Małgorzata Dydek

Malgorzata Dydek was born on April 28, 1974 and died on May 27, 2011. In the United States, she was known as Margot Dydek, where she was an international professional basketball player.

She was 7 feet 2 or 2.18 m tall, and she was known as the tallest professional female player in her basketball league. On her basketball court, she held a central position for the WNBA's Connecticut Sun and later worked as a coach for the Northside Wizards.

She was born in Warsaw, Poland, to her parents 6'7" (father) and 6'3" (mother). She had her older sister Katarzyna, 2.01 m tall, who participated in the Colorado Xplosion in Poland.

Her sister Martha, who was 1.98 m at the age of 12, graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso, where she also played basketball. Her younger sister also performed professionally in Spain in 2000.
On May 19, 2011, Dydek, the tallest woman in the world, suffered a serious heart attack and died while pregnant with her third child.

• Height: 7 feet 2 in