HEIGHT

Alexander Pope, English poet 4'6"

Olga Korbut, Soviet gymnast 4'11"

Dolly Parton, U.S. Singer 5'

Victoria, British queen 5'

John Keats, English poet 5'3/4"

Debbie Reynolds, U.S. actress 5'1"

St. Francis of Assisi, Italian saint 5'1"

Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut 5'2"

Margaret Mead, U.S. anthropologist 5'2"

Nikita Khrushechev, Soviet leader 5'3"

Micky Rooney, U.S. actor 5'3"

Voltaire, French writer 5'3"

James Madison, U.S. president 5'4"

Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer 5'4"

Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter 5'4"

Haile Selassie, Ethiopian emperor 5'4"

George "Baby Face" Nelson, U.S. gangster 5'4 3/4"

Hirohito, Japanese emperor 5'5"

Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping tycoon 5'5"

Napoleon Bonaparte, French emperor 5'6"

Joseph Stalin, Soviet political leader 5'6"

Tutankhamen, Egyptian king 5'6"

Book of Lists, No. 2, p. 6.

A recent survey at the University of Pittsburgh shows that the higher one goes, the greater the preferential treatment. Thus, graduating seniors over six feet, two inches received an average starting salary 12.4 percent higher than graduates under six feet. 

The Humanist, quoted in His, October, 1974.