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Mary Bell

1957 - Today

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Mary Flora Bell (born 26 May 1957) is an English woman who, as a juvenile, killed two preschool-age boys in Scotswood, an inner suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne, in 1968. Bell committed her first killing when she was ten years old. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Bell has received more than 5,657,572 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Mary Bell is the 166th most popular extremist (down from 154th in 2019), the 2,201st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,090th in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Extremist.

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  • 5.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Mary Bell ranks 166 out of 283. Before her are Luciano Moggi, Robert Ford, Jan-Carl Raspe, Saif al-Adel, Golden State Killer, and Machine Gun Kelly. After her are Ibn al-Khattab, Eugène Terre'Blanche, Baby Face Nelson, Radislav Krstić, Nancy Spungen, and Dean Corll.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Mary Bell ranks 123. Before her are Nery Pumpido, Jaco Van Dormael, Bernie Mac, Bruce Rauner, Inès de La Fressange, and Roberto Rojas. After her are Genie, Viktor Vekselberg, Kadim Al Sahir, Paul Reiser, Shirin Neshat, and Susanna Tamaro.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Bell ranks 2,201 out of 8,785. Before her are William Speirs Bruce (1867), James Stirling (1692), Clive Sinclair (1940), Caroline Graham (1931), Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1874), and Norman McLaren (1914). After her are John Kemp Starley (1854), Timothy Garton Ash (1955), Nicolas Roeg (1928), Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836), Joseph Lancaster (1778), and Humphrey Gilbert (1539).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United Kingdom

Among extremists born in United Kingdom, Mary Bell ranks 7. Before her are Sawney Bean (1600), Emperor Norton (1818), Harold Shipman (1946), Dennis Nilsen (1945), Fred West (1941), and John Adams (1767). After her are John Haigh (1909), Mary Ann Cotton (1832), Peter Sutcliffe (1946), Guy Burgess (1911), Amelia Dyer (1837), and John Bodkin Adams (1899).

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