List of people with dwarfism

For the shortest people ever verified in their lifetime or profession, see List of the verified shortest people.

Portrait of Sebastián de Morra, Diego Velázquez

The following is a list of people who are known for their dwarfism and who have been open about it. While these people are not known for being the shortest ever, they have been mentioned in sources describing how the condition has affected their lives. Dwarfism is caused by several different types of medical conditions, and is typically defined as an adultA with a height of 147 cm (4 ft 10 in) or less.[1][2] Records or mentions of people with dwarfism have not always been kept well, resulting in estimated heights that were taken from eyewitnesses. In some given cases the height of the person is unknown except to say that they were mentioned as a "dwarf" in various media. This list does not include every prominent person with dwarfism, as others are already included on other linked Wikipedia lists.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

## Actors and actresses

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See also: Munchkin § Actors and actresses

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India | 76 cm

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| Ajay Kumar | Indian actor and director known for holding the Guinness World Records for being the shortest actor to play a character in a full-length film  | 1976–
United States | 081 81 cm (32 in)[3] | Verne Troyer | American actor and stunt performer best known for playing Mini-Me in the Austin Powers series of comedy films.[3][4] | 1969–2018
Canada | 081 81 cm (32 in)  | Linden Porco | Canadian actor, known for playing a body double for Marlon Wayans' character in Little Man.  | 1996–
Hungary | 084 84 cm (33 in)  | Michu Meszaros |  | 1939–2016
United States | 086 86 cm (34 in)  | Pat Bilon | Known for his performances in Under the Rainbow, and one of two dwarfs hired for the role of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (body suit).[5] | 1947–1983
United States | 089 89 cm (35 in)[6] | Angelo Rossitto | Angelo was an American actor that was billed as "Little Angie" or "Moe".[7] He was one of the actors in a classic horror movie Freaks.  | 1908–1991
United States | 091 91 cm (36 in)[8] | Eric Lynch | American actor, writer and former member of The Howard Stern Show's Wack Pack.[8] | 1975–2014
United States | 096 97 cm (38 in)[9] | Josh Ryan Evans | American actor with achondroplasia, known for his role as Timmy Lenox from the TV series Passions.[9] | 1982–2002
United States | 096 97 cm (38 in)  | Mikey Post |  | 1982–2018
United Kingdom | 106 104 cm (41 in)  | Annabelle Davis | British actress known for her role as Sasha Bellman in The Dumping Ground. She is the daughter of actor and TV presenter Warwick Davis and Samantha Davis.  | 1997–
United States | 107 cm (42 in)[10] | Tony Cox | American actor known for his roles in Bad Santa, Me, Myself and Irene, Date Movie, Epic Movie and Disaster Movie.[11] | 1958–
United States | 106 cm (42 in)[12] | Phil Fondacaro | Fondacaro appeared in Star Wars Return of the Jedi as an Ewok, the only one to have a death scene.  | 1958–
United Kingdom | 107 cm (42 in)[13] | Warwick Davis | British actor with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita. Davis is known for his role as Wicket W. Warrick from the Star Wars series.[14][15] | 1970–
Australia | 114 cm (45 in)[16] | Kiruna Stamell | Australian actress who received her first major role in the movie Moulin Rouge! as "La Petite Princesse".[17] | 1981–
United States | 109 cm (43 in)[18] | Michael J. Anderson | American actor known for his roles as "The Man from Another Place" in the series Twin Peaks.[18][19] | 1953–
United Kingdom | 112 cm (44 in)[20] | Kenny Baker | English actor who originally portrayed R2-D2 in the Star Wars series.[20] | 1934–2016
United Kingdom | 110 cm (43 in)[21] | Jimmy Vee | Scottish actor who has portrayed R2-D2 in Star Wars: Episode VII and beyond.[22] | 1959–
United States | 114 cm (45 in)[23] | Billy Barty | American actor with cartilage–hair hypoplasia, who had multiple roles in film from 1927 until his death.[23][24] | 1924–2000
United States | 114 cm (45 in)[25] | Bridget Powers | American pornographic actress also known as "Bridget the Midget".[26] | 1980–
United States | 115 cm (45 in)  | Mark Povinelli |  | 1971–
United States | 116.8 cm (46.0 in)[27] | Michael Dunn | Oscar-nominated (for Best Supporting Actor in Ship of Fools) American actor with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia, type unspecified.[27] | 1934–1973
United States | 119.3 cm (47.0 in)  | Johnny Roventini |  | 1910–1998
United States | 119 cm (47 in)[28] | Patty Maloney | Maloney is an American actress who portrayed Honk from Far Out Space Nuts.  | 1936–
Italy | 119.3 cm (47.0 in)[29] | Felix Silla | Italian-American actor best known for his portrayal as Cousin Itt (voiced by Tony Magro) from the original 1964 TV series, The Addams Family.[29] | 1937–2021
France | 119.3 cm (47.0 in)[30] | Hervé Villechaize | French-born actor, known for roles in The Man with the Golden Gun and Fantasy Island.[31] | 1943–1993
United Kingdom | 119.3 cm (47.0 in)[32] | David Rappaport | Rappaport was a British actor who is known for his roles in the films Time Bandits and The Bride.[32] | 1951–1990
