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List of heaviest people

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ2405159 ↗
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This is a list of the heaviest people who have been weighed and verified, living and dead. The list is organised by the peak weight reached by an individual and is limited to those who reached 440 kg (970 lb; 69 st 4 lb).

Heaviest people ever recorded

Living

Deceased

See also

Edward Bright (1721–1750) and Daniel Lambert (1770–1809), men from England who were famous in their time for their obesity.

Happy Humphrey, the heaviest professional wrestler, weighing in at 410 kg (900 lb; 64 st 8 lb) at his peak.

Israel Kamakawiwoʻole (1959–1997), Hawaiian singer whose weight peaked at 343 kg (756 lb; 54 st 0 lb).

Paul Kimelman (born 1947), holder of Guinness World Record for the greatest weight-loss in the shortest amount of time (1982).

Billy and Benny McCrary, holders of Guinness World Records's World's Heaviest Twins.

Dzhambulat Khatokhov (1999–2020), declared the heaviest child in the world in 2003 by Guinness World Records

Alayna Morgan (1948–2009), heavy woman from Santa Rosa, California.

Ricky Naputi (1973–2012), heaviest man from Guam.

Carl Thompson (1982–2015), heaviest man in the United Kingdom whose weight at death was 413 kg (911 lb; 65 st 1 lb).

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