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Jeffrey Dahmer

1960 - 1994

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Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (; May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994), also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and sex offender who killed and dismembered seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991. Many of his later murders involved necrophilia, cannibalism, and the permanent preservation of body parts—typically all or part of the skeleton.Although he was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, schizotypal personality disorder, and a psychotic disorder, Dahmer was found to be legally sane at his trial. He was convicted of fifteen of the sixteen homicides he had committed in Wisconsin and was sentenced to fifteen terms of life imprisonment on February 17, 1992. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jeffrey Dahmer has received more than 94,398,514 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Jeffrey Dahmer is the 46th most popular extremist (up from 75th in 2019), the 968th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,600th in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Extremist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

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  • 5.17

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  • 4.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Jeffrey Dahmer ranks 46 out of 209. Before him are William Kemmler, Emperor Norton, Marinus van der Lubbe, George Jung, Issei Sagawa, and Henri Désiré Landru. After him are Sawney Bean, Fritz Haarmann, Pavlik Morozov, Madame de Brinvilliers, Abu Nidal, and Butch Cassidy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Jeffrey Dahmer ranks 21. Before him are Hugh Grant, Sean Penn, Franco Baresi, Tilda Swinton, Hugo Weaving, and Kim Ki-duk. After him are Bono, Kenneth Branagh, Roland Ratzenberger, Rudi Völler, Isaac Herzog, and Miguel Díaz-Canel. Among people deceased in 1994, Jeffrey Dahmer ranks 43. Before him are Roger Wolcott Sperry, Paul Delvaux, Juvénal Habyarimana, Fernando Rey, György Cziffra, and André Michel Lwoff. After him are Pujie, Jessica Tandy, Niels Kaj Jerne, Jean-Louis Barrault, Sergei Bondarchuk, and Jack Kirby.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jeffrey Dahmer ranks 968 out of 18,182. Before him are Murray Rothbard (1926), Carl Weathers (1948), Mel Ferrer (1917), Mark Wahlberg (1971), Judith Butler (1956), and Joel Schumacher (1939). After him are Richard E. Byrd (1888), Peggy Guggenheim (1898), Susan B. Anthony (1820), Virginia Apgar (1909), Thomas Pynchon (1937), and Sam Shepard (1943).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Jeffrey Dahmer ranks 15. Before him are John Wayne Gacy (1942), Jim Jones (1931), Machine Gun Kelly (1895), H. H. Holmes (1861), William Kemmler (1860), and George Jung (1942). After him are Butch Cassidy (1866), Edmund Kemper (1948), George Stinney (1929), Jordan Belfort (1962), Frank Sheeran (1920), and Barry Seal (1939).

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