The tallest person in the world is a man who lives in Turkey. His name is Sultan Kosen and he's 8'3" tall.
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As of September 2021, the tallest living person is Sultan Kösen from Turkey who measures 2.51 m (8 ft 3 in) tall.
The tallest person in the world on record was Robert Wadlow, who stood at 8 feet 11 inches (272 cm) tall.
Sultan Kösen from Turkey is the tallest. He is 247 cm tall.
The tallest person recorded is Robert Pershing Wadlow, at 8'11.1 feet (2.72 meters). The tallest person living (as of 2021) is Sultan Kösen, at 8'2.8 feet (2.51 meters). The tallest woman recorded is Zeng Jinlian at 8'1 feet (~2.48 meters). The tallest woman living (as of 2021) is Zhang Ziyu, at 7'5 (2.26 meters).
The tallest living person today is Sultan Kosen - at 8 ft 1 in (247 cm) tall.
Leonid Stadnyk, he's 8 foot 5, and is currently the tallest person in the world. ======================================================== Leonid Stadnyk lost official recognition of tallest person in the world after refusing to allow his height to be verified independently, according to the "Ukrainian Book of Records" his height is 8 ft 4 in. The doctor originally credited by the Guinness Book of Records with confirming Stadnyk's height has denied ever measuring him.