How tall is Elon Musk?

Elon Musk's listed height is 188 cm (6'2"). He is taller than about 95% of men in Canada.

Where 188 cm sits among men in Canada

Taller than about 95% of men in Canada born in 1971 (average 176.6 cm).

About Elon Musk

Elon Musk is a businessman and industrialist who holds Canadian, South African and American citizenship. Elon Reeve Musk was born on 28 June 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa. He emigrated to Canada in 1989 and received bachelor's degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997 before moving to California to pursue business ventures.

In 1995 Musk co-founded the web software company Zip2. After its sale in 1999 he co-founded X.com, which merged with Confinity in March 2000 to form PayPal, later acquired by eBay in 2002. He founded SpaceX in 2002 and became its chief executive and chief engineer. He joined Tesla as an early investor in 2004 and became its chief executive in 2008. He acquired Twitter in 2022 and renamed it X in 2023.

At a listed 188 cm (6'2"), Musk also co-founded the neurotechnology company Neuralink in 2016 and founded the tunneling company the Boring Company in 2017. He co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and later established xAI.

Frequently asked

How tall is Elon Musk in feet and inches? Elon Musk is 6'2" tall, which is 188 cm, 74 inches or 1.88 m.

Is Elon Musk tall for men in Canada? At 188 cm he is taller than about 95% of men in Canada born in 1971, whose average height is 176.6 cm.

Sources

Heights are as publicly listed, rounded to the nearest centimetre; listed heights for public figures are often self-reported. Biographical details adapted from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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