How tall is Jack Ma?

Jack Ma's listed height is 163 cm (5'4"). He is taller than about 20% of men in China.

Where 163 cm sits among men in China

Taller than about 20% of men in China born in 1964 (average 168.5 cm).

About Jack Ma

Jack Ma is a Chinese businessman and philanthropist, born on 10 September 1964 in Hangzhou. His Chinese name is Ma Yun. After taking the gaokao three times, he earned a bachelor's degree in English from Hangzhou Normal University in 1988 and was assigned as a lecturer at Hangzhou Dianzi University.

Ma was a pioneer of Internet business in China. He founded a translation agency in 1994 and launched its website the following year, then left his university position to run an online yellow pages service, which was acquired by China Telecommunications Corporation in 1996. He left that company in 1997 and developed websites for China's Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation. In 1999 he co-founded Alibaba Group.

At a listed 163 cm (5'4"), Ma is married to Zhang Ying. Alibaba began as a business-to-business e-commerce marketplace and later grew into a multinational conglomerate. He is also the founder of the Jack Ma Foundation and a co-founder of Yunfeng Capital.

Frequently asked

How tall is Jack Ma in feet and inches? Jack Ma is 5'4" tall, which is 163 cm, 64.2 inches or 1.63 m.

Is Jack Ma tall for men in China? At 163 cm he is taller than about 20% of men in China born in 1964, whose average height is 168.5 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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