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Adam Rainer Adam Rainer (1899 – 4 March 1950) is the only person in recorded history to have been both a dwarf and a giant.〔''Guinness World Records'', 2004.〕 He is believed to have suffered from acromegaly.〔http://thechirurgeonsapprentice.com/2015/01/20/worlds-littlest-giant-the-curious-case-of-adam-rainer/〕 Rainer was born in Graz, Austria-Hungary.〔Bellows, Alan. ("The Man Who Was a Dwarf and a Giant" ), DamnInteresting.com, 1 December 2005.〕 In 1917, at age 18, he was measured at . A typical defining characteristic of dwarfism is an adult height below . Then, likely as a result of a pituitary tumor, he had a dramatic growth spurt so that by 1931 he had reached a height of .〔Hirsch, Obar. (Two Types of Gigantism Due to Similar Tumors. Discussion of Growth * ) Confinia Neurologica, Vol. 21, No. 4 (1961)〕 As a result of his gigantism he became bedridden for the rest of his life.〔 When he died in 1950 he had reached a height of .〔(Adam Rainer ) at The Tallest Man〕 His feet measured 33.3 cm (13.1 inches), going from EUR shoe size 43 (US size 10) at aged 19 to size 53 (US 20) only three years later.〔http://uk.businessinsider.com/adam-rainer-was-both-a-dwarf-and-a-giant-2015-1?utm_content=buffer19628&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer?r=US〕 His hands measured 23.9 cm (9.4 inches) and he weighed 109 kg (241 pounds). ==References==
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