Robert Wadlow, who died in 1940, still holds the Guinness World Record for the tallest man to ever live at eight feet 11.1 ...

P More than 100 callers identified the photo of the giant, Robert Pershing Wadlow. The first time Robert Pershing Wadlow came to Cape Girardeau, he was 15 years old -- "a mere boy of 7 feet 3 inches," ...

MANISTEE, Mich. — More than a century after his birth, and 81 years after his death, Robert Pershing Wadlow remains the tallest person in recorded history, standing at 8-feet 11.1-inches tall, ...

They called him the Gentle Giant. At 8 feet, 11.1 inches tall, Robert Wadlow was the tallest man to ever walk the Earth, at least in recorded history. Even if he was of normal stature, the people of ...