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Anwar al-Awlaki

1971 - 2011

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Anwar Nasser Abdulla al-Awlaki (Arabic: أنور العولقي, romanized: Anwar al-'Awlaqī; April 21 or 22, 1971 – September 30, 2011) was an American-Yemeni Islamic scholar and lecturer who was killed in 2011 in Yemen by a U.S. government drone strike ordered by President Barack Obama. Al-Awlaki became the first U.S. citizen to be targeted and killed by a drone strike from the U.S. government. U.S. government officials argued that Awlaki was a key organizer for the Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda, and in June 2014, a previously classified memorandum issued by the U.S. Department of Justice was released, justifying al-Awlaki's death as a lawful act of war. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anwar al-Awlaki has received more than 3,600,148 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Anwar al-Awlaki is the 214th most popular extremist (down from 197th in 2019), the 12,352nd most popular biography from United States (down from 12,210th in 2019) and the 74th most popular American Extremist.

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  • 3.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 37.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Anwar al-Awlaki ranks 214 out of 209. Before him are Vlado Taneski, Karla Homolka, Hamza bin Laden, Yang Xinhai, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, and Mohammed Bouyeri. After him are Stuart Christie, Satam al-Suqami, Wail al-Shehri, Beverley Allitt, Seung-Hui Cho, and Baitullah Mehsud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1971, Anwar al-Awlaki ranks 466. Before him are Duncan Ferguson, Carlos Núñez Muñoz, Ricardo, Erik Mykland, Slobodan Komljenović, and Pamela Rendi-Wagner. After him are Allan Nielsen, Rie Kimura, John 5, Kristine Lilly, Cory Doctorow, and Giorgos Alkaios. Among people deceased in 2011, Anwar al-Awlaki ranks 444. Before him are Kārlis Skrastiņš, Jim Rathmann, Laurie Hughes, Clement Arrindell, Sexy Cora, and Varkey Vithayathil. After him are Margo Dydek, Pierre Quinon, Don Kirshner, Walt Hazzard, Mike Barrett, and Xavier Tondo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Anwar al-Awlaki ranks 12,352 out of 18,182. Before him are Matt Hughes (1973), John Salley (1964), Aidan Gallagher (2003), George Stephanopoulos (1961), Louise Beavers (1902), and Aaron Carter (1987). After him are Jesse L. Martin (1969), Jerry Harrison (1949), Cheri Oteri (1962), Barbara Britton (1920), Ron Wyden (1949), and Kelly Overton (1978).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Anwar al-Awlaki ranks 74. Before him are Joseph Paul Franklin (1950), Gary Gilmore (1940), John Hinckley Jr. (1955), Mildred Gillars (1900), William Bonin (1947), and Francis Parker Yockey (1917). After him are Jared Fogle (1977), Amy Fisher (1974), Richard B. Spencer (1978), Omar Mateen (1986), and James Holmes (1987).

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