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Dennis Nilsen

1945 - 2018

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Dennis Andrew Nilsen (23 November 1945 – 12 May 2018) was a Scottish serial killer and necrophile who murdered at least twelve young men and boys between 1978 and 1983. Convicted at the Old Bailey of six counts of murder and two of attempted murder, Nilsen was sentenced to life imprisonment on 4 November 1983, with a recommendation that he serve a minimum of 25 years; this recommendation was later changed to a whole life tariff in December 1994. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dennis Nilsen has received more than 11,549,277 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Dennis Nilsen is the 114th most popular extremist (down from 102nd in 2019), the 1,501st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,366th in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Extremist.

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  • 56.33

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Dennis Nilsen ranks 114 out of 283. Before him are Baruch Goldstein, Therese Brandl, Eugen Weidmann, Dokka Umarov, Yigal Amir, and Joachim Kroll. After him are Kōzō Okamoto, Omar Abdel-Rahman, Sante Geronimo Caserio, Delphine LaLaurie, Aslan Usoyan, and Frank Nitti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Dennis Nilsen ranks 167. Before him are Robert Wyatt, Joanna Cassidy, Gabriela Andersen-Schiess, Roland Joffé, Jaclyn Smith, and Henry Winkler. After him are Bobby Solo, Bruce Spence, Vladislav Ardzinba, Earl Boen, Jarno Saarinen, and David Purley. Among people deceased in 2018, Dennis Nilsen ranks 106. Before him are Joseph Kobzon, Alan Baker, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Paul Andreu, Nicanor Parra, and Bruno Sammartino. After him are Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Raymond Chow, Josep Lluís Núñez, Irena Szewińska, Choi Eun-hee, and Tom Wolfe.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Dennis Nilsen ranks 1,501 out of 8,785. Before him are Maggie Reilly (1956), Anthony Trollope (1815), Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (1373), John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (1504), Paul Bettany (1971), and Robert Southey (1774). After him are Elsa Lanchester (1902), Herbert Kilpin (1870), Christopher Hitchens (1949), Matthew Boulton (1728), Andrew Parker Bowles (1939), and Jared Harris (1961).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United Kingdom

Among extremists born in United Kingdom, Dennis Nilsen ranks 4. Before him are Sawney Bean (1600), Emperor Norton (1818), and Harold Shipman (1946). After him are Fred West (1941), John Adams (1767), Mary Bell (1957), John Haigh (1909), Mary Ann Cotton (1832), Peter Sutcliffe (1946), Guy Burgess (1911), and Amelia Dyer (1837).

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