6 ft 1 in (185 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.
Gene Rayburn is commonly listed at 6 ft 1 in (185 cm).
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Gene Rayburn’s 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) is tall for a US man: about 90 in 100 US men are shorter.
Gene Rayburn is one of the taller television presenters we have heights for: Richard Osman (6 ft 7 in) stands 6 in (15.7 cm) taller and Jason Acuña (4 ft 0.5 in) is 2 ft 0.5 in (62 cm) shorter.
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, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.
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