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Jane Toppan

1854 - 1938

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Jane Toppan (born Honora Kelley; March 31, 1854 – August 17, 1938), nicknamed Jolly Jane, was an American serial killer who they believe she murdered over 100 people in Massachusetts between 1895 and 1901. She confessed to 31 murders. The killings were carried out in Toppan's capacity as a nurse, targeting patients and their family members. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jane Toppan has received more than 1,360,098 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jane Toppan is the 179th most popular extremist, the 4,159th most popular biography from United States and the 54th most popular American Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Jane Toppan ranks 179 out of 283. Before her are Émile Henry, Tex Watson, John Haigh, Heinrich XIII Prinz Reuss, Perkin Warbeck, and Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi. After her are Samuel Little, Mary Ann Cotton, Robledo Puch, Bugs Moran, Andrew Cunanan, and Carl Panzram.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Jane Toppan ranks 64. Before her are Ottmar Mergenthaler, Adolf Erman, John Kemp Starley, Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa, Georges Vacher de Lapouge, and Arnošt Muka. After her are Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov, Isidor Gunsberg, Ludwig von Pastor, José Canalejas, Petros Protopapadakis, and Hermann von Struve. Among people deceased in 1938, Jane Toppan ranks 129. Before her are Paolo Troubetzkoy, Abdurauf Fitrat, Erik Werenskiold, Prince Arsen of Yugoslavia, Jānis Rudzutaks, and Samuel Alexander. After her are Gösta Ekman, Max Wien, Aleksandar Malinov, Turar Ryskulov, Leopoldo Lugones, and Alexander Svechin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jane Toppan ranks 4,159 out of 20,380. Before her are Alice Brady (1892), Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (1909), William Larned (1872), Frank Carlucci (1930), Eddie Bracken (1915), and Albert George Wilson (1918). After her are Lawrence Kasdan (1949), Willa Cather (1873), Charles Francis Hall (1821), John D. Rockefeller III (1906), Horace Greeley (1811), and John Lloyd Stephens (1805).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Jane Toppan ranks 54. Before her are Golden State Killer (1945), Machine Gun Kelly (1895), Baby Face Nelson (1908), Nancy Spungen (1958), Dean Corll (1939), and Tex Watson (1945). After her are Samuel Little (1940), Bugs Moran (1893), Andrew Cunanan (1969), Carl Panzram (1892), John Wesley Hardin (1853), and Richard Speck (1941).

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