Hello how may I help you? Hello I need some help with World Records can you assist me? Sure, which record? I would like to know who the world's tallest man is Living or ever? Let's go with the living Ok, it's currently Francois Batezu in Nantes, France. Okay cool how about ever now It's rumored to be a king in Nigeria at the age of 132. Okay so I'm talking about the tallest man not the oldest Whoops, the tallest was Shogun Shizuru in the 1600s.