Adam Rainer


Adam Rainer was the only person in recorded history to have been both a dwarf and a giant. He is believed to have had acromegaly.

Biography

Rainer was born in Graz, Austria-Hungary. In 1917, at age 18, he was measured at, then in 1918, at age 19, 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 1932 at the age of 33 he had reached a height of. 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. His feet measured 33.3 cm, going from US shoe size 10 at aged 19 to size 20 only three years later. His hands measured 23.9 cm and he weighed 109 kg.