How tall is Kamala Harris?

Kamala Harris's listed height is 164 cm (5'5"). She is taller than about 51% of women in the United States.

Where 164 cm sits among women in the United States

Taller than about 51% of women in the United States born in 1964 (average 163.9 cm).

About Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris is an American politician and attorney, born Kamala Devi Harris on 20 October 1964 in Oakland, California, in Alameda County. She is of Indian and Jamaican parentage. She graduated from Howard University and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and began her law career in the office of the district attorney of Alameda County.

Harris was later recruited to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and then to the office of the city attorney of San Francisco. She was elected district attorney of San Francisco in 2003 and attorney general of California in 2010, and she was re-elected in 2014. She served as the junior U.S. senator from California from 2017 to 2021, where she advocated for stricter gun control laws and reforms to healthcare and taxation.

At a listed 164 cm (5'5"), Harris is married to Doug Emhoff. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as the 49th vice president of the United States from 2021 to 2025 under President Joe Biden, the first woman in that office, and she was the party's nominee in the 2024 presidential election.

Frequently asked

How tall is Kamala Harris in feet and inches? Kamala Harris is 5'5" tall, which is 164 cm, 64.6 inches or 1.64 m.

Is Kamala Harris tall for women in the United States? At 164 cm she is taller than about 51% of women in the United States born in 1964, whose average height is 163.9 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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