How tall was Kurt Cobain?

Kurt Cobain is commonly listed at 5 ft 9 in (175 cm).

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Kurt Cobain’s 5 ft 9 in (175 cm) is about average for a US man: about 49 in 100 US men are shorter.

Where your height falls Everyone about 5 ft 9 in

Kurt Cobain beside others

Kurt Cobain is in the middle of the 220 singers we have heights for: Peter Steele (6 ft 8 in) stands 11 in (28.2 cm) taller and Édith Piaf (4 ft 8 in) is 1 ft 1 in (33 cm) shorter.

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5 ft 9 in (175 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: P.B. Rage from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Kurt Cobain, 5 ft 9 in (175 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)