1889 - 1966
Francesco "Frank" Lentini (May 18, 1889 − September 21, 1966) was an Italian-American sideshow performer who toured with numerous circuses. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Lentini has received more than 1,538,431 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Frank Lentini is the 3,992nd most popular politician (up from 4,146th in 2019), the 1,216th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,296th in 2019) and the 284th most popular Italian Politician.
Frank Lentini is most famous for being the first person to successfully use a polygraph to catch a murderer.
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Among politicians, Frank Lentini ranks 3,992 out of 15,577. Before him are Kantarō Suzuki, Peter I of Bulgaria, Haakon III of Norway, Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia, Venustiano Carranza, and Alfonso V of León. After him are Vojtech Tuka, Mike Pence, Maurice Thorez, Erwin Piscator, Eumenes III, and Otto Georg Thierack.
1868 - 1948
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 3,986
927 - 970
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 3,987
1182 - 1204
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 3,988
1883 - 1942
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 3,989
1859 - 1920
HPI: 60.25
Rank: 3,990
994 - 1028
HPI: 60.25
Rank: 3,991
1889 - 1966
HPI: 60.25
Rank: 3,992
1880 - 1946
HPI: 60.25
Rank: 3,993
1959 - Present
HPI: 60.24
Rank: 3,994
1900 - 1964
HPI: 60.24
Rank: 3,995
1893 - 1966
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 3,996
200 BC - 129 BC
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 3,997
1889 - 1946
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 3,998
Among people born in 1889, Frank Lentini ranks 42. Before him are Taha Hussein, Günther Lütjens, Philip Noel-Baker, Hannes Kolehmainen, Hannes Meyer, and Olave Baden-Powell. After him are Otto Georg Thierack, Kim Tu-bong, Richard Réti, Eberhard von Mackensen, Lyubov Popova, and Hans-Jürgen Stumpff. Among people deceased in 1966, Frank Lentini ranks 42. Before him are Charlotte Cooper, D. T. Suzuki, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Hannes Kolehmainen, Cléo de Mérode, and Ludwig Binswanger. After him are Erwin Piscator, Lao She, Jisaburō Ozawa, Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Stanisław Jerzy Lec, and Margaret Sanger.
1889 - 1973
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 36
1889 - 1941
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 37
1889 - 1982
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 38
1889 - 1966
HPI: 60.63
Rank: 39
1889 - 1954
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 40
1889 - 1977
HPI: 60.46
Rank: 41
1889 - 1966
HPI: 60.25
Rank: 42
1889 - 1946
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 43
1889 - 1958
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 44
1889 - 1929
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 45
1889 - 1969
HPI: 59.94
Rank: 46
1889 - 1924
HPI: 59.54
Rank: 47
1889 - 1968
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 48
1870 - 1966
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 36
1870 - 1966
HPI: 60.68
Rank: 37
1883 - 1966
HPI: 60.68
Rank: 38
1889 - 1966
HPI: 60.63
Rank: 39
1875 - 1966
HPI: 60.46
Rank: 40
1881 - 1966
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 41
1889 - 1966
HPI: 60.25
Rank: 42
1893 - 1966
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 43
1899 - 1966
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 44
1886 - 1966
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 45
1895 - 1966
HPI: 60.14
Rank: 46
1909 - 1966
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 47
1879 - 1966
HPI: 59.50
Rank: 48
Among people born in Italy, Frank Lentini ranks 1,216 out of 4,668. Before him are Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1439), Ferdinando Carulli (1770), Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (1484), Melozzo da Forlì (1438), Ivanoe Bonomi (1873), and Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1835). After him are Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598), Andrea Pirlo (1979), Giambattista Pittoni (1687), Claudia Mori (1944), Peter Chrysologus (380), and Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682).
1439 - 1502
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 1,210
1770 - 1841
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 1,211
1484 - 1546
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 1,212
1438 - 1494
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 1,213
1873 - 1951
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 1,214
1835 - 1908
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 1,215
1889 - 1966
HPI: 60.25
Rank: 1,216
1598 - 1671
HPI: 60.24
Rank: 1,217
1979 - Present
HPI: 60.22
Rank: 1,218
1687 - 1767
HPI: 60.21
Rank: 1,219
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 1,220
380 - 450
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 1,221
1682 - 1771
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 1,222
Among politicians born in Italy, Frank Lentini ranks 284. Before him are Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Sardinia (1773), Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma (1524), Louis V, Duke of Bavaria (1315), Francesco Morosini (1619), Ivanoe Bonomi (1873), and Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1835). After him are Giuseppe Conte (1964), Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1417), Prince Henry of Battenberg (1858), Radagaisus (400), Lucius Munatius Plancus (-87), and Maria Teresa of Savoy (1803).
1773 - 1832
HPI: 60.39
Rank: 278
1524 - 1586
HPI: 60.38
Rank: 279
1315 - 1361
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 280
1619 - 1694
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 281
1873 - 1951
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 282
1835 - 1908
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 283
1889 - 1966
HPI: 60.25
Rank: 284
1964 - Present
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 285
1417 - 1468
HPI: 60.11
Rank: 286
1858 - 1896
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 287
400 - 406
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 288
87 BC - 15 BC
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 289
1803 - 1879
HPI: 60.05
Rank: 290