How Tall Are Famous Historical Figures?

Browse the heights of famous Historical Figures in centimeters and feet, and open any profile to compare it with average heights — or with your own.

Peter the Great — 203 cm (6'8")

Roald Dahl — 198 cm (6'6")

Benjamin Spock — 196 cm (6'5")

Charles de Gaulle — 196 cm (6'5")

Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax — 196 cm (6'5")

Abraham Lincoln — 193 cm (6'4")

Grigori Rasputin — 193 cm (6'4")

Fidel Castro — 191 cm (6'3")

Malcolm X — 191 cm (6'3")

Charles Lindbergh — 190 cm (6'3")

Thomas Jefferson — 189 cm (6'2")

Chester A. Arthur — 188 cm (6'2")

Edward I of England — 188 cm (6'2")

Franklin D. Roosevelt — 188 cm (6'2")

George Orwell — 188 cm (6'2")

George Washington — 188 cm (6'2")

King Henry VIII — 188 cm (6'2")

Nikola Tesla — 188 cm (6'2")

Andrew Jackson — 185 cm (6'1")

Carl Jung — 185 cm (6'1")

Frederick Douglass — 185 cm (6'1")

Ernest Hemingway — 183 cm (6'0")

James A. Garfield — 183 cm (6'0")

James Buchanan — 183 cm (6'0")

John F. Kennedy — 183 cm (6'0")

John Tyler — 183 cm (6'0")

Maya Angelou — 183 cm (6'0")

Nelson Mandela — 183 cm (6'0")

Warren G. Harding — 183 cm (6'0")

Charles Darwin — 182 cm (5'12")

Herbert Hoover — 182 cm (5'12")

James Monroe — 182 cm (5'12")

William Howard Taft — 182 cm (5'12")

Eleanor Roosevelt — 180 cm (5'11")

Grover Cleveland — 180 cm (5'11")

Neil Armstrong — 180 cm (5'11")

Woodrow Wilson — 180 cm (5'11")

Alan Turing — 178 cm (5'10")

Andrew Johnson — 178 cm (5'10")

B. R. Ambedkar — 178 cm (5'10")

Benjamin Franklin — 178 cm (5'10")

Buzz Aldrin — 178 cm (5'10")

Calvin Coolidge — 178 cm (5'10")

Franklin Pierce — 178 cm (5'10")

Princess Diana — 178 cm (5'10")

Theodore Roosevelt — 178 cm (5'10")

Thomas Edison — 178 cm (5'10")

Leon Trotsky — 176 cm (5'9")

Albert Einstein — 175 cm (5'9")

Charles Dickens — 175 cm (5'9")

Che Guevara — 175 cm (5'9")

Harry S. Truman — 175 cm (5'9")

Millard Fillmore — 175 cm (5'9")

Mark Twain — 174 cm (5'9")

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — 174 cm (5'9")

Rutherford B. Hayes — 174 cm (5'9")

Amelia Earhart — 173 cm (5'8")

James K. Polk — 173 cm (5'8")

Ramesses II — 173 cm (5'8")

Ulysses S. Grant — 173 cm (5'8")

Willem Drees — 173 cm (5'8")

William Henry Harrison — 173 cm (5'8")

Zachary Taylor — 173 cm (5'8")

Salvador Dali — 172 cm (5'8")

Sukarno — 172 cm (5'8")

John Quincy Adams — 171 cm (5'7")

Frederic Chopin — 170 cm (5'7")

John Adams — 170 cm (5'7")

Sigmund Freud — 170 cm (5'7")

William McKinley — 170 cm (5'7")

Martin Luther King Jr. — 169 cm (5'7")

Stephen Hawking — 169 cm (5'7")

Benjamin Harrison — 168 cm (5'6")

Isaac Newton — 168 cm (5'6")

Martin Van Buren — 168 cm (5'6")

Napoleon Bonaparte — 168 cm (5'6")

Winston Churchill — 168 cm (5'6")

Tutankhamun — 167 cm (5'6")

Josip Jelačić — 165 cm (5'5")

Ludwig van Beethoven — 165 cm (5'5")

Vincent van Gogh — 165 cm (5'5")

Mahatma Gandhi — 164 cm (5'5")

James Madison — 163 cm (5'4")

King Louis XIV — 163 cm (5'4")

Pablo Picasso — 163 cm (5'4")

Queen Elizabeth II — 163 cm (5'4")

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — 163 cm (5'4")

Yukio Mishima — 163 cm (5'4")

Frida Kahlo — 160 cm (5'3")

Marie Curie — 160 cm (5'3")

Rosa Parks — 160 cm (5'3")

Joan of Arc — 158 cm (5'2")

Yuri Gagarin — 157 cm (5'2")

Abigail Fillmore — 155 cm (5'1")

Ellen Axson Wilson — 153 cm (5'0")

Harriet Tubman — 152 cm (4'12")

Mother Teresa — 152 cm (4'12")

Queen Victoria — 152 cm (4'12")

Celebrity heights are based on widely reported public figures and can vary slightly between sources.