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Afshin Esmaeil Ghaderzadeh

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Afshin Esmaeil Ghaderzadeh
Born (2002-07-13) 13 July 2002 (age 22)
NationalityKurdish
Known forShortest living adult
Height65.24 cm (2 ft 1+12 in)
FatherEsmaeil Ghaderzadeh

Afshin Ghaderzadeh (Persian: افشین قادرزاده; born 13 July 2002) is a Kurdish Internet personality who is the shortest living man in the world. He was recognized by the Guinness World Records in December 2022.[1][2] He has dimensions of measuring 65.24 centimetres (25.69 in), which is 7 centimetres (2.8 in) less than the previous person.[3][4]

Ghaderzadeh also holds the Guinness World Record for the smallest hands on a living person.[5]

Biography

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Ghaderzadeh was born on 13 July 2002 to a Kurdish family in Bukan, Iran.[6] He stopped studying because of his physical condition, but with the support provided by Iranian National Records Registration Committee,[7] he was able to record the national record of the smallest living man in Iran and then the world record of the smallest living man in the world.[8][9]

In 2023, it was announced he would play the lead in an Iraqi Kurdish film called iPhone 14.[10]

References

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  1. ^ "20-year-old Iranian confirmed as world's shortest man". Guinness World Records. 14 December 2022. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  2. ^ Diaz, One Carlo (15 December 2022). "Meet the world's shortest man, Iran's Afshin Ghaderzadeh, at 65cm". The National. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  3. ^ "Meet Afshin Esmaeil Ghaderzadeh, 20-year-old from Iran crowned world's shortest man". DNA India. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  4. ^ "Meet Afshin Ghaderzadeh, the World's Shortest Man Alive, Who is 2 Feet 1 Inch Tall". News18. 16 December 2022. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  5. ^ "Man With The Smallest Hands". Guinness World Records. 21 April 2023. Retrieved 26 May 2023 – via YouTube.
  6. ^ https://www.rudaw.net/english/world/151220222-amp
  7. ^ "کوتاه قدترین مرد دنیا: رویایم کمک به پدر و مادرم است". News Agency of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  8. ^ "رویای کوتاه قدترین مرد جهان، متولد روستایی دورافتاده در ایران". euronews (in Persian). 25 December 2022. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  9. ^ "این مرد ایرانی با قد کوتاهش جهانی شد / افشین قادرزاده کیست؟+ فیلم و عکس". رکنا (in Persian). Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  10. ^ "World's shortest man Afshin Ghaderzadeh visits Iraqi Kurdistan". 16 August 2023.
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