| Vikas Kumar Uppal | |
| Other Names: | Vicky |
| Birth Date: | 1986 1, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Rohtak, Haryana, India |
| Nationality: | Indian |
| Death Place: | Delhi, India |
| Known For: | Tallest Indian |
| Height Ft: | 8 |
| Height In: | 1.38 |
Vikas Kumar "Vicky" Uppal (1 January 1986 – 30 June 2007) was a native and resident of India, said to be India's tallest man until his death on 30 June 2007 when he died during a failed brain tumor operation in Delhi. In 2004, The Tribune reported him to be 8feet tall and still growing, being in his late teens.[1]
Vicky Uppal was from the Rohtak district in the Indian state of Haryana. He was photographed for The Hindu[2] [3] in September 2006 at a rally held by the Indian National Lok Dal. He was purported by some to be 8feet tall, but other sources[4] claimed he was 8feet tall. He could have been considered the world's tallest living man, but the Guinness Book of Records has strict verification criteria; hence, Guinness did not measure Uppal. He also had been said to have hands 13abbr=onNaNabbr=on long and feet 19abbr=onNaNabbr=on long, and appears in photographs to be proportionate, not obviously a pathological (acromegalic, for example) giant. He also acted in a Bollywood movie, Rang De Basanti.