5 ft 6 in (168 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.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is commonly listed at 5 ft 6 in (168 cm).
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) is a little below average for a US man: about 17 in 100 US men are shorter.
Where your height fallsEveryone about 5 ft 6 in
Side by side with David Cameron, Jair Bolsonaro and Tony Blair
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is one of the shorter politicians we have heights for: John Fetterman (6 ft 8 in) stands 1 ft 2 in (35.2 cm) taller and Benito Juárez (4 ft 6 in) is 1 ft 0 in (31 cm) shorter.
Also listed at 5 ft 6 in: Winston Churchill, Suharto and Martin Van Buren.
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: Palácio do Planalto from Brasilia, Brasil, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.
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