United States | 121.9 cm (48.0 in)[33] | Michael Gilden | American actor who starred in the TV series NCIS.[34] | 1962–2006
United States | 121.9 cm (48.0 in)[35] | Danny Woodburn | American actor who is noted for the role on the TV comedy series Seinfeld, as Mickey Abbott.[36] | 1964–
United States | 122 cm (48 in)[37] | Shorty Rossi | Star of Pit Boss, and owner of Shortywood Productions.  | 1969–
United States | 122 cm (48 in)[38] | Meredith Eaton | American actress known for portraying the attorney Emily Resnick on the CBS television series Family Law[39] (in which she was the first woman with dwarfism to fill a regular role in an American prime time series), for her recurring role as Bethany Horowitz on the ABC series Boston Legal,[40] and for her lead role as Matilda Webber on the CBS series MacGyver.  | 1974–
United States | 123 cm (48 in)[41] | Jason Acuña | Acuña is an American skateboarder with achondroplasia who is also known as "Wee-Man." He is one of the stars in the TV series Jackass.[42] | 1973–
United States | 124.4 cm (49.0 in)[43] | Martin Klebba | American actor best known for his role as Marty in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.[44] | 1969–
United States | 127 cm (50 in)[45] | Matthew Roloff | Roloff is an American actor, author, and businessman with diastrophic dysplasia. He was featured on the TV show Little People Big World.[45] | 1961–
Mexico | 128.27 cm (50.50 in)  | María Elena Saldaña | Mexican actress and comedienne, best known for her role on several Televisa series as La Güereja.  | 1963-
United States | 129.5 cm (51.0 in)[46] | Zelda Rubinstein | American actress, best known for her role in Poltergeist as the medium Tangina Barrons.[47] | 1933–2010
Malta | 130 cm (51 in)  | Angelo Muscat | Maltese English actor, best known for playing The Butler in The Prisoner.  | 1930–1977
Russia | 130 cm (51 in)  | Vladimir Fyodorov | Soviet and Russian actor, known for playing Chernomor in Ruslan and Ludmila.  | 1939–2021
Mexico | 130 cm (51 in)  | Chuy Bravo |  | 1956–2019
France | 132 cm (52 in)[48] | Mimie Mathy | French actress and comedian who is best known for her role in the Josephine, Guardian Angel television series.  | 1957–
United Kingdom | 132 cm (52 in)[49] | Eric Cullen | Cullen was a Scottish actor with achondroplasia who was known for his role as "Wee Burney" in BBC's Rab C Nesbitt.[49] | 1965–1996
United States | 135 cm (53 in)[50] | Peter Dinklage | Dinklage is an Emmy-winning American actor with achondroplasia. He has starred in The Station Agent, Game of Thrones and X-Men: Days of Future Past.[50] | 1969–
United States | 136 cm (54 in)[51] | Dick Beals | Beals specialized in doing the voices of young boys, although he was also hired to voice young female children.[52] | 1927–2012
Canada | 137 cm (54 in)  | Rick Howland |  | Un­known
United States | 129.54 cm (51.00 in)  | Sofiya Cheyenne | Sofiya is an actress and active disability advocate in the arts. She has SEDc type dwarfism. Best known for her recurring role as Louise in Loudermilk (2018-2020)  | 1991–
United States | 145 cm (57 in)  | Linda Hunt | American actress who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously. She also played Shadout Mapes in David Lynch's adaptation of Dune.  | 1945–
Syria | —  | John George |  | 1898–1968
United States | —  | George Brasno |  | 1911–1982
United States | —  | Olive Brasno |  | 1917–1998
United Kingdom | —  | George Claydon |  | 1933–2001
United Kingdom | —  | Mike Edmonds | British actor in Maid Marian and her Merry Men, Time Bandits, and "The Safety Dance" video.[53] | 1944–
Canada | —  | Guy Big | Canadian actor best known for his role in the children's television series The Hilarious House of Frightenstein as the Midget Count.[54] | 1946–1978
United Kingdom | —  | Malcolm Dixon |  | 1953–2020
Philippines | —  | Romy Pastrana | Pastrana (Dagul as his stage name) is a Filipino dwarf actor who does roles on the children's gag show Goin' Bulilit, he is the only adult actor.[55] | 1958–
Canada | —  | Jordan Prentice | Canadian actor, who appeared in In Bruges. | 1973–
Philippines | —  | Noemi Tesorero | Tesorero (Mahal as her stage name) is a Filipina dwarf actress, comedian and vlogger.[56] | 1974–2021
Nigeria | —  | Chinedu Ikedieze | Ikedieze is best known for playing alongside Osita Iheme in most movies after their breakthrough in Aki na Ukwa.[57] | 1977–
Nigeria | —  | Osita Iheme | Iheme is known for his nickname "PawPaw", which he adopted after the role he played of the same name in the film Aki na Ukwa.[58][59] | 1982–
United Kingdom | —  | Lisa Hammond |  | 1983–
DR Congo | —  | Cécile Bayiha | Bayiha is best known for playing the part of captive Pygmy Likola in the 2005 Franco-British-South African film Man to Man[60] | Un­known
Samoa | —  | Fa'afiaula Sagote | Samoan actor who played the lead role in his country's first ever feature film, The Orator (2011).[61][62] | 1980s–2022
Philippines | —  | Josephine Bibit Berry | Berry (Jo Berry as her stage name) is a Filipina dwarf actress from GMA Network. She was known for her role "Onay" in Onanay, "Princess R. Montivano" in Little Princess, and "Lilet Mercado-Matias" in Lilet Matias: Attorney-at-Law.[63] | 1994–

