Adam Rainer (1889 – 4 March 1950) is the only person in
recorded history to have been both a dwarf and a giant.
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Rainer was born in Graz, Austria-Hungary. In 1917, at age
18, he was measured at 4 feet and ¼ inch, and then in 1918 at age 19, he was
measured at 3 feet 7.9 inches. A typical defining characteristic of dwarfism is
an adult height below four feet 10 inches. Then, likely as a result of a
pituitary tumor, he had a dramatic growth spurt so that by 1932 at the age of
33 he had reached a height of 7 feet 2 inches. As a result of his gigantism he
became bedridden for the rest of his life, When he died in 1950 (age 51) he had
reached a height of 7 feet 8 inches.
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