List of people with dwarfism

Actors and actresses

Nationality	Height	Name	Note	Lifespan
USA	081	Verne Troyer	American actor and stunt performer notable for having a form of dwarfism. He is best known for playing Mini-Me in the Austin Powers series of comedy films.	1969–2018
Canada	081	Linden Porco	Canadian actor, known for playing a body double for Marlon Wayans' character in Little Man.	1996–
Hungary	084	Michu Meszaros		1939–2016
USA	086	Pat Bilon	Known for his performances in Under the Rainbow, and one of two dwarfs hired for the role of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.	1947–1983
USA	089	Angelo Rossitto	Angelo was an American actor that was billed as "Little Angie" or "Moe". He was one of the actors in a classic horror movie Freaks.	1908–1991
USA	091	Eric Lynch	American actor, writer and former member of The Howard Stern Shows Wack Pack.	1975–2014
USA	096	Josh Ryan Evans	American actor with achondroplasia, known for his role as Timmy Lenox from the TV series Passions.	1982–2002
USA	096	Mikey Post		1982–2018
USA		Tony Cox	American actor known for his roles in Bad Santa, Me, Myself and Irene, Date Movie, Epic Movie and Disaster Movie.	1958–
USA		Phil Fondacaro	Fondacaro appeared in Star Wars Return of the Jedi as an Ewok, the only one to have a death scene.	1958–
UK		Warwick Davis	British actor with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita. Davis is known for his role as Wicket W. Warrick from the Star Wars series.	1970–
Australia		Kiruna Stamell	Australian actress who received her first major role in the movie Moulin Rouge! as "La Petite Princesse".	1981–
USA		Michael J. Anderson	American actor known for his roles as "The Man from Another Place" in the series Twin Peaks.	1953–
UK		Kenny Baker	English actor who originally portrayed R2-D2 in the Star Wars series.	1934–2016
UK		Jimmy Vee	Scottish actor who has portrayed R2-D2 in ' and beyond.	1959–
USA		Billy Barty	American actor with cartilage–hair hypoplasia, who had multiple roles in film from 1927 until his death.	1924–2000
USA		Bridget Powers	American pornographic actress also known as "Bridget the Midget".	1980–
USA		Mark Povinelli		1971–
USA		Michael Dunn	Oscar-nominated American actor with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia, type unspecified.	1934–1973
USA		Johnny Roventini		1910–1998
USA		Patty Maloney	Maloney is an American actress who portrayed Honk from Far Out Space Nuts.	1936–
Italy		Felix Silla	Italian-American actor best known for his portrayal as Cousin Itt from the original 1964 TV series, The Addams Family.	1937–
France		Hervé Villechaize	French-born actor, known for roles in The Man with the Golden Gun and Fantasy Island.	1943–1993
UK		David Rappaport	Rappaport was a British actor who is known for his roles in the films Time Bandits and The Bride.	1951–1990
USA	121	Meredith Eaton	American actress known for portraying the attorney Emily Resnick on the CBS television series Family Law, for her recurring role as Bethany Horowitz on the ABC series Boston Legal, and for her lead role as Matilda Webber on the CBS series MacGyver.	1999–
USA		Michael Gilden	American actor who starred in the TV series NCIS.	1962–2006
USA		Danny Woodburn	American actor who is noted for the role on the TV comedy series Seinfeld, as Mickey Abbott.	1964–
USA		Shorty Rossi	Star of Pit Boss, and owner of Shortywood Productions.	1969–
USA		Jason Acuña	Acuña is an American skateboarder with achondroplasia who is also known as "Wee-Man". He is one of the stars in the TV series Jackass.	1973–
USA		Martin Klebba	American actor best known for his role as Marty in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.	1969–
USA		Matthew Roloff	Roloff is an American actor, author, and businessman with diastrophic dysplasia. He was featured on the TV show Little People Big World.	1961–
USA		Zelda Rubinstein	American actress, best known for her role in Poltergeist as the medium Tangina Barrons.	1933–2010
USA		Meredith Eaton-Gilden	American actress who is known for portraying "Emily Resnick" on the CBS television series Family Law.	1974–
Malta		Angelo Muscat	Maltese English actor, best known for playing The Butler in The Prisoner.	1930–1977
Russia		Vladimir Fyodorov	Soviet and Russian actor, known for playing Chernomor in Ruslan and Ludmila.	1939–
Mexico		Chuy Bravo		1956–2019
France		Mimie Mathy	French actress and comedian who is best known for her role in the Josephine, Guardian Angel television series.	1957–
UK		Eric Cullen	Cullen was a Scottish actor with achondroplasia who was known for his role as "Wee Burney" in BBC's Rab C Nesbitt.	1965–1996
USA		Peter Dinklage	Dinklage is an Emmy-winning American actor with achondroplasia. He has starred in The Station Agent, Game of Thrones and .	1969–
USA		Dick Beals	Beals specialized in doing the voices of young boys, although he was also hired to voice young female children.	1927–2012
Canada		Rick Howland
USA		Linda Hunt	American actress who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously. She also played Shadout Mapes in David Lynch's adaptation of Dune.	1945–
Syria		John George		1898–1968
USA		George Brasno		1911–1982
USA		Olive Brasno		1917–1998
UK		George Claydon		1933–2001
UK		Mike Edmonds	British actor in Maid Marian and her Merry Men, Time Bandits, and "The Safety Dance" video.	1944–
Canada		Guy Big	Canadian actor best known for his role in the children's television series The Hilarious House of Frightenstein as the Midget Count.	1946–1978
UK		Malcolm Dixon		1953–
Philippines		Romy Pastrana	Pastrana is a Filipino dwarf actor who does roles on the children's gag show Goin' Bulilit, he is the only adult actor.	1958–
Canada		Jordan Prentice	Canadian actor, who appeared in In Bruges.	1973–
Nigeria		Chinedu Ikedieze	Ikedieze is best known for playing alongside Osita Iheme in most movies after their breakthrough in Aki na Ukwa.	1977–
Nigeria		Osita Iheme	Iheme is known for his nickname "PawPaw", which he adopted after the role he played of the same name in the film Aki na Ukwa.	1982–
UK		Lisa Hammond		1983–
DR Congo		Cécile Bayiha	Bayiha is best known for playing the part of captive Pygmy Likola in the 2005 Franco-British-South African film Man to Man
Samoa		Fa'afiaula Sagote	Samoan actor who played the lead role in his country's first ever feature film, The Orator''.

Artists and writers

Athletes

Entertainers

Musicians/singers

• The Ovitz family were a family of Romanian Jewish actors/traveling musicians who survived imprisonment at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. They were the largest family of dwarfs ever recorded and were the largest family to enter Auschwitz and to survive intact.

  Politicians

• Chnoum-Hotep, ancient chief of perfumes from the Fifth dynasty of Egypt who is believed to have had achondroplasia.
• Seneb, Egyptian high-ranking court official

  Others

• Sebastiano Biavati, 17th century curator of museum of curiosities
• Joyce Carpenter, suffered from Morquio's disease. At 74 cm or 29ins the shortest recorded adult in the UK.
• Wybrand Lolkes, Dutch dwarf