## Artists and writers

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United States | 106.6 cm (42.0 in)[64]B | Judy-Lynn del Rey | American science fiction editor.[65] | 1943–1986
England | 116.8 cm (46.0 in)[66] | Richard Gibson (painter) | 17th century painter of portrait miniatures.[67] | 1615–1690
France | 142 cm (56 in)[68] | Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | French painter  | 1864–1901
Holy Roman Empire | —  | François de Cuvilliés | Flemish architect noted for Cuvilliés Theatre.[69] | 1695–1768

## Athletes

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See also: List of shortest players in National Basketball Association history and Height in sports

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United States | 115 cm (45 in)[70] | Juli Windsor  | Runner | Windsor was among the first dwarfs to complete the Boston Marathon after first trying in 2013. While she was unable to finish that year due to the bombing, she accomplished her goal in 2014.[71] | 1987–
United Kingdom | 123 cm (48 in)[72] | Ellie Simmonds | Swimmer | Multiple gold medallist and world record holder in Paralympic swimming events.[73] | 1994–
Nigeria | 125 cm (49 in)[74] | Lauritta Onye | Paralympic athlete  | Onya won gold in shot put at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, and 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships.[75] | 1984–
Australia | 129 cm (51 in)[76] | Kate Wilson | Paralympic swimmer  | Wilson represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.[77] | 1998–
United States | 132 cm (52 in)[78] | Rico Abreu | Auto racing | NASCAR driver.[78] | 1992–
Turkey | 132 cm (52 in)[79] | Özlem Kaya | Paralympic swimmer  | Kaya participated in the 2011 European Championships where she won bronze in the 100m Breaststroke.[79] | 1992–
United Kingdom | 140 cm (55 in)[80] | Kyron Duke | Paralympic athlete  | Duke took part in the 2010 Commonwealth Games among other events where he won bronze and silver medals.  | 1992–
Turkey | —  | Çiğdem Dede | Paralympic athlete  | Dede won a silver medal at the 2012 Paralympics in powerlifting.  | 1980–
Australia | —  | Sarah Bowen | Paralympic swimmer  | Bowen has won two gold, and two silver Olympic medals.  | 1984–
Australia | —  | Sarah Rose | Paralympic swimmer  |  | 1986–
United Kingdom | —  | Holly Neill | Paralympic athlete  |  | 1989–
Australia | —  | Claire Keefer | Paralympic athlete  |  | 1995–
Australia | —  | Tiffany T. Kane | Paralympic swimmer  |  | 2001–

