Top 10 Strongest Men of All Time
This list brings together some of the most legendary figures, celebrated for their extraordinary feats of strength and endurance. These individuals have pushed the limits of human capability, leaving people in awe of what the body can achieve when paired with relentless determination and training. From record-breaking athletes to historical icons of physical might, this compilation showcases a wide range of incredible talents.The absolutely strongest human being ever to have lived. This is based not so much on his feats of strength, but more on his incredible size (height/weight) and body measurements. He was the largest normally proportioned human to have ever lived.
Strongmen aren't giants, and giants aren't strongmen, but Angus was an exception to the rule. A natural giant, there were no medical reasons why he grew so big - 7 ft 9 in, 580 lb, with an 80-inch chest. The only odd feature about him was his oversized hands: 12 inches long and 8 inches wide, the same size as 9-foot-tall Robert Wadlow's.
It's sad that he is largely forgotten since he's been dead for over 100 years, but nobody was ever more dominant than him in strength contests. He never backed down from a challenge and never lost. His final contest ended in a tie when he was 40, sick, and out of shape, being challenged by the second strongest man on Earth at the time. He should be number one.
Louis Cyr (1863-1912) was a French-Canadian strongman with a career spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His recorded feats, including lifting 500 pounds (227 kg) with one finger and backlifting 4,337 pounds (1,967 kg), show Cyr to be, according to former International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness chairman Ben Weider, the strongest man ever to have lived.
Actually, he is the strongest. He lifted 2,500 pounds once, which none of these people could do.
André René Roussimoff, known as André the Giant, was a French professional wrestler and actor. André He most famously feuded with Hulk Hogan, culminating at WrestleMania III, and his best-remembered film role was that of Fezzik, the giant in The Princess Bride. His size was a result of gigantism... read more He stands 7 ft 6 in and weighs 520 lbs. He can crush almost anyone. He should be at least in the top 5.
Mark Henry is so overrated it makes me sick. Yes, he broke records, but that was a long time ago, and those records have since been broken. And all by this guy, Big Z.
Kevin Fast is the strongest puller, yet he is not the strongest overall. Zydrunas is the strongest. Mark Henry's World's Strongest Man is just a stage name.
Lifted 500 lbs over his head. World record. Deadlifted 1,155 lbs. World record. Won 4 World's Strongest Man championships. Kevin Fast is not even strong.
This guy was an amazingly explosive athlete. He was an incredible strongman who won the title 5 times and looked like a bodybuilder.
Pure muscle and strength. This man is a giant in the sport.
He won a record five World's Strongest Man titles.
The Newcomers
Among all the "big" guys who are listed here, I propose something different: who has lifted the highest weight compared to their body weight?
The answer is the "Pocket Hercules," Naim Süleymanoğlu. In the 1988 Summer Olympics, he set a record by lifting 190 kg in the clean and jerk - 3.15 times his body weight - which is the highest ratio of clean and jerk to body weight of all time.
This is another approach to the question of who is the strongest man ever.
This is the guy whom Hercules, were he alive today, would be checking under his bed for at night. Unbeatable.
The only thing bigger than his muscles is his humility.
No ego, all strength, with the records to prove it.
He has won the World's Strongest Man twice and managed to lift 1,073 pounds while having a torn bicep.
He is definitely stronger than Kevin Fast. He could fight any number of people. Watch his films like The Living Ghost, Pardon Us, Any Old Port, and Going Bye Bye.
He could not feel any pain. He tossed people around in his film The Living Ghost like they were weightless. He was also a sharpshooter and did a great action scene in his movie Pardon Us.
He was very brave. He never lifted any weights to show his strength, but he was unbeatable in fights, which makes him the strongest. Kevin Fast could lift and pull more weight than he could, but Walter Long could beat Kevin Fast in a fight.
His records are 223 kg in the snatch and 265 kg in the clean and jerk, 12 kilos more than Taranenko's best, whose record stood for 30 years.
He is the new official strongest man, having broken the world record of Leonid Taranenko at the World Championship of Weightlifting (IWF) in 2017, held in Anaheim, USA. Taranenko held the total record for 29 years and still has the best-ever record in the clean and jerk with 266 kg from 1988.
Now his bests are a 220 kg snatch and a 264 kg clean and jerk.
Mr. Anderson's regular daily lifts often exceeded records. He would perform exercises such as a dumbbell curl on the old Mike Douglas Show with a weight that was considerably higher than could be repeated by the world's best, well aware and seemingly unconcerned that no one from the Guinness Book was there. As an avenue to open doors for his story of faith, he let people debate the validity of his accomplishments, while those who excelled on a world-class level, along with anyone who witnessed his feats, could not get it out of their mind what they actually beheld.
Mark Jerrold Henry is an American powerlifter, Olympic weightlifter, strongman, and professional wrestler who is currently signed to WWE. He is the strongest human to ever live. Mark Henry holds the world record for the combined lifts of snatch, clean and jerk, squat, bench press, and deadlift, totaling 3,324.5 lbs, all in drug-tested competitions. This makes him the strongest competition-tested human to have ever lived.
His strength was limitless. He is the only human to ever deadlift, squat, and bench press over 900 lbs, 900 lbs, and 580 lbs, respectively, before the age of 25, all in drug-tested events (unlike the steroid users Eddie Hall, Savickas, etc.). He is even stronger than the great Louis Cyr, who never deadlifted 900 lbs before the age of 25. Moreover, Mark Henry never reached his full potential. If he had devoted his life to strongman and powerlifting, there wouldn't even be a debate.
Angus MacAskill's feats have never been properly verified and have been accused of being apocryphal. In terms of measured events, no one in known human history, by the age of 25, has ever been stronger than Mark Henry. Not Kazmaier (who himself says Henry is the strongest man ever), not Cyr (whose feats have been prone to exaggeration), and not Savickas.
Mark Henry is the strongest (known) human to ever live, and he never reached his full potential.
He is, in my book, the world's strongest man ever right now. I've done a lot of research, and it is really impossible to objectively tell that one man is the strongest ever. But my list would look like this:
1. Eddie Hall
2. Zydrunas Savickas
3. Bill Kazmaier
4. Brian Shaw and Thor
5. Louis Cyr
6. Mariusz Pudzianowski
7. Paul Anderson
8. Mark Henry
9. Vasyl Virastyuk
Only man to lift 500 kg ever, 35 kg over the previous record (which was also his record). There is no possible argument.
Pound for pound, the strongest of all time.
Bruce Lee (November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973) was a Hong Kong and American martial artist, martial arts instructor, actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and philosopher. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy drawing from different combat disciplines that is often... read more
Dwayne Douglas Johnson, also known by his ring name The Rock, is an American and Canadian actor, producer and semi-retired professional wrestler, signed with WWE. If Dwayne The Rock Johnson faced Mark Henry at WrestleMania 34, he could kick and slap Mark Henry's butt and slap him out of the ring. His slap is 100% quick, and Mark Henry wouldn't even be fast enough to counter that type of stamina to World's Strongest Slam him in time! The Rock is quicker and stronger than Mark Henry!
The Rock is so strong he beat Booker T and gave him a Rock Bottom. The Rock can beat anybody in the world with his 9,000 slap to send you flying. The Rock is stronger than John Cena!