Whether in film and television, politics, or sports. The height of celebrities is often an issue.
Whether for practical reasons – Humphrey Bogart often stood on a box during filming with his taller film partner Ingrid Bergmann for the movie Casablanca – or the impression that successful politicians are often below average in height.
But how tall are celebrities? In photos or on film, it’s often hard to guess. We did a reality check and compiled the sizes of 250 female and 300 male celebrities.
Anything is possible, with any height
In general, the data shows that a below-average height is certainly not a problem in Hollywood and politics, but on the catwalk or in ball sports a few centimeters more are welcome. But nothing is fixed and everything is possible – with any body size:
Reese Witherspoon won an Oscar at 156 cm and Tilda Swinton at 182 cm. Lenin was 164 cm and Fidel Castro was 190 cm tall. Jérome Boateng won the soccer world champion with 192 cm and Lionel Messi with 170 cm.
Taylor Swift is 180 cm tall and Helene Fischer is 158 cm short. Dustin Hoffmann became a world star at 163 cm just like the 188 cm tall Sean Connery.
If the centimeters don’t fit one role on the screen or the team, then maybe for another. Make your picture. (1 inch = 2.54 cm)
Height of female celebrities
| Height | |
|---|---|
| < 140 cm | Christine Urspruch (132 cm) |
| 140 -149 cm | Simone Biles (145 cm), Edith Piaf (147 cm), Madleine Albright (147 cm) |
| 150 -159 cm | Queen Victoria (152 cm), Dolly Parton (152 cm), Mutter Theresa (152 cm), Ariana Grande (153 cm), Lady Gaga (155 cm), Vanessa Hudgens (155 cm), Reese Witherspoon (156 cm), Kylie Minogue (157 cm), Christina Aguiliera (157 cm), Salma Hayek (157 cm), Shakira (157 cm), Madonna (158 cm), Helene Fischer (158 cm), Marianne Rosenberg (159 cm) |
| 160 cm | Annalena Baerbock, Kim Karadashian, Lara Gut, Regina Halmich, Vanessa Mai, Ashely Olsen, Natalie Portmann, Elizabeth Taylor |
| 161 cm | Amanda Seyfried, Sheryl Crow, Billie Eilish, Jodie Foster, Kamala Harris, Vicky Leandros, Ursula von der Leyen |
| 162 cm | Chaka Khan, Romy Schneider, Kim Wilde, Laura Dahlmeier |
| 163 cm | Elisabeth II., Britney Spears, Scarlett Johannson, Beatrice Egli, Janet Jackson, Helen Mirren, Alanis Morissette, Pink, Tina Turner |
| 164 cm | Angela Merkel, Jennifer Aniston, Sandra Maischberger, Diana Ross, Naomi Watts |
| 165 cm | Anke Engelke, Miley Cyrus, Demi Moore, Lena Meyer-Landrut, Eva Peron, Joanne K. Rowling, Kirsten Stewart, Donatella Versace, Katarina Witt |
| 166 cm | Marilyn Monroe, Claudia Pechstein, Margaret Thatcher, Halle Berry, Stefanie Heinzmann |
| 167 cm | Megan Fox, Meret Becker, Uschi Glas, Mel C, Liselotte Pulver |
| 168 cm | Emma Watson, Marlene Dietrich, Jennifer Lopez, Penelope Cruz, Catherine Deneuve, Nina Hagen, Janis Joplin, Alicia Keys, Nena, Meryl Streep |
| 169 cm | Audrey Hepburn, Kirsten Stewart, Iris Berben, Martina Hingis, Diane Keaton, Lana del Rey, Gloria von Thurn und Taxi |
| 170 cm | Beyonce, Paris Hilton, Jennifer Lawrence, Sade Adu, Pamela Anderson, Brigitte Bardot, Senta Berger, Michelle Hunziker, Jacqueline Kennedy |
| 171 cm | Kim Basinger, Emily Blunt, Céline Dion, Michelle Pfeiffer, Emma Thompson |
| 172 cm | Maria Furtwängler, Katharine Hepburn, Angelina Kerber, Katja Riemann |
| 173 cm | Rihanna, Angelina Jolie, Sandra Bullock, Kate Perry, Barbara Schöneberg, Judith Rakers, Jessica Biel, Maria Callas, Jane Fonda, Amber Heard, Heike Makatsch |
