How tall was Amelia Earhart?

Amelia Earhart is commonly listed at 5 ft 8 in (173 cm).

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Amelia Earhart’s 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) is very tall for a US woman: more than 95 in 100 US women are shorter.

Where your height falls Everyone about 5 ft 8 in

Amelia Earhart beside others

Amelia Earhart is one of the shorter explorers we have heights for: Charles Lindbergh (6 ft 3 in) stands 7 in (18 cm) taller and Kit Carson (5 ft 5.5 in) is 2.5 in (6.6 cm) shorter.

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5 ft 8 in (173 cm)

A commonly listed height: it appears across many profiles, but none says when or how it was measured, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.

Photo: NBC Photo-NBC Radio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Amelia Earhart, 5 ft 8 in (173 cm), drawn to scale beside the average US man, 5 ft 9 in (175 cm), and the average US woman, 5 ft 3.5 in (161 cm)