Giant Living Humans in The World

Humans might not be the tallest living

beings on Earth but there are quite a

few of them who make Giants seem real

the average person rarely grows beyond

six feet and yet there exists men and

women with record-breaking Heights among

the billions of people inhabiting this

planet it's kind of impossible not to

stand out when you're above eight feet

tall and towering over almost everyone

this kind of hike comes with its own

advantages and disadvantages so the

exceptionally tall people have to deal

with both join us as we look at 15

real-life Giants who exist today number

one Sultan Kosen

Kosen is a Turkish farmer who was born

in December of 1982 in a village in

Turkey the man holds the Guinness World

Record for being the tallest man alive

in the entire world Sultan Kosen is a

whopping eight foot 2.82 inches tall he

is of Kurdish ethnicity and despite

being above eight feet tall he's the

seventh tallest man known in history as

a child Sultan was unable to complete

his studies because of his increasing

height so instead he began working as a

farmer part-time his abnormal growth was

the result of a medical condition known

as gigantism and acromegaly caused by a

tumor that affected his pituitary gland

because of this condition Sultan uses

crutches to walk according to him being

this tall allows him to see a great

distance and he can easily help his

family and friends with domestic tasks

such as changing light bulbs and hanging

curtains but with Pros there are also

cons like not being able to find

appropriately sized clothing especially

because his limbs are so long he also

struggles to find shoes that fit and his

hands are the longest measured in a

living person at 11.2 inches so finding

gloves for him is a real challenge it's

also very obvious that he finds it

difficult to fit into any average sized

car kosin received gamma knife treatment

for his tumor and was also provided with

medication to control his excessive

growth hormone levels in 2012 and it was

confirmed that the treatment effectively

stopped his growth he then married a

syria-born woman named Merve Debo in

October of 2013 who is about 10 years

younger than him but they ended up

getting divorced in 2021. number two

rumesa gelge

ramesa gelge was born in January of 1997

and she's currently the tallest living

woman in the world she is a Turkish

Advocate researcher and freelance

front-end developer she was homeschooled

her entire life and was announced as the

tallest living teenager in the world in

2014. seven years later in October of

2021 she was announced as the tallest

woman by the Guinness World Records the

25 year old also holds a number of other

records which includes the longest

fingers the largest hands and the

longest back on a living woman she is 7

foot 0.71 inches tall gelge lives in

turkey and her abnormal height is the

result of a condition called Weaver's

syndrome this is a rare disease which

includes rapid growth hormone production

amongst other abnormalities it actually

affects men three times more than it

does women as a child she had to undergo

open heart surgery due to congenital

heart diseases when she was just one

year old rumesa uses a wheelchair to

move around because of her condition but

she can walk for short periods of time

with the help of a walker she also

requires a special seat in order to be

able to sit down and according to her

despite the challenges that she faces

because of her height she's grateful for

being the way that she is she also

wishes to use her title to raise

awareness of diseases and conditions

like hers in November of 2033 gelge was

able to fly on a plane for the very

first time in her life thanks to the

efforts of Turkish Airlines they ended

up removing six rows of chairs from one

of their planes in order to ensure that

she had a comfortable flight from

Istanbul to San Francisco and they then

replaced the seats with a special

stretcher just for her

number three zanab Bibi

so not Bibi is from Pakistan and was the

tallest woman in Pakistan with a

reported height of seven feet and two

inches she was named the tallest woman

in the Guinness Book of World Records in

2004 and had been suffering from

diabetes hypertension and osteoporosis

for years she was under treatment for a

kidney ailment when she passed away in

2018 at the age of 46 years old

according to her relatives her height

began increasing rapidly at the age of

15 and by the time that she had reached

20 she was seven feet two inches tall

she would first be noticed when popular

television show host Tariq Aziz invited

her to his new show in 1998 after she

was declared the tallest woman by

Guinness World Records she was then

invited to a number of countries

visiting 15 of them which included

France Germany and the UK sanab Bibi had

mentioned her terrible Financial

conditions in an interview that she had

given to a private News Channel and said

that she was struggling to make ends

meet because of her illness she remained

single until her death as her height and

medical conditions were a hurdle in her

personal intimate life

number four Andre the Giant

Andre Renee rusamoff is better known by

his in-ring name Andre the Giant he was

a French professional wrestler and

famous actor for his exceptional size

born in May of 1946 Andre suffered from

gigantism that was caused by an excess

