# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vaino-myllyrinne
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:29:32.040Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vaino-myllyrinne"
name: "Väinö Myllyrinne"
slug: "vaino-myllyrinne"
description: "Väinö Myllyrinne was a Finnish acromegalic giant who was at one time (1940–1963) the world's tallest living person, and may have become the tallest after the death of Robert Wadlow. He stood 224 cm and weighed 141 kg at the age of 21, but experienced a second phase of growth in his late thirties, attaining a height of 248 cm."
tagline: "Finnish giant (1909–1963)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/V%C3%A4in%C3%B6_Myllyrinne_k%C3%A4ttelem%C3%A4ss%C3%A4.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1909-02-27"
deathDate: "1963-04-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.75
  momentum:             0.8054745344402066
  historical:           9.573376
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5342400/"
    handle:    "nm5342400"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%B6_Myllyrinne"
    title: "Väinö Myllyrinne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%B6_Myllyrinne"
    title: "Väinö Myllyrinne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%B6_Myllyrinne"
    title: "Väinö Myllyrinne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%B6_Myllyrinne"
    title: "Väinö Myllyrinne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%B6_Myllyrinne"
    title: "Väinö Myllyrinne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%B6_Myllyrinne"
    title: "Väinö Myllyrinne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%B6_Myllyrinne"
    title: "Väinö Myllyrinne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%B6_Myllyrinne"
    title: "Väinö Myllyrinne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%82%A4%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9F%E3%83%AA%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%83%8C"
    title: "バイノ・ミリリンヌ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%8E%D0%BB%D0%BB%D1%8E%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%2C_%D0%92%D1%8F%D0%B9%D0%BD%D1%91"
    title: "Мюллюринне, Вяйнё"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%B6_Myllyrinne"
    title: "Väinö Myllyrinne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2702775"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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