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Robert Pershing Wadlow

John William Rogan
John F. Carroll
Väinö Myllyrinne
Don Koehler
Bernard Coyne
Patrick Cotter O'Brien
Sultan Kösen
Julius Koch
Gabriel Estêvão Monjane
Suleiman Ali Nashnush

Zhang Jun-Cai
Suparwono
Vikas Uppal
Felipe Birriel Fernández

Sa’id Muhammad Ghazi
Ivan Stepanovich Loushkin
Alexander Sizonenko
Joseph Schippers
Feodor Machnow
Ijaz Ahmed

Albert Johan Kramer
Frederick Kempster
Yoshimitsu Matsuzaka
William Bradley
Kashmir Giant
John Middleton
Louis Moilanen
Angus MacAskill
Öndör Gongor
Walter Straube

Bao Xi Shun
Radhouane Charbib
Naseer Ahmaad Soomro
Sun Ming Ming
Chang Woo-Gow
Rachid Bara
Thomas Hasler
Cecil Boling
Bartolomeo Bon
Ted Evans
Ri Myong-hun
Lars Tollefson Opsata
Wang Xin-Feng
Fernand Bachelard
Viktor Prenner
Edouard Beaupré
George Bell
Haji Mohammad Alam Channa
Ferdinand Contat
Zech DeVits
Miguel Joaquin de Eleicegui
Erwin Johnson
Maximillian Miller
Jim Porter
Adam Rainer
Francis Sheridan
P. Theyagarjan
Igor Vovkovinskiy
Franz Winkelmeyer
Conrad Furrows

Agustin Luengo Capilla
Wang Feng-Jun
Amenates Tingitsoglu
Tang Guoqiang
Neil Fingleton
Hussain Bisad
Albert Brough
Jack Earle
Bourgeois Giant
Uvays Akhtaev
Jorge González
Ramazan Karageyik
Brahim Takyallah
Hussein Mohamed Ahmed
George Auger
Parimal Chandra Barman
Charles Byrne
Huang Chang-Chiu
Henry Dalglish
Kenny George
Edmund Malone
Lock Martin
Gheorghe Muresan
George Page
Johann Petursson
Reino Rutanen
Jitendra Singh
Leonid Stadnyk
Paul Sturgess
Peter Tuchan
John Turner

Manute Bol
Henry Mullens
Kaliova Seleiwau
Jiang Baocheng
Liu Fu-Ying
Liu Jun
Frantisek Novotny
Tran Thanh Pho
José Calderón Torres
Ju Wu-Ba
Liu Yuhe
Jean-Joseph Brice
Alain Delaunois
Joseph Drasal
Bernardo Gilli
William Olding
Rigardus Rijnhout
Mu Tie-Zhu
Baptiste Hugo
Felipe Manzo Reyes
Lewis Wilkins
Henri Cot
Zhang Huan
Christopher Greener
Malik Sidibe
Saad Kaiche
Yasutaka Okayama
Joélisson Fernandes da Silva
Shawn Bradley
Andy Charlton-van Volkenburgh
Henry Alexander Cooper
Charles Gruel D’Indreville
Mills Darden
Zafar Ullah Satti
William Evans
Polipaka Gattaiah
Robert Hales
Paul Herold
Antonin Cros
Anders Gustav Anderson
Terrence Keenan
“Kentucky giant”
Aurangzeb Khan
Calvin Lane
Jim Lanier
Mike Lanier
Edward Longmore
James MacDonald
Ralph Madsen
Matt McGrory
John Paul Ofwono
Walter Parsons
Gilbert Reichert
Landon Middlecoff
James Toller
Liu Yu-Qing
Rayford Johnson

Margarito Machahuay Varela
Armand Bronner
Halil Ibrahim Kuzucu
George Kieffer
Zhao Liang
Daniel Gilchrist
Martin Miklosik
Emmanuel Joseph Cheval
Clifford Marshall Thompson
Yao Ming
Henrik Brustad
Pisjakoff
John Hollinden
Tomas Pustina
Erhard Weller
Chuck Nevitt
George Bell (early 20th century)
Azad Khan Masood
Dharmendra Pratap Singh
Jean Bihin
Haq Nawaz
Choung Chi Lang
Balahu
Pavel Podkolzin

