How tall was Stan Lee?

Stan Lee is commonly listed at 5 ft 11 in (180 cm).

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Stan Lee’s 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) is a little above average for a US man: about 74 in 100 US men are shorter.

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Stan Lee beside others

Stan Lee is in the middle of the 15 writers we have heights for: Peter Freuchen (6 ft 7 in) stands 8.5 in (21 cm) taller and Lorenz Hart (5 ft 0 in) is 11 in (28 cm) shorter.

Katherine Schwarzenegger: 5 ft 8 in (172.7 cm), 3 in (7.3 cm) shorter than Stan Lee.
F. Scott Fitzgerald: 5 ft 7 in (170.2 cm), 4 in (9.8 cm) shorter than Stan Lee.
Kurt Vonnegut: 6 ft 4 in (193 cm), 5 in (13 cm) taller than Stan Lee.

More writers, most looked up first

Stephen King 6 ft 4 in

Where this height comes from

5 ft 11 in (180 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: US Embassy Tokyo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Stan Lee, 5 ft 11 in (180 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)