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Ben Ferencz

1920 - 2023

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Benjamin Berell Ferencz (March 11, 1920 – April 7, 2023) was an American lawyer. He was an investigator of Nazi war crimes after World War II and the chief prosecutor for the United States Army at the Einsatzgruppen trial, one of the 12 subsequent Nuremberg trials held by US authorities at Nuremberg, Germany. When the Einsatzgruppen reports were discovered, Ferencz pushed for a trial based on their evidence. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ben Ferencz has received more than 1,289,185 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Ben Ferencz is the 5,628th most popular politician (up from 8,768th in 2019), the 98th most popular biography from Romania (up from 252nd in 2019) and the 42nd most popular Romanian Politician.

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ben Ferencz ranks 5,628 out of 19,576. Before him are Karl August Wittfogel, Hadji Murad, Theodor Körner, Fulk IV, Count of Anjou, Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Jacob van Artevelde. After him are Jaime, Duke of Madrid, Cypselus, Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, Igor Ivanov, Odo I, Duke of Burgundy, and Lucius Mummius Achaicus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Ben Ferencz ranks 92. Before him are Henri Verneuil, José López Portillo y Pacheco, Jaan Kross, Franklin J. Schaffner, Karl Albrecht, and John Harsanyi. After him are Ricardo Montalbán, Heinz Hitler, Kim Yong-ju, Peggy Lee, Eileen Chang, and Bruno Maderna. Among people deceased in 2023, Ben Ferencz ranks 116. Before him are Ian Wilmut, Lee Sun-kyun, Torben Ulrich, Jean-Pierre Jabouille, Ruth Fuchs, and Ken Mattingly. After him are Petar Zhekov, Juanita Castro, Daisaku Ikeda, Tom Courtney, Reino Börjesson, and Glenda Jackson.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Ben Ferencz ranks 98 out of 844. Before him are Vladimir Cosma (1940), Fritz Klein (1888), Károly Kerényi (1897), László Bölöni (1953), Rezső Kasztner (1906), and Farkas Bolyai (1775). After him are Aureolus (220), Ion Gheorghe Maurer (1902), Christopher Báthory (1530), Ion Luca Caragiale (1852), Mundzuk (368), and Prince Nicholas of Romania (1903).

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Among POLITICIANS In Romania

Among politicians born in Romania, Ben Ferencz ranks 42. Before him are Mihnea cel Rău (1462), Mircea II of Wallachia (1422), Nicolae Iorga (1871), Pertevniyal Sultan (1812), Horia Sima (1907), and Rezső Kasztner (1906). After him are Aureolus (220), Ion Gheorghe Maurer (1902), Christopher Báthory (1530), Mundzuk (368), Andrew Báthory (1563), and Petru Rareș (1487).

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