5 ft 9.5 in (176 cm)
A commonly listed height, as Wikipedia gives it, with no date or method, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.
Source: Wikipedia
How tall is Wayne Rooney?
Wayne Rooney is commonly listed at 5 ft 9.5 in (176 cm).
A figure repeated without a date or a measurement. Where this height comes from
Wayne Rooney’s 5 ft 9.5 in (176 cm) is about average for a US man: about 54 in 100 US men are shorter.
Where your height fallsEveryone about 5 ft 9 in
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Wayne Rooney beside others
Wayne Rooney is one of the shorter association football players we have heights for: Jan Koller (6 ft 7.5 in) stands 10 in (26 cm) taller and Chanathip Songkrasin (5 ft 2 in) is 7 in (18 cm) shorter. All 207 ranked, tallest first.
- Ian Wright: 5 ft 9 in (175.3 cm), 0.3 in (0.7 cm) shorter than Wayne Rooney.
- Gary Lineker: 5 ft 9.5 in (177 cm), 0.4 in (1 cm) taller than Wayne Rooney.
- Jesse Lingard: 5 ft 9 in (175 cm), 0.4 in (1 cm) shorter than Wayne Rooney.
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Where this height comes from
Photo: Дмитрий Голубович, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.
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