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Is John Adams taller than Recep Tayyip Erdoğan?

No. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is taller than John Adams by 6 in (14.8 cm).

John Adams: shorter than about 74 in 100 US men. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: taller than about 90 in 100 US men.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is taller than John Adams by 6 in (14.8 cm).John Adams: 5 ft 7 in (170.2 cm). Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: 6 ft 1 in (185 cm).

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Where these heights come from

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

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is commonly listed at 6 ft 1 in (185 cm). See all of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s listed heights.

Photos: John Adams by Gilbert Stuart, Public domain; Recep Tayyip Erdoğan by PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY Official website, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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John Adams, 5 ft 7 in (170 cm), and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, 6 ft 1 in (185 cm), drawn to scale on one baseline