The Most Famous
EXTREMISTS from China
This page contains a list of the greatest Chinese Extremists. The pantheon dataset contains 283 Extremists, 1 of which were born in China. This makes China the birth place of the 44th most number of Extremists behind Lebanon, and North Macedonia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Chinese Extremists of all time. This list of famous Chinese Extremists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Yang Xinhai (1968 - 2004)
With an HPI of 44.20, Yang Xinhai is the most famous Chinese Extremist. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Yang Xinhai (Chinese: 杨新海; pinyin: Yáng Xīnhǎi; July 17, 1968 – February 14, 2004), also known as Yang Zhiya, and Yang Liu, was a Chinese serial killer and mass murderer who confessed to committing 67 murders and 23 rapes between 1999 and 2003. He was sentenced to death and executed. He was dubbed the "Monster Killer" by the media. He is the most prolific known serial killer in China since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Chinese extremists born between 1968 and 1968. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Chinese extremists include Yang Xinhai.