Siah Khan
Tallest man from Iran (1913 – c. 1938)
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Siavash Bushehri (Persian: سیاوش بوشهری; 1913 – c. 1938), also known as Siah Khan (Persian: سیاه خان) or Siavash Khan (Persian: سیاوش خان), was a tall Iranian man from Shiraz, who suffered from physical and mental disability, as well as Proteus syndrome.[1]
1913
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| Born | Siavash Bushehri 1913 |
| Died | c.1938 (aged 24–25) |
| Known for | 6th verified tallest person, tallest man from Iran |
| Height | 2.5908 m (8 ft 6.00 in) |
Biography
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Siah Khan was born in 1913 in Lapui, a village in the Zarqan district, near Shiraz.[2]
He grew normally until the age of six, but grew rapidly after that. His family migrated to Shiraz, and earned money by displaying their large and unusual child in the streets.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed] 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)[1] 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),[3] and later claimed to have grown to 8 ft 6.[4] 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 to 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.[5][6]
