Adam Rainer, the only man in recorded history to have been both a dwarf and a giant. At 19, he was just 4’8” . Because of a pituitary tumor, by age 33 he reached a height of 7’2” , and upon his death at 51 he grew to be 7’8”
Rainer was born in Austria in 1899 and by the time he was 19 years old, he was 4 ft 8 in tall. He tried to enlist in the military to fight in World War 1, but was told that he was too short.









