How tall is Stephen King?

Stephen King is commonly listed at 6 ft 4 in (193 cm).

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

Stephen King’s 6 ft 4 in (193 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 4 in

Stephen King beside others

Stephen King is one of the taller writers we have heights for: Peter Freuchen (6 ft 7 in) stands 3 in (8 cm) taller and Lorenz Hart (5 ft 0 in) is 1 ft 4 in (41 cm) shorter.

Also listed at 6 ft 4 in: Kurt Vonnegut.

Douglas Adams: 6 ft 5 in (196 cm), 1 in (3 cm) taller than Stephen King.
Stan Lee: 5 ft 11 in (180 cm), 5 in (13 cm) shorter than Stephen King.

More writers, most looked up first

Katherine Schwarzenegger 5 ft 8 in

Where this height comes from

6 ft 4 in (193 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: Kevin Payravi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Stephen King, 6 ft 4 in (193 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)