New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

MAFIOSO

Frank Lucas

1930 - 2019

Photo of Frank Lucas

Icon of person Frank Lucas

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 6,456,303 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Frank Lucas is the 32nd most popular mafioso (down from 30th in 2019), the 2,137th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,082nd in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Mafioso.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Frank Lucas by language


Among MAFIOSOS

Among mafiosos, Frank Lucas ranks 32 out of 52. Before him are Ta Mok, Khun Sa, Salvatore Giuliano, Griselda Blanco, Vito Cascio Ferro, and Joe Masseria. After him are Jenny-Wanda Barkmann, Mickey Cohen, Sundance Kid, Du Yuesheng, Murder of Kitty Genovese, and Richard Hauptmann.

Most Popular Mafiosos in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Frank Lucas ranks 125. Before him are Rahmon Nabiyev, John Young, Tanya Savicheva, Kinji Fukasaku, Ted Hughes, and Magdalena Abakanowicz. After him are Yves Rocher, Ruth Rendell, Mary Quant, Tony Lip, Akiyuki Nosaka, and Sergei Kovalev. Among people deceased in 2019, Frank Lucas ranks 96. Before him are Nikolai Kardashev, Felice Gimondi, Peter Lindbergh, Girish Karnad, Köbi Kuhn, and Paul Badura-Skoda. After him are Robert Frank, Machiko Kyō, Šaban Šaulić, György Konrád, Peter Mayhew, and Billy Drago.

Others Born in 1930

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 2019

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In United States

Among people born in United States, Frank Lucas ranks 2,137 out of 18,182. Before him are Rob Reiner (1947), Florence Owens Thompson (1903), Ving Rhames (1959), Marie Laveau (1801), Christa McAuliffe (1948), and Doc Holliday (1851). After him are Vincent Schiavelli (1948), Michael Jeter (1952), Jessica Alba (1981), Denise Richards (1971), Marisa Berenson (1947), and Marcia Cross (1962).

Others born in United States

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among MAFIOSOS In United States

Among mafiosos born in United States, Frank Lucas ranks 12. Before him are Frank Abagnale (1948), Jeffrey Epstein (1953), Wyatt Earp (1848), Mark David Chapman (1955), John Gotti (1940), and Richard Kuklinski (1935). After him are Mickey Cohen (1913), Sundance Kid (1867), Iva Toguri D'Aquino (1916), Robert Hanssen (1944), Lepke Buchalter (1897), and Dutch Schultz (1902).

American born Mafiosos

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Twitter Activity

  • DatawheelCL