Väinö Myllyrinne 1126762 210847359 2008-05-07T17:36:10Z Anticipation of a New Lover's Arrival, The 6510232 Could hardly be a spin-off. A copy. '''Väinö Myllyrinne''', ([[1909]], [[Helsinki]] - [[1963]], [[Järvenpää]], [[Finland]]) was an [[acromegalic]] [[giant]] who was at one time the world's tallest person. He stood 222 cm (7 feet 3.5 inches) and weighed 197 kg (31 stone) at the age of 21, but experienced a second phase of growth in his late thirties, attaining a height of 252 cm (8 feet 3 inches). Myllyrinne is considered the tallest soldier ever, having served in the [[Finnish Defence Forces]]. He was also voted 12th greatest Finn in the tv-show ''[[Suuret suomalaiset]]'' (a copy of the [[BBC]] show [[Great Britons]]), largely due to a tongue-in-cheek Internet campaign criticising the idea of the show. The advocates of the campaign thought that because you can't pick just one person to be the Greatest Finn for their accomplisments, Väinö Myllyrinne would actually be the "biggest Finn" because of his height (in Finnish, the word ''suuri'' means both "big" and "great"). ==External links== *[http://personal.inet.fi/koti/vaino.myllyrinne Väinö's homepage] {{DEFAULTSORT:Myllyrinne, Väinö}} {{Finland-bio-stub}} [[Category:1909 births]] [[Category:1963 deaths]] [[Category:Finnish people]] [[Category:People with gigantism]] [[Category:People from Helsinki]] [[cs:Väinö Myllyrinne]] [[et:Väinö Myllyrinne]] [[fi:Väinö Myllyrinne]]