SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Pretty Boy Floyd

1904 - 1934

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Charles Arthur Floyd (February 3, 1904 – October 22, 1934), nicknamed Pretty Boy Floyd, was an American bank robber. He operated in the West and Central states, and his criminal exploits gained widespread press coverage in the 1930s. He was seen positively by the public because, during robberies, he burned mortgage documents freeing many people from their debts. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pretty Boy Floyd has received more than 4,331,824 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Pretty Boy Floyd is the 496th most popular social activist, the 7,006th most popular biography from United States and the 67th most popular American Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Pretty Boy Floyd ranks 496 out of 840. Before him are Meri Mangakāhia, Fred Hampton, Raisa Aronova, Josué de Castro, Eugénie Cotton, and Malalai of Maiwand. After him are Stokely Carmichael, Dorothea Dix, Bagha Jatin, David Reimer, Virginia Bolten, and Gertrud Adelborg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Pretty Boy Floyd ranks 246. Before him are Sven Thofelt, Christian Møller, Chūhei Nambu, Rukmini Devi Arundale, Doris Eaton Travis, and