- Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney MBE, known as Paul McCartney, (born 18 June 1942) is an Academy Award- and Grammy Award-winning English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. McCartney and John Lennon formed one of the most influential and successful songwriting partnerships and "wrote some of the most popular music in rock and roll history." On leaving The Beatles, … - Bao Xishun
Bao Xishun (also known as Xi Shun or "The Mast") (born 1951) is a herdsman from Inner Mongolia and, since January 15, 2005, has been recognized by "Guinness World Records" as the world's tallest living man. Bao Xishun was born in 1951 in Inner Mongolia, China; he was known as the Worlds Tallest Man, he measured at 2.361 metres which estimated 7 ft 8.95 inches tall. - Tupac Shakur
Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16 1971 - September 13 1996), also known by his stage names: 2Pac, Makaveli, or simply Pac, was an American artist renowned for his rap music, movie roles, poetry, and his social activism. He is recognized in the "Guinness Book of World Records" as the best selling hip-hop artist, with over seventy-five million albums sold worldwide including over fifty million in the United States alone. - Christopher Lee
Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE (born May 27, 1922) is an English actor known for his professional longevity and his distinctive "basso" delivery. Lee is also best known for his portrayals of villains; he became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films. Other notable roles include Lord Summerisle in "The Wicker Man," Francisco Scaramanga in "The Man with the Golden Gun", … - Agatha Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE, and many have been adapted for television and radio and video games. - Norio Minorikawa
Norio Minorikawa (b. August 22, 1944), also known as Mino Monta (みのもんた), is a Japanese television presenter. On November 28, 2006, he set the Guinness World Record for the television host who had appeared live for the most time (21 hours, 42 minutes) during a week. Mino Monta is from Setagaya in Tokyo. He graduated from Rikkyo High School and Rikkyo University. After a short stint in the conservative newspaper "Sankei Shimbun", … - No Clue
The Guinness Book record holder for Fastest Rap MC is the Seattle-based No Clue (Ricky Brown), breaking the record previously held by Chicago rapper Rebel XD (held for seven years) who broke another Chicago native mainstream rapper Twista's record back in 1993. No Clue broke the record by rapping 723 syllables in 51.27 seconds on his track “No Clue” on January 15 2005, in front of a licensed speech therapist. His full album, and video will be released in summer of 2007. - Leonid Stadnyk
Leonid Stadnyk (born 1971 in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a controversial claimant to the status of the world's tallest living man. He is a certified veterinarian and veterinary surgeon and lives with his mother in the village of Podolyantsi, Ukraine. He claims to be tall, weighs about (April, 2004) but has stopped growing, because the tumor in his pituitary gland which caused him to grow so large has disappeared. - Elizabeth Bolden
Elizabeth "Lizzie" Jones Bolden (August 15, 1890 - December 11, 2006) was an African American woman who, at the time of her death at age 116 years and 118 days, was recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living person. She was the last remaining documented person born in 1890. - Suresh Joachim
Arulanantham Suresh Joachim is a Canadian of Sri Lankan Tamil ancestry who has broken 33 world records, in an attempt to benefit the underprivileged children of the world. - Madonna
Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie (born August 16 1958), better known as Madonna, is an American dance-pop singer-songwriter, record and film producer, dancer, actress, author and fashion icon. She is noted for her ambitious music videos and stage performances as well as using political, sexual, and religious themes in her work. In 2000, The Guinness World Records listed Madonna as the most successful female recording artist of all time, … - L. Ron Hubbard
L. Ron Hubbard Scientology's esteemed founder. Slate Magazine/July 15, 2005 - Maxi Mounds
Maxi Mounds is an American nude model, stripper and pornographic actress from Long Island, New York. Mounds is known for her extremely large breast implants. Mounds' implants are polypropylene string breast implants, which irritate the breast tissue, causing them to grow continuously as they fill with fluid. Mounds' breasts each weigh twenty pounds. Mounds is comparatively tall for a pornographic entertainer, standing at over 6 feet (1.82 meter) in height. - Gisele Bündchen
Gisele Caroline Nonnenmacher Bündchen is a Brazilian supermodel who is constantly acclaimed as the most famous and the highest-paid model in the world. Since her introduction onto the fashion scene in the '90s she has appeared in countless billboards and magazine covers, as well as numerous TV and print ads. Bundchen is currently the face of more than 20 brands from different countries such as United States, Russia, Brazil, Italy, France, Mexico, Spain, Turkey, … - He Pingping
He Pingping (born July 1988) is a Chinese man who is under consideration to be recognized as the world's shortest man. He is currently applying to the Guinness World Records. The 19-year old measures 73 cm (2 ft 4 in) high, and is the third child to a family in Huade county, in the city of Wulanchabu in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. He has two sisters, both of which developed at normal rates and are now married. - John Evans