production of growth hormone he was also

called The Eighth Wonder of the World by

all of his fans and began his career in

1966 later relocating to North America

in 1971. from 1973 all throughout the

mid 80s ruseum off wrestled for a

promotion throughout the United States

as a special attraction for the

worldwide Wrestling Federation later to

be known as the WWF during the wrestling

boom of the 1980s he became the Mainstay

for the company his Feud with Hulk Hogan

would also help to attract public

attention especially when he defeated

Hogan to win the WWF championship in

1988. ruseum off was a whopping seven

foot four inches tall weighing in at 236

kilograms his WWF career wound down

after WrestleMania 6 in 1990. he then

wrestled primarily for all Japan Pro

Wrestling until his sudden death in

1993. he would become the inaugural

inductee of the WWF Hall of Fame after

he had died and he also tried his luck

in acting appearing in various movies

and television which included The

Princess Bride Zorro The Greatest

American Hero and Conan the Destroyer in

1974 the Guinness Book of World Records

would mention him as the then

highest-paid wrestler in history with an

annual salary of around four hundred

thousand dollars he died at the age of

46 due to congestive heart failure in

his sleep at a hotel in Paris and left

his estate to his sole beneficiary his

daughter Robin Christensen

number five morteza merzed

morteza merzad was born in September of

1987 in Iran he's an Iranian volleyball

player and plays for the national

sitting volleyball team and the team of

Messi babak with a height of eight foot

one inches morteza is famous as the

tallest living man in Iran and second

tallest living man in the world he

suffers from a rare medical condition

called acromegaly that's triggered by

excessive production of growth hormone

in the pituitary gland of the brain he

was over six feet two inches tall at

just the age of 16 and when he was 15 he

got into a bicycle accident and suffered

serious pelvic fracture because of this

accident his right leg would stop

growing so now it's around 15

centimeters shorter than his left the

Iran national head coach would spot his

talent in 2011 after watching a

television program that featured unusual

and differently abled people of which

morteza was apart he immediately got in

touch with him and convinced him to play

Sitting volleyball after selection for

the national team and undergoing

training he then finally made his

International debut in 2016 at the

Paralympics qualifiers he was then

selected for the national team and

eventually went on to compete in the

2016 Summer Paralympics sitting

volleyball Final in which he was the top

scorer with 28 points for Iran morteza

won the gold medal at the 2016 Summer

pair Olympics and then again he won two

gold medals and the Golden Ball for the

best player in the world in 2022

number six Yao defend

the yellow defend was born in 1972 to a

poor family of farmers in China she was

recognized as the tallest living Woman

by The Guinness Book of World Records

standing at a height of seven foot eight

inches and weighed around 157 kilograms

Yao is recorded as the third tallest

woman in history just five inches

shorter than Zing Jin Lin the tallest

woman known in history her extraordinary

stature was caused by gigantism a

condition in which a tumor in the

pituitary gland causes excessive growth

hormone she was 6 foot 11 inches tall by

the age of 15. doctors who diagnosed her

condition refused to treat her as her

family was unable to afford the surgery

she was illiterate so she then traveled

around with her father performing for

money around the year 2002 her tumor

would finally be removed in a hospital

in Guangdong she appeared on the TLC

cable TV network in 2009 and according

to reports she fell in her house and

suffered internal bleeding but

eventually recovered she passed away at

the age of 40 due to an unknown ailment

in 2012. by the time of her death she

lived in a house that she shared with

her mother in a small village

number seven Igor vov Kavinsky

igorvov Kavinsky also known as Igor

Landon was a ukrainian-american law

student and actor he was born in

September of 1982 in Ukraine and also

bagged the world record for being the

tallest living person in the United

States at seven foot eight point three

three inches tall he is originally from

the Ukraine and moved to Rochester

Minnesota in 1989 to receive treatment

at the Mayo Clinic back then he was at

least six feet tall he also acted in a

few films and commercials such as the

comedy Hall Pass rising to fame when

pictures of him wearing a t-shirt that

read world's biggest Obama supporter

went viral at a Barack Obama rally he

was the first person to become the

tallest living person in two separate

countries and also joined singer zlada

ognovich in representing Ukraine in the

Eurovision Song Contest in 2013. when he

was 27 years old he then traveled to New

York and was declared America's tallest

living person by a Guinness World Record

adjudicator on the show his abnormal

height was attributed to a tumor

pressing on his pituitary gland which

causes an increased amount of growth

hormone Igor would announce that he was

undergoing treatment for a heart

condition in 2019 and then passed away

in 2021 after remaining hospitalized for

heart disease at the age of 38.

