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Marcel Petiot

1897 - 1946

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Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot (17 January 1897 – 25 May 1946) was a French medical doctor and serial killer. He was convicted of multiple murders after the discovery of the remains of 23 people in the basement of his home in Paris during World War II. He is suspected of the murder of about 60 to 200 victims during his lifetime, although the true number remains unknown. Despite showing early signs of mental illness and criminal behaviour, Petiot served in the First World War, graduated from an accelerated medical program, and began a dubious medical career that included performing abortions and supplying narcotics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcel Petiot has received more than 1,345,271 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Marcel Petiot is the 242nd most popular physician (down from 196th in 2019), the 1,893rd most popular biography from France (down from 1,452nd in 2019) and the 27th most popular French Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Marcel Petiot ranks 242 out of 726. Before him are Vladimir Dal, Hieronymus Fabricius, Norman Bethune, Hans Berger, Ernst-Robert Grawitz, and Randy Schekman. After him are Frederik Ruysch, Caspar Friedrich Wolff, Duchenne de Boulogne, Ernst Gräfenberg, Henry Heimlich, and Robert Lefkowitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Marcel Petiot ranks 86. Before him are Carl Oberg, Judith Anderson, Tarjei Vesaas, Shoghi Effendi, Chen Cheng, and Yuri Kondratyuk. After him are Elijah Muhammad, Maria Valtorta, Arthur Greiser, Samuel Noah Kramer, Jesse Douglas, and Manuel Ávila Camacho. Among people deceased in 1946, Marcel Petiot ranks 63. Before him are Alfred Stieglitz, Karl Eberhard Schöngarth, Anton Mussert, Jenny-Wanda Barkmann, Hisaichi Terauchi, and Inayatullah Khan. After him are Infanta María de la Paz of Spain, Arthur Greiser, Louis Slotin, Yōsuke Matsuoka, Henry Bergman, and Jack Johnson.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marcel Petiot ranks 1,893 out of 6,770. Before him are Valentin de Boulogne (1591), Fulk I, Count of Anjou (870), Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours (1644), Louis, Duke of Brittany (1707), Jean de Meun (1240), and François Périer (1919). After him are Jean Hyppolite (1907), Charles-André van Loo (1705), Charles de Bourbon (1523), Jean-Baptiste Bessières (1768), Louis Durey (1888), and Daniel Revenu (1942).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Marcel Petiot ranks 27. Before him are Guy de Chauliac (1300), Paul Gachet (1828), Albert Calmette (1863), Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis (1757), Bernard Kouchner (1939), and Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol (1772). After him are Duchenne de Boulogne (1806), François Magendie (1783), Édouard Séguin (1812), Edmond Locard (1877), Guillaume Dupuytren (1777), and Pierre Paul Émile Roux (1853).

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