1911 - 1979
Josef Rudolf Mengele ([ˈjoːzɛf ˈmɛŋlə] (listen); 16 March 1911 – 7 February 1979), also known as the Angel of Death (German: Todesengel), was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician during World War II. He performed deadly experiments on prisoners at the Auschwitz II (Birkenau) concentration camp, where he was a member of the team of doctors who selected victims to be killed in the gas chambers, and was one of the doctors who administered the gas. With Red Army troops sweeping through German-occupied Poland, Mengele was transferred 280 kilometres (170 mi) from Auschwitz to the Gross-Rosen concentration camp on 17 January 1945, ten days before the arrival of the Soviet forces at Auschwitz. Before the war, Mengele received doctorates in anthropology and medicine, and began a career as a researcher. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josef Mengele has received more than 17,389,366 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Josef Mengele is the 6th most popular physician (up from 7th in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Germany (up from 42nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Physician.
Josef Mengele was a German SS officer and physician in Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. He is most famous for performing human experiments on prisoners and for his role in the selection of prisoners to be sent to the gas chambers.
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Among physicians, Josef Mengele ranks 6 out of 502. Before him are Hippocrates, Florence Nightingale, Galen, Paracelsus, and Robert Koch. After him are Edward Jenner, Basil of Caesarea, Andreas Vesalius, Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi, L. L. Zamenhof, and Albert Schweitzer.
460 BC - 370 BC
HPI: 88.05
Rank: 1
1820 - 1910
HPI: 82.36
Rank: 2
129 - 215
HPI: 81.77
Rank: 3
1493 - 1541
HPI: 81.43
Rank: 4
1843 - 1910
HPI: 80.51
Rank: 5
1911 - 1979
HPI: 80.38
Rank: 6
1749 - 1823
HPI: 79.98
Rank: 7
329 - 379
HPI: 78.96
Rank: 8
1514 - 1564
HPI: 77.59
Rank: 9
865 - 925
HPI: 77.08
Rank: 10
1859 - 1917
HPI: 76.38
Rank: 11
1875 - 1965
HPI: 76.35
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1911, Josef Mengele ranks 2. Before him is Ronald Reagan. After him are Baba Vanga, Konstantin Chernenko, Georges Pompidou, Naguib Mahfouz, Juan Manuel Fangio, Emil Cioran, Władysław Szpilman, Nino Rota, William Golding, and Todor Zhivkov. Among people deceased in 1979, Josef Mengele ranks 1. After him are Park Chung-hee, John Wayne, Giuseppe Meazza, Talcott Parsons, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Nino Rota, Herbert Marcuse, Jean Renoir, Hafizullah Amin, Jean Seberg, and Sándor Kocsis.
1911 - 2004
HPI: 82.84
Rank: 1
1911 - 1979
HPI: 80.38
Rank: 2
1911 - 1996
HPI: 78.78
Rank: 3
1911 - 1985
HPI: 76.28
Rank: 4
1911 - 1974
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 5
1911 - 2006
HPI: 73.58
Rank: 6
1911 - 1995
HPI: 72.77
Rank: 7
1911 - 1995
HPI: 72.73
Rank: 8
1911 - 2000
HPI: 72.60
Rank: 9
1911 - 1979
HPI: 71.12
Rank: 10
1911 - 1993
HPI: 70.57
Rank: 11
1911 - 1998
HPI: 70.41
Rank: 12
1911 - 1979
HPI: 80.38
Rank: 1
1917 - 1979
HPI: 76.02
Rank: 2
1907 - 1979
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 3
1910 - 1979
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 4
1902 - 1979
HPI: 71.74
Rank: 5
1900 - 1979
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 6
1911 - 1979
HPI: 71.12
Rank: 7
1898 - 1979
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 8
1894 - 1979
HPI: 70.01
Rank: 9
1929 - 1979
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 10
1938 - 1979
HPI: 69.14
Rank: 11
1929 - 1979
HPI: 69.06
Rank: 12
Among people born in Germany, Josef Mengele ranks 40 out of 6,142. Before him are Robert Schumann (1810), Friedrich Schiller (1759), Erwin Rommel (1891), Hermann Göring (1893), Pope Benedict XVI (1927), and Robert Koch (1843). After him are Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912), Alexander von Humboldt (1769), Adolf Eichmann (1906), Felix Mendelssohn (1809), Bernhard Riemann (1826), and Marlene Dietrich (1901).
1810 - 1856
HPI: 81.35
Rank: 34
1759 - 1805
HPI: 81.34
Rank: 35
1891 - 1944
HPI: 81.13
Rank: 36
1893 - 1946
HPI: 80.86
Rank: 37
1927 - Present
HPI: 80.78
Rank: 38
1843 - 1910
HPI: 80.51
Rank: 39
1911 - 1979
HPI: 80.38
Rank: 40
912 - 973
HPI: 80.37
Rank: 41
1769 - 1859
HPI: 79.92
Rank: 42
1906 - 1962
HPI: 79.90
Rank: 43
1809 - 1847
HPI: 79.90
Rank: 44
1826 - 1866
HPI: 79.62
Rank: 45
1901 - 1992
HPI: 79.35
Rank: 46
Among physicians born in Germany, Josef Mengele ranks 2. Before him are Robert Koch (1843). After him are Alois Alzheimer (1864), Georgius Agricola (1494), Samuel Hahnemann (1755), Emil Kraepelin (1856), Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883), Franz Mesmer (1734), Gerhard Domagk (1895), Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884), Theodor Morell (1886), and Werner Forssmann (1904).
1843 - 1910
HPI: 80.51
Rank: 1
1911 - 1979
HPI: 80.38
Rank: 2
1864 - 1915
HPI: 72.56
Rank: 3
1494 - 1555
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 4
1755 - 1843
HPI: 68.96
Rank: 5
1856 - 1926
HPI: 68.47
Rank: 6
1883 - 1970
HPI: 68.46
Rank: 7
1734 - 1815
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 8
1895 - 1964
HPI: 67.49
Rank: 9
1884 - 1951
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 10
1886 - 1948
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 11
1904 - 1979
HPI: 65.02
Rank: 12