How tall was Whitney Houston?

Whitney Houston is commonly listed at 5 ft 8 in (173 cm).

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Whitney Houston’s 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) is very tall for a US woman: more than 95 in 100 US women are shorter.

Where your height falls Everyone about 5 ft 8 in

Whitney Houston beside others

Whitney Houston is in the middle of the 220 singers we have heights for: Peter Steele (6 ft 8 in) stands 12 in (30.2 cm) taller and Édith Piaf (4 ft 8 in) is 1 ft 0 in (31 cm) shorter.

Also listed at 5 ft 8 in: 6arelyhuman, James Blunt and Raekwon.

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5 ft 8 in (173 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: PH2 Mark Kettenhofen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Whitney Houston, 5 ft 8 in (173 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)