## Entertainers

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See also: Midget wrestling and Dwarf-tossing

The names here include circus performers, comedians, reality TV stars, and occupations that do not primarily involve acting in films.

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China | 71 cm (28 in)  | Che-Mah | Circus performer | Born in China, brought to the U.S. with Barnum & Bailey in 1881. Retired in Knox, Indiana.[81] | 1838–1926
United States | 081 81 cm (32 in)[82] | Lavinia Warren | Circus performer  | Warren performed in the circus with her husband Charles Stratton (see below) under P. T. Barnum.[83] | 1841–1919
France | 086 86 cm (34 in)[84] | Nicolas Ferry | Court dwarf | French court dwarf nicknamed "Bébé" of the Polish king Stanisław Leszczyński.[85] | 1741–1764
United States | 091 91 cm (36 in)[86]C | Charles Sherwood Stratton | Circus performer  | Also known as "General Tom Thumb", he gained fame under P. T. Barnum who exaggerated his short height to be 64 cm (25 in).[87] | 1838–1883
United States | 091 91 cm (36 in)[88]D | Thomas Dilward | Stage actor  | Nineteenth-century minstrel show entertainer.[89] | 1840–1902
England | 100 cm (39 in)[90]B | Jeffrey Hudson | Court dwarf  | English court dwarf and jester to Charles I.[91] | 1619–1682
Russia | 102cm

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| Hasbulla | Internet Personality | Russian social media personality.  | 2002 -
Holy Roman Empire | 104 cm (41 in)[92] | Hedsor Conrad Ernest Coppernin  | Court dwarf  | Served as a page to Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha making him the last court dwarf.[93][94] | 18th century
United States | 106 cm (42 inch)  | Evan Eckenrode | Internet Personality | Eckenrode grew to fame on the social media platform Vine before moving his career to work alongside social media star Logan Paul.  | 1997–
United States | 106.6 cm (42.0 in)  | George Washington Morrison Nutt | Circus performer  | Known as "Commodore Nutt".[95] | 1848–1881
United Kingdom | 106.6 cm (42.0 in)  | Billy Merchant | Circus performer  | British circus entertainer.[96] | 1919–2001
United States | 115 cm (45 in)[97] | Pee Wee Marquette | Comedian | Master of ceremonies at the original Birdland jazz club.[98] | 1914–1992
United States | 117 cm (46 in)  | Frankie Saluto | Circus performer  | Saluto performed for over four decades with the Ringling Brothers circus.[99] | 1906–1982
Syria | 122 cm (48 in)[100] | Charla Baklayan Faddoul | Reality TV | American (Syrian born) The Amazing Race contestant (Seasons 5 and 11).[101] | 1976–
United States | 124.4 cm (49.0 in)[102] | Henry Joseph Nasiff Jr. | Radio personality | American entertainer who frequently appeared on The Howard Stern Show.[103] | 1962–2001
United Kingdom | 129.5 cm (51.0 in)[104] | Jimmy Clitheroe | Comedian  | British comedian called "The Clitheroe Kid".[105] | 1921–1973
United States | 129.5 cm (51.0 in)[106] | Lester "Beetlejuice" Green | Comedian  | Entertainer known for his appearances on The Howard Stern Show.[103] | 1968–
United States | 132 cm (52 in)[107] | Brad Williams | Comedian  | American comedian and radio personality.[108] | 1984–
United Kingdom | 145 cm (57 in)[109] | Wee Georgie Wood | Comedian  | Comic actor with a railway named after him, and an Australian rhyming slang term adopted from his name ("wee georgie").[110] | 1894–1979
United States | —  | Marshall P. Wilder | Comedian  | American comedian.[111] | 1859–1915

