1705 - 1739
Richard Turpin (bapt. 21 September 1705 – 7 April 1739) was an English highwayman whose exploits were romanticised following his execution in York for horse theft. Turpin may have followed his father's trade as a butcher early in his life but, by the early 1730s, he had joined a gang of deer thieves and, later, became a poacher, burglar, horse thief and killer. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dick Turpin has received more than 1,213,842 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Dick Turpin is the 169th most popular extremist (down from 146th in 2019), the 3,065th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,794th in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Extremist.
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Among extremists, Dick Turpin ranks 169 out of 205. Before him are Howard Marks, Mary Surratt, Irmgard Möller, Peter Sutcliffe, Alexander Pichushkin, and Stuart Christie. After him are Dennis Nilsen, John List, Édouard Vaillant, John Christie, Yoo Young-chul, and John Hinckley Jr..
1945 - 2016
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 163
1823 - 1865
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 164
1947 - Present
HPI: 59.95
Rank: 165
1946 - 2020
HPI: 59.94
Rank: 166
1974 - Present
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 167
1946 - 2020
HPI: 59.70
Rank: 168
1705 - 1739
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 169
1945 - 2018
HPI: 59.13
Rank: 170
1925 - 2008
HPI: 59.10
Rank: 171
1840 - 1915
HPI: 58.83
Rank: 172
1899 - 1953
HPI: 58.73
Rank: 173
1970 - Present
HPI: 58.67
Rank: 174
1955 - Present
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 175
Among people born in 1705, Dick Turpin ranks 13. Before him are Jacques-François Blondel, Philipp Stamma, Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Peter Artedi, Gerhard Friedrich Müller, and Davit Guramishvili. Among people deceased in 1739, Dick Turpin ranks 10. Before him are James Anderson, Reinhard Keiser, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay, Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, Saliha Sultan, and Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt.
1705 - 1774
HPI: 66.74
Rank: 7
1705 - 1755
HPI: 63.47
Rank: 8
1705 - 1757
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 9
1705 - 1735
HPI: 61.58
Rank: 10
1705 - 1783
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 11
1705 - 1792
HPI: 59.96
Rank: 12
1705 - 1739
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 13
1680 - 1739
HPI: 68.84
Rank: 4
1674 - 1739
HPI: 67.97
Rank: 5
1698 - 1739
HPI: 67.81
Rank: 6
1715 - 1739
HPI: 66.53
Rank: 7
1680 - 1739
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 8
1667 - 1739
HPI: 65.42
Rank: 9
1705 - 1739
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 10
Among people born in United Kingdom, Dick Turpin ranks 3,065 out of 6,924. Before him are Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (1726), David Don (1799), Douglas Mawson (1882), Patrick Doyle (1953), Mick Jones (1944), and James Francis Stephens (1792). After him are Ivor Novello (1893), Tom Conti (1941), Charles Warren (1840), Brian Lumley (1937), Gerald Moore (1899), and David Stirling (1915).
1726 - 1799
HPI: 59.66
Rank: 3,059
1799 - 1841
HPI: 59.66
Rank: 3,060
1882 - 1958
HPI: 59.66
Rank: 3,061
1953 - Present
HPI: 59.66
Rank: 3,062
1944 - Present
HPI: 59.65
Rank: 3,063
1792 - 1852
HPI: 59.65
Rank: 3,064
1705 - 1739
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 3,065
1893 - 1951
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 3,066
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 3,067
1840 - 1927
HPI: 59.63
Rank: 3,068
1937 - Present
HPI: 59.63
Rank: 3,069
1899 - 1987
HPI: 59.61
Rank: 3,070
1915 - 1990
HPI: 59.61
Rank: 3,071
Among extremists born in United Kingdom, Dick Turpin ranks 14. Before him are Fred West (1941), Guy Burgess (1911), John Bodkin Adams (1899), Howard Marks (1945), Peter Sutcliffe (1946), and Stuart Christie (1946). After him are Dennis Nilsen (1945), John Christie (1899), Beverley Allitt (1968), Colin Pitchfork (1960), and Tommy Robinson (1982).
1941 - 1995
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 8
1911 - 1963
HPI: 61.61
Rank: 9
1899 - 1983
HPI: 61.12
Rank: 10
1945 - 2016
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 11
1946 - 2020
HPI: 59.94
Rank: 12
1946 - 2020
HPI: 59.70
Rank: 13
1705 - 1739
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 14
1945 - 2018
HPI: 59.13
Rank: 15
1899 - 1953
HPI: 58.73
Rank: 16
1968 - Present
HPI: 48.72
Rank: 17
1960 - Present
HPI: 47.65
Rank: 18
1982 - Present
HPI: 45.19
Rank: 19