Orlando says on 23/Mar/08
In view of his Swiss military file of 1901 (Click Here) that lists him (surely barefoot) as being 171,5 cm (5ft 7-1/2 in) and his 1936 US declaration of intention (Click Here) where he is listed as being 5 ft 7 in, one can deduce that the 1923 Swiss passport listing of 175 cm is a shodden height measurement. In those days it was not uncommon that male footwear would have like 3 to 3,5 cm heels. I think Einstein’s correct height was indeed 171,5 cm.

Orlando says on 23/Mar/08
Einstein's declaration of intention lists him as being 5 ft 7 in tall... See: Click Here

Kelli says on 20/Mar/08
The guy is dead, do we really care how tall he is now...and if anyone is right or wrong,there isn't really a way to prove it. let's just be happy for all the scientific stuff he did for us!

andre says on 3/Jan/08
I disagree with 175cm. In his "Schweizer Dienstbuechlein" (untranslatable)- a document in the Swiss army- he is written as 171.5cm (in 1901). In 1923 Einstein´s height is written as 175cm in his Swiss passport, but people who really knew him described him as 179cm (in his biography). When you look at the picture with President Warren Harding (183cm) standing beside Einstein you can see clearly that Einstein was over 175cm. He always had a terrible posture of the head.

Chris says on 31/Jul/07
There's no way Einstein was short like people make out. He appears in most pictures to have been of average height. They're just jealous :-). Here's Einstein next to 6'0" President Warren Harding, and Einstein is clearly 5'9"+: Click Here

Purepecha master mind's says on 9/Jun/07
Droopertoo, wrote: other it's clear Einstein's about 5'6'', not 5'9''. (Face it: he lied on his passport. It's not like they measured him there.)

maybe he just dint know his height! maybe he lost some height with age!

i was told in shool by the nurse i was 5'10 1/4 at age 19, i'm now 31 and last night i messured my self and only messured 5'9 1/2 aprox, so it could be i'm growing shorter with age or the nurse dint mesured me correctly so my driver's license say's i'm 5'10 beacause thats what i was told i was, i dint lie! i dint know i was now only half a inch shorter

Drooperdoo says on 11/May/07
I've read that Einstein was about 5'6''--despite his listing himself as 5'9''. That has to be taken with a huge grain of salt. Especially when one sees him standing next to others. This very site lists Charlie Chaplin as 5'4''. And from this picture where the two men stand next to each other it's clear Einstein's about 5'6'', not 5'9''. Click Here (Face it: he lied on his passport. It's not like they measured him there.)

shovon says on 17/Mar/07
albert looks smaller than 5'9"

MarkyMark says on 10/Feb/07
He looks smaller because he wasn't thin. But I believe he was 175 cm, I think he wasn't the kind of guy to pay attention to his height so he had no reasons to lie. I saw 176,5 cm on a website one day.

Glenn says on 13/Nov/06
Me too.I thought he was 5-5 for some reason.

Austrian says on 12/Nov/06
thanks for your comment Drooperdoo, perfect example to show that height conversion doesnt work that way

btw i am surprised Einstein was 175, i would have estimated him shorter than that

Anonymous says on 26/Sep/06
It is possible that if Einstein was taller, he'll be even more intelligent. j/k.

McQ says on 6/Sep/06
The new study is based on the AVERAGE intelligence of smart people versus shorter people. It does not suggest that a short person can't be smarter than a tall person.

Anonymous says on 30/Aug/06
Gee, Did you read the new study that says taller people have more intellect. Well if Einstein was 5.9 than that sure discredits that theory, doesn't it? Maybe someone should inform the researchers....

ForensicNYC says on 15/Apr/06
For a man whose calculations have to be very precise otherwise he would have blown himself into neutrons, the last thing on his mind would be to play around with his height readings as he was filling up that PASSPORT application.

Massimo says on 7/Mar/06
I saw two listings for the great Albert Einstein: 169 cm in a commercial and 176 cm in a web site. But, if his Swiss passport says he was 175 cm, I think it's right.

Rukie says on 1/Feb/06
5.741 feet = about 5 ft 8.898 inches. When the online conversion says 5.741, the numbers comes after the decimal point is still indicated in feet, which needs to be multiplied by 12 to convert to inches. So, I guess it is accurate to say that Einstein was 5'9'', and I gave a credit to whoever wrote down below.

Anonymous says on 8/Jan/06
Drooperdoo: I like when people made fool of themselves just when they are jealous of others heights and wants to downgrade them.
I believe 175 is correct, as a scientist he wouldnt have to lie.

Drooperdoo says on 6/Jan/06
An online metric conversion calculator said this: 175 centimeter = 5.741 feet
So Einstein was 5'7'', not 5'9''. In fact, one source I saw listed him at 5'6''. Reality was probably somewhere in between: 5'6'' and he rounded up to 5'7''. (Average male Jewish height of the time was 5'5''.)

[Editor Rob: its quite common for heights to be mis-calculated. I see it most on european sites where 175cm, as an example, wrongly gets listed 5ft 7 inches. It happens a lot because there isn't 10 inches in a foot but 12. Hence .741 of a foot = 9 inches]