# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jakob-nacken
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:26:19.903Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jakob-nacken"
name: "Jakob Nacken"
slug: "jakob-nacken"
description: "Jakob Hudson Nacken or Jacob Nacken was a German circus performer active in Europe and the United States. He began his career as an exceptionally tall person while a teenager, performing in a traveling circus, and appeared in the 1939 New York World's Fair. Nacken was the tallest soldier in the German Army during World War II at a height of seven feet three inches (2.21 m). He was employed as a giant Santa Claus and appeared on American television as a figure of high stature and in freak shows as the World's Tallest Man."
tagline: "German circus actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nacken_post_card_1935.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1906-02-15"
deathDate: "1987-03-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.8
  momentum:             10
  historical:           8.393926666666665
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Nacken"
    title: "Jakob Nacken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Nacken"
    title: "Jakob Nacken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Nacken"
    title: "Jakob Nacken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Nacken"
    title: "Jakob Nacken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Nacken"
    title: "Jakob Nacken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Nacken"
    title: "Jakob Nacken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B1"
    title: "Накен, Якоб"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Nacken"
    title: "Jacob Nacken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B1_%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Якоб Накен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q87575484"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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