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- Robert Pershing Wadlow
Motherlode of information and photos from a hometown museum
- World's Biggest Man
The Roadside America site tells the Wadlow story
- Robert Wadlow
Little tale of his 1939 visit to Perry County, Kentucky
- Find A Grave
Shots of Wadlow and his final resting place
Robert Wadlow Biography
Robert Pershing Wadlow was 8 feet and 11 inches tall when he died of an infected blister at the young age of 22. Wadlow was a normal height and weight at birth, but pituitary problems led to his outsized growth. By age eight he was six feet tall; by age 16 he stood nearly 7'10" and weighed over 370 pounds. In his early adulthood Wadlow toured as a goodwill ambassador for the International Shoe Company. After his death he gained extra fame from his annual listing as the world's tallest man in the Guinness Book of World Records.
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