## Musicians/singers

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Germany | 134 cm (53 in)  | Thomas Quasthoff | Bass-baritone classical singer.  | 1959–
Russia | 130.0 cm (51.2 in)  | Olympia Ivleva  | Russian musician and founding member of Little Big  | 1990–
Brazil | 111 cm (44 in)  | Nelson Ned | Brazilian singer and composer.  | 1947–2014
United States | 112 cm (44 in)  | Bushwick Bill (b. Richard Shaw)  | American rapper, founding member of the Geto Boys.  | 1966–2019
United States | 114.3 cm (45.0 in)  | Joe C. (Joseph Calleja)  | Kid Rock's sidekick.[112] | 1974–2000
United States | N/A  | Chick Webb | Big band drummer.[113] | 1905–1939
France | N/A  | Michel Petrucciani | French jazz pianist.  | 1962–1999

* The Ovitz family were a family of Romanian Jewish actors/traveling musicians who survived imprisonment at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. They were the largest family of dwarfs ever recorded and were the largest family (twelve family members from a 15-month-old baby to a 58-year-old woman) to enter Auschwitz and to survive intact.

## Politicians

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Norway | 142 cm (56 in)  | Sandra Borch | Norwegian politician with achondroplasia.[114] | 1988–
Poland | 99 cm (39 in)  | Józef Boruwłaski | Polish "count".[115][116] | 1739–1837
Australia | 127 cm (50 in)  | Alan Eggleston | Australian politician with achondroplasia.[117] | 1941–

* Chnoum-Hotep, ancient chief of perfumes from the Fifth dynasty of Egypt who is believed to have had achondroplasia.[118]
* Seneb, Egyptian high-ranking court official

## Others

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Netherlands | 61.0 cm (24.0 in)  | Pauline Musters | Dutch woman, recognized by the Guinness World Records as the shortest woman ever recorded  | 1876–1895
England | 114 cm (45 in)[119] | Anne Clowes  | Reported centenarian dwarf (second longest lived next to Susanna Bokoyni) with house designed for her stature.[119][120][121] | 1681–1784
United States | 135.0 cm (53.1 in)  | Paul Steven Miller | Disability rights expert, EEOC Commissioner, professor at the University of Washington School of Law, Special Assistant to the President | 1961–2010
England | 137.0 cm (53.9 in)  | Alexander Pope | Prominent writer, poet, translator and satirist  | 1688-1744
Prussia | N/A  | Charles Proteus Steinmetz | German-American mathematician and electrical engineer, also "hunchbacked."[122] | 1865–1923
Netherlands | N/A  | Alexander Katan | Dutch teacher and victim of Nazi experimentation who eventually became an anatomical display.  | 1899–1943
United Kingdom | N/A  | Tom Shakespeare | Also known as Sir Thomas William Shakespeare, 3rd Baronet. A geneticist with achondroplasia.[123] | 1966–

* Sebastiano Biavati, 17th century curator of museum of curiosities[124]
* Joyce Carpenter (December 21, 1929 – August 7, 1973), suffered from Morquio syndrome. At 74 cm or 29ins the shortest recorded adult in the UK.
* Wybrand Lolkes, Dutch dwarf (visited Britain in 1790)[125]
* Anne Clowes, (died 5 August 1784), English dwarf, from Matlock, Derbys; cited as one of two recorded centenarian dwarfs, she lived to 103 years old and is listed in Guinness World Records[126][127]

* Sam Maslaney - SWAP Banker

## See also

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* List of dwarfism organisations
* Cultural depictions of dwarfism
* List of tallest people
* List of people with gigantism

## Notes

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A.^ Male or Female (full grown)
B.^ Estimated height
C.^ Charles Sherwood Stratton's final height varies in reliable sources, which put it just above or near 3 feet (91cm).[128]
D.^ Thomas Dilward's height was between 23 and 36 inches tall, his highest estimated height is included here.

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