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Ed Gein

1906 - 1984

Ed Gein

Edward Theodore Gein (; August 27, 1906 – July 26, 1984), also known as the Butcher of Plainfield or the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American serial killer and body snatcher. Gein's crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety in 1957 after authorities discovered he had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ed Gein has received more than 16,529,710 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Ed Gein is the 13th most popular extremist (up from 14th in 2019), the 294th most popular biography from United States (down from 281st in 2019) and the 5th 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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Page Views (PV)
76.57
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
37
Languages Editions (L)
5.88
Effective Languages (L*)
3.47
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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Ed Gein ranks 13 out of 205. Before him are Ted Bundy, Herostratus, Lee Harvey Oswald, Gilles de Rais, Man in the Iron Mask, and Andrei Chikatilo. After him are Ramón Mercader, Ulrike Meinhof, Ted Kaczynski, Zodiac Killer, Albert Fish, and Abdullah Öcalan.

Most Popular Extremists in Wikipedia

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Ted Bundy
1946 - 1989
HPI: 80.85
Rank: 7
Herostratus
301 BC - 356 BC
HPI: 80.43
Rank: 8
Lee Harvey Oswald
1939 - 1963
HPI: 80.09
Rank: 9
Gilles de Rais
1405 - 1440
HPI: 79.25
Rank: 10
Man in the Iron Mask
1640 - 1703
HPI: 78.79
Rank: 11
Andrei Chikatilo
1936 - 1994
HPI: 78.03
Rank: 12
Ed Gein
1906 - 1984
HPI: 76.57
Rank: 13
Ramón Mercader
1913 - 1978
HPI: 76.55
Rank: 14
Ulrike Meinhof
1934 - 1976
HPI: 76.06
Rank: 15
Ted Kaczynski
1942 - Present
HPI: 75.88
Rank: 16
Zodiac Killer
1940 - Present
HPI: 75.80
Rank: 17
Albert Fish
1870 - 1936
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 18
Abdullah Öcalan
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 19

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Ed Gein ranks 23. Before him are Roberto Rossellini, Sergei Korolev, Josephine Baker, Emmanuel Levinas, Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, and Maria Goeppert Mayer. After him are Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Giuseppe Farina, Soichiro Honda, Alexey Stakhanov, Hermann Fegelein, and Ernst Ruska. Among people deceased in 1984, Ed Gein ranks 9. Before him are Yuri Andropov, Indira Gandhi, Ray Kroc, François Truffaut, Paul Dirac, and Johnny Weissmuller. After him are Truman Capote, Martin Niemöller, Mikhail Sholokhov, Marvin Gaye, Tigran Petrosian, and Julio Cortázar.

Others Born in 1906

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Roberto Rossellini
1906 - 1977
HPI: 77.77
Rank: 17
Sergei Korolev
1906 - 1966
HPI: 77.47
Rank: 18
Josephine Baker
1906 - 1975
HPI: 77.42
Rank: 19
Emmanuel Levinas
1906 - 1995
HPI: 77.10
Rank: 20
Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten
1906 - 1947
HPI: 76.77
Rank: 21
Maria Goeppert Mayer
1906 - 1972
HPI: 76.59
Rank: 22
Ed Gein
1906 - 1984
HPI: 76.57
Rank: 23
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
1906 - 1945
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 24
Giuseppe Farina
1906 - 1966
HPI: 75.62
Rank: 25
Soichiro Honda
1906 - 1991
HPI: 75.45
Rank: 26
Alexey Stakhanov
1906 - 1977
HPI: 75.38
Rank: 27
Hermann Fegelein
1906 - 1945
HPI: 75.31
Rank: 28
Ernst Ruska
1906 - 1988
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 29