1818 - 1880
Joshua Abraham Norton (c. 1818 – January 8, 1880) was a resident of San Francisco, California, who in 1859 proclaimed himself "Norton I., Emperor of the United States", commonly known as Emperor Norton. In 1863, after Napoleon III invaded Mexico, he took the secondary title of "Protector of Mexico". For the first few years after arriving in San Francisco in 1849, Norton made a successful living as a commodities trader and real estate speculator. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emperor Norton has received more than 2,633,759 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Emperor Norton is the 40th most popular extremist (up from 57th in 2019), the 628th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 837th in 2019) and the most popular British Extremist.
Emperor Norton was a man who claimed to be the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. He was most famous for declaring himself Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, which he did on September 17, 1859.
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Among extremists, Emperor Norton ranks 40 out of 209. Before him are Andreas Baader, Tommaso Buscetta, Nathuram Godse, Peter Kürten, Vincenzo Peruggia, and William Kemmler. After him are George Jung, Issei Sagawa, Henri Désiré Landru, Jeffrey Dahmer, Sawney Bean, and Fritz Haarmann.
1943 - 1977
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 34
1928 - 2000
HPI: 63.47
Rank: 35
1910 - 1949
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 36
1883 - 1931
HPI: 63.33
Rank: 37
1881 - 1925
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 38
1860 - 1890
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 39
1818 - 1880
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 40
1942 - 2021
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 41
1949 - 2022
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 42
1869 - 1922
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 43
1960 - 1994
HPI: 62.35
Rank: 44
1600 - 1600
HPI: 62.20
Rank: 45
1879 - 1925
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 46
Among people born in 1818, Emperor Norton ranks 15. Before him are Jacob Burckhardt, Lewis H. Morgan, Marius Petipa, Rudolf von Jhering, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Adolf Anderssen. After him are Charles III, Prince of Monaco, Leconte de Lisle, Sophie of Württemberg, Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria, August Wilhelm von Hofmann, and Frederick Douglass. Among people deceased in 1880, Emperor Norton ranks 7. Before him are Gustave Flaubert, Jacques Offenbach, Maria Alexandrovna, George Eliot, Paul Broca, and Henryk Wieniawski. After him are William Lassell, Ned Kelly, Anselm Feuerbach, Michel Chasles, Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, and John Sutter.
1818 - 1897
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 9
1818 - 1881
HPI: 68.86
Rank: 10
1818 - 1910
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 11
1818 - 1892
HPI: 65.00
Rank: 12
1818 - 1893
HPI: 63.86
Rank: 13
1818 - 1879
HPI: 63.01
Rank: 14
1818 - 1880
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 15
1818 - 1889
HPI: 62.51
Rank: 16
1818 - 1894
HPI: 62.09
Rank: 17
1818 - 1877
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 18
1818 - 1874
HPI: 61.03
Rank: 19
1818 - 1892
HPI: 60.93
Rank: 20
1818 - 1895
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 21
1821 - 1880
HPI: 79.06
Rank: 1
1819 - 1880
HPI: 77.67
Rank: 2
1824 - 1880
HPI: 68.63
Rank: 3
1819 - 1880
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 4
1824 - 1880
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 5
1835 - 1880
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 6
1818 - 1880
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 7
1799 - 1880
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 8
1855 - 1880
HPI: 60.73
Rank: 9
1829 - 1880
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 10
1793 - 1880
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 11
1829 - 1880
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 12
1803 - 1880
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 13
Among people born in United Kingdom, Emperor Norton ranks 628 out of 7,765. Before him are Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (1897), Robert Peel (1788), Diana Wynne Jones (1934), Bill Nighy (1949), Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (1596), and Julian Huxley (1887). After him are James Mill (1773), Karl Pearson (1857), Julie Walters (1950), Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1484), Jane Seymour (1951), and Thomas Bayes (1702).
1897 - 1965
HPI: 62.98
Rank: 622
1788 - 1850
HPI: 62.97
Rank: 623
1934 - 2011
HPI: 62.97
Rank: 624
1949 - Present
HPI: 62.96
Rank: 625
1596 - 1662
HPI: 62.95
Rank: 626
1887 - 1975
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 627
1818 - 1880
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 628
1773 - 1836
HPI: 62.93
Rank: 629
1857 - 1936
HPI: 62.90
Rank: 630
1950 - Present
HPI: 62.89
Rank: 631
1484 - 1545
HPI: 62.86
Rank: 632
1951 - Present
HPI: 62.85
Rank: 633
1702 - 1761
HPI: 62.84
Rank: 634
Among extremists born in United Kingdom, Emperor Norton ranks 1. After him are Sawney Bean (1600), Harold Shipman (1946), Dennis Nilsen (1945), Peter Sutcliffe (1946), Mary Ann Cotton (1832), John Adams (1767), Mary Bell (1957), Guy Burgess (1911), Fred West (1941), John Haigh (1909), and John Christie (1899).
1818 - 1880
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 1
1600 - 1600
HPI: 62.20
Rank: 2
1946 - 2004
HPI: 57.55
Rank: 3
1945 - 2018
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 4
1946 - 2020
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 5
1832 - 1873
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 6
1767 - 1829
HPI: 54.08
Rank: 7
1957 - Present
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 8
1911 - 1963
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 9
1941 - 1995
HPI: 50.86
Rank: 10
1909 - 1949
HPI: 50.06
Rank: 11
1899 - 1953
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 12