Our 11 Favorite Giants Of All Time

Best Giants of All Time: Cruz

5. ELISANY DA CRUZE SILVA
Elisany is just your average 17-year-old Brazilian girl, cruising to the mall, listening to Taylor Swift, having epic gun battles with drug dealers and human traffickers in the favelas of Rio. (We’re just assuming that’s what the lives of 17-year-old Brazilian girls are like.) However, Elisany isn’t average, as she is almost seven feet tall. She stands 6’ 8” to be exact, which makes her “Brazil’s Tallest Teen.” Her boyfriend, Francinaldo da Silva Carvalho, is 5’ 4” shrimp, and looks like a purse dog when next to his lady.

Best Giants of All Time: Robert Wadlow

6. ROBERT WADLOW
According to Guinness (the book, not the beer), Robert Wadlow is the tallest man to ever live. At the age of two, he was 4’ 6”. At 10, he was 6’ 6” — as tall as Michael Jordan. And by the time he died at age 22, he measured in at an ear-popping 8’ 11”. Think about that. It’s not that he simply could have easily dunked a basketball. He would have had to contend with the net constantly slapping him in the face. 

Best Giants of All Time: Paul Bunyan

7. PAUL BUNYAN
This legendary woodsman’s origin is foggy. Some tales portray him as an above-average 6’ 4” lumberjack, while others (the more awesome ones) claim he was 8 feet tall, 300 lbs, and rolled with a two-ton Babe — a blue ox, that is. Bunyan’s legend began in 1837, the result of a French Canadian story told during the Papineau Rebellion. Whatever his birthplace in history, we can’t deny that Paul Bunyan inspired this scene from Step Brothers, which is why we couldn’t leave this lumberjack off (heh heh) our list of giants.