How tall is Rihanna?

Rihanna is commonly listed at 5 ft 8 in (172.7 cm).

A figure repeated without a date or a measurement. Where this height comes from

Rihanna’s 5 ft 8 in (172.7 cm) is very tall for a US woman: more than 95 in 100 US women are shorter.

Where your height falls Everyone about 5 ft 8 in

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Rihanna beside others

Rihanna is in the middle of the 55 musicians we have heights for: Krist Novoselic (6 ft 7 in) stands 11 in (28.3 cm) taller and Dolly Parton (5 ft 0 in) is 8 in (20.3 cm) shorter.

Also listed at 5 ft 8 in: DaBaby, Kanye West and Eminem.

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Where this height comes from

5 ft 8 in (172.7 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: U.S. Embassy Bridgetown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Rihanna, 5 ft 8 in (173 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)