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Lepke Buchalter

1897 - 1944

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Louis Buchalter, known as Louis Lepke or Lepke Buchalter, (February 6, 1897 – March 4, 1944) was a Jewish-American organized crime figure and head of the Mafia hit squad Murder, Inc., during the 1930s. Buchalter was one of the premier labor union racketeers in New York City during that era. Charles Birger and Buchalter are the only National Crime Syndicate bosses to be executed after being convicted of murder. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lepke Buchalter has received more than 496,352 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Lepke Buchalter is the 46th most popular mafioso (down from 44th in 2019), the 3,964th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,517th in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Mafioso.

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  • 500k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MAFIOSOS

Among mafiosos, Lepke Buchalter ranks 46 out of 70. Before him are Robert Hanssen, Vyacheslav Ivankov, Salomon Morel, Giuseppe Morello, Vincent Gigante, and Russell Bufalino. After him are Dutch Schultz, Sammy Gravano, Belle Starr, Teresa Claramunt Creus, Aafia Siddiqui, and Joseph Colombo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Lepke Buchalter ranks 160. Before him are Nicholas Poppe, Otto Struve, Lampião, Gaspar Cassadó, Marion Davies, and Mikhail Kovalyov. After him are Richard Hildebrandt, Levon Mirzoyan, Pavel Batov, Alberto Cavalcanti, Natacha Rambova, and Gunta Stölzl. Among people deceased in 1944, Lepke Buchalter ranks 183. Before him are George David Birkhoff, Félix Fénéon, Liviu Rebreanu, Prafulla Chandra Ray, Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, and Félix Éboué. After him are René Daumal, Sára Salkaházi, Stefan Rowecki, Leone Ginzburg, Georges Mandel, and Prince Gustav of Denmark.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lepke Buchalter ranks 3,964 out of 20,380. Before him are Nikos Galis (1957), Jean Peters (1926), Mack Swain (1876), Marianne Williamson (1952), Frank Marshall (1946), and David Wilkerson (1931). After him are Larry Hankin (1940), Laurens Hammond (1895), Grover Washington Jr. (1943), Kelly Johnson (1910), Virginia Cherrill (1908), and Mae Marsh (1894).

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Among MAFIOSOS In United States

Among mafiosos born in United States, Lepke Buchalter ranks 16. Before him are Richard Kuklinski (1935), Frank Lucas (1930), Sundance Kid (1867), Mickey Cohen (1913), Robert Hanssen (1944), and Vincent Gigante (1928). After him are Dutch Schultz (1902), Sammy Gravano (1945), Belle Starr (1848), Joseph Colombo (1923), Tony Accardo (1906), and Jonathan Pollard (1954).

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