# Tall people **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 29, 2022, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tall-people/961938 "2022-03-29T21:43:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tall-people/961938/81 "2022-04-05T18:05:57Z")
In my newly renovated office, everyone was given a standing desk that raises and lowers at the push of a button. It looks like the same thing is available for [kitchen workspaces](https://www.granberg.se/en/our-products/accessible-kitchen/). ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tall-people/961938/82 "2022-04-06T13:05:51Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Former FBI Director James Comey is 6’8" according to Google Can confirm. My cousin was a protegé and friend, who worked closely with Comey when they were both at the FBI. I’ve seen a photo of Comey standing next to my cousin’s son, who was a six-foot infantry officer; Comey made him look like a 12 year-old. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2022, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tall-people/961938/83 "2022-04-07T02:26:47Z")
Comedian Gary Giulman is 6’7” or so. Didn’t really read the thread, sorry if mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2022, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tall-people/961938/84 "2022-04-07T02:46:21Z")
> [@Chez\_Guevara](#): > > Like Chamberlain, Manute Bol had a side career playing basketball. His main pursuit in life was extending charitable and humanitarian services to his home country of Sudan. In order to raise money in this regard he took out a jockeys’ licence for a charity race. At 7’7" Bol became the tallest jockey ever licensed by the Indiana Horse Racing Commission. > > There’s a photo below. I was going to ask people if they could pick out Bol from the others, which would have been easy for North American basketball fans but slightly more difficult for others. However the photo caption helpfully identifies him, so that’s ruined that. I saw Bol at Midway Airport in Chicago at about the same time as that photo (give or take a year), while I was waiting for a flight. He was absolutely unmistakable, and I watched him walk over to a gate agent, and lean down, bending at close to a 45 degree angle at the waist, so he could speak to her face to face. (He was also flying on Southwest Airlines, which famously has no first-class section. I have no idea how he fit in a coach seat.) ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2022, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tall-people/961938/85 "2022-04-07T17:03:19Z")
Going back in history a bit, Tsar Peter the Great of Russia was said to have been 6’ 7" or 6’ 8" tall. Abraham Lincoln was 6’ 4" or so. Those heights were even more impressive then, when average people were shorter than today. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2022, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tall-people/961938/86 "2022-04-07T18:45:33Z")
Perhaps he could relax more in a bulkhead seat. Sports Illustrated reveals that Manute’s grandfather was 7’10". It is also alleged that when Manute first arrived in the US his passport gave his height as 5’2". Apparently a Sudanese passport official had measured him sitting down. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tall-people/961938/87 "2022-04-13T01:33:16Z")
Tony-award winning actor, dancer, choreographer and director Tommy Tune, 6’ 6 1/2" He was afraid he was too tall for theater but eventually made it on Broadway: “at first he found his height to be a disadvantage when auditioning for roles, as he would tower over potential co-stars. He wore horizontally-striped shirts to auditions, dipped extra low when he did pliés and learned to dance upstage (“I’d look shorter that way. It’s a law of perspective”) to try to overcome it.” ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tall-people/961938/88 "2022-04-13T10:00:12Z")
> [@zimaane](#): > > Going back in history a bit, Tsar Peter the Great of Russia was said to have been 6’ 7" or 6’ 8" tall. Abraham Lincoln was 6’ 4" or so. > > Those heights were even more impressive then, when average people were shorter than today. Charles the Great was also said to be tall “but not exceptionally so”. Estimates are 6’ to 6’ 5". So no 8-foot-tall Goliath, but firmly in the 99th percentile back then. Exactly the same was said of Godefroy of Bouillon (“tall… not extemely so.”) His thing was more being “strong beyond compare” and able to chop a guy into two separate pieces with a single blow. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tall-people/961938/89 "2022-04-13T21:58:03Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > Charles the Great was also said to be tall “but not exceptionally so”. Interestingly, his father was [Pepin the Short](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepin_the_Short). ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tall-people/961938/90 "2022-04-14T18:49:44Z")
> **[Minnesota family dubbed world's tallest by Guinness World Records](https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/04/13/Guinness-World-Records-Minnesota-family-dubbed-worlds-tallest/7781649868348/)** > > Guinness World Records announced the world's tallest family is a Minnesota clan of five with an average height of 6 feet, 8.03 inches. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tall-people/961938/91 "2022-04-15T01:14:14Z")
They do harness racing at Hoosier park. he would have been pulled in a sulkey by a trotter. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tall-people/961938/92 "2022-04-15T13:04:08Z")
Good Lord, they look like escapees from Skyrim. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tall-people/961938/93 "2022-04-15T13:24:34Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I saw Bol at Midway Airport in Chicago I saw him at some function that happened to be in a building where I had some business that day. This was when he was playing for the Bullets in WDC. Not to be cruel, but he looked like someone’s idea of a tall, spindly alien or an outsized stick insect. At 200 pounds, he was very thin for his size. Speaking of him, one of our movers who showed up yesterday was probably 6’6" or taller. Turns out he was a college baller and then played in the Euro league for Germany. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tall-people/961938/94 "2022-04-15T13:34:35Z")
If you’ve been to the Tower of London, they’ve got a couple suits of historical armor that point out that at least a couple of historical people were pretty tall, especially by the standards of their day. Henry VIII’s armor put him at about 6’2" or 6’3" I’d guess and there’s another suit of armor made for someone about 6’9" or so, but it doesn’t say whose armor it was, just that it was a diplomatic gift. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tall-people/961938/95 "2022-04-15T14:22:20Z")
Drummer Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac is 6’ 6". Quite the contrast to his bandmate (and one-time rumored romantic partner) Stevie Nicks, who is 5’ 1". ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tall-people/961938/96 "2022-04-15T17:33:24Z")
If you read Fleetwood’s autobiography, you’ll learn it wasn’t a rumor or a rumour. They spent a year together, on and off, before he moved on to Sara. Yes, that Sara, Stevie’s best friend. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tall-people/961938.md?page=4)