Actor
Neil Fingleton
Neil Fingleton
- Date of birth
- Date of death
- Age at death
- 37
- Place of birth
- Durham, England, UK
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Occupations
- basketball player, actor, film actor
- Languages
- English
Biography
Neil Fingleton (18 December 1980 – 25 February 2017) was an English actor and basketball player. Neil became the tallest British-born man in present-day and the tallest man in the European Union at 7 ft 7.56 in (232.6 cm) in height and among the 25 tallest men in the world.
This title has been confirmed by the Guinness World Records in the summer of 2007; Fingleton took over from Christopher Greener who stood at 7 ft 6 ¼ in (229.2 cm) in height.
Education
- Holy Name Central Catholic High School
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- College of the Holy Cross Bachelor of Arts
Education and awards: Wikidata information may be incomplete. Wikidata · Updated: 2026-10-28
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