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Bugsy Siegel

1906 - 1947

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Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (February 28, 1906 – June 20, 1947) sometimes known as Ben Siegel, was an American mobster who was a driving force behind the development of the Las Vegas Strip. Siegel was influential within the Jewish Mob, along with his childhood friend and fellow gangster Meyer Lansky, and he also held significant influence within the Italian-American Mafia and the largely Italian-Jewish National Crime Syndicate. Described as handsome and charismatic, he became one of the first front-page celebrity gangsters.Siegel was one of the founders and leaders of Murder, Inc. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bugsy Siegel has received more than 8,182,068 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Bugsy Siegel is the 107th most popular social activist (down from 84th in 2019), the 948th most popular biography from United States (down from 811th in 2019) and the 13th most popular American Social Activist.

Bugsy Siegel is most famous for being the mastermind behind the construction of the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

Memorability Metrics

  • 8.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Bugsy Siegels by language

Over the past year Bugsy Siegel has had the most page views in the with 883,842 views, followed by Russian (64,601), and Spanish (64,140). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Korean (357.47%), Ukrainian (92.97%), and Finnish (70.89%)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Bugsy Siegel ranks 107 out of 840. Before him are Annie Besant, Louise Michel, Leila Khaled, Kasturba Gandhi, Syed Ahmad Khan, and Jody Williams. After him are Ishikawa Goemon, Narges Mohammadi, Nat Turner, Vlado Chernozemski, René Cassin, and An Jung-geun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Bugsy Siegel ranks 54. Before him are John Huston, James E. Webb, Robert E. Howard, Marie José of Belgium, Marcelo Caetano, and Estée Lauder. After him are Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, Max Delbrück, Ernst Chain, James Hadley Chase, André Weil, and Philip Johnson. Among people deceased in 1947, Bugsy Siegel ranks 36. Before him are Stanley Baldwin, Victor Lustig, Alexander Löhr, Qazi Muhammad, Irving Fisher, and Pierre Janet. After him are Josephine Bakhita, Luigi Russolo, Hans Fallada, Albert Marquet, Manolete, and Herbert Backe.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bugsy Siegel ranks 948 out of 20,380. Before him are Leon M. Lederman (1922), James Earl Jones (1931), Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933), Billy Bob Thornton (1955), Eugene Merle Shoemaker (1928), and Chick Corea (1941). After him are Henry Way Kendall (1926), Keith Haring (1958), D. W. Griffith (1875), Jonathan Banks (1947), Jane Wyman (1917), and Michael Cimino (1939).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Bugsy Siegel ranks 13. Before him are Emily Greene Balch (1867), Angela Davis (1944), Jimmy Hoffa (1913), Harriet Tubman (1820), Susan B. Anthony (1820), and Jody Williams (1950). After him are Nat Turner (1800), Betty Ford (1918), George Stinney (1929), John Brown (1800), Frederick Douglass (1818), and Sojourner Truth (1797).

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