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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 lecturer and jihadist 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anwar al-Awlaki has received more than 3,873,572 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Anwar al-Awlaki is the 259th most popular extremist (down from 214th in 2019), the 13,353rd most popular biography from United States (down from 12,324th in 2019) and the 85th most popular American Extremist.

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  • 39.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Anwar al-Awlaki ranks 259 out of 283. Before him are Mohammed Bouyeri, Baitullah Mehsud, Ziad Jarrah, Stuart Christie, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, and Noordin Mohammad Top. After him are Jared Fogle, Wail al-Shehri, Moses Sithole, Satam al-Suqami, Mohammed Bijeh, and Khader Adnan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1971, Anwar al-Awlaki ranks 506. Before him are Ahmed Al Safi, Merrin Dungey, Wayne Ferreira, Christina Cox, Toshiya Fujita, and Denis Voronenkov. After him are Ricardo, Akira Narahashi, Henk Timmer, Jovan Stanković, Glen De Boeck, and Monisha Kaltenborn. Among people deceased in 2011, Anwar al-Awlaki ranks 478. Before him are Uche Okafor, Varkey Vithayathil, Roberta Cowell, Pete Lovely, Ronald Searle, and T. P. McKenna. After him are Mike Barrett, Laura Ziskin, Ellen Stewart, Zyzz, Xavier Tondo, and Troy Davis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Anwar al-Awlaki ranks 13,353 out of 20,380. Before him are Joel David Moore (1977), Paul Frees (1920), Don Was (1952), Newton D. Baker (1871), Jessica Bowman (1980), and The Godfather (1961). After him are Ray Luzier (1970), Jay Acovone (1955), Vicki Draves (1924), Danny Ainge (1959), Jewel (1974), and Weston McKennie (1998).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Anwar al-Awlaki ranks 85. Before him are John Hinckley Jr. (1955), Warren Jeffs (1955), Joseph Paul Franklin (1950), Francis Parker Yockey (1917), Bobby Joe Long (1953), and Eric Rudolph (1966). After him are Jared Fogle (1977), Amy Fisher (1974), Omar Mateen (1986), Richard B. Spencer (1978), James Holmes (1987), and Dylann Roof (1994).

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