Biography: Neil Fingleton (18 December 1980 – 25 February 2017) was an English actor and basketball player. Neil became the tallest British-born man in present-day and the tallest man in the European Union at 7 ft 7.56 in (232.6 cm) in height and among the 25 tallest men in the world. This title has been confirmed by the Guinness World Records in the summer of 2007; Fingleton took over from Christopher Greener who stood at 7 ft 6 ¼ in (229.2 cm) in height.