Väinö Myllyrinne
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Väinö Myllyrinne (27 February 1909 – 13 April 1963)<ref>Setäni Väinö Myllyrinne, Suomen pisin mies ja Järvenpään ”suurmies” Template:In lang</ref> was a Finnish acromegalic giant who was at one time (1940–1963) the world's tallest living person, and may have become the tallest after the death of Robert Wadlow. He stood Template:Convert and weighed Template:Convert at the age of 21, but experienced a second phase of growth in his late thirties, attaining a height of Template:Convert.
Myllyrinne was born in Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland, and is considered the tallest soldier ever, having served in the Finnish Defence Forces. He underwent his conscript training in 1929 in the Viipuri Heavy Artillery Regiment, and was Template:Convert tall and very strong. In the 1930s he travelled around Europe as a professional wrestler and circus performer. He returned to Finland in 1939 to serve in the Finnish Army during the Winter War. In 1946, he moved to Järvenpää and ran a chicken farm. He died in Helsinki in 1963 and is buried at Järvenpää.
In 1962, just a year before his death, he was measured by doctors at Template:Convert. A newspaper report from 1947 stated that his height was Template:Convert.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>
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