Super tall Sun Mingming 7 ft 8.75 in (236 cm)

Sun Ming Ming is a Chinese basketball player. He wears size 19 shoes, weighs at least 335 pounds (152 kg) (some sources say as much as 370 pounds (168 kg) [1]), and stands at 7 foot 8 and 3/4 inches (236 cm) - making him one of the tallest living persons on the planet. He is from Harbin, China, in the Heilongjiang province, now 22, has played for the Junior Olympic team (U-18) and Daqing club, and came to the United States in early 2005 to train for a possible NBA career.