TOP SHORTEST WOMEN'S IN THE WORLD

GUINNESS RECORD SHORTEST WOMEN'S IN THE WORLD

1.Pauline Musters (26 FEB 1876 -1 March 1895)

Pauline Musters is, at 23 inches (58 cm) tall, recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as the shortest woman ever recorded. Born in Ossendrecht, The Netherlands on February 26, 1876, she died in New York City at the age of 19 from a combination of pneumonia and meningitis.

2.Madge Bester (26 April 1963)

Madge Bester  is believed to be the world's shortest living woman. From South Africa, she measures 2 ft 1.5 in (65 cm) in height which was measured in 1991. Bester has osteogenesis imperfecta, which is characterized by brittle bones, and uses a wheelchair. She has been a campaigner for disabled rights, holding a 1998 press conference on the issue accompanied by Lin Yih-Chih, the world's smallest man.Bester lives in a retirement village in Bloemfontein. Her mother Winnie, who died in 2001, also suffered from osteogenesis imperfecta and measured only 70 cm.

3.Lucia Zarate (1864-1890)

Lucia Zarate (1864 in San Carlos now Altamirano Mexico - 1890) is the first person to have been identified with Majewski Osteodysplastic Primordial Dwarfism Type II. She was entered into the Guinness World Records as the "lightest recorded adult", weighing 4.7 pounds (2.1 kg) at the age of 17. According to an 1894 article in Strand Magazine, Zarate achieved her full growth by the age of one year.

4.Hatice Kocaman (1989)

Saturday, July 17, 2010 Smallest woman - world record set by Hatice Kocaman KADIRLI, TURKEY -- Hatice Kocaman, 21, is just 72.5 centimeters tall and weighs only seven kilograms - setting the world record for the Smallest woman. Kocaman, who cannot grow further due to a bone disorder, said it would be great to be in World Record Books and that she wants everyone to know her and talk about her. Garrett and Emin Gorgun, the Turkey brand manager for Guinness World Records, visited Kocaman and her parents, Ibrahim and Hatun Kocaman, initiating the process of registering her claim. The “world’s smallest person” Guinness world record previously belonged to He Pingping from China, who was 74.61 centimeters tall when he died in March at the age of 21. Before his death, he appeared at events in Turkey with Sultan Köse, the Turkish man who is the tallest person in the world at two meters, 46.5 centimeters tall.