sono Italiano says on 18/Jul/10
met him i told i'm extremely tall but my brother is 5'8'' and axl is about 5'9.5'' - 5'10'' when people don't care about thier height they tent to approximate

SecureMan says on 15/Jul/10
Met him. Easy 5'9. Maybe 5'9.5.

lol says on 27/Jun/10
This guy is 5'9. I see more insecure people claiming he's shorter than what he really is. You guys are ridiculous.

Anonymous says on 10/May/10
i dont care even f he s only 3feet,he s still my idol.....height doesnt matter to me,he got amazing talent,axl pls...come home in philippines

Shawn says on 4/Feb/10
Saw him last week in concert, ten feet away from him. 5'7". I could easily tell from his body proportions. Remember him with Glenn? He's 5'7".

Maximilian says on 22/Jan/10
I saw him in Milan in 2006..I'm 6 feet and i'm sure that when i met him,he didn't have high boots so i simply could compare us..He's without any doubs 5 ft 9 (175 cm)

Spence says on 1/Jan/10
He looks around 5'9

AXL FAN says on 8/Nov/09
It doesn't really matter that he's 5 ft 8.5...his genious is higher than anyone else's. :) and above all he is soooo good looking...and also the most attractive rocker ever. ;) Thank God that Axl exists and that he created GNR and that he still keeps on rockin' with the new GNR..

GNR Fan says on 7/Sep/09
One thing to keep in mind is that in a lot of pics the Ax Man is wearing cowboy boots. That'll add at least 1.5 to 2.5 inches to his height. And the cops don't make you take off your boots or shoes in mugshots (they make you do that before they throw you in the cell).

jf says on 14/Jun/09
5'8.5" sounds perfect for him these days. His peak may have been 5'9". He's got the stage presence of a legit 6-footer though.

He's a lot cooler than most 174centimeterites.

zedrein says on 8/May/09
Yeah, Robbie. If you go check out government stats on average height for males in the Unites States, average tends to be just a little bit over 5' 10. So Axl is just a little bit under the national average, I wouldn't call him "short"

Doug says on 3/May/09
Robbie thats because a lot of people who comment on this site see the world as if 6'5" is the norm. They comment from the view that they are all 6'5" and even 5'11-6'0 is "short". Claiming Axel Rose who in my view is indeed around 5'9" as "very short" just goes to show the warped view people have of the world. He is an average height guy. If he was 5'4" then we call him "very short" or "dwarf".

Source says on 2/May/09
Looks like a solid 5'9.

John Riley says on 26/Mar/09
I've seen Axl (aka William Bailey) on two seperate occasions. The second time he seemed shorter.

Robbie says on 21/Mar/09
It's strange, a lot of people who claim they saw him in la back in 2001 said "he was very short, about 5'8.75-5'9" I don't quite understand why people would say 5'9 is very short but maybe they expected him to be 6'2 or somthing.

Anyway the man is a genious, even if he doesn't hit all the standards (height included) but thats what hes all about right? Not living up to anyones opinion of him.