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Gary Ridgway

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Gary Leon Ridgway (born February 18, 1949) is an American serial killer known as the Green River Killer. He was initially convicted of 48 separate murders committed between the early 1980s and late 1990s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gary Ridgway has received more than 16,199,973 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Gary Ridgway is the 70th most popular extremist (up from 83rd in 2019), the 1,508th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,832nd in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Extremist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Gary Ridgway ranks 70 out of 283. Before him are Taha Yassin Ramadan, Pedro López, Carlo Gambino, Kang Kek Iew, Matteo Messina Denaro, and Johnny Torrio. After him are Willi Herold, Charles Sobhraj, Hermine Braunsteiner, Jordan Belfort, Frank Sheeran, and Shamil Basayev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Gary Ridgway ranks 81. Before him are Vicky Leandros, Mick Taylor, Morten Olsen, Brahim Ghali, Carl Bildt, and Margareta of Romania. After him are Svetislav Pešić, Valeriy Borzov, Peter Agre, Paloma Picasso, Bei Dao, and Larry Holmes.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gary Ridgway ranks 1,508 out of 20,380. Before him are Patrick McGoohan (1928), Paul Greengard (1925), Matt LeBlanc (1967), Robert Sheckley (1928), Sam Cooke (1931), and James Van Allen (1914). After him are Charles Mingus (1922), Jake Gyllenhaal (1980), Elias James Corey (1928), James Brolin (1940), Phil Jackson (1945), and Henry Norris Russell (1877).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Gary Ridgway ranks 20. Before him are Timothy McVeigh (1968), George Jung (1942), Edmund Kemper (1948), Butch Cassidy (1866), Aileen Wuornos (1956), and Dennis Rader (1945). After him are Jordan Belfort (1962), Frank Sheeran (1920), Ma Barker (1873), James Earl Ray (1928), Susan Atkins (1948), and Henry Lee Lucas (1936).

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