George Bell was 7 feet 8 inches tall. He was so tall that strangers were constantly coming up to him to take pictures and ask the same dumbstruck question: “How tall are you?”; that he learned early ...

Igor Vovkovinskiy, the tallest man in the United States, has died in Minnesota. He was 38. His family said the Ukrainian-born Vovkovinskiy died of heart disease on Friday at the Mayo Clinic in ...

and was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2007 as the tallest man in America. He later lost that title to Igor Vovkovinskiy, who was a fraction of an inch taller, and then regained ...

He was 67 years old. Bell was born in 1957 in Portsmouth and was declared the tallest man in America in 2007, but was dethroned by Igor Vovkovinskiy, who edged Bell out by less than half an inch.