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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 advertiser who was...
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  • American screenwriter, producer and director Mark Wadlow (born 1962), English screenwriter Robert Wadlow (1918–1940), American man who is the tallest person...
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    second-tallest person ever at 8 feet 9 inches (267 cm), behind only Robert Wadlow. John Rogan was born in Hendersonville, Tennessee. He was the son of...
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    Florida, United States, and posing next to a life-sized statue of Robert Wadlow, the tallest man ever recorded, at 272 cm (8 ft 11.1 in). On 25 August...
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  • 18 m (7 ft 2 in), surpassing his father. As such, he was taller than Robert Wadlow was from the ages 8 to 13 years. He has been the subject of medical...
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    The Alton Museum of History and Art, sometimes known as the Robert Wadlow Museum, in Alton, Illinois was founded in 1971 as a not for profit organization...
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    tallest living person, and may have become the tallest after the death of Robert Wadlow. He stood 224 cm (7 ft 4 in) and weighed 141 kg (22 stone; 311 pounds)...
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  • potentially outgrown Robert Wadlow, as she stood taller than Wadlow when comparing the heights taken on their 17th birthdays, though Wadlow's height at that...
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    Buffalo Giant in medical literature. He was third in stature only to Robert Wadlow and John Rogan. His extraordinary growth started at the age of 16. During...
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    the Guinness World Records, the tallest human in recorded history was Robert Wadlow of the United States (1918–1940), who was 272 cm (8 ft 11 in). He received...
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