The Dutch painter Doos, the English painter Gibson (who was about 3 feet in height and the father of nine infants by a wife of about the same height), Prince Eugene, and the Spanish Admiral Gravina were dwarfs.
Fleury and Garry, the actors.
Hay, a member of Parliament from Sussex in the last century; Hussein-Pasha, celebrated for his reforms under Selim III; the Danish antiquarian and voyager, Arendt, and Baron Denon were men far below the average size Varro says that there were two gentlemen of Rome who from their decorations must have belonged to an Equestrian Order, and who were but 2 Roman cubits (about 3 feet) high.

Pliny also speaks of them as preserved in their coffins.
It may be remarked that perhaps certain women are predisposed to give birth to dwarfs.

Borwilaski had a brother and a sister who were dwarfs.
In the middle of the seventeenth century a woman brought forth four dwarfs, and in the eighteenth century a dwarf named Hopkins had a sister as small as he was.

Therese Souvray, the dwarf fiancee of Bebe, had a dwarf sister 41 inches high.

Virey has examined a German dwarf of eight who was only 18 inches tall, i.e., about the length of a newly-born infant.