Napoleon Complex

First off, I hope y'all had a merry Christmas and a happy new year. I've completely fallen off the wagon when it comes to updating the blog. I have no good excuse. However, my resolution (in addition to going on a diet and to the gym thrice weekly) is to update at least once a week.

As that girl who was always a head taller than the boys in her class in grade school, and generally still has to wear flats when she goes on dates, I've always been conscious of heights. 

I'm not the Jolly Green Giant, but I am a perfectly respectable 5'9". Actually, I'm 5'8" and 1/2. But that half inch means a lot. It's the typical cutoff height for professional modelling. I don't want to be a model, but it's nice to know that I have the height, even if I lack the figure and face. That said, I've listed the most specific heights I could find, and did my best to double check my sources. For some figures, a height range was the best I could find. In those cases I went with the median height.

Lucy                    3.7

Alexander Pope          4.6

Edith Piaf              4.8

Gary Coleman

Joan of Arc             4.11

Juan Ponce de Leon

Gloria Swanson

Bonnie Parker

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Judy Garland

Victoria                5.0

Annie Oakley

Mother Teresa

Harriet Tubman

Henri Toulouse-Lautrec  5.1

Mary Pickford           

    

Wallis Simpson          5.2

Eva Braun

Mary Todd Lincoln

Charles Manson

Mickey Rooney

Elizabeth Taylor        5.3

Lana Turner

Gandhi

Peter Lorre

Olivia de Havilland

Vivien Leigh

Bette Davis

Igor Stravinsky

James Madison           5.4

Horatio Nelson

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Louis XIV

Eva Marie Saint

Ginger Rogers

Stephen Douglas

Anne Frank

Pablo Picasso

Sammy Davis, Jr.

John Smith

Ida Lupino

Edward G Robinson       5.5

Eva Peron

Charlie Chaplin

Joseph Goebbels

Duke of Windsor

Susan B Anthony

Marilyn Monroe

Alan Ladd

Lillian Gish

Hirohito

James Cagney

Buster Keaton

Audie Murphy

Pablo Escobar

Otzi the Iceman

TE Lawrence             5.5 ½

Martin van Buren        5.6

Winston Churchill

Joseph Stalin

Isaac Newton

Lucille Ball

Attila the Hun

Rita Hayworth

Benito Mussolini

Myrna Loy

Patsy Cline

Erwin Rommel

Benjamin Harrison

Martin Luther King, Jr. 5.6 ½

Dolley Madison

Cyd Charisse

John Adams              5.7

Napoleon

John Q Adams

Gene Kelly

Bing Crosby

Clyde Barrow

Don Knotts

Greta Garbo

Alexander the Great

Amelia Earhart

Janis Joplin

Harry Houdini

Vincent van Gogh

Bruce Lee

Nicholas II

Alfred Hitchcock  

Ed Sullivan

Hedy Lamarr

Audrey Hepburn

Grace Kelly

Jackie Kennedy

Augustus

J Edgar Hoover

Ethel Barrymore

William McKinley       

William H Harrison      5.8

James Polk   

Twiggy   

Billy the Kid

Maureen O’Hara

Ulysses S Grant

Gypsy Rose Lee

Zachary Taylor

John Wilkes Booth

Yul Brynner

Adolf Hitler 

Frank Sinatra

James Dean

Edgar A Poe  

Harry S Truman

John Dillinger          5.8 ½

Millard Fillmore        5.9

Rutherford B Hayes

Fred Astaire

Marlon Brando

Steve McQueen

Ingrid Bergman

Humphrey Bogart

Kurt Cobain

Jimmy Carter

Enrico Caruso

Albert Einstein

Paul Newman

Ben Franklin

Heinrich Himmler

Freddie Mercury

Tony Curtis

Leon Trotsky            5.9 ½

Franklin Pierce         5.10

Andrew Johnson

Richard Burton

Al Capone

Thomas Edison

Bob Hope

Hermann Goering

Pope John Paul II

Dwight D Eisenhower

Walt Disney

Princess Diana

George Harrison

Robert E Lee

Elizabeth I

Thomas Paine

Dean Martin

Jimi Hendrix

Calvin Coolidge

Theodore Roosevelt

Grover Cleveland        5.11

Woodrow Wilson

Jim Morrison

Sugar Ray Robinson

Dr. Seuss

John Lennon

Ivan the Terrible

Omar Sharif

Neil Armstrong

Tutankhamun

Danny Kaye

Boris Karloff

Mao Zedong

Michael Jackson

William Powell

Rudolph Valentino 

Richard M Nixon   

Mary, Queen of Scots

Eleanor Roosevelt       5.11 ½

James Buchanan          6.0

John Tyler

Desi Arnaz

Ted Bundy

Lionel Barrymore

Lou Gehrig

Oliver Cromwell

Evel Knievel

Pancho Villa

Babe Ruth

Walter Cronkite

Davy Crockett

Ernest Hemingway  

Douglas MacArthur

Elvis Presley

Herbert Hoover

Gerald Ford

Warren G Harding  

John F Kennedy

George W Bush

William H Taft

James Monroe      

James Garfield

Andrew Jackson          6.1

Ronald Reagan

Arthur Miller

Jim Thorpe

Ty Cobb

Clark Gable

Rex Harrison

Barack Obama

Orson Welles

George S Patton

Thomas Jefferson        6.2

Chester A Arthur

Red Skelton

Cary Grant

Julia Child

Errol Flynn

Nikola Tesla

Henry Fonda

Lon Chaney, Jr.

Alvin York

Franklin D Roosevelt

George HW Bush

Ted Kennedy

Henry VIII

Bill Clinton

George Washington   

Oscar Wilde             6.3

Peter O’Toole

Jimmy Stewart

Pat Garrett

Gregory Peck

Gary Cooper

Stonewall Jackson

Abraham Lincoln         6.4

Lyndon B Johnson

Idi Amin

Malcolm X

Charles de Gaulle

Charlemagne

John Wayne

Howard Hughes

Richard the Lionheart

Grigory Rasputin

Rock Hudson

Osama bin Laden         6.5

Otto von Bismarck

Ethan Allen             6.6

Thomas Wolfe

William Wallace         6.7

Peter the Great         6.8

Tuskaloosa              6.10

Yours, for taller or for shorter,
Callie R

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