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Amado Carrillo Fuentes

1956 - 1997

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Amado Carrillo Fuentes (; December 17, 1954 – July 7, 1997) was a Mexican drug lord. He seized control of the Juárez Cartel after assassinating his boss Rafael Aguilar Guajardo. Amado Carrillo became known as "El Señor de Los Cielos" ("The Lord of the Skies"), because of the large fleet of jets he used to transport drugs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amado Carrillo Fuentes has received more than 11,356,225 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Amado Carrillo Fuentes is the 29th most popular mafioso (down from 21st in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from Mexico (down from 44th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Mexican Mafioso.

Memorability Metrics

  • 11M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MAFIOSOS

Among mafiosos, Amado Carrillo Fuentes ranks 29 out of 70. Before him are Tamam Shud case, Vito Genovese, Vito Cascio Ferro, Jenny-Wanda Barkmann, Salvatore Giuliano, and Khun Sa. After him are Joe Masseria, Du Yuesheng, Richard Hauptmann, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, Richard Kuklinski, and Frank Lucas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Amado Carrillo Fuentes ranks 68. Before him are Jan Peter Balkenende, Adnan Oktar, Almazbek Atambayev, Sultan bin Salman Al Saud, Dave Murray, and Iveta Radičová. After him are Milan Babić, Bob Saget, Boris Akunin, Kōji Yakusho, Patricia Cornwell, and Mansour Bahrami. Among people deceased in 1997, Amado Carrillo Fuentes ranks 78. Before him are Fela Kuti, Uzi Narkiss, Ernst Wilimowski, Hugo Gunckel Lüer, Alparslan Türkeş, and Gunpei Yokoi. After him are Héctor Yazalde, Teiichi Matsumaru, Manfred von Ardenne, Stig Anderson, Samuel Fuller, and Virgilio Barco Vargas.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Amado Carrillo Fuentes ranks 72 out of 729. Before him are Subcomandante Marcos (1957), Miguel de la Madrid (1934), Pedro Infante (1917), Ricardo Montalbán (1920), Pedro Lascuráin (1856), and Itzcoatl (1380). After him are Silvia Pinal (1931), Verónica Castro (1952), Fernando del Paso (1935), Javier Aguirre (1958), Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (1911), and Manuel Ávila Camacho (1897).

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Among MAFIOSOS In Mexico

Among mafiosos born in Mexico, Amado Carrillo Fuentes ranks 3. Before him are Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (1946), and Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán (1957). After him are Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada (1948).

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