffers from osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic bone disorder that hinders normal growth of bone and bodily height. According to the Guinness Book of World Records he is 67.5 cm (2 ft 2.58 in) tall. He is the founder of the Osteogenesis Imperfecta Association.

Shortest Man Ever - Chandra Bahadur Dangi

Chandra Bahadur Dangi (30 November 1939 – 3 September 2015) Chandra Bahadur Dangi was a Nepali man who was the shortest man in recorded history for whom there is irrefutable evidence, measuring 54.6 cm (1 ft 1⁄2 in). Dangi was a primordial dwarf. He broke the record of Gul Mohammed (1957–1997), whose height was 57 cm (1 ft 10 in).

Dangi came to the attention of the media when a wood contractor saw him in his village in the Dang district of Nepal. He was awarded the title of shortest adult human ever recorded after his height was measured in February 2012. He was subsequently included in the Guinness World Records. Three of his five brothers were less than 1.22 m (four feet) tall, while his two sisters and two other brothers were of average height.

Tallest Woman Alive - Sun Fang

Sun Fang (born 1987) is a Chinese woman who is currently the tallest living woman in the world at the height of 7 ft 3 in (221cm) following the death of fellow Chinese Yao Defen.

Tallest Woman Ever - Sandra Elaine Allen

Sandra Elaine Allen (June 18, 1955 – August 13, 2008) was an American woman recognized by the Guinness World Records as the tallest woman in the world. She was 7 feet 7 inches (231 cm) tall.

Allen wrote a book, Cast A Giant Shadow. Although over the years other women have taken the title of the tallest woman, Allen held it for the last sixteen years of her life. Her height was due to a tumor in her pituitary gland that caused it to release growth hormone uncontrollably, between 200 to 1,000 times the rate of normal amount. She grew up in Shelbyville, Indiana and was raised by her grandmother, who worked as a cleaning woman. At the age of twenty-two years, in 1977, she underwent surgery for the condition. Lacking this procedure, Allen would have continued to grow and suffer further medical problems associated with gigantism.

She appeared in Fellini's Casanova, in the TV movie SideShow, and in a Canadian/American documentary film, Being Different. The New Zealand band Split Enz wrote a song about her, "Hello Sandy Allen," released on their 1982 album Time and Tide. Allen never married, saying that she was "an old fashioned girl" and would not date a man shorter than her.

In later years Allen used a wheelchair because her legs and back could no longer support her tall stature while standing. At one point, she was bedridden due to disease, causing atrophy of the muscles. Due to this limitation, she spent her last years in Shelbyville, Indiana, in the same retirement center as Edna Parker, the oldest living human at the time.

Allen died on August 13, 2008. Her family friend, Rita Rose, revealed that she suffered from a recurring blood infection, along with Type 2 diabetes, breathing troubles, and kidney failure.

A scholarship was dedicated in Allen's name at Shelbyville High School.

In 2020, Allen's friend and manager, John Kleiman, donated a collection of her memorabilia to Ripley's Museums.

Shortest Woman Alive - Jyoti Kisange Amge

Jyoti Kisange Amge - born 16 December 1993 is an Indian actress notable for being the world's shortest living woman according to Guinness World Records.

Following Amge's 18th birthday on 16 December 2011, she was officially declared the world's shortest woman by Guinness World Records with a height of 62.8 centimetres (2 ft 0.6 in). Her restricted height is due to a genetic disorder called primordial dwarfism.

Amge was featured in the 2009 documentary entitled Body Shock: Two Foot Tall Teen.She was also a guest participant on Bigg Boss 6, an Indian television show. On 13 August 2014, she was cast in the fourth season of American Horror Story: Freak Show as Ma Petite.

In 2012, she met the world's shortest man, Chandra Bahadur Dangi of Nepal. The pair posed together for the 57th edition of the Guinness World

Shortest Woman Ever - PAULINE MUSTERS

PAULINE MUSTERS - The shortest ever female has been Pauline Musters, known as Princess Pauline (Netherlands). She was born at Ossendrecht, Netherlands on 26 February 1876 and measured 30 cm (12 in) at birth. At nine years of age she was 55 cm (21.5 in) tall and weighed only 1.5 kg (3 lb 5 oz). She died of pneumonia with meningitis on 1 March 1895 in New York City, USA at the age of 19. A post mortem examination showed her to be exactly 61 cm (24 in) (there was some elongation after death).