| 174 cm | Sophia Loren, Cameron Diaz, Katja Burkard, Cher, Maybrit Illner, Franka Potente, Sharon Stone, Alexandra Popp |
| 175 cm | Julia Roberts, Adele, Cara Delevingne, Mariah Carey, Cindy Crawford, Grace Jones, Annie Lennox, Gwyneth Paltrow, Nora Schirner, Serena Williams, Laura Wontorra |
| 176 cm | Heidi Klum, Steffi Graf, Katrin Müller-Hohenstein, Inka Bause |
| 177 cm | Khloé Kardashian, Herzogin Kate, Charlène von Monaco, Sonja Zietlow |
| 178 cm | Liv Tyler, Charlize Theron, Tyra Banks, Sarah Connor, Lena Gercke, Gigi Hadid, Sabine Lisicki, Maxima der Niederlande, Lindsay Vonn, Prinzessin Diana, Ingrid Bergmann |
| 179 cm | Nicole Kidman, Cameron Diaz, Tilda Swinton |
| 180 cm | Taylor Swift, Claudia Schiffer, Gisele Bündchen, Veronica Ferres, Michelle Obama |
| 181 cm | Toni Garn, Heike Drechsler, Laura Ludwig, Livia Metzger |
| 182 cm | Tilda Swinton, Ella MacPherson, Uma Thurman, Ilsa Aigner, Kathryn Bigelow, Franziska Knuppe |
| 183 cm | Geena Davis, Jerry Hall, Brooke Shields, Macy Gray, Bettina Tietjen |
| 184 cm | Ilka Bessin, Ana Ivanovic |
| 185 cm | Brigitte Nielsen, Venus Williams, Karlie Kloss, Kira Walkenhorst |
| 186 cm | Ulrike Meyfarth |
| 187 cm | Ava Michelle |
| 188 cm | Maria Sharapova |
| > 188 cm | Joana Heidrich (190 cm), Lara Metzger (191 cm), Kerri Walsh Jennings (192 cm), Elizabeth Debicki (193 cm), Gwendoline Christie (193 cm), Blanka Vlasic (194 cm), Brittney Grinder (206 cm) Rumeysa Gelgi (215 cm), Zeng Jinlian (246 cm) |
Height of male celebrities
| Height | |
|---|---|
| < 140 cm | Thomas Quasthoff (134 cm), Peter Dinklage (135 cm), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (137 cm) |
| 140 -149 cm | Danny DeVito (147 cm) |
| 150 -159 cm | Jean-Paul Satre (153 cm), Chris Norman (155 cm), Juri Gagarin (157 cm), Prince (158 cm), Bernhard Höcker (158 cm), Angus Young (158 cm), Bernie Ecclestone (159 cm) |
| 160 cm | Fabian Hambüchen, Paul Simon |
| 161 cm | Herbie Hancock, Maurice Ravel |
| 162 cm | Andy Borg, Hans-Joachim Heist |
| 163 cm | Woody Allen, Dustin Hoffman, Michael J. Fox, Gregor Gysi, Kevin Hart, Fats Domino, Klaus Meine, Joe Pesci, Pablo Picasso, Martin Scorsese |
| 164 cm | Silvio Berlusconi, Lenin, Louis de Funès, Mahatma Ghandi, Jackie Stewart |
| 165 cm | Daniel Radcliffe, Charles Chaplin, Bruno Mars, Axel Prahl |
| 166 cm | Nicolas Sarkozy, Pablo Escobar, Thomas Häßler, Lars Ulrich |
| 167 cm | Diego Maradona, Napoleon, Martin Semmelrogge |
| 168 cm | Elijah Wood, Peter Maffay, Jürgen Vogel, Pierre Littbarski, Ralf Maria Schmitz, Josef Stalin |
| 169 cm | Stephen Hawking, Udo Lindenberg, James Brown, Martin Luther King, Louis Armstrong |
| 170 cm | Oliver Pocher, Al Pacino, Lionel Messi, Uwe Seeler, Tom Cruise, Phil Collins, Justin Bieber, Benedikt XVI., Alfred Hitchcock, Timbaland, Jens Weißflog, Olaf Scholz |
| 171 cm | Marc Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Bryan Adams, Niki Lauda, Bob Dylan, Bruce Lee, Iggy Pop, Sepp Blatter |
| 172 cm | Elton John, Giorgio Armani, Salvador Dali, Georg Hackl, Frank Sinatra, Helmut Schmidt |
| 173 cm | Ed Sheeran, James Dean, Klaus Kinski, Moritz Bleibtreu, Friedrich Nietzsche, Kayne West, Tom Holland, Winston Churchill, Eminem, Stan Laurel, Pelé |
| 174 cm | Mario Barth, Lothar Matthäus, Michael Schumacher, Gerhard Schröder, Humphrey Bogart, Lewis Hamilton, Keith Richards, Mark Twain |
| 175 cm | Otto Waalkes, Elyas M‘ Barek, Marlon Brando, Michael Jackson, Robert de Niro, Albert Einstein, Falco, Michael Gorbatschow, Billy Idol, Neymar |
