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Frank Lucas

1930 - 2019

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Frank Lucas (September 9, 1930 – May 30, 2019) was an American drug lord who operated in Harlem, New York City, during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was known for cutting out middlemen in the drug trade and buying heroin directly from his source in the Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia. Lucas boasted that he smuggled heroin using the coffins of dead American servicemen, as depicted in the feature film American Gangster (2007), which fictionalized aspects of his life. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Lucas has received more than 7,370,754 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Frank Lucas is the 35th most popular mafioso (down from 32nd in 2019), the 2,424th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,135th in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Mafioso.

Memorability Metrics

  • 7.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MAFIOSOS

Among mafiosos, Frank Lucas ranks 35 out of 70. Before him are Amado Carrillo Fuentes, Joe Masseria, Du Yuesheng, Richard Hauptmann, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, and Richard Kuklinski. After him are Sundance Kid, Mickey Cohen, Murder of Kitty Genovese, Salvatore Maranzano, Robert Hanssen, and Vyacheslav Ivankov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Frank Lucas ranks 138. Before him are Lina Kostenko, Marshall Sahlins, Fritz Wunderlich, Kinji Fukasaku, Ahmed Zaki Yamani, and Ahmad Shah of Pahang. After him are Dündar Ali Osman, Guy Ligier, James Baker, Eugenio Castellotti, Bernard Collomb, and Tanya Savicheva. Among people deceased in 2019, Frank Lucas ranks 110. Before him are Branko Lustig, Peter Mayhew, Guillermo Mordillo, Paul Badura-Skoda, György Konrád, and Ahmad Shah of Pahang. After him are Rip Torn, Eddie Money, Emanuel Ungaro, Andrés Gimeno, Hirokazu Kanazawa, and James Ingram.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frank Lucas ranks 2,424 out of 20,380. Before him are David Farragut (1801), Craig T. Nelson (1944), Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1891), Jon Favreau (1966), Joan Bennett (1910), and Bud Powell (1924). After him are Tony Sirico (1942), Charles Addams (1912), Mandy Patinkin (1952), Lana Del Rey (1985), Berenice Abbott (1898), and John Hancock (1737).

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Among MAFIOSOS In United States

Among mafiosos born in United States, Frank Lucas ranks 11. Before him are Frank Abagnale (1948), John Dillinger (1903), Mark David Chapman (1955), Wyatt Earp (1848), John Gotti (1940), and Richard Kuklinski (1935). After him are Sundance Kid (1867), Mickey Cohen (1913), Robert Hanssen (1944), Vincent Gigante (1928), Lepke Buchalter (1897), and Dutch Schultz (1902).

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