World's Tallest Men And Women Dataset

Decoding the higher ends of the human height spectrum

@kaggle.kanchana1990_worlds_tallest_men_and_women

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Tallest Men

@kaggle.kanchana1990_worlds_tallest_men_and_women.tallest_men

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country Country	metric Metric	imperial Imperial	name Name	note Note	lifespan Lifespan
nan	nan	nan	nan	nan	(age at death)
United States	272 cm	8 ft 11.1 in	Robert Wadlow	Tallest verified human in recorded history	1918–1940 (22)
United States	267 cm	8 ft 9 in	John Rogan	Second-tallest male in recorded history and tallest man of African descent in history. Weighed only 79 kg (174 lb). Unable to stand due to ankylosis.	1867–1905 (38)
United States	264 cm	8 ft 8 in	John F. Carroll	8 ft 0 in (244 cm) standing height, 8 ft 8 in (264 cm) assuming normal spinal curvature.[11]	1932–1969 (37)
United States	262 cm	8 ft 7 in	Willie Camper	Billed at 8 ft 7 in (262 cm).[12]	1924–1943 (18)
Austria	258 cm	8 ft 5.6 in	Franz Winkelmeier	Tallest human in European history. Measured officially at 2.58m.[13]	1860–1887 (27)
Ukraine	258 cm	8 ft 5.6 in	Leonid Stadnyk	Not officially recognized by Guinness World Records because he refused to be measured according to their standards.[14][15]	1970–2014 (44)
Thailand	257 cm	8 ft 5.2 in	Pornchai Saosri	Claimed to be 8 ft 10 in (269 cm).[16]	1989–2015 (26)
Vietnam	257 cm	8 ft 5.25 in	Hồ Văn Trung	He was reported post mortem to be 9 ft 0.25 in (275 cm),[17] but when alive he measured at 8 ft 5.25 in (257 cm).[18]	1984–2019 (34)
German Empire	256 cm	8 ft 4.8 in	Julius Koch	Probably never the world's tallest person due to his life coinciding with that of John Rogan. Skeleton preserved in the Museum of Natural History in Mons, Belgium. Tallest German person in recorded history.[citation needed]	1872–1902 (30)


CREATE TABLE tallest_men (
  "country" VARCHAR,
  "metric" VARCHAR,
  "imperial" VARCHAR,
  "name" VARCHAR,
  "note" VARCHAR,
  "lifespan" VARCHAR
);