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Jacques Mesrine

1936 - 1979

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Jacques Mesrine (French pronunciation: [ʒak mɛʁin, mɛsʁin]; 28 December 1936 – 2 November 1979) was a French criminal responsible for numerous murders, bank robberies, burglaries, and kidnappings in France, the US, and Canada. Mesrine repeatedly escaped from prison and made international headlines during a final period as a fugitive when his exploits included trying to kidnap the judge who had previously sentenced him. An aptitude for disguise earned him the moniker "The Man of a Thousand Faces" and enabled him to remain at large while receiving massive publicity as a wanted man. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Mesrine has received more than 933,087 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Jacques Mesrine is the 94th most popular extremist (up from 95th in 2019), the 1,844th most popular biography from France (down from 1,840th in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Extremist.

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  • 58.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Jacques Mesrine ranks 94 out of 283. Before him are Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova, Fritz Honka, Nedeljko Čabrinović, Henry Lee Lucas, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and Whitey Bulger. After him are Luciano Leggio, Jack Unterweger, Harold Shipman, Sirhan Sirhan, Wilhelm Voigt, and Oskar Gröning.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Jacques Mesrine ranks 114. Before him are Aleida March, Didier Ratsiraka, Frank Stella, Christiane Martel, James Mirrlees, and Jim Henson. After him are Frances Shand Kydd, Raimonds Pauls, Julio María Sanguinetti, Solomon Burke, A. S. Byatt, and Amr Moussa. Among people deceased in 1979, Jacques Mesrine ranks 64. Before him are Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, Richard Rodgers, Elizabeth Bishop, Konstantin Simonov, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, and Yukio Tsuda. After him are Louis Durey, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Aleksei N. Leontiev, Yuen Siu-tien, Friedrich Ebert Jr., and Jean-Marie Villot.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Mesrine ranks 1,844 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine (1524), Antoine Baumé (1728), André Jolivet (1905), John V, Duke of Brittany (1389), Jean Chapelain (1595), and Medardus (470). After him are Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency (1594), Michel Bouquet (1925), Marguerite Louise d'Orléans (1645), Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767), Charles Dupuy (1851), and Pierre Beauchamp (1631).

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Among EXTREMISTS In France

Among extremists born in France, Jacques Mesrine ranks 7. Before him are Gilles de Rais (1405), Madame de Brinvilliers (1630), Michel Fourniret (1942), Henri Désiré Landru (1869), Jean II, Duke of Alençon (1409), and Robert-François Damiens (1715). After him are Édouard Vaillant (1840), Yvan Colonna (1960), and Zacarias Moussaoui (1968).

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