1861 - 1896
Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1861 – May 7, 1896), better known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or H. H. Holmes, was an American con artist and serial killer, the subject of more than 50 lawsuits in Chicago alone. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of H. H. Holmes has received more than 15,684,294 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. H. H. Holmes is the 34th most popular extremist (down from 31st in 2019), the 793rd most popular biography from United States (down from 689th in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Extremist.
H. H. Holmes is most famous for the murders he committed in the late 1800s. He was a con man who would lure people to his hotel, kill them, and then steal their belongings.
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Among extremists, H. H. Holmes ranks 34 out of 209. Before him are Cleon, Machine Gun Kelly, Luis Carrero Blanco, Mehmet Ali Ağca, Frederick Trump, and Otto Ohlendorf. After him are Andreas Baader, Tommaso Buscetta, Nathuram Godse, Peter Kürten, Vincenzo Peruggia, and William Kemmler.
450 BC - 422 BC
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 28
1895 - 1954
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 29
1904 - 1973
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 30
1958 - Present
HPI: 64.08
Rank: 31
1869 - 1918
HPI: 64.06
Rank: 32
1907 - 1951
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 33
1861 - 1896
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 34
1943 - 1977
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 35
1928 - 2000
HPI: 63.47
Rank: 36
1910 - 1949
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 37
1883 - 1931
HPI: 63.33
Rank: 38
1881 - 1925
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 39
1860 - 1890
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 40
Among people born in 1861, H. H. Holmes ranks 19. Before him are Robert Bosch, Halford Mackinder, Georgy Lvov, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Aristide Maillol, and Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland. After him are Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, Maximilian von Spee, Antoine Bourdelle, Italo Svevo, José Rizal, and Ranavalona III. Among people deceased in 1896, H. H. Holmes ranks 13. Before him are William Morris, Hippolyte Fizeau, Otto Lilienthal, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ivar Aasen, and John Everett Millais. After him are Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Edmond de Goncourt, José Rizal, Ambroise Thomas, Louis-Jules Trochu, and Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours.
1861 - 1942
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 13
1861 - 1947
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 14
1861 - 1925
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 15
1861 - 1947
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 16
1861 - 1944
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 17
1861 - 1951
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 18
1861 - 1896
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 19
1861 - 1944
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 20
1861 - 1914
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 21
1861 - 1929
HPI: 63.05
Rank: 22
1861 - 1928
HPI: 62.83
Rank: 23
1861 - 1896
HPI: 62.11
Rank: 24
1861 - 1917
HPI: 61.76
Rank: 25
1834 - 1896
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 7
1819 - 1896
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 8
1848 - 1896
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 9
1811 - 1896
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 10
1813 - 1896
HPI: 64.86
Rank: 11
1829 - 1896
HPI: 64.62
Rank: 12
1861 - 1896
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 13
1831 - 1896
HPI: 63.58
Rank: 14
1822 - 1896
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 15
1861 - 1896
HPI: 62.11
Rank: 16
1811 - 1896
HPI: 62.09
Rank: 17
1815 - 1896
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 18
1814 - 1896
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 19
Among people born in United States, H. H. Holmes ranks 793 out of 18,182. Before him are George Beadle (1903), John Dos Passos (1896), Anne Sullivan (1866), Arthur Ashkin (1922), Laurence Fishburne (1961), and George Foreman (1949). After him are John Reed (1887), Charlie Sheen (1965), James Cronin (1931), Sam Peckinpah (1925), Lee Marvin (1924), and Charles H. Townes (1915).
1903 - 1989
HPI: 63.73
Rank: 787
1896 - 1970
HPI: 63.73
Rank: 788
1866 - 1936
HPI: 63.73
Rank: 789
1922 - 2020
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 790
1961 - Present
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 791
1949 - Present
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 792
1861 - 1896
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 793
1887 - 1920
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 794
1965 - Present
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 795
1931 - 2016
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 796
1925 - 1984
HPI: 63.68
Rank: 797
1924 - 1987
HPI: 63.68
Rank: 798
1915 - 2015
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 799
Among extremists born in United States, H. H. Holmes ranks 12. Before him are Zodiac Killer (1940), Ed Gein (1906), Albert Fish (1870), John Wayne Gacy (1942), Jim Jones (1931), and Machine Gun Kelly (1895). After him are William Kemmler (1860), George Jung (1942), Jeffrey Dahmer (1960), Butch Cassidy (1866), Edmund Kemper (1948), and George Stinney (1929).
1940 - Present
HPI: 68.43
Rank: 6
1906 - 1984
HPI: 68.39
Rank: 7
1870 - 1936
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 8
1942 - 1994
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 9
1931 - 1978
HPI: 67.28
Rank: 10
1895 - 1954
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 11
1861 - 1896
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 12
1860 - 1890
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 13
1942 - 2021
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 14
1960 - 1994
HPI: 62.35
Rank: 15
1866 - 1908
HPI: 61.72
Rank: 16
1948 - Present
HPI: 61.58
Rank: 17
1929 - 1944
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 18