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Aileen Wuornos

1956 - 2002

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Aileen Carol Wuornos (; born Pittman; February 29, 1956 – October 9, 2002) was an American serial killer. In 1989–1990, while engaging in street prostitution along highways in Florida, she shot dead and robbed seven of her male clients. Wuornos claimed that her clients had either raped or attempted to rape her, and that the homicides of the men were committed in self-defense. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aileen Wuornos has received more than 19,187,608 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Aileen Wuornos is the 54th most popular extremist (up from 91st in 2019), the 1,204th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,997th in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Extremist.

Aileen Wuornos is most famous for being a serial killer who murdered seven men in Florida between 1989 and 1990.

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  • 66.85

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  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Aileen Wuornos ranks 54 out of 283. Before her are Karl Denke, Pavlik Morozov, Edmund Kemper, Butch Cassidy, Issei Sagawa, and Friedrich Jeckeln. After her are Sawney Bean, Michel Fourniret, Dennis Rader, Marc Dutroux, Mohammed Deif, and Henri Désiré Landru.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Aileen Wuornos ranks 35. Before her are Martina Navratilova, Ali Asadov, David Caruso, Gina Haspel, William Fichtner, and Katerina Sakellaropoulou. After her are Ravi Shankar, Zbigniew Boniek, Kim Cattrall, Michael Connelly, Imelda Staunton, and Eric Roberts. Among people deceased in 2002, Aileen Wuornos ranks 40. Before her are George Porter, John Gotti, Pim Fortuyn, Hildegard Knef, Ne Win, and Song Hye-rim. After her are Zizinho, Raf Vallone, René Thom, Max Perutz, Xi Zhongxun, and Victor Weisskopf.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Aileen Wuornos ranks 1,204 out of 20,380. Before her are Sam Shepard (1943), John Denver (1943), Norman Rockwell (1894), Ethan Allen (1738), Robert Englund (1947), and Fred Trump (1905). After her are Ben Stiller (1965), Lenny Kravitz (1964), Loie Fuller (1862), Paul L. Modrich (1946), Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967), and Robert Curl (1933).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Aileen Wuornos ranks 18. Before her are Jim Jones (1931), William Kemmler (1860), Timothy McVeigh (1968), George Jung (1942), Edmund Kemper (1948), and Butch Cassidy (1866). After her are Dennis Rader (1945), Gary Ridgway (1949), Jordan Belfort (1962), Frank Sheeran (1920), Ma Barker (1873), and James Earl Ray (1928).

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