# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jon-brower-minnoch
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:26:40.432Z

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name: "Jon Brower Minnoch"
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description: "Jon Brower Minnoch holds the medical record for the heaviest human weight ever documented—approximately 1,400 pounds at his peak in 1978, most of it from massive edema that required a dozen firefighters to move him."
tagline: "Heaviest ever recorded human (1941-1983)"
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birthDate: "1941-09-29"
deathDate: "1983-09-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in September 1941, Minnoch had been obese since childhood and spent his adult years running a taxi company on Bainbridge Island, Washington, typically weighing between 800 and 900 pounds. In March 1978, after three bedridden weeks on a doctor-ordered 600-calorie diet failed, firefighters transported him to the University of Washington Medical Center, where physicians diagnosed severe edema and estimated his weight at roughly 1,400 pounds. Over two years on a 1,200-calorie hospital regimen, he lost more than 900 pounds—the largest documented human weight loss at that time. He regained much of it after discharge and died in September 1983 at nearly 800 pounds. His casket occupied two burial plots.