EXTREMIST
Jack the Ripper
1850 - Today
Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer 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 and worked 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 22,490,771 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.
Memorability Metrics
22M
Page Views (PV)
83.51
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
79
Languages Editions (L)
16.85
Effective Languages (L*)
2.45
Coefficient of Variation (CV)
Page views of Jack the Rippers by language
Over the past year Jack the Ripper has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 2,504,493 views, followed by Spanish (460,027), and Russian (445,796). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Neapolitan (193.27%), Sinhalese (161.86%), and Kabyle (150.23%)
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.
Most Popular Extremists in Wikipedia
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Jack the Ripper
1850 - Present
HPI: 83.51
Rank: 1
Lee Harvey Oswald
1939 - 1963
HPI: 81.18
Rank: 2
Zodiac Killer
1940 - Present
HPI: 79.87
Rank: 3
John Wilkes Booth
1838 - 1865
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 4
Osama bin Laden
1957 - 2011
HPI: 78.46
Rank: 5
Gavrilo Princip
1894 - 1918
HPI: 77.40
Rank: 6
Elizabeth Báthory
1560 - 1614
HPI: 77.32
Rank: 7
Charles Manson
1934 - 2017
HPI: 76.56
Rank: 8
Ted Bundy
1946 - 1989
HPI: 74.79
Rank: 9
Herostratus
301 BC - 356 BC
HPI: 73.73
Rank: 10
Gilles de Rais
1405 - 1440
HPI: 71.78
Rank: 11
Man in the Iron Mask
1640 - 1703
HPI: 71.39
Rank: 12
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.
Others Born in 1850
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EXTREMIST
1850 - Present
HPI: 83.51
Rank: 1
Guy de Maupassant
WRITER
1850 - 1893
HPI: 76.11
Rank: 2
Robert Louis Stevenson
WRITER
1850 - 1894
HPI: 74.84
Rank: 3
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
POLITICIAN
1850 - 1937
HPI: 72.47
Rank: 4
Edward Smith
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1850 - 1912
HPI: 71.33
Rank: 5
Eduard Bernstein
POLITICIAN
1850 - 1932
HPI: 70.99
Rank: 6
Sofia Kovalevskaya
MATHEMATICIAN
1850 - 1891
HPI: 70.47
Rank: 7
Karl Ferdinand Braun
INVENTOR
1850 - 1918
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 8
Hermann Ebbinghaus
PSYCHOLOGIST
1850 - 1909
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 9
Charles Richet
BIOLOGIST
1850 - 1935
HPI: 67.70
Rank: 10
Pierre Loti
WRITER
1850 - 1923
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 11
Mihai Eminescu
WRITER
1850 - 1889
HPI: 65.33
Rank: 12
