Robert Earl Hughes
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Robert Earl Hughes (June 4, 1926 - July 10, 1958) holds the Guinness world record for the largest chest measurement ever recorded on a human, at 124 inches (10 feet 4 inches or 3.15 m). He weighed 486 kg (1,069 lb), and for a couple of decades also held the world's record as the heaviest human of all time. Robert was born and lived on a farm near the town of Fishhook in Pike County, Illinois.
He is often said to have been buried in a piano case. This error stems from a sentence that appeared in successive editions of the Guinness Book of World Records, which read, "He was buried in a coffin the size of a piano case."
Hughes was honored by the "snack rock" band The Go-nuts in a song named after him on a 7" vinyl record released in May of 1997 on Lookout! Records.
