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Siah Khan Ibn Kashmir Khan was a tall Persian man who lived in the lapui functions of Fars province in the early 20th century in Lepui, also suffered from physical and mental retardation and proteus syndrome.

Biography

Siah Khan was born in 1913 in the village of Lapui, in the Zarghan district of Fars province.

He grew normally until the age of six, but grew rapidly after that. His family migrated to Shiraz due to Siah Khan's poverty and physical problems, and earned money by displaying their large and unusual child in the streets.

At the end of September 1920, he was rented for some time by a person named Khoshorkhan for 6,000 Tomans to be exhibited in Tehran. Dr. Ghorban, the founder of the Shiraz Medical School, found him in 1931 and provided him with financial and medical support. When he was taken to the hospital, Siah Khan was hospitalized for the rest of his life and eventually died of pneumonia and sepsis in 1938. His skeletal remains are now on public display in a glass case at Shiraz's Medical School.

Height

Siah Khan often claimed 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) and 11 ft 10 in (3.61 m) which if true would have made him easily the tallest person to ever live even dwarfing Robert Wadlow's height of 8 ft 11+9⁄100 in (2.72 m) but Siah Khan was later measured in 1933 by his doctors at 7 ft 2+1⁄2 in (2.20 m), and later claimed to have grown to 8 ft 6. His arms measured 3 ft 10.06 in (117 cm), his legs were 4 ft 1+1⁄4 in (1.25 m) long, his skull weighed 89⁄100 stone (5.7 kg) and he couldn't stand due his head being too heavy for him. His arms were reportedly so long that he had to wrap an arm once around his head to put food in his mouth.

See also

• List of tallest people

References

1. ^ "Siah Khan - Kashmir Khan The tallest man Iran Persia". 19 August 2017. Archived from the original on 19 August 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
2. Guinness World Records 1966. p. 7.
3. "Cranio-Spondylo-Tubular Dysostosis A Unique Historic Iranian Giant 'Siah-Khan Syndrome'" (PDF). Archived from the original on 25 June 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
4. Ramin (7 February 2010). "Historical Iranian sites and people: Siah Khan". Historical Iranian sites and people. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
5. "Siah Khan - 7 feet 2.6 inches (220 cm)". Archived from the original on 18 March 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

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