number eight Robert waldow

Robert Pershing waldau was the tallest

person in recorded history for whom

there is undeniable evidence also known

as the Alton the Giant and the giant of

Illinois he was born in 1918 in Alton

Illinois waldow was a whopping eight

foot 11.1 inches tall weighing around

199 kilograms at the time of his death

oldest of five siblings Robert was

taller than his father by the time that

he was eight years old a special desk

had to be constructed for him in

elementary school and he was eight foot

four inches tall by the time that he

graduated from high school afterwards he

would enroll in shirtleff college to

study law while Dao required leg braces

in order to walk and didn't have a lot

of feeling in his legs and feet despite

that though he never used a wheelchair

he became a celebrity in 1936 when he

did a U.S tour with the Ringling brother

circus appearing at Madison Square

Garden and Boston Garden in the center

ring Robert refused to wear a top hat

and tail kills for his circus

appearances he also did a promotional

tour with the international show company

that provided him shoes free of charge

he wanted to be known as a person

working in advertising not being

exhibited as a freak waldow belonged to

the order of the de Malay the Masonic

sponsored Organization for young men and

also become a free mason later during a

professional appearance in July of 1940

the Manistee National Forest Festival a

faulty brace irritated his ankle and

caused an infection he then had to

undergo a blood transfusion and surgery

but because of an autoimmune disorder

his condition deteriorated and he passed

away in his sleep even his coffin was

massive at over 10 feet and he had to be

carried by 12 pallbearers and eight

assistants in 1986 a life-size statue of

Robert would be erected opposite of the

Alton Museum of History and art as a

tribute to him

number nine Neil fingleton

Neil fingleton was born in December of

1980 in Durham and he was an English

actor and basketball player fingleton

was the tallest british-born man and

also the tallest man in the European

Union at seven foot seven point five six

inches tall he's considered amongst the

25 tallest men in the world his title as

the tallest man was confirmed by

Guinness World Records in the summer of

2007 after attending a basketball camp

in Connecticut at the age of 16

fingleton decided to attend high school

in the United States he moved to

Worchester Massachusetts and began

attending Holy Name Central Catholic

High School from where he graduated in

2000 he helped the Holy Name basketball

team to the central Massachusetts

division one title and a berth in the

Massachusetts final game in 1999.

