Anna Haining Bates

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Image:Anna Swan with her parents.jpg Anna Haining Bates, born Anna Haining Swan (August 7, 1846 – August 5, 1888), was a Canadian from Mill Brook, Colchester County, Nova Scotia famed for her unusual height: she was 2.27 m tall (7 ft 5.5 in).

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. The giant couple became a touring sensation and eventually fell in love and married. 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.