How tall was Michelangelo?

Michelangelo is commonly listed at 5 ft 2 in (157 cm).

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Michelangelo’s 5 ft 2 in (157 cm) is very short for a US man: fewer than 5 in 100 US men are shorter.

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5 ft 2 in (157 cm)

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Photo: Attributed to Daniele da Volterra, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Michelangelo, 5 ft 2 in (157 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)