Antoine Paolo Hugo
Kang Jianhua
Ivan Hoger
Ragchaa Narka
Aleksandar Rindin
Brenden Adams
Daniel Cajanus
Gustaf Edman
Jerry Sokoloski
Max Palmer
Slavko Vranes
Jose Cristovao da Silva
Bienvenu Letuni
Carlos Alvarado Melendez
Martin Salmerón
John Aasen
Al Tomaini
George Mitu
Fermin Arrudi Urieta
Mark Eaton
Samuel Taylor
Ralph Sampson
Willie Camper
Buck Nolan
Jaber Rouzbahani
Rik Smits
Mianko Karoo
Louis Frenz
Patrick O'Conner
Thomas Dilkens
Priest Lauderdale
Alan Bannister
Moussa Seck
Will Foster
Colonel William Baker
Matt Slaninka
Samuel Deguara
Ring Ayuel
Jakub Kusmieruk

Konstantin Klein
Jan Kruminsh
Ujang Warlika
Denis Albino
Martin van Buren Bates
Jakob Nacken
Viktor Zabolotny
Mohammad Nawaz Mazari
Aaron Moore
Sergo Atuashvili
Rolf Mayr
Dusan Cantekin
Eddie Carmel
Jim Tarver
James McIndoo
Jean-Claude Lefebvre
Shagari Alleyne
Chris Lister
Mounir Fourar
Goliath
Gunther Behnke
Oliver Narr
Nick Schneiders
Cornelius Bruns
Wade 'Swede' Halbrook
Jon Harris
Captain Ureck
Hassan Ali
Forrest Glenn
Clive Darril
Rob Bruintjes
Peter Iroga
George Gracie
Boban Marjanovic
Hasheem Thabeet
Max Zhang
George McArthur
Roman Gumenyuk
Arvydas Sabonis
Noah Orr
Muhammad Riaz
Thomas Brockman
Rajan Adhikari
Shaun Aisbitt
Randy Breuer
Dave Rasmussen
Ha Seung-Jin

Siah Khan
Ludwig Schulten
Emil Assad Rached
Sam Harris
Rasyid Monas
Vladimir Tkachenko
Henry Clay Thruston
Werner Syre
Ghulam Shabbir
Arthur James Caley
Oswald Balling
Gottlieb Fischer
Hans Hellmuth
Captain Smith Cook
Andries Venter
Robert B. Keenan
Gerrit Bastiaansz. de Hals
Tom Burleson
Dave Ballard
Mahmoud Lotfi
Ewart Potgieter
Kurt Zehe
Knipe Brothers
Matthew Langmaid
Choi Hong Man
Muhammad Hussein Heikal
Roberto Duenas
Eric Gingold
Walter Tatake Quisbert
Morten Poulsen
James Donaldson
Dwayne Schintzius
Dan Gerber
Jim Cully
Santhosh Kumar
Sami Eerola
Abd Al Wahab Al Hamowi
Dikembe Matumbo
Garth Joseph
Lionel Mineo

Too short: (please read)

Eugene Arceau
Carl Gulliver
Wilhelm Ehmke
Juan de la Cruz Sihuana

Tallest women:

Zeng Jinlian
Jane 'Ginny' Bunford
Yao Defen
Sandy Allen
Victoria Hall
Sylvia Hardy
Wassiliki Calliandji
Anna Haining Swan
Carolina Rascón
Delores Pullard
Ella Ewing
Maria Feliciana dos Santos
Maria Fassnauer (Mariedl)
Marianne Wehde
Margo Dydek
Kaatje van Dyk
Eleanor Wagner
Rosa Wedsted
Uljana Semjonova
Lyuba Shilo
Leah May
Elizabeth Lyska

Gwen Bachman
Mme. Abomah
Elfriede Fischer
Alana Renaud
Ellen Bayer
Zainab Bibi

Too short: (please read)

Alma Bataillard
Dora Helms
Cleve Gill

Doubtful:
(more information needed)

John F. Carroll
Trijntje Keever
Christoffel Munster
Musutaman
Abdul Houl
Joseph Rischer
Bol Chol
Grgo Kusic
Giovanni Ferrucci
Tommy Poullas
Rev. Charles Kesterton
Mulia
Hu Chun-Chang
“Big George”
Silis Bishop
Ben Brown

Fake:

Harry Lawson
Grady Patterson
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Unknown Giants

This page is dedicated to unknown giants and giants we would like more information of. Giants of whom we have pictures, but not the identity of the giant. Or we do have a name, but not much more. Do you know who they are? Can you tell us their name? Do you have more information about them? Any information is very welcome.

