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 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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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.
1946 - 1989
HPI: 80.85
Rank: 7
301 BC - 356 BC
HPI: 80.43
Rank: 8
1939 - 1963
HPI: 80.09
Rank: 9
1405 - 1440
HPI: 79.25
Rank: 10
1640 - 1703
HPI: 78.79
Rank: 11
1936 - 1994
HPI: 78.03
Rank: 12
1906 - 1984
HPI: 76.57
Rank: 13
1913 - 1978
HPI: 76.55
Rank: 14
1934 - 1976
HPI: 76.06
Rank: 15
1942 - Present
HPI: 75.88
Rank: 16
1940 - Present
HPI: 75.80
Rank: 17
1870 - 1936
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 18
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 19
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.
1906 - 1977
HPI: 77.77
Rank: 17
1906 - 1966
HPI: 77.47
Rank: 18
1906 - 1975
HPI: 77.42
Rank: 19
1906 - 1995
HPI: 77.10
Rank: 20
1906 - 1947
HPI: 76.77
Rank: 21
1906 - 1972
HPI: 76.59
Rank: 22
1906 - 1984
HPI: 76.57
Rank: 23
1906 - 1945
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 24
1906 - 1966
HPI: 75.62
Rank: 25
1906 - 1991
HPI: 75.45
Rank: 26
1906 - 1977
HPI: 75.38
Rank: 27
1906 - 1945
HPI: 75.31
Rank: 28
1906 - 1988
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 29
1914 - 1984
HPI: 82.11
Rank: 3
1917 - 1984
HPI: 80.94
Rank: 4
1902 - 1984
HPI: 79.80
Rank: 5
1932 - 1984
HPI: 79.22
Rank: 6
1902 - 1984
HPI: 79.01
Rank: 7
1904 - 1984
HPI: 77.71
Rank: 8
1906 - 1984
HPI: 76.57
Rank: 9
1924 - 1984
HPI: 76.50
Rank: 10
1892 - 1984
HPI: 76.40
Rank: 11
1905 - 1984
HPI: 76.10
Rank: 12
1939 - 1984
HPI: 75.92
Rank: 13
1929 - 1984
HPI: 75.66
Rank: 14
1914 - 1984
HPI: 75.34
Rank: 15
Among people born in United States, Ed Gein ranks 294 out of 15,968. Before him are Jack Ruby (1911), Christopher Walken (1943), Paul Samuelson (1915), George Herbert Mead (1863), Audie Murphy (1925), and William Henry Harrison (1773). After him are William G. Morgan (1870), John Ford (1894), John R. Bolton (1948), Liza Minnelli (1946), Cameron Diaz (1972), and Truman Capote (1924).
1911 - 1967
HPI: 76.68
Rank: 288
1943 - Present
HPI: 76.63
Rank: 289
1915 - 2009
HPI: 76.63
Rank: 290
1863 - 1931
HPI: 76.61
Rank: 291
1925 - 1971
HPI: 76.60
Rank: 292
1773 - 1841
HPI: 76.60
Rank: 293
1906 - 1984
HPI: 76.57
Rank: 294
1870 - 1942
HPI: 76.56
Rank: 295
1894 - 1973
HPI: 76.55
Rank: 296
1948 - Present
HPI: 76.53
Rank: 297
1946 - Present
HPI: 76.50
Rank: 298
1972 - Present
HPI: 76.50
Rank: 299
1924 - 1984
HPI: 76.50
Rank: 300
Among extremists born in United States, Ed Gein ranks 5. Before him are Charles Manson (1934), John Wilkes Booth (1838), Ted Bundy (1946), and Lee Harvey Oswald (1939). After him are Ted Kaczynski (1942), Zodiac Killer (1940), Albert Fish (1870), Machine Gun Kelly (1895), Jim Jones (1931), John Wayne Gacy (1942), and H. H. Holmes (1861).
1934 - 2017
HPI: 85.08
Rank: 1
1838 - 1865
HPI: 84.67
Rank: 2
1946 - 1989
HPI: 80.85
Rank: 3
1939 - 1963
HPI: 80.09
Rank: 4
1906 - 1984
HPI: 76.57
Rank: 5
1942 - Present
HPI: 75.88
Rank: 6
1940 - Present
HPI: 75.80
Rank: 7
1870 - 1936
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 8
1895 - 1954
HPI: 74.51
Rank: 9
1931 - 1978
HPI: 74.36
Rank: 10
1942 - 1994
HPI: 73.94
Rank: 11
1861 - 1896
HPI: 72.79
Rank: 12