How tall was Sidney Poitier?

Sidney Poitier is commonly listed at 6 ft 2.5 in (189 cm).

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Sidney Poitier’s 6 ft 2.5 in (189 cm) is very tall for a US man: more than 95 in 100 US men are shorter.

Where your height falls Everyone about 6 ft 2 in

Sidney Poitier beside others

Sidney Poitier is one of the taller actors we have heights for: Sun Mingming (7 ft 9 in) stands 1 ft 6.5 in (47 cm) taller and Verne Troyer (2 ft 8 in) is 3 ft 6.5 in (107.7 cm) shorter. All 1,404 ranked, tallest first.

Also listed at 6 ft 2.5 in: Rana Daggubati, Garrett Hedlund and Lon Chaney Jr..

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6 ft 2.5 in (189 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: Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Sidney Poitier, 6 ft 2.5 in (189 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)