# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-sizonenko
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:13:00.871Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-sizonenko"
name: "Alexander Sizonenko"
slug: "alexander-sizonenko"
description: "Alexander Alekseyevich Sizonenko was a Soviet professional basketball player. Possibly the tallest person to have ever played professional basketball, he was measured by Guinness World Records at 2.39 m and named the world's tallest man in 1991. Sizonenko was said to have grown since this measurement was taken, although age reduced his standing height considerably. Because of his enormous growth, his mobility was increasingly impaired."
tagline: "Soviet basketball player (1959–2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alexander_Sizonenko.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1959-03-21"
deathDate: "2012-01-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.35
  momentum:             3.295638126009693
  historical:           11.42772533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 246
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0803487/"
    handle:    "nm0803487"
sources:
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Sizonenko"
    title: "Aleksandr Sizonenko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%83%D9%88"
    title: "اليكساندر سيزونينكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Alexejewitsch_Sisonenko"
    title: "Alexander Alexejewitsch Sisonenko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Sizonenko"
    title: "Alexander Sizonenko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Sizonenko"
    title: "Aleksandr Sizonenko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%B2%D9%86%D9%86%DA%A9%D9%88"
    title: "الکساندر سیزننکو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Sizonenko"
    title: "Aleksandr Sizonenko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Aleksejevi%C4%8D_Sizonenko"
    title: "Aleksandr Aleksejevič Sizonenko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Sizonenko"
    title: "Aleksandr Sizonenko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Sizonenko"
    title: "Aleksandr Sizonenko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Sizonienko"
    title: "Aleksandr Sizonienko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Сизоненко, Александр Алексеевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D1%96%D0%B9%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Сизоненко Олександр Олексійович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2632293"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump