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How tall is Tom Cruise?

Q: How tall is Tom Cruise?

Tom Cruise is reported to be 5′ 7″ (170 cm) tall.

5′ 7″170 cm · 1.7 m

Commonly reported · press and agency figures

Tom Cruise is 6.9 cm (2.5″) shorter than the average American man. See what 5'7" looks like →

U.S. percentile: 24th; among men
World percentile: 44th; among men

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Tom Cruise next to the average U.S. man (5′ 9.5″) and woman (5′ 4.5″), drawn to scale.

Tom Cruise’s height around the world

The same height reads differently depending on where you stand. Here is where 170 cm places Tom Cruise against adults in 55 countries, for both sexes.

Estimated percentile for Tom Cruise among adults in each country, for men and women
Country	vs. men	Men’s percentile	vs. women	Women’s percentile
Netherlands	−13.8 cm	3rd	−0.4 cm	48th
Montenegro	−13.3 cm	3rd	±0	50th
Bosnia & Herzegovina	−12.5 cm	4th	+2.5 cm	65th
Denmark	−11.9 cm	5th	+0.5 cm	53rd
Ukraine	−11 cm	6th	+3.4 cm	70th
Croatia	−10.8 cm	6th	+3.2 cm	69th
Serbia	−10.7 cm	7th	+1.7 cm	60th
Poland	−10.7 cm	7th	+4.2 cm	74th
Finland	−10.6 cm	7th	+3.5 cm	70th
Norway	−10.5 cm	7th	+3.6 cm	71st
Sweden	−10.5 cm	7th	+3.3 cm	69th
Germany	−10.3 cm	7th	+3.8 cm	72nd
Greece	−9.3 cm	10th	+4.2 cm	74th
Ireland	−9 cm	10th	+5.5 cm	80th
Australia	−8.8 cm	11th	+5.3 cm	79th
Canada	−8.7 cm	11th	+5.3 cm	79th
France	−8.6 cm	11th	+5.5 cm	80th
United Kingdom	−8.2 cm	12th	+6.1 cm	83rd
New Zealand	−7.7 cm	14th	+5.3 cm	79th
Jamaica	−7 cm	16th	+5.7 cm	81st
United States	−6.9 cm	17th	+6.7 cm	85th
Russia	−6.6 cm	18th	+5.5 cm	80th
Turkey	−6.4 cm	18th	+8.2 cm	90th
Spain	−6.1 cm	20th	+8 cm	89th
Brazil	−5.7 cm	21st	+7.6 cm	88th
China	−5.7 cm	21st	+6.5 cm	84th
Iran	−5.6 cm	22nd	+8.8 cm	91st
South Korea	−5.5 cm	22nd	+6.8 cm	85th
Argentina	−4.8 cm	25th	+8.8 cm	91st
Egypt	−4.6 cm	26th	+9.1 cm	92nd
Italy	−4.4 cm	27th	+8.2 cm	90th
Portugal	−4.4 cm	27th	+8.8 cm	91st
Japan	−2.1 cm	38th	+11.5 cm	96th
Colombia	−1.9 cm	39th	+12 cm	97th
Thailand	−1.6 cm	41st	+10.6 cm	95th
Nigeria	−1.6 cm	41st	+11.9 cm	97th
Saudi Arabia	−0.7 cm	46th	+11.2 cm	96th
Kenya	−0.5 cm	47th	+10.6 cm	95th
Mexico	−0.3 cm	48th	+12.1 cm	97th
South Africa	+0.4 cm	52nd	+11.4 cm	96th
Malaysia	+0.8 cm	54th	+12.9 cm	98th
Vietnam	+1.1 cm	56th	+11.6 cm	96th
Ethiopia	+1.2 cm	57th	+12.8 cm	98th
DR Congo	+1.4 cm	58th	+13.7 cm	98th
Pakistan	+2.7 cm	65th	+15.2 cm	99th
Tanzania	+3 cm	66th	+13.1 cm	98th
Peru	+3.2 cm	67th	+15.6 cm	99th
Myanmar	+3.3 cm	68th	+15.3 cm	99th
India	+3.5 cm	69th	+14.8 cm	99th
Indonesia	+3.7 cm	70th	+15.6 cm	99th
Philippines	+4.8 cm	75th	+15.9 cm	99th
Bangladesh	+4.9 cm	75th	+17.6 cm	>99th
Nepal	+5.6 cm	78th	+17.6 cm	>99th
Guatemala	+5.6 cm	78th	+19.1 cm	>99th
Timor-Leste	+9.9 cm	92nd	+17.3 cm	>99th

Estimated from NCD-RisC national averages for 19-year-olds and an assumed normal distribution. Greyed values sit beyond the 2nd or 98th percentile, where the estimate stops discriminating.How we calculate this →

In context

Among actors

23 of 32

Tom Cruise is the 23rd tallest of the 32 actors in our database, between Shah Rukh Khan (173 cm) and Priyanka Chopra (169 cm).

Everyday reference

1.7 m

Tom Cruise is 33 cm shorter than a standard door frame.

Tom Cruise head to head

Celebrities with a similar height

Commonly reported — A commonly reported figure from press and agency sources, rounded to the nearest centimetre. Published heights for the same person frequently differ.Percentiles are estimates based on NCD-RisC national averages.How we source and calculate this →