Mills Darden is alleged to have been one of the largest men in history. He was widely reported to have stood approximately 7 in 6 in (2.29 m) tall and is said to have weighed around 1000 to 1100 lb (453.6 to 499 kg) at his heaviest. If the reported figures are correct, Darden was 30 percent taller and about six times as heavy as the average American male of today.

Mills (or Miles) Darden was born on October 7, 1799, near Rich Square

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, North Carolina

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, United States

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, to John and Mary Darden. He was married at least once and had several children. His wife Mary, who died in 1837 aged about 40, was 4 in 11 in (1.5 m) tall and weighed 98 pounds (44.5 kg), and the tallest of their sons reached 5 in 11 in (1.8 m) (tall for an era when the average adult American male only stood about 5 in 6 in (1.68 m)).

He died on January 23, 1857. He was buried in Lexington, Tennessee

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. His grave, and his wife's, have been restored by the local Development Authority.
No known photo remains of him.

Statistics

• Height
  Height
  Height is the measurement of vertical distance, but has two meanings in common use. It can either indicate how "tall" something is, or how "high up" it is. For example "The height of the building is 50 m" or "The height of the airplane is 10,000 m"...
  
   7 feet 6 inches (2.3 m)
• Mass
  Mass
  Mass can be defined as a quantitive measure of the resistance an object has to change in its velocity.In physics, mass commonly refers to any of the following three properties of matter, which have been shown experimentally to be equivalent:...
  
   (Weight
  Weight
  In science and engineering, the weight of an object is the force on the object due to gravity. Its magnitude , often denoted by an italic letter W, is the product of the mass m of the object and the magnitude of the local gravitational acceleration g; thus:...
  
  ): 1,020 lb (463 kg)
• BMI
  Body mass index
  The body mass index , or Quetelet index, is a heuristic proxy for human body fat based on an individual's weight and height. BMI does not actually measure the percentage of body fat. It was invented between 1830 and 1850 by the Belgian polymath Adolphe Quetelet during the course of developing...
  
  : 88.6

External links

• The Tallest Man: Mills Darden