5 ft 9 in (175.3 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.
Jean-Claude Van Damme is commonly listed at 5 ft 9 in (175.3 cm).
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Jean-Claude Van Damme’s 5 ft 9 in (175.3 cm) is about average for a US man: about 50 in 100 US men are shorter.
Jean-Claude Van Damme is in the middle of the 1,404 actors we have heights for: Sun Mingming (7 ft 9 in) stands 2 ft 0 in (60.7 cm) taller and Verne Troyer (2 ft 8 in) is 3 ft 1 in (94 cm) shorter. All 1,404 ranked, tallest first.
Also listed at 5 ft 9 in: Wesley Snipes, William Shatner and James Caan.
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: Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.
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