John Evans (August 19, 1877 - June 10, 1990) is the longest-lived man ever authenticated in the United Kingdom. He had been a Welsh miner, and became the oldest man in the United Kingdom ever when he broke the record of England's John Mosely Turner. At the grand old age of 108, Evans was fitted with a pacemaker. When asked by interviewers for the secret of his long life, he replied, "No smoking, no drinking and no cursing". - Robert Wadlow
Robert Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918 - July 15, 1940), according to the "Guinness World Records", is the tallest person in medical history for whom there is irrefutable evidence. He is often known as the "Alton Giant". Wadlow reached an unprecedented 8 feet 11.1 inches (2.72 m) in height and weighed 440 pounds (199 kg) at his death. His great size and his continued growth in adulthood were due to a tumor within his pituitary gland. - Martin Strel
Martin Strel (born October 1 1954 is a Slovenian ultra marathon swimmer, best known for swimming the entire length of various rivers, including the Mississippi and the Amazon. He was born in Mokronog, Slovenia. Strel holds successive Guinness World Records for swimming the Danube, the Mississippi, and the Yangtze. During his swims, he sleeps for 5 hours each day. He prepares himself for a marathon swim over a year and a half. - Lee Redmond
Lee Redmond holds the record in the Guinness World Records for longest fingernails on both hands. She lives in Salt Lake City, USA and is considered by many to be the Queen of long nails. The Enquirer features her every few years and keeps track of the progress of her nails. She started growing her nails in 1979 and although she had originally planned to have them cut off on November 22, 2006 (as she said on her guest appearances on a couple of talk shows), … - Elaine Davidson
Since having her first body piercing in January 1997, Brazilian born Elaine Davidson has had 2,500 piercings over and inside her body, as of 13 October 2004. She is the "Most Pierced Woman" according to the Guinness World Records. During her last examination, she was found to have 192 piercings on her facial area alone, including her ears, forehead, eyebrows, chin, nose and tongue. Davidson has 5000 piercings altogether, including 8 on her tongue. - Robert Garside
Robert Garside (born 6 January 1967), also known as "The Runningman", is a British adventurer credited by Guinness World Records as the first man to run around the world. Guinness World Records presented Garside with a certificate endorsing his run on 27 March 2007 in Piccadilly Circus, in London, United Kingdom. Garside was born in Stockport, and studied at Canterbury Technical College and Royal Holloway University. At 28 he decided to break a world record, … - Georgia Brown
Georgia Brown is a Brazilian pop singer notable for her extensive vocal range. She is the current "Guinness World Records" holder for singing the highest recorded vocal note and also possessing the largest recorded vocal range, which spans exactly 8 octaves from G2-G10. G10 is out of the human hearing range; thus, it has been verified by comparing the frequency of the note to that of a piano, a violin, and a hammond organ, … - Kate Ritchie
Kate Ritchie (born August 14, 1978 in Goulburn, New South Wales) is a Gold Logie Award winning Australian actress who is best known for her portrayal of Sally Fletcher on the television soap opera "Home and Away". She has played the character since the series began in 1988 and, along with fellow original cast member Ray Meagher, holds the Guinness Record for the longest continuous role in an Australian drama series. In addition to 19 years on "Home and Away", … - Charles Osborne
Charles Osborne hiccupped continuously for 68 years (1922-1990). Osborne, from Anthon, Iowa, USA, was entered in "Guinness World Records" as the man with the "Longest Attack of Hiccups". The hiccups started in 1922 at a rate of 40 times per minute, slowing to 20 and eventually stopping on June 5, 1990, a total of 68 years. His condition also led him to be a guest on Ripley's Believe It or Not! in 1936, ABC's That's Incredible! in 1980, … - Petula Clark
Petula Clark, CBE (born November 15 1932), is an English singer, actress and composer best known for her upbeat popular international hits of the 1960s. With more than 70 million records sold worldwide, she is the most successful British female solo recording artist to date, and is cited as such in the Guinness Book of World Records. She also holds the distinction of having the longest span on the international pop charts of any artist - 51 years - from 1954, … - Hryhoriy Nestor
Hryhoriy Nestor (also "Grigory Nestor, Grigori Nestor") claims to be the oldest man in Ukraine. As of March 16, 2007, he would be 116 years old, if his age were verified--an age that has never been scientifically proven to be reached by a male. Nestor allegedly was born on March 15, 1891 in Western Ukraine, and currently resides in Stariy Yarychiv in the Kamianka-Buzka region of Lviv Oblast. He has never married, and claims that this is the secret to his longevity. - Yao Defen
Yao Defen of China, (born 15 July 1972), claims to be the tallest female in the world. She states that her height is 2.36 meters (7 ft 8 in) tall and that she weighs 200 kg, though this has yet to be confirmed by Guinness World Records. Her gigantism is the result of a tumor that is located within her pituitary gland. She is currently under observation in Shanghai and is expected to undergo surgery to remove the tumor in 2007. At age 11, she had already grown to 188 cm, … - Maria Olivia da Silva
Maria Olivia da Silva (claimed to have been born February 28, 1880) is a Brazilian woman who is the world's oldest living person, 2007, according to RankBrasil. If her age claim of 127 years old were true, this would make her the oldest person ever recorded and the oldest living person in the world. So far, no one has applied to "Guinness World Records". Moreover, so far RankBrasil has only been able to produce documents dating from the 1970s or later. - Akira Haraguchi
Akira Haraguchi, a retired Japanese engineer, currently working as a mental health counsellor and business consultant in Mobara City, is known for memorizing and reciting digits of Pi. He set the current world record (100,000 digits) in a straight 16 hours, starting at 9 a.m (16:28 GMT) on October 3, 2006 having recited by night time 83,431 digits, stopping with digit number 100,000 at 1:28 a.m. on October 4, 2006. The event was filmed in a public hall in Kisarazu, … - Weng Weng
Weng Weng (September 7, 1957 — August 29, 1992 was a Filipino actor and martial artist. He was born in Baclaran, in what is now Parañaque City. Only 2 foot, 9 inches (83 cm) tall, he is listed in the Guinness World Records as the shortest adult actor in a leading role. He played Secret Agent 00 in "For Your Height Only" and "The Impossible Kid". He had an active film career in the 1970s and the 1980s, … - Faye Wong
Faye Wong (born August 8, 1969 in Beijing) is a Chinese singer, songwriter, actress and model. She is an icon popular in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and to some extent in the West. One of the most distinguished female vocalists in recent Chinese music history, her following has grown so large and devoted that media in Hong Kong, Taiwan, … - Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo (September 18, 1905 - April 15, 1990) was a Swedish-born actress during Hollywood's silent film period and part of its Golden Age. Regarded as one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie stars ever produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the Hollywood studio system, Garbo received a 1955 Honorary Oscar "for her unforgettable screen performances" and was ranked as the fifth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute. - Cher
Cheryl Sarkisian LaPierre (better known as Cher) (born on May 20, 1946) is an American actress, singer, songwriter, author and entertainer. Among her many accomplishments in music, television, and film, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award and three Golden Globe Awards. Cher first rose to prominence in 1965 as one half of the pop/rock duo Sonny & Cher. She also established herself as a solo recording artist, releasing 25 albums, … - Richard Evans
Richard Evans is an artificial intelligence (AI) researcher working in computer games. He designed and implemented the AI for "Black & White", for which he received a number of awards, including the Game Developer Choice Award for Programming Excellence. For this game he combined a number of different AI techniques from apparently competing AI paradigms, including perceptron training, and decision tree learning. - Cindy Jackson
Cindy Jackson (b. 1955 in Ohio) is listed in the Guinness World record book for having had more cosmetic surgery than anyone in the world. She reportedly has spent nearly $100,000 (USD) on cosmetic surgery since 1988, although her autobiography and web site reveal this is a grossly exaggerated figure. Cindy says, "There are a whole lot of women in Hollywood who have had much more surgery than me. - Dave McAleer
Dave McAleer has been the Chief Consultant/Contributor of the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums since 1999 and the sole Music Consultant for the Guinness World Records book since 1998. Prior to that he spent 25 years in the record business – working in A&R for labels including RCA, Pye Records and DJM and was responsible for many chart entries. - Sarah Knauss
Sarah DeRemer Clark Knauss was considered the "world's oldest person" by Guinness World Records from April 16, 1998 until her death at age 119. Aged 117, Sarah set the record for the oldest "new" titleholder (which corresponds to the highest "valley" on a graph of the oldest living persons over time). She died a mere 33 hours before the year 2000, the last verified living person born before 1885. Sarah DeRemer Clark was born in a small United States coal mining town, … - Joe Thomas
Joe Thomas (May 1 1875 - December 14 1986) was the oldest recognized living man from February until December 1986. He lived in Louisiana. Following his death, Herman Smith-Johannsen became the world's oldest living man. (Note: this is a retroactive reconstruction of history. In reality, the Joe Thomas case was not verified until July 2002 by the SSA study, and Guinness did not begin the "oldest living man" category until 2000). - Louis Epstein
Louis Epstein (born February 8, 1961) is known for compiling lists of the world's oldest people. Guinness World Records, which originated the lists of the world's oldest people, ceased publication of such lists after the 1992 edition. Epstein, filling a void, began keeping lists privately. These were originally posted on such entities as Longevity Report 70 in 1995, and soon thereafter at www.recordholders.org. - Thomas Peters
Thomas Peters (April 6, 1745 - March 26, 1857) was a supercentenarian from the Netherlands. He is the earliest recorded supercentenarian accepted by the Guinness Book of World Records. Originally in a footnote, the Peters case was later promoted although subsequent questions were raised about documentation. Indeed, it appears that if the documentation ever existed, it has been lost. Thus, on paper Thomas Peters lived to 111 years 354 days, …
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