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code: ug0001 Solved by oromak: The giant's name is Öndör Gongor, and he even has his own Wikipedia page.	code: ug0002 Picture is labelled "Milo Malagola". is that his name? And it this really a giant or just a 6'6" strongman?	code: ug0003 "Ca. 1907. evangelist Billy Sunday (1863-1935) hired a man who has worked as a giant for Barnum and Bailey circus to serve as an usher at his evangelistic meeting in Knoxville, Iowa. It is believed that this undated postcard is from that event."

code: ug0004 Some people claim this to be Werner Syre. Is this true?	code: ug0005a Some people claim this to be Werner Syre. Is this true? Or could this be Goliath?	code: ug0005b Some people claim this to be Werner Syre. Is this true? Goliath?

code: ug0006	code: ug0007 Solved by Michael S.: This is Robert B. Keenan, The tallest shriner.	code: ug0008 Jean Bihin? Jean Joseph Brice?

code: ug0009 Solved by richard: Giant's name is Silas Bishop	code: ug0010 Solved by Wouter W. de Herder: Giant's name is Fermín Arrudi Urieta (1870-1913)	code: ug0011

code: ug0012 Clyde Beatty Circus 1952.	code: ug0013 Accepted to be George Bell	code: ug0014 Solved by mask: His name is Rayford Johnson

code: ug0015	code: ug0016 Australian Giant.	code: ug0017 Maybe not even a giant? Picture was labelled giant and midgets.

code: ug0018 Solved by zadeh79: This is Lock Martin. See this discussion topic.	code: ug0019 Could this be a young Lock Martin? Or maybe Gilbert Reichert?	code: ug0020 Solved by Grosmont: This is Gottlieb 'Fred' Fischer

code: ug0021	code: ug0022	code: ug0023

code: ug0024	code: ug0025	code: ug0026 The giantess is Leah May, who is the giant? Could it be Pisjakoff?

code: ug0027 Solved by Boxerwhiteray This is William Olding	code: ug0028 Could this be a young Albert Johan Kramer?	code: ug0029

code: ug0030 Solved by Vonderburg His name is Thomas Brockman	code: ug0031	code: ug0032 Probably only a 6'7" soldier next to a very small colleague, looking at the door frame.

code: ug0033	code: ug0034 Confirmed by Vonderburg This is Mianko Karoo	code: ug0035

code: ug0036 Solved by Michael S. This is a young Jim Tarver	code: ug0037	code: ug0038 Solved by Vonderburg His name is J.G. Gilbert.

code: ug0039 James McIndoo? Tracy Minn?	code: ug0040 Accepted to be Felipe Manzo Reyes	code: ug0041 Ok, we have a name. Although probably not a real one. Do you know more? One reliable source says a young George Auger.

code: ug0042 Ok, we have a name. Although probably not a real one. Do you know more? One reliable source says a young George Auger.	code: ug0043 Solved by Michael S. This is Dave Ballard	code: ug0044

code: ug0045 Solved by Michael S. This is a young Jim Tarver	code: ug0046 Leah May? Ella Ewing?	code: ug0047 Solved by Vonderburg His name is Captain Smith Cook.

code: ug0048 Shields brothers? Robinson brothers?	code: ug0049 Shields brothers? Robinson brothers?	code: ug0050 Shields brothers? Robinson brothers?

code: ug0051 Shields brothers? Robinson brothers?	code: ug0052	code: ug0053

code: ug0054	code: ug0056	code: ug0057

code: ug0058 Confirmed by Vonderburg This is Clifford Marshall Thompson	code: ug0059 Confirmed by GROSMONT This is Liu Yu-Qing	code: ug0060 Same person as ug25. Is he really a giant?

code: ug0061 His name is Monsieur Joseph and he worked for Barnum & Bailey. Do you know more? Some sources claim he is Jean Bihin.	code: ug0062 Same as ug61	code: ug0063 Same as ug61

code: ug0064 Same as ug61. This time with Anna Swan and Noah Orr. Ca. 1865.	code: ug0065 Mariedl. Surely this can't be Maria Fassnauer, who was called Mariedl?	code: ug0066 Geant Roland. Do you have more information?

code: ug0067 Timofei Bakulin, from Russia. Do you know more?	code: ug0068 Same as ug67.	code: ug0069 Same as ug67.

code: ug0070 Anna Gustafsson. Do you know more?	code: ug0071	code: ug0072 Cowboy Fischer. Probably only about 6'8"?

code: ug0073 Georges Kennedy. Apparantly over 9 foot tall!	code: ug0074 Jesse Adams. Do you know more?	code: ug0075 Joseph Sullivan. Do you know more?

code: ug0076	code: ug0077 The famous Peruvian giant photographed by Martin Chamby. Do you have more information? Name?	code: ug0078 Confirmed by Boxerwhiteray This is indeed Kaatje van Dyk

code: ug0079 Solved by Boxerwhiteray This poster was made for Dora Helms	code: ug0080 Sophy?	code: ug0081 Believed to be a very young Jakob Nacken, then known as Uranus (1927).

code: ug0082 Charles Tumley. Do you know more?	code: ug0083 Charles Tumley. Do you know more?	code: ug0084 Solved by Grosmont and Wouter W. de Herder His real name is Jakob Murdel.

code: ug0085 Ben Hicks, the Denver Steeple? Or Henry Alexander Cooper?

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What's new?

11-03-2010: New page(s) added for Jakub Kusmieruk, Ujang Warlika, Jan Kruminsh, Ha Seung-Jin and Sergo Atuashvili.

10-03-2010: New page(s) added for Sam Harris, Pavel Podkolzin, Samuel Deguara, Ring Ayuel (I thought I made him a page a long time ago!) and Lionel Mineo. New image(s) of Paul Herold added.

09-03-2010: New page(s) added for Garth Joseph. New image(s) of Conrad Furrows, Eddie Carmel and Neil Fingleton added.

08-03-2010: New page(s) added for Abd Al Wahab Al Hamowi and Dikembe Mutombo. New image(s) of Väinö Myllyrinne, Jakob Nacken, Henry Mullens, Martin van Buren Bates, Cornelius Bruns, Ralph Madsen, Paul Herold, Gilbert Reichert and Eleanor Wagner added.

07-03-2010: New image(s) of Gottlieb Fischer, Väinö Myllyrinne, Anna Haining Swan, “Kentucky giant” and Chang Woo-Gow added.

06-03-2010: New page(s) added for Tommy Poullas and Matt Slaninka. New image(s) of Ben Brown, Mme. Abomah and Lewis Wilkins added.

05-03-2010: New image(s) of Elfriede Fischer and Gottlieb Fischer added. New magazine article(s) added for Amenates Tingitsoglu. Three new Books on Giants added (in .pdf format): Quelques Geants Americains (1909) by Blanchard, Giants and Giantism (1895) by Dana and Some famous giants (1897) by Smythies.

04-03-2010: New page(s) added for Sami Eerola, Silis Bishop, Colonel William Baker, Ben Brown and Will Foster. New image(s) of Santhosh Kumar, Igor Vovkovinskiy, Bao Xi Shun and Ijaz Ahmed added.

03-03-2010: New image(s) of William Bradley, Hussain Bisad, Alan Bannister, Robert Wadlow - later years, Robert Wadlow Artefacts, Santhosh Kumar, Ghulam Shabbir, Muhammad Riaz, Azad Khan Masood, Mohammad Nawaz Mazari, Kenny George and Ijaz Ahmed added. Ijaz Ahmed has been updgraded to 7'10" after new photographic evidence and discussions on our message board.

02-03-2010: New page(s) added for Moussa Seck. New image(s) of Huang Chang-Chiu, Igor Vovkovinskiy, Sultan Kösen, Yao Ming, Haq Nawaz, Bao Xi Shun, Willie Camper and Neil Fingleton added.

01-03-2010: New page(s) added for Alma Bataillard and Alan Bannister. New image(s) of Rob Bruintjes, Ted Evans, Robert Wadlow - early years, Robert Wadlow Artefacts and Ijaz Ahmed added. Medical article(s) about Jack Earle added.

28-02-2010: New image(s) of Albert Johan Kramer and Christopher Greener added.

27-02-2010: New page(s) added for Cleve Gill, Balahu and Choung Chi Lang. New image(s) of Lewis Wilkins, Marianne Wehde and Chang Woo-Gow added.

26-02-2010: New page(s) added for Felipe Manzo Reyes, Vladimir Tkachenko. New image(s) of Frederick Kempster and Neil Fingleton added. Newspaper clipping(s) about Shaun Aisbitt added. New video(s) of Rolf Mayr and Paul Sturgess added.

25-02-2010: New page(s) added for Martin Miklosik, Priest Lauderdale and Ragchaa Narka.

24-02-2010: New page(s) added for Haq Nawaz and Martin Salmerón. New image(s) of Suparwono, Ted Evans and Willie Camper added.

23-02-2010: New page(s) added for Jim Cully, Daniel Gilchrist and Dave Rasmussen. New image(s) of Albert Johan Kramer added. New video(s) of Naseer Ahmaad Soomro added.

22-02-2010: New page(s) added for Randy Breuer, Dwayne Schintzius, Dan Gerber and James Donaldson. Newspaper clipping(s) about Sandy Allen added.

21-02-2010: New image(s) of Ri Myong-hun, Chuck Nevitt, Gheorghe Muresan and Ralph Sampson added.

20-02-2010: New image(s) of Baptiste Hugo, Manute Bol, George Bell, Sun Ming Ming, Shawn Bradley and Igor Vovkovinskiy added.

19-02-2010: New page(s) added for Rajan Adhikari and Shaun Aisbitt. New image(s) of Liu Yu-Qing, Clifford Marshall Thompson, George Auger, Jack Earle, Noah Orr, Gottlieb Fischer, Elfriede Fischer, Robert Wadlow - early years, Azad Khan Masood and Muhammad Riaz added.

18-02-2010: New page(s) added for Juan de la Cruz Sihuana, Jean Bihin and Hu Chun-Chang. New image(s) of Mulia, Yao Defen, Sandy Allen, Victoria Hall, Liu Yu-Qing, Ella Ewing, Maria Feliciana dos Santos and Zeng Jinlian added.

17-02-2010: New page(s) added for Dharmendra Pratap Singh, Bienvenu Letuni and Morten Poulsen. New image(s) of Wang Feng-Jun, Kaatje van Dyk and Kang Jianhua added. Newspaper clipping(s) about Frederick Kempster added.

16-02-2010: New page(s) added for Thomas Brockman and Thomas Dilkens. New image(s) of Muhammad Riaz, Aurangzeb Khan, Don Koehler, Chris Lister and Clifford Marshall Thompson added. New video(s) of Jakob Nacken added.

15-02-2010: New page(s) added for Muhammad Riaz. Newspaper clipping(s) about Buck Nolan, Zeng Jinlian, Ella Ewing, Mme. Abomah, Delores Pullard and Sandy Allen added.

14-02-2010: Newspaper clipping(s) about Gilbert Reichert, Clifford Marshall Thompson, Henry Mullens and Rachid Bara added.

13-02-2010: New page(s) added for Walter Tatake Quisbert and various Statistics. New image(s) of Anders Gustav 'Big Gust' Anderson, Emmanuel Joseph Cheval and Mme. Abomah added.

12-02-2010: New page(s) added for Azad Khan Masood. New image(s) of Eleanor Wagner added. New video(s) of Ghulam Shabbir added.

11-02-2010: New page(s) added for Eleanor Wagner. New image(s) of Jim Porter added. Newspaper clipping(s) about Robert Wadlow - later years, Robert Wadlow - early years (30 new articles in total for Wadlow), Parimal Chandra Barman, Clifford Marshall Thompson and 13 new newspaper clippings about Johann Petursson added.

10-02-2010: New page(s) added for Leah May and Elizabeth Lyska. New image(s) of Neil Fingleton and Sun Ming Ming added. Newspaper clipping(s) about Gilbert Reichert, George Auger, Edouard Beaupré and Erwin Johnson added. One image moved from Antonin Cros to Eugene Arceau as previously misidentified. John F. Carroll has been moved to the 'More information needed' section.

09-02-2010: New page(s) added for Noah Orr. New image(s) of Robert Wadlow - early years and Gabriel Estêvão Monjane added. Newspaper clipping(s) about Carolina Rascón, George Auger, Aurangzeb Khan, Albert Brough and Robert Wadlow - later years added.

08-02-2010: New page(s) added for Muhammad Hussein Heikal, Arvydas Sabonis, Eric Gingold and Roberto Duenas. New image(s) of George Gracie, John Aasen, Kaatje van Dyk, Gottlieb Fischer, Joseph Drasal, Zech DeVits and Albert Johan Kramer added. Newspaper clipping(s) about Zeng Jinlian added.

07-02-2010: Newspaper clipping(s) about Henry Clay Thruston and Mme. Abomah added.

06-02-2010: New image(s) of Ewart Potgieter added. Newspaper clipping(s) about Conrad Furrows, Sandy Allen, George Bell, Anders Gustav Anderson, Edouard Beaupré and Clifford Marshall Thompson added.

05-02-2010: New image(s) of Clifford Marshall Thompson added.

04-02-2010: New image(s) of Santhosh Kumar added. Newspaper clipping(s) about Sandy Allen, Francis Sheridan, Clifford Marshall Thompson, Henry Mullens, Bernard Coyne, Delores Pullard, Conrad Furrows, Angus MacAskill, Anna Haining Swan, Robert Wadlow, Baptiste Hugo and Zeng Jinlian added.

03-02-2010: New page(s) added for Patrick O'Conner, John Turner and Conrad Furrows. New image(s) of Joseph Schippers and Albert Brough added. Newspaper clipping(s) about Gabriel Estêvão Monjane, Robert Hales, Sylvia Hardy, Robert Wadlow as well as a young Robert Wadlow added.

02-02-2010: New page(s) added for George McArthur and Roman Gumenyuk added. New image(s) of Lock Martin and Clifford Marshall Thompson added.

01-02-2010: New page(s) added for Aleksandar Rindin, Boban Marjanovic, Hasheem Thabeet, Max Zhang and Choi Hong Man added. New image(s) of Max Palmer and Henry Alexander Cooper added. Newspaper clipping(s) about Sandy Allen, Lars Tollefson Opsata and Christopher Greener added. I have also moved one picture from Lock Martin's page to Max Palmer's page.

30-01-2010: New image(s) of the van Droysen sister Dora Helms and Kaatje van Dyk added. Newspaper clipping(s) about Albert Brough, Charles Byrne, Patrick Cotter O'Brien, Christopher Greener and Jim Porter added.

29-01-2010: New page(s) added for Emil Assad Rached, Louis Frenz and George Gracie. New image(s) of Willie Camper, Fernand Bachelard, Ralph Madsen, Anna Haining Swan, Charles Byrne, Felipe Birriel Fernández, William Evans, Johann Petursson, Robert Wadlow and Walter Straube added.

28-01-2010: New image(s) of Eddie Carmel, Cecil Boling, Väinö Myllyrinne, Henry Mullens, Baptiste Hugo, Ted Evans, Willie Camper, Rayford Johnson and Johann Petursson added.

27-01-2010: New image(s) of Al Tomaini, Frederick Kempster, Jakob Nacken, Robert Wadlow and Johann Petursson added.

26-01-2010: New page(s) added for Jakob Nacken. New image(s) of Jack Earle added. Two medical articles about Frederick Kempster added. Based on new medical and photographic evidence (and the usual pressure :-)) I have upgraded Frederick Kempster's height.

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12-06-2009: Started building the website.