1702 - 1724
John "Jack" Sheppard (4 March 1702 – 16 November 1724), or "Honest Jack", was a notorious English thief and prison escapee of early 18th-century London. Born into a poor family, he was apprenticed as a carpenter but began committing theft and burglary in 1723, with little more than a year of his training to complete. He was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escaped four times from prison, making him notorious, though popular with the poorer classes. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack Sheppard has received more than 580,081 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jack Sheppard is the 428th most popular social activist (down from 362nd in 2019), the 3,345th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,922nd in 2019) and the 29th most popular British Social Activist.
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Among social activists, Jack Sheppard ranks 428 out of 538. Before him are Har Dayal, Lucy Stone, Mumia Abu-Jamal, José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo, Neerja Bhanot, and Ruby Bridges. After him are David Reimer, Joseph Wresinski, Bagha Jatin, Gunnar Sønsteby, Olga Lepeshinskaya, and Charu Majumdar.
1884 - 1939
HPI: 47.33
Rank: 422
1818 - 1893
HPI: 47.31
Rank: 423
1954 - Present
HPI: 47.27
Rank: 424
1917 - 1983
HPI: 47.25
Rank: 425
1963 - 1986
HPI: 47.22
Rank: 426
1954 - Present
HPI: 47.14
Rank: 427
1702 - 1724
HPI: 47.07
Rank: 428
1965 - 2004
HPI: 47.02
Rank: 429
1917 - 1988
HPI: 46.97
Rank: 430
1879 - 1915
HPI: 46.93
Rank: 431
1918 - 2012
HPI: 46.69
Rank: 432
1916 - 2008
HPI: 46.67
Rank: 433
1918 - 1972
HPI: 46.66
Rank: 434
Among people born in 1702, Jack Sheppard ranks 12. Before him are Muhammad Shah, Legall de Kermeur, Sava Petrović, William Fermor, Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden, and Francesco Zuccarelli. After him is Enrichetta d'Este. Among people deceased in 1724, Jack Sheppard ranks 15. Before him are Benedetto Luti, Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Glückel of Hameln, Ernest Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Johann Theile, and Princess Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach.
1702 - 1748
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 6
1702 - 1792
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 7
1702 - 1782
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 8
1702 - 1771
HPI: 50.50
Rank: 9
1702 - 1761
HPI: 50.38
Rank: 10
1702 - 1788
HPI: 49.63
Rank: 11
1702 - 1724
HPI: 47.07
Rank: 12
1702 - 1777
HPI: 45.43
Rank: 13
1666 - 1724
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 9
1672 - 1724
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 10
1646 - 1724
HPI: 50.75
Rank: 11
1681 - 1724
HPI: 50.40
Rank: 12
1646 - 1724
HPI: 49.14
Rank: 13
1663 - 1724
HPI: 48.68
Rank: 14
1702 - 1724
HPI: 47.07
Rank: 15
Among people born in United Kingdom, Jack Sheppard ranks 3,345 out of 7,765. Before him are Johnny Claes (1916), Ian Abercrombie (1934), Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818), James Arthur (1988), Steve McQueen (1969), and Ralph H. Fowler (1889). After him are Gary Lewis (1957), Tony Kaye (1952), Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835), Brian Redman (1937), John Walter Gregory (1864), and Graeme Souness (1953).
1916 - 1956
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 3,339
1934 - 2012
HPI: 47.07
Rank: 3,340
1818 - 1899
HPI: 47.07
Rank: 3,341
1988 - Present
HPI: 47.07
Rank: 3,342
1969 - Present
HPI: 47.07
Rank: 3,343
1889 - 1944
HPI: 47.07
Rank: 3,344
1702 - 1724
HPI: 47.07
Rank: 3,345
1957 - Present
HPI: 47.06
Rank: 3,346
1952 - Present
HPI: 47.06
Rank: 3,347
1835 - 1915
HPI: 47.05
Rank: 3,348
1937 - Present
HPI: 47.04
Rank: 3,349
1864 - 1932
HPI: 47.04
Rank: 3,350
1953 - Present
HPI: 47.04
Rank: 3,351
Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Jack Sheppard ranks 29. Before him are James Guillaume (1844), Donald Watson (1910), Venetia Burney (1918), Mary Dyer (1611), Mary Toft (1703), and Grey Owl (1888). After him are Octavia Hill (1838), Abdalqadir as-Sufi (1930), Annie Kenney (1879), Hereward the Wake (1035), Emily Hobhouse (1860), and Thomas Clarkson (1760).
1844 - 1916
HPI: 51.11
Rank: 23
1910 - 2005
HPI: 50.55
Rank: 24
1918 - 2009
HPI: 50.02
Rank: 25
1611 - 1660
HPI: 49.96
Rank: 26
1703 - 1763
HPI: 49.95
Rank: 27
1888 - 1938
HPI: 47.91
Rank: 28
1702 - 1724
HPI: 47.07
Rank: 29
1838 - 1912
HPI: 46.59
Rank: 30
1930 - 2021
HPI: 45.96
Rank: 31
1879 - 1953
HPI: 45.89
Rank: 32
1035 - 1072
HPI: 44.53
Rank: 33
1860 - 1926
HPI: 44.02
Rank: 34
1760 - 1846
HPI: 44.01
Rank: 35