How tall was Waylon Jennings?

Waylon Jennings is commonly listed at 6 ft 0.5 in (184 cm).

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Waylon Jennings’s 6 ft 0.5 in (184 cm) is tall for a US man: about 88 in 100 US men are shorter.

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Waylon Jennings beside others

Waylon Jennings is one of the taller singers we have heights for: Peter Steele (6 ft 8 in) stands 7.5 in (19.2 cm) taller and Édith Piaf (4 ft 8 in) is 1 ft 4.5 in (42 cm) shorter.

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6 ft 0.5 in (184 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: RCA Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Waylon Jennings, 6 ft 0.5 in (184 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)