1906 - 1984
Edward Theodore Gein (; August 27, 1906 – July 26, 1984), also known as the Butcher of Plainfield or the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American murderer, suspected serial killer and body snatcher. Gein's crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety in 1957 after authorities discovered that he had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned keepsakes from their bones and skin. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ed Gein has received more than 22,044,552 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Ed Gein is the 17th most popular extremist (down from 13th in 2019), the 365th most popular biography from United States (down from 294th in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Extremist.
Ed Gein is most famous for his crimes. He was a serial killer and necrophile. He would often dig up the bodies of recently buried women and use their skin to make masks, belts, and other objects.
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Among extremists, Ed Gein ranks 17 out of 209. Before him are Gilles de Rais, Ted Kaczynski, Andrei Chikatilo, Ramón Mercader, Abdullah Öcalan, and Zodiac Killer. After him are Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Albert Fish, Ulrike Meinhof, Charles Ponzi, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and John Wayne Gacy.
1405 - 1440
HPI: 72.60
Rank: 11
1942 - 2023
HPI: 70.46
Rank: 12
1936 - 1994
HPI: 69.53
Rank: 13
1913 - 1978
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 14
1949 - Present
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 15
1940 - Present
HPI: 68.43
Rank: 16
1906 - 1984
HPI: 68.39
Rank: 17
1971 - 2019
HPI: 68.11
Rank: 18
1870 - 1936
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 19
1934 - 1976
HPI: 67.62
Rank: 20
1882 - 1949
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 21
1951 - 2022
HPI: 67.34
Rank: 22
1942 - 1994
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 23
Among people born in 1906, Ed Gein ranks 28. Before him are Ernst Ruska, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, Henri Charrière, Hermann Fegelein, and Giuseppe Farina. After him are Léon Degrelle, Soichiro Honda, Hassan al-Banna, Hans Asperger, Alexey Stakhanov, and Léopold Sédar Senghor. Among people deceased in 1984, Ed Gein ranks 12. Before him are Paul Dirac, Johnny Weissmuller, Martin Niemöller, Ray Kroc, Mikhail Sholokhov, and Truman Capote. After him are Alfred Kastler, Julio Cortázar, Tigran Petrosian, Mohamed Naguib, Stanley Milgram, and Dmitry Ustinov.
1906 - 1988
HPI: 68.95
Rank: 22
1906 - 1945
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 23
1906 - 1947
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 24
1906 - 1973
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 25
1906 - 1945
HPI: 68.58
Rank: 26
1906 - 1966
HPI: 68.42
Rank: 27
1906 - 1984
HPI: 68.39
Rank: 28
1906 - 1994
HPI: 68.17
Rank: 29
1906 - 1991
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 30
1906 - 1949
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 31
1906 - 1980
HPI: 67.36
Rank: 32
1906 - 1977
HPI: 67.02
Rank: 33
1906 - 2001
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 34
1902 - 1984
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 6
1904 - 1984
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 7
1892 - 1984
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 8
1902 - 1984
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 9
1905 - 1984
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 10
1924 - 1984
HPI: 68.75
Rank: 11
1906 - 1984
HPI: 68.39
Rank: 12
1902 - 1984
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 13
1914 - 1984
HPI: 67.66
Rank: 14
1929 - 1984
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 15
1901 - 1984
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 16
1933 - 1984
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 17
1908 - 1984
HPI: 64.13
Rank: 18
Among people born in United States, Ed Gein ranks 365 out of 18,182. Before him are Robert Johnson (1911), Jefferson Davis (1808), Hugh Hefner (1926), Zodiac Killer (1940), Herbert A. Simon (1916), and Mickey Rourke (1952). After him are Robert Woodrow Wilson (1936), Calvin Klein (1942), J. P. Morgan (1837), Paulette Goddard (1910), Faye Dunaway (1941), and Rock Hudson (1925).
1911 - 1938
HPI: 68.45
Rank: 359
1808 - 1889
HPI: 68.44
Rank: 360
1926 - 2017
HPI: 68.44
Rank: 361
1940 - Present
HPI: 68.43
Rank: 362
1916 - 2001
HPI: 68.42
Rank: 363
1952 - Present
HPI: 68.42
Rank: 364
1906 - 1984
HPI: 68.39
Rank: 365
1936 - Present
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 366
1942 - Present
HPI: 68.37
Rank: 367
1837 - 1913
HPI: 68.35
Rank: 368
1910 - 1990
HPI: 68.34
Rank: 369
1941 - Present
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 370
1925 - 1985
HPI: 68.31
Rank: 371
Among extremists born in United States, Ed Gein ranks 7. Before him are John Wilkes Booth (1838), Charles Manson (1934), Ted Bundy (1946), Lee Harvey Oswald (1939), Ted Kaczynski (1942), and Zodiac Killer (1940). After him are Albert Fish (1870), John Wayne Gacy (1942), Jim Jones (1931), Machine Gun Kelly (1895), H. H. Holmes (1861), and William Kemmler (1860).
1838 - 1865
HPI: 79.24
Rank: 1
1934 - 2017
HPI: 78.85
Rank: 2
1946 - 1989
HPI: 75.74
Rank: 3
1939 - 1963
HPI: 72.83
Rank: 4
1942 - 2023
HPI: 70.46
Rank: 5
1940 - Present
HPI: 68.43
Rank: 6
1906 - 1984
HPI: 68.39
Rank: 7
1870 - 1936
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 8
1942 - 1994
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 9
1931 - 1978
HPI: 67.28
Rank: 10
1895 - 1954
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 11
1861 - 1896
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 12
1860 - 1890
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 13