Heaviest Man Alive - Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari

Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari (Arabic: خالد بن محسن الشاعري‎; born 28 February 1991) is a Saudi Arabian man who in August 2013 was found to be the heaviest living person and the second-heaviest person in recorded history at 610 kg (1,340 lb; 96 st), behind Jon Brower Minnoch. He also had a BMI of 204, the highest ever recorded. As a result of medical treatment, he lost a total of 320 kg (710 lb; 50 st)—more than half his body weight—in six months.

Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari was born in Saudi Arabia on February 28, 1991. He was 22 when he was declared the "fattest man alive".

In 2013, Saudi King Abdullah ordered him to come to the country's capital, Riyadh, to undergo a series of dietary and physical programs in order to help him lose weight. During the weight loss, he finally was able to walk for the first time in five years, in February 2016, with a walker. In November 2017, Al Arabiya reported that he had lost 542 kg (1,195 lb; 85.4 st) and now weighs 68 kg (150 lb; 10.7 st). In January 2018, he was reported to have had his last surgeries to remove the excess skin due to his old weight.

Heaviest Man Ever - Jon Brower Minnoch

Jon Brower Minnoch (September 29, 1941 – September 10, 1983) was an American man who, at his peak weight, was the heaviest human being ever recorded, weighing 1,400 lb (635 kilograms; 100 stone) (0.635 tons).

At the age of 12, Minnoch weighed 294 lb (133 kilograms; 21.0 stone) with an estimated height of 5 ft 7 in (170 cm), and by age 22 he was 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) in height and weighed 500 lb (230 kilograms; 36 stone).

Heaviest Woman Alive - Mayra Lizbeth Rosales

Mayra Lizbeth Rosales (born 1980) is an American woman known for being, at one point, the heaviest living woman. At her heaviest, she weighed 470 kg (1,036 lb). She came to prominence in March 2008 when her sister was jailed for murdering her two-year-old nephew, a murder to which Rosales had originally falsely confessed. She decided to get her life back in order to get custody of her sister's children, who had no parents to take care of them at that time.

On March 18, 2008, in La Joya, Texas, Eliseo Rosales Jr. was taken to the hospital suffering from breathing difficulties and a serious head injury, from which he later died. His aunt, Mayra Lizbeth Rosales, was arrested on suspicion of murder. Rosales initially took responsibility for her nephew's death, claiming that she had fallen and accidentally crushed him when her right hand slipped, while trying to pick the child up. However, medical staff soon established that Eliseo had died from massive blunt force trauma, casting doubt on Rosales' confession. Jaime Lee Rosales, the child's mother and Mayra Rosales' sister, was also arrested on charges of causing injury to a child, and of failing to protect a child.

Heaviest Woman Ever - Carol Ann Yager

Carol Ann Yager (January 26, 1960 – July 18, 1994) was an American woman who was the heaviest woman ever recorded and one of the most severely obese people in history.

Yager lost the most weight by non-surgical means in the shortest documented time: 521 lb (236 kg) in three months.

When Yager died in 1994 at the age of 34, she weighed about 1,200 lb (540 kg), and was 5 feet 7 inches (1.7 m) in height. Bizarre magazine reported that she was estimated to have been more than 5 feet (1.5 m) wide, although this measurement has not been verified by Yager's medical team or family members. Shortly before her death, however, she was able to fit through her custom-built 48 inches (121.9 cm) wide front door. Published reports quoted her then weighed at her peak weight at about 1,603 lb (727 kg; 114.5 st).

Lightest Woman Ever - Lucía Zaráte

Lucía Zaráte (January 2, 1863 – January 15, 1890) was a Mexican entertainer with dwarfism who performed in sideshows. Zaráte is the first person to have been identified with Majewski osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II. She was entered into the Guinness World Records as the "lightest recorded adult", weighing 4.7 pounds (2.1 kg) at the age of 17.

She was born in Veracruz, Mexico, and settled on the Agostadero, (later Cempoala), Veracruz. According to an 1894 article in Strand Magazine, Zaráte achieved her full growth by the age of one year.Her family home, Casa Grande (Big House) is open to the public as a museum.