Edward Niño Hernández (born May 10, 1986)[1] is the world's second-shortest[2] living mobile man.
At 24 years of age, Hernandez was 0.7 m (2 ft 3+1⁄2 in) tall and weighed 10 kg (22 lb).
[3][4] The previous titleholder, He Pingping of Inner Mongolia, was 3.8 cm (1.5 inches) taller and died on March 13, 2010, in Rome, Italy, where he was filming the TV program Lo show dei record.
Hernandez's reign ended on October 14, 2010, when Khagendra Thapa Magar of Nepal turned 18.
He reclaimed the record following Magar's death on January 17, 2020, and lost it again on December 13, 2022, to Afshin Ghaderzadeh of Iran when he was aged 20.