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George Jung

1942 - 2021

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George Jacob Jung (; August 6, 1942 – May 5, 2021), nicknamed Boston George and El Americano, was an American drug trafficker and smuggler. He was a major figure in the United States cocaine trade during the 1970s and early '80s. Jung and his partner Carlos Lehder smuggled cocaine into the United States for the Colombian Medellín Cartel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Jung has received more than 12,550,126 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. George Jung is the 47th most popular extremist (down from 41st in 2019), the 1,106th most popular biography from United States (down from 938th in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Extremist.

George Jung is most famous for being a drug smuggler in the 1970s. He was convicted and sentenced to 70 years in prison, but was released after serving 20 years.

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  • 61.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, George Jung ranks 47 out of 283. Before him are William Kemmler, Mehmet Ali Ağca, Fritz Haarmann, Gudrun Ensslin, Madame de Brinvilliers, and Timothy McVeigh. After him are Karl Denke, Pavlik Morozov, Edmund Kemper, Butch Cassidy, Issei Sagawa, and Friedrich Jeckeln.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, George Jung ranks 86. Before him are Hissène Habré, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, John Cale, Jean-Claude Trichet, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, and Valeri Polyakov. After him are Donna Leon, Maria Kaczyńska, Amine Gemayel, Pál Schmitt, Bert Sakmann, and Carlos Monzón. Among people deceased in 2021, George Jung ranks 53. Before him are Phil Spector, Bernard Haitink, Hissène Habré, Ei-ichi Negishi, Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, and Betty White. After him are Noah Gordon, Giampiero Boniperti, Jean-Claude Carrière, Toshihide Maskawa, E. O. Wilson, and Abimael Guzmán.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Jung ranks 1,106 out of 20,380. Before him are Linda McCartney (1941), Richard Thaler (1945), Laura Bush (1946), Robert Vaughn (1932), Idina Menzel (1971), and Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944). After him are Mary Ainsworth (1913), Richard Serra (1939), Robert F. Furchgott (1916), Edmund Phelps (1933), Meir Kahane (1932), and Mark Wahlberg (1971).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, George Jung ranks 15. Before him are Ed Gein (1906), Albert Fish (1870), H. H. Holmes (1861), Jim Jones (1931), William Kemmler (1860), and Timothy McVeigh (1968). After him are Edmund Kemper (1948), Butch Cassidy (1866), Aileen Wuornos (1956), Dennis Rader (1945), Gary Ridgway (1949), and Jordan Belfort (1962).

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