fingleton was also granted a basketball

scholarship to the United States and

initially played at the University of

North Carolina at Chapel Hill later at

the College of the Holy Cross and watch

Chester he underwent back surgery in

August of 2000 and earned a medical red

shirt from North Carolina he graduated

from college in 2004 with a degree in

history and his professional debut was

in the 2004 and 5 season with the Boston

frenzy of the ABA he then continued to

play until 2007 when an injury would

force him to retire afterwards he

returned to Durham in order to make a

career in Show Business he appeared in a

number of hit television shows and films

which included Game of Thrones Doctor

Who Jupiter Ascending and X-Men the

first class finkleton then passed away

in February of 2017 at the age of 36 due

to heart failure

number 10. Sun Ming Ming

Sun Ming Ming is a former professional

basketball player who's from China he

holds the record for being the tallest

professional basketball player in the

world measured by the Guinness World

Records his height is seven feet nine

inches and he weighs around 168

kilograms born in a small town in China

Ming Ming began playing basketball at

the age of 15. he attended a community

college known as Ventura College in

California playing basketball there for

the 2005 and 2006 season afterwards he

then moved on to play professional

basketball Sun would be diagnosed with a

benign tumor that was attached to his

pituitary gland back in 2005 because he

didn't have health insurance or the

money to pay for his medical bills his

sports agent initiated a fundraiser to

collect the money for his surgery the

tumor would be successfully removed in

September of 2005. son played for

numerous American minor league teams

like the Dodge City Legends the Maryland

Nighthawks and the Grand Rapids flight

but he also played in the Mexican League

with Fuerza Regis and a league in Japan

with hamamatsu Phoenix later on in 2009

he would return to China and played for

the Beijing ducks in the Chinese

Basketball Association Mingming also

appeared in some television shows and

films like Rush Hour 3 and a Chinese

show called candle in the Tomb he would

be married to a woman who is six foot

three inches tall and together they're

recognized as the tallest living married

couple by the Guinness World Records

with a combined height of 13 feet

10.72 inches

number 11. Shaquille O'Neal

Shaquille O'Neal is often referred to as

Shaq he's a former American basketball

player who's currently a sports analyst

on a television program called Inside

the NBA Shaq is regarded as one of the

best basketball players and centers of

all time he stands seven foot one inch

tall and weighs around 147 kilos he's a

four-time NBA champion and played for

six teams in his 19-year long career in

the NBA O'Neill was born in 1973 in

Newark New Jersey and his father Joe

Tony also played high school basketball

but due to his involvement with drugs he

went to jail when O'Neal was just an

infant Shaq comes from a tall family his

father was six foot two inches and his

mother was six foot one and by the time

that O'Neill was 13 he was already six

foot six he credits the Boys and Girls

Club of America in Newark for providing

him a safe space to play he began

playing basketball at Robert G Cole high

school at the age of 16 and helped his

team to go on to win the state

Championship his tendency to make hook

shots earned him comparisons to the

legendary Kareem Abdul-Jabbar O'Neill

also wore the same number as Jabar and

his professional career began in 1993

when he was drafted to the Orlando Magic

in the 1992 NBA draft after two decades

of ups and downs along with injuries

Shaq finally announced his retirement in

June of 2011. he's also appeared in a

number of films and television shows

such as off to school Shack life and

grown-ups too

number 12. a Katarina Lucina

a Katarina Lucina is a Russian model and

former basketball player she currently

holds a Guinness World Record for being

the tallest professional model at six

foot nine inches tall however this is

not her only World Record She also holds

the title of the woman with the longest

legs at four foot four inches both of

her records are noted in the Guinness

World Records in 2018. she's also been

officially recognized for having the

largest feat amongst women in Russia as

a professional basketball player a

Katarina competed for the Russian

national team at the 2008 Summer

Olympics and won the bronze medal the 35

year old was born in Russia and weighs

around 110 kilograms besides modeling

she also works as a cosplayer and has

portrayed lady dimitruska the antagonist

in Resident Evil Village she's also a

social media celebrity and in November

of 2022 her social media following

surpassed 10 million followers she's

garnered more than 117 million likes on

her socials she's a follower of Hinduism

now and has become vegetarian after

converting her unusual stature can be

attributed to family genetics has not a

single person in her family is below six

feet

number 13 Sandy Allen

Sandy Elaine Allen was an American woman

who was recognized by the Guinness World

Records as the tallest woman in the

world she was born in Chicago in June of

1955 and was seven feet seven inches

tall Allen wrote a book titled Cast a

Giant Shadow and over the years other

women have taken the title of the

tallest woman but Alan alone held it for

the last 16 years of her life her

abnormal height would be caused by a

tumor in her pituitary gland which led

to an uncontrolled release of growth

hormone Sandy grew up in Shelbyville

Indiana and was raised by her

grandmother who worked as a cleaning

lady when she was just 22 years old she

underwent surgery to have the tumor

removed and if she hadn't gotten it

resected Alan may have likely continued

to grow and suffer from other medical

issues associated with gigantism Sandy

also appeared in television shows and

films which included Fellini's Casanova

Sideshow and a documentary film called

being different she never got married as

she considered herself an old-fashioned

girl and was not willing to date a man

who was shorter than her in the later

years of her life Alan would use a

wheelchair as her legs and back were no

longer able to support her weight while

standing she was also bedridden at one

point due to disease which led to

atrophy in her muscles Sandy spent her

final years in a retirement center in

Shelbyville until she passed away in

August of 2008. according to her family

she suffered from a recurring blood

infection type 2 diabetes breathing

problems and renal failure

number 14. Oliver Richter

Oliver Richter is a Dutch bodybuilder

actor model and the founder and CEO of

muscle meat Richter is famous for his

exceptional stature and physique he is

seven foot two inches tall and was also

the cover model of the November 2018

Netherlands edition of men's health

Richter would be featured in a

documentary by the same magazine and

because of his size he maintains a daily

caloric intake of 5 000 for filming and

between 6 500 to 7 000 calories for any

other tasks during a 24-hour period he

takes seven meals in a day along with an

oat Shake that's made of ultra fine Pats

blended with away scoop Richter was born

with a condition called pectus excavatum

which caused his bones to grow in a way

and such that they squeeze the cardiac

muscle his heart was 20 smaller than it

should have been so he underwent a

procedure that involved breaking his

ribs in order to allow the lungs and

heart to grow he's appeared in several

films which include Black Widow the

king's man and Louis Wayne he is all set

to star in Indiana Jones and the dial of

Destiny in 2023 Richter holds the record

for being the tallest professional

bodybuilder as of 2011.

number 15 sidika Parveen

sadika Parveen is an Indian woman who is

currently listed as the tallest living

woman by the Guinness World Records

she's also the tallest Indian woman in

recorded history and Parveen is seven

feet eight inches tall she would be born

in 1986 in West Bengal India and she

first became famous when India TV news

would report her to be eight feet tall

in 2013. she weighed a whopping 160

kilograms in December of 2012 Parveen

was measured lying down by Dr debasi

Shaha who found her to be seven foot

three and a half inches but her upright

height was estimated to be seven foot

eight inches sidika suffers from

gigantism which is caused by a giant

invasive tumor in the pituitary gland

and because of her height and Associated

medical conditions she was Homebound and

helpless for almost 15 ongoing years

until she finally underwent surgery at

the premier Hospital according to

doctors this was the first one of

multiple steps Center Road to complete

recovery besides the tumor she also had

a spine fracture that prevented her from

walking properly her doctors believe

that if her condition had been diagnosed

10 years earlier she would be completely

fit today