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Machine Gun Kelly

1895 - 1954

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George Kelly Barnes (July 17, 1900 – July 18, 1954), better known by his nickname "Machine Gun Kelly", was an American gangster from Memphis, Tennessee, active during the Prohibition era. His nickname came from his favorite weapon, a Thompson submachine gun. He is best known for the kidnapping of oil tycoon and businessman Charles F. Urschel in July 1933, from which he and his gang collected a $200,000 ransom (equivalent to $4.71 million in 2023). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Machine Gun Kelly has received more than 3,986,602 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Machine Gun Kelly is the 28th most popular extremist (down from 23rd in 2019), the 572nd most popular biography from United States (down from 497th in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Extremist.

Machine Gun Kelly is most famous for his song "Bad Boy" which is a tribute to the late rapper Notorious B.I.G.

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  • 22

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Machine Gun Kelly ranks 28 out of 209. Before him are Ayman al-Zawahiri, John Wayne Gacy, Jim Jones, Carlos the Jackal, Amon Göth, and Cleon. After him are Luis Carrero Blanco, Mehmet Ali Ağca, Frederick Trump, Otto Ohlendorf, H. H. Holmes, and Andreas Baader.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Machine Gun Kelly ranks 39. Before him are Cemal Gürsel, Levi Eshkol, Vladimir Propp, Ragnar Frisch, Igor Tamm, and Ludvík Svoboda. After him are László Moholy-Nagy, Khorloogiin Choibalsan, Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Jürgen Stroop, and Vasily Blokhin. Among people deceased in 1954, Machine Gun Kelly ranks 18. Before him are Alcide De Gasperi, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Maximilian von Weichs, Dziga Vertov, Otto Diels, and Andrey Vyshinsky. After him are The French Angel, Jacinto Benavente, Claude Cahun, Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Auguste Perret, and Hannes Meyer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Machine Gun Kelly ranks 572 out of 18,182. Before him are Harold Lloyd (1893), Alfred Kinsey (1894), Gwen Stefani (1969), William P. Murphy (1892), Henry Mancini (1924), and Walter Matthau (1920). After him are D. B. Cooper (1931), Richard Meier (1934), William Holden (1918), Robert Kardashian (1944), Reese Witherspoon (1976), and Mark Zuckerberg (1984).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Machine Gun Kelly ranks 11. Before him are Ted Kaczynski (1942), Zodiac Killer (1940), Ed Gein (1906), Albert Fish (1870), John Wayne Gacy (1942), and Jim Jones (1931). After him are H. H. Holmes (1861), William Kemmler (1860), George Jung (1942), Jeffrey Dahmer (1960), Butch Cassidy (1866), and Edmund Kemper (1948).

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