Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Anna Hannon Bates, born Anna Hannon Swain (August 6, 1846 - August 5, 1886), was a Canadian from Nova Scotia famed for her unusual height: between 8 feet and 8 feet 1 inch tall (about 2.45 m). When visiting a circus in Halifax with which Martin Van Buren Bates -- another enormously tall person -- was travelling, she was spotted by the promoter and hired on the spot, making the two giants an attraction. See the article on Martin Van Buren Bates for a biography of the rest of her life until her death in 1886 in Seville, Ohio. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.