RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Mary Jane Kelly

1863 - 1888

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Mary Jane Kelly (c. 1863 – 9 November 1888), also known as Marie Jeanette Kelly, Fair Emma, Ginger, Dark Mary and Black Mary, is widely believed by scholars to have been the final victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper, who murdered at least five women in the Whitechapel and Spitalfields districts of London from late August to early November 1888. At the time of Kelly's death, she was approximately 25 years old, working as a prostitute and living in relative poverty. Unlike the other four canonical Ripper victims—each of whom had been murdered outdoors and whose mutilations could have been committed within minutes—Kelly was murdered within the sparsely furnished single room she rented at 13 Miller's Court, affording her murderer an extensive period of time to eviscerate and mutilate her body. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Jane Kelly has received more than 2,928,071 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Mary Jane Kelly is the 966th most popular religious figure (up from 1,017th in 2019), the 55th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 54th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Irish Religious Figure.

Mary Jane Kelly is most famous for being the last of the five victims of Jack the Ripper.

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  • 2.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Mary Jane Kelly ranks 966 out of 3,187. Before her are Arsenius the Great, Hermenegild, Donatus Magnus, Suhayb ar-Rumi, Antipope Honorius II, and Charles I, Count of Flanders. After her are Saint Sabina, Giovanni Angelo Becciu, Ikkyū, Saint Petronilla, Fatimah bint Musa, and Gerhard Ludwig Müller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Mary Jane Kelly ranks 37. Before her are Leo Baekeland, Annie Jump Cannon, Essad Pasha Toptani, Andrés Bonifacio, Paul Painlevé, and Hugo Münsterberg. After her are Franz von Hipper, Abdul Karim, Albert Calmette, Felix Weingartner, Archduke Eugen of Austria, and Émile Friant. Among people deceased in 1888, Mary Jane Kelly ranks 18. Before her are François Achille Bazaine, Ascanio Sobrero, Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, Theodor Storm, Paul Langerhans, and Johannes Zukertort. After her are Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Ali Rıza Efendi, Mary Ann Nichols, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, and Asa Gray.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Mary Jane Kelly ranks 55 out of 549. Before her are John Tyndall (1820), Edward England (1685), Dolores O'Riordan (1971), David Kelly (1929), William C. Campbell (1930), and Richard Cantillon (1680). After her are George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence (1449), Colin Farrell (1976), Thomas Moore (1779), Sinéad O'Connor (1966), Brian Cowen (1960), and Mary Robinson (1944).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Ireland

Among religious figures born in Ireland, Mary Jane Kelly ranks 3. Before her are Columbanus (540), and Columba (521). After her are Kevin Farrell (1947), Saint Fiacre (607), Brigid of Kildare (451), Saint Kilian (640), Dymphna (700), Coloman of Stockerau (1000), Kevin of Glendalough (498), Adomnán (624), and Violet Gibson (1876).

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