SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Billy Milligan

1955 - 2014

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William Stanley Milligan (February 14, 1955 – December 12, 2014), also known as The Campus Rapist, was an American man who was the subject of a highly publicized court case in Ohio in the late 1970s. After having committed several felonies including armed robbery, he was arrested for three rapes on the campus of Ohio State University. In the course of preparing his defense, psychologists diagnosed Milligan with dissociative identity disorder. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Billy Milligan has received more than 6,430,804 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Billy Milligan is the 176th most popular social activist (up from 235th in 2019), the 1,619th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,751st in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Social Activist.

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  • 6.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Billy Milligan ranks 176 out of 840. Before him are Vladimir Bukovsky, Emilie Schindler, Ilya Ulyanov, Sojourner Truth, Chico Mendes, and Judas of Galilee. After him are Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov, Emmett Till, Yelena Bonner, Jan Karski, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, and Leopold Trepper.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Billy Milligan ranks 68. Before him are Michael Rooker, Billy Idol, Eddie Van Halen, Adem Jashari, Béla Tarr, and José Antonio Camacho. After him are Maria Shriver, Toninho Cerezo, Griffin Dunne, Tanya Roberts, Kazuyoshi Nakamura, and Emine Erdoğan. Among people deceased in 2014, Billy Milligan ranks 69. Before him are Věra Chytilová, Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Gabriel Axel, Ernst Albrecht, Vujadin Boškov, and Hilderaldo Bellini. After him are Kim Song-ae, Vladimir Beara, Rubin Carter, Assi Dayan, Richard Møller Nielsen, and Menahem Golan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Billy Milligan ranks 1,619 out of 20,380. Before him are Frank Drake (1930), Sidney Bechet (1897), Cliff Robertson (1923), Edward James Olmos (1947), Karen Allen (1951), and Frederick Herzberg (1923). After him are John C. Mather (1946), Emmett Till (1941), Kenneth G. Wilson (1936), Kirk Hammett (1962), Mariah Carey (1969), and Helen Hayes (1900).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Billy Milligan ranks 20. Before him are Nat Turner (1800), Betty Ford (1918), George Stinney (1929), John Brown (1800), Frederick Douglass (1818), and Sojourner Truth (1797). After him are Emmett Till (1941), Edward Snowden (1983), Fred Phelps (1929), Margaret Sanger (1879), Gloria Steinem (1934), and W. E. B. Du Bois (1868).

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