List of the verified shortest people
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This list includes the shortest ever verified people in their lifetime or profession. The entries below are broken down into different categories which range from sex, to age group and occupations. Most of the sourcing is done by
Guinness World Records ''Guinness World Records'', known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as ''The Guinness Book of Records'' and in previous United States editions as ''The Guinness Book of World Records'', is a reference book published annually, listing world ...
which in the last decade has added new categories for "mobile" and "non-mobile" men and women. The world's shortest verified man is
Chandra Bahadur Dangi Chandra Bahadur Dangi (30 November 1939 – 3 September 2015) ( ne, चन्द्रबहादुर डाँगी}, , or ) was a Nepali man who was the shortest man in recorded history measuring . Dangi was a primordial dwarf. He broke ...
, while for women
Pauline Musters Pauline Musters (February 26, 1878 – March 1, 1895) was a Dutch woman. She is recognized by the Guinness World Records as the shortest woman ever recorded, standing at only tall. Life Musters was born in 1878 in Ossendrecht in North Bra ...
holds the record.


Men


Women


Shortest pairs


Shortest by age group

This was Nisa's baby height, she later grew.
This was Francis Joseph Flynn's shortest height, because he grew in height after age 16; he is not listed as one of the world's shortest men.
Filed under "Shortest woman to give birth".


Shortest by occupation


Actors


Artists and writers


Athletes


Politicians


Others


See also

* Dwarfism *
Pygmy peoples In anthropology, pygmy peoples are ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short. The term pygmyism is used to describe the phenotype of endemic short stature (as opposed to disproportionate dwarfism occurring in isolated cases in a p ...
*
Caroline Crachami Caroline Crachami (1815 – June 1824) was the first person recognised to have primordial dwarfism. Sometimes cited as the smallest person in recorded history, she was nine years old or less at the time of her death, and it is unlikely that sh ...
, a person about tall *
Little people (mythology) Little people have been part of the folklore of many cultures in human history, including Ireland, Greece, the Philippines, the Hawaiian Islands, New Zealand, Flores Island, Indonesia, and Native Americans. Native American folklore The Nati ...
* List of dwarfism organisations * Dwarfs and pygmies in ancient Egypt *
List of tallest people This is a list of the tallest people, verified by the Guinness World Records or other reliable sources. According to the Guinness World Records, the tallest human in recorded history was Robert Wadlow of the United States (1918–1940), wh ...


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