Having spent much of the last decade touring around the world as The Tallest Man on Earth, Matsson has captivated audiences ... and 2015’s Dark Bird Is A Home, his “most personal record… surreal and ...

Bell was a deputy at the Norfolk Sheriff’s Office and stood 7 feet, 8 inches in height, the Guinness World Records’ tallest man in America at that time. (The Virginian-Pilot file photo ...

Called a “gentle giant,” Bell, who was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, stood at an astounding 7 feet, 8 inches, and was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2007 as the tallest man ...

Born in Portsmouth, Va. in 1957, Bell was first awarded the tallest-man title by Guinness World Records in 2007 before he was dethroned by Igor Vovkovinskiy, who was a fraction of an inch taller.

By 2007, he finally earned official recognition as America’s tallest man on “Good Morning America,” where he told the Associated Press, “I’ve been dealing with a small man’s world ...