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.
How tall was Esther Williams?
Esther Williams is commonly listed at 5 ft 8 in (173 cm).
A figure repeated without a date or a measurement. Where this height comes from
Esther Williams’s 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) is very tall for a US woman: more than 95 in 100 US women are shorter.
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Esther Williams beside others
Esther Williams is in the middle of the 1,404 actors we have heights for: Sun Mingming (7 ft 9 in) stands 2 ft 1 in (63 cm) taller and Verne Troyer (2 ft 8 in) is 3 ft 0 in (91.7 cm) shorter. All 1,404 ranked, tallest first.
- Jason Statham: 5 ft 9 in (175.3 cm), 1 in (2.3 cm) taller than Esther Williams.
- Alan Ladd: 5 ft 6 in (167.6 cm), 2 in (5.4 cm) shorter than Esther Williams.
- Pedro Pascal: 5 ft 11 in (180.3 cm), 3 in (7.3 cm) taller than Esther Williams.
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