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Jack the Ripper

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Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer who was active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of London, England, in 1888. In both criminal case files and the contemporaneous journalistic accounts, the killer was also called the Whitechapel Murderer and Leather Apron. Attacks ascribed to Jack the Ripper typically involved women working as prostitutes who lived in the slums of the East End of London. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack the Ripper has received more than 24,555,398 page views. His biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 74 in 2019). Jack the Ripper is the most popular extremist.

Jack the Ripper is most famous for being a serial killer who murdered prostitutes in London's East End.

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  • 79

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 16.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.45

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Jack the Ripper ranks 1 out of 283. After him are Lee Harvey Oswald, Zodiac Killer, John Wilkes Booth, Osama bin Laden, Gavrilo Princip, Elizabeth Báthory, Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Herostratus, Gilles de Rais, and Man in the Iron Mask.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Jack the Ripper ranks 1. After him are Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Edward Smith, Eduard Bernstein, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Karl Ferdinand Braun, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Charles Richet, Pierre Loti, and Mihai Eminescu.

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