1942 - 1994
John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender known as the Killer Clown who assaulted and murdered at least 33 young men and boys. Gacy regularly performed at children's hospitals and charitable events as "Pogo the Clown" or "Patches the Clown", personas he had devised. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Wayne Gacy has received more than 17,047,428 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. John Wayne Gacy is the 26th most popular extremist (down from 24th in 2019), the 562nd most popular biography from United States (up from 598th in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Extremist.
John Wayne Gacy was an American serial killer and rapist. He was convicted of the sexual assault and murder of 33 teenage boys and young men in the 1970s. He was sentenced to death and executed by lethal injection in 1994.
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Among extremists, John Wayne Gacy ranks 26 out of 205. Before him are Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Charles Ponzi, Cleon, Machine Gun Kelly, Jim Jones, and Amon Göth. After him are Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, Carlos the Jackal, Mehmet Ali Ağca, Ayman al-Zawahiri, H. H. Holmes, and Tommaso Buscetta.
1971 - 2019
HPI: 74.74
Rank: 20
1882 - 1949
HPI: 74.68
Rank: 21
450 BC - 422 BC
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 22
1895 - 1954
HPI: 74.51
Rank: 23
1931 - 1978
HPI: 74.36
Rank: 24
1908 - 1946
HPI: 74.12
Rank: 25
1942 - 1994
HPI: 73.94
Rank: 26
1946 - Present
HPI: 73.70
Rank: 27
1949 - Present
HPI: 73.38
Rank: 28
1958 - Present
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 29
1951 - Present
HPI: 73.06
Rank: 30
1861 - 1896
HPI: 72.79
Rank: 31
1928 - 2000
HPI: 72.47
Rank: 32
Among people born in 1942, John Wayne Gacy ranks 32. Before him are Werner Herzog, Daniel Barenboim, Ian McShane, Ehud Barak, Lou Reed, and Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. After him are José Eduardo dos Santos, Jochen Rindt, Mohamed ElBaradei, Giacinto Facchetti, Michael Bloomberg, and Wen Jiabao. Among people deceased in 1994, John Wayne Gacy ranks 25. Before him are Paul Feyerabend, George Peppard, Guy Debord, Jan Tinbergen, Melina Mercouri, and Henry Mancini. After him are Domenico Modugno, Dorothy Hodgkin, Telly Savalas, Robert Doisneau, Paul Delvaux, and Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia.
1942 - Present
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 26
1942 - Present
HPI: 75.08
Rank: 27
1942 - Present
HPI: 74.79
Rank: 28
1942 - Present
HPI: 74.48
Rank: 29
1942 - 2013
HPI: 74.36
Rank: 30
1942 - Present
HPI: 74.06
Rank: 31
1942 - 1994
HPI: 73.94
Rank: 32
1942 - Present
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 33
1942 - 1970
HPI: 73.62
Rank: 34
1942 - Present
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 35
1942 - 2006
HPI: 73.13
Rank: 36
1942 - Present
HPI: 73.08
Rank: 37
1942 - Present
HPI: 72.89
Rank: 38
1924 - 1994
HPI: 74.86
Rank: 19
1928 - 1994
HPI: 74.48
Rank: 20
1931 - 1994
HPI: 74.16
Rank: 21
1903 - 1994
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 22
1920 - 1994
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 23
1924 - 1994
HPI: 74.01
Rank: 24
1942 - 1994
HPI: 73.94
Rank: 25
1928 - 1994
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 26
1910 - 1994
HPI: 73.66
Rank: 27
1922 - 1994
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 28
1912 - 1994
HPI: 72.97
Rank: 29
1897 - 1994
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 30
1907 - 1994
HPI: 72.52
Rank: 31
Among people born in United States, John Wayne Gacy ranks 562 out of 15,968. Before him are Sean Penn (1960), Lewis H. Morgan (1818), Goldie Hawn (1945), Richard Stallman (1953), Scott Joplin (1868), and Glenn Close (1947). After him are Martin Landau (1928), Michael Keaton (1951), Benny Goodman (1909), Gertrude B. Elion (1918), Josephine Cochrane (1839), and Steven Tyler (1948).
1960 - Present
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 556
1818 - 1881
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 557
1945 - Present
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 558
1953 - Present
HPI: 73.97
Rank: 559
1868 - 1917
HPI: 73.94
Rank: 560
1947 - Present
HPI: 73.94
Rank: 561
1942 - 1994
HPI: 73.94
Rank: 562
1928 - 2017
HPI: 73.93
Rank: 563
1951 - Present
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 564
1909 - 1986
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 565
1918 - 1999
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 566
1839 - 1913
HPI: 73.88
Rank: 567
1948 - Present
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 568
Among extremists born in United States, John Wayne Gacy ranks 11. Before him are Ed Gein (1906), Ted Kaczynski (1942), Zodiac Killer (1940), Albert Fish (1870), Machine Gun Kelly (1895), and Jim Jones (1931). After him are H. H. Holmes (1861), Barry Seal (1939), Butch Cassidy (1866), Henry Lee Lucas (1936), Frank Sheeran (1920), and William Kemmler (1860).
1906 - 1984
HPI: 76.57
Rank: 5
1942 - Present
HPI: 75.88
Rank: 6
1940 - Present
HPI: 75.80
Rank: 7
1870 - 1936
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 8
1895 - 1954
HPI: 74.51
Rank: 9
1931 - 1978
HPI: 74.36
Rank: 10
1942 - 1994
HPI: 73.94
Rank: 11
1861 - 1896
HPI: 72.79
Rank: 12
1939 - Present
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 13
1866 - 1908
HPI: 71.50
Rank: 14
1936 - 2001
HPI: 70.84
Rank: 15
1920 - 2003
HPI: 70.81
Rank: 16
1860 - 1890
HPI: 70.61
Rank: 17