| 176 cm | Johnny Depp, Joshua Kimmich, Daniel Brühl, Robert Downey Jr., Jan Josef Liefers, Marco Rima, Sebastian Vettel |
| 177 cm | Jack Nicholson, Lance Armstrong, Eric Clapton, Hansi Flick, Bill Gates, Herbert von Karajan, Freddie Mercury, Paul Newmann |
| 178 cm | Richerd Gere, Til Schweiger, Matt Damon, Mao Tse Tung, David Bowie, Capital Bra, Warren Buffet, Daniel Craig, Johannes Paul II., Karl Lagerfeld, König Charles |
| 179 cm | Robert Redford, Al Capone, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Rudi Cerne, Dight D. Eisenhower, Frank Elsner, Walt Disney, Thomas A. Edison, Willy Brandt |
| 180 cm | Brad Pitt, Bastian Schweinsteiger, George Clooney, Neil Armstrong, Gerard Depardieu, Jürgen Drews, Xi Jinping, John Lennon |
| 181 cm | Franz Beckenbauer, Jürgen Klinsmann, Stefan Raab, Joschka Fischer, Markus Lanz, Max Verstappen |
| 182 cm | Bruce Willis, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Vin Diesel, Franz Kafka, Matthew McConaughey, Elvis Presley |
| 183 cm | Toni Kroos, Dieter Bohlen, 50 Cent, Hape Kerkeling, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joe Biden, Nicolas Cage, Wyatt Earp, Ernest Hemingway |
| 184 cm | Denzel Washington, Ryan Gosling, Robert Lewandowski, Benjamin Nethanyahu, Felix Neureuther, Stevie Wonder |
| 185 cm | Barack Obama, Campino, Harrison Ford, Tom Hanks, Wernher von Braun, Dr. Dre, Tiger Woods, Roger Federer, Oliver Hardy, Roger Moore, Dennis Schröder, Max Schmeling |
| 186 cm | Thomas Müller, Keanu Reeves, Wolfgang Joop, Udo Jürgens, Jörg Pilawa,Christian Lindner, Sido, Julio Iglesias, Max Raabe |
| 187 cm | Bill Murray, Cristiano Ronaldo, Will Smith, Jim Carrey, Johnny Cash, Placido Domingo |
| 188 cm | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Oliver Kahn, Elon Musk, John Travolta, Konrad Adenauer, Julian Assange, Bill Clinton, Novak Djokovic, Steve Jobs, Uwe Gensheimer |
| 189 cm | Ashton Kutcher, Michael Ballack, Sean Connery, Leon Goretzka, Samuel L. Jackson |
| 190 cm | Chris Hemsworth, Boris Becker, Farin Urlaub, Antonio Rüdiger, Joko Winterscheidt, Till Lindemann |
| 191 cm | James Stewart, Oscar Wilde, Muhammad Ali, Fidel Castro, Karl Dall, Charles Lindbergh, Bastian Pastewka, Donald Trump |
| 192 cm | Thomas Gottschalk, Snoop Dogg, Seal, Jérome Boateng, George Foreman, Howard Hughes, Bill Kaulitz, Charly Hübner |
| 193 cm | Manuel Neuer, Clint Eastwood, Bud Spencer, David Hasselhoff, Abraham Lincoln, Günther Jauch, Helmut Kohl |
| 194 cm | Harald Schmidt, Jeff Goldblum, Horst Seehofer, Jan Frodeno, Thomas Hermanns, Markus Söder |
| 195 cm | Niklas Süle, Usain Bolt, Peter Tosh, Ingo Zamperoni, Michael Phelps, Zlatan Ibrahimovic |
| 196 cm | Dwane „The Rock“ Johnson, Charles de Gaulle, Calvin Harris, John Cleese, Lennox Lewis |
| 197 cm | Ralf Möller, König Felipe I., Holger Glandorf, Götz Otto |
| 198 cm | Michael Jordan, Wladimir Klitschko, Juan Martin del Potro, Per Mertesacker, Kobe Bryant, Andreas Zverev, Friedrich Merz |
| 199 cm | Lars Riedel |
| 200 cm | Patrick Wiencek |
| 201 cm | Vitali Klitschko, Michael Groß |
| 202 cm | Hulk Hogan |
| 203 cm | Peter der Große |
| 204 cm | Henning Scherf, Erhard Wunderlich, Peter Crouch |
| 205 cm | Jan Koller |
| > 205 cm | John Isner (208 cm), Volker Zerbe (211 cm), Dirk Nowitzki (213 cm), Nikolai Valuev (213 cm), Shaquille O’Neal (216 cm), Andre the Giant (225 cm), Yao Ming (231 cm), Sultan Kösen (251 cm), Robert Wadlow (272 cm) |