The following is a list of short people who succeeded.

• Alexander Pope, English poet 4'6"
• Olga Korbut, Soviet gymnast 4'11"
• Dolly Parton, U.S. Singer 5'
• Victoria, British queen 5'
• John Keats, English poet 5'3/4"
• Debbie Reynolds, U.S. actress 5'1"
• St. Francis of Assisi, Italian saint 5'1"
• Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut 5'2"
• Margaret Mead, U.S. anthropologist 5'2"
• Nikita Khrushechev, Soviet leader 5'3"
• Micky Rooney, U.S. actor 5'3"
• Voltaire, French writer 5'3"
• James Madison, U.S. president 5'4"
• Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer 5'4"
• Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter 5'4"
• Haile Selassie, Ethiopian emperor 5'4"
• George "Baby Face" Nelson, U.S. gangster 5'4 3/4"
• Hirohito, Japanese emperor 5'5"
• Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping tycoon 5'5"
• Napoleon Bonaparte, French emperor 5'6"
• Joseph Stalin, Soviet political leader 5'6"
• Tutankhamen, Egyptian king 5'6"