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Robert Wadlow

1918 - 1940

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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Wadlow has received more than 14,544,630 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Robert Wadlow is the 8th most popular celebrity (down from 6th in 2019), the 236th most popular biography from United States (down from 223rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Celebrity.

Robert Wadlow is most famous for being the tallest person in history. He was 8 feet 11 inches tall and weighed 490 pounds.

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  • 15M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CELEBRITIES

Among celebrities, Robert Wadlow ranks 8 out of 265. Before him are Ötzi, Caitlyn Jenner, Phineas Gage, Lina Medina, Jeanne Calment, and Kaspar Hauser. After him are Millvina Dean, Geli Raubal, Simonetta Vespucci, Anna Nicole Smith, Jon Brower Minnoch, and Empress Michiko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Robert Wadlow ranks 11. Before him are Anwar Sadat, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Richard Feynman, Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Waldheim, and Louis Althusser. After him are Rita Hayworth, Helmut Schmidt, Ken Miles, Gertrude B. Elion, Alberto Ascari, and Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. Among people deceased in 1940, Robert Wadlow ranks 9. Before him are F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paul Klee, Walter Benjamin, Neville Chamberlain, J. J. Thomson, and Mikhail Bulgakov. After him are Nikolai Yezhov, Carl Bosch, Peter Behrens, Arthur Harden, Emma Goldman, and Manuel Azaña.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Wadlow ranks 236 out of 20,380. Before him are Peter Falk (1927), Walt Whitman (1819), Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856), Michael Jordan (1963), Steve Ballmer (1956), and Kevin Costner (1955). After him are Carl David Anderson (1905), Diane Keaton (1946), Audie Murphy (1925), Charlton Heston (1923), Samuel Colt (1814), and John Ford (1894).

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Among CELEBRITIES In United States

Among celebrities born in United States, Robert Wadlow ranks 4. Before him are Wallis Simpson (1896), Caitlyn Jenner (1949), and Phineas Gage (1823). After him are Anna Nicole Smith (1967), Jon Brower Minnoch (1941), Buffalo Bill (1846), Monica Lewinsky (1973), Black Dahlia (1924), Kim Kardashian (1980), Myrtle Corbin (1868), and Margaret Brown (1867).

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