# Maximum Weight

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-weight/222005>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 31, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-weight/222005 "2003-12-31T21:10:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ChunkyLover53](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c0e974/32.png) [@ChunkyLover53](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChunkyLover53)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-weight/222005/1 "2003-12-31T21:10:08Z")

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My co-worker and I were looking through the personal ads and saw what we hope is a mis-print of 5’11 1,900 pounds. We’re pretty sure this was meant to be 190 - but it got us wondering who is the heaviest person (alive or dead) and what do/did they weigh?

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**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-weight/222005/2 "2003-12-31T21:13:14Z")

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Jon Minnoch is generally regarded to have been the heaviest person ever. He topped 1400 pounds.

Zev Steinhardt

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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-weight/222005/3 "2003-12-31T21:15:15Z")

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> The record for heaviest human is held by a Seattle man who was estimated to have weighed more than 1,400 pounds in 1978, according to the Guinness Book of Records. He was 798 pounds when he died in 1983.

From [here.](http://www.hollandsentinel.com/stories/060899/new_foodman.html)

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**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-weight/222005/4 "2003-12-31T21:17:07Z")

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Hmmm looking through the personals for great huge fat people. Your username fits. (and here I thought it was Simpsons ref)