Chandra Bahadur Dangi

Chandra Bahadur Dangi, a Nepali with a maximum height of 1ft 9.5 inches or 54.6cm, was the shortest human in the world as well as the shortest individual in the recorded history of mankind. Both his height and weight were normal at the time of his birth but his mother observed that children born to her neighbors were growing at a much faster pace than her son. Chandra's unusually short stature could be attributed to a medical condition known as 'primordial dwarfism' which is a type of dwarfism typically characterized by stunted growth, restricting the body to a small size from birth to death. Before Dangi's height was officially measured and recorded by the 'Guinness World Records', Gul Mohammad of New Delhi, India, held the record for being the world's shortest person. He passed away on 3rd September 2015 at the Lyndon B. Johnson Tropical Medical Center in Pago Pago.