Tallest Man Robert Pershing Wadlow
Hight: 2.72 m (8 ft 11 in)
Location: Alton, Illinois, USA
Last measured on July 15, 1940
Wadlow died at 1:30 a.m. on July 15, 1940, in a hotel in Manistee, Michigan, as a result of a septic blister on his right ankle caused by a brace, which had been poorly fitted only a week earlier.
Tallest Woman - Living
Sandy Allen
Hight:2.31 m (7 ft 7 in)
Location:Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
As of 1999