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Is Bill Gates taller than Mark Zuckerberg?

Yes. Bill Gates is taller than Mark Zuckerberg by 3 in (7.8 cm).

Bill Gates: taller than about 64 in 100 US men. Mark Zuckerberg: shorter than about 74 in 100 US men.

Bill Gates is taller than Mark Zuckerberg by 3 in (7.8 cm).Bill Gates: 5 ft 10 in (178 cm). Mark Zuckerberg: 5 ft 7 in (170.2 cm).

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Bill Gates
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These rounded published listings give an approximate gap. They do not account for shoes or posture in a photograph.

Where these heights come from

Bill Gates is commonly listed at 5 ft 10 in (178 cm). See all of Bill Gates’s listed heights.

Mark Zuckerberg is commonly listed at 5 ft 7 in (170.2 cm). See all of Mark Zuckerberg’s listed heights.

Photos: Bill Gates by Bogdan Hoyaux / European Union, CC BY 4.0; Mark Zuckerberg by Anthony Quintano from Westminster, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Bill Gates, 5 ft 10 in (178 cm), and Mark Zuckerberg, 5 ft 7 in (170 cm), drawn to scale on one baseline