Juan and Martina de la Cruz

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Filipino Midgets, Juan and Martina, brother and sister were billed as "The Smallest People in the World." They first arrived in the US in 1903, and appeared at St. Louis Fair in 1904. According to their press, they preferred to be called by their American names, John and Tina. They continued to perform into the late 1940s. Martina passed away in Waycross, Georgia in 1949 at age 74.