How tall was Jonah Lomu?

Jonah Lomu is commonly listed at 6 ft 5 in (196 cm).

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Jonah Lomu’s 6 ft 5 in (196 cm) is very tall for a US man: more than 95 in 100 US men are shorter.

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Jonah Lomu beside others

Jonah Lomu is the tallest of the 7 rugby union players we have heights for: James Haskell (6 ft 4 in) is next, 1 in (3 cm) shorter.

Dan Carter: 5 ft 10 in (178 cm), 7 in (18 cm) shorter than Jonah Lomu.
Shane Williams: 5 ft 7 in (170 cm), 10 in (26 cm) shorter than Jonah Lomu.
James Haskell: 6 ft 4 in (193 cm), 1 in (3 cm) shorter than Jonah Lomu.

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6 ft 5 in (196 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: Bjorn Bednarek from Brisbane, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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MLA	“Jonah Lomu Height: 6 ft 5 in (196 cm), Drawn Beside You.” Heightvs, 3 Nov. 2026, heightvs.com/how-tall/jonah-lomu.
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Jonah Lomu, 6 ft 5 in (196 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)