1957 - Today
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. In both instances, Bell informed her victim that he had a sore throat, which she would massage before proceeding to strangle him.Bell was convicted of manslaughter in relation to both killings in December 1968, in a trial held at Newcastle Assizes when she was 11 years old, and in which her actions were judged to have been committed under diminished responsibility. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Bell has received more than 5,225,542 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Mary Bell is the 154th most popular extremist (down from 103rd in 2019), the 2,095th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,660th in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Extremist.
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Among extremists, Mary Bell ranks 154 out of 209. Before her are Anatoly Onoprienko, Émile Henry, Matteo Messina Denaro, Stephen Paddock, Robert Ford, and Kōzō Okamoto. After her are Tsutomu Miyazaki, Yoo Young-chul, John Wesley Hardin, Guy Burgess, Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, and Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi.
1959 - 2013
HPI: 52.76
Rank: 148
1872 - 1894
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 149
1962 - 2023
HPI: 52.63
Rank: 150
1953 - 2017
HPI: 52.59
Rank: 151
1862 - 1892
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 152
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.36
Rank: 153
1957 - Present
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 154
1962 - 2008
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 155
1970 - Present
HPI: 52.30
Rank: 156
1853 - 1895
HPI: 52.30
Rank: 157
1911 - 1963
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 158
1874 - 1943
HPI: 51.90
Rank: 159
1976 - 2022
HPI: 51.87
Rank: 160
Among people born in 1957, Mary Bell ranks 96. Before her are Lucien Favre, Anna Vissi, Emmanuel Carrère, Patrick Battiston, Bernie Mac, and Klaus Augenthaler. After her are Cynthia Rothrock, Stefan Bellof, Nellie Kim, Seve Ballesteros, Stephen Dillane, and Jaco Van Dormael.
1957 - Present
HPI: 52.71
Rank: 90
1957 - Present
HPI: 52.69
Rank: 91
1957 - Present
HPI: 52.64
Rank: 92
1957 - Present
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 93
1957 - 2008
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 94
1957 - Present
HPI: 52.47
Rank: 95
1957 - Present
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 96
1957 - Present
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 97
1957 - 1985
HPI: 52.27
Rank: 98
1957 - Present
HPI: 52.27
Rank: 99
1957 - 2011
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 100
1957 - Present
HPI: 52.15
Rank: 101
1957 - Present
HPI: 52.11
Rank: 102
Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Bell ranks 2,095 out of 7,765. Before her are John Taverner (1490), Francis Darwin (1848), Ian Dury (1942), Barbara West (1911), Kit Harington (1986), and James Dyson (1947). After her are Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (1783), Joseph Lancaster (1778), John Thaw (1942), Anthony Jenkinson (1529), Thomas Beecham (1879), and Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke (1886).
1490 - 1545
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 2,089
1848 - 1925
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 2,090
1942 - 2000
HPI: 52.35
Rank: 2,091
1911 - 2007
HPI: 52.35
Rank: 2,092
1986 - Present
HPI: 52.35
Rank: 2,093
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 2,094
1957 - Present
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 2,095
1783 - 1810
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 2,096
1778 - 1838
HPI: 52.33
Rank: 2,097
1942 - 2002
HPI: 52.33
Rank: 2,098
1529 - 1610
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 2,099
1879 - 1961
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 2,100
1886 - 1960
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 2,101
Among extremists born in United Kingdom, Mary Bell ranks 8. Before her are Sawney Bean (1600), Harold Shipman (1946), Dennis Nilsen (1945), Peter Sutcliffe (1946), Mary Ann Cotton (1832), and John Adams (1767). After her are Guy Burgess (1911), Fred West (1941), John Haigh (1909), John Christie (1899), John Bodkin Adams (1899), and Jonathan Wild (1683).
1600 - 1600
HPI: 62.20
Rank: 2
1946 - 2004
HPI: 57.55
Rank: 3
1945 - 2018
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 4
1946 - 2020
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 5
1832 - 1873
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 6
1767 - 1829
HPI: 54.08
Rank: 7
1957 - Present
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 8
1911 - 1963
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 9
1941 - 1995
HPI: 50.86
Rank: 10
1909 - 1949
HPI: 50.06
Rank: 11
1899 - 1953
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 12
1899 - 1983
HPI: 49.34
Rank: 13
1683 - 1725
HPI: 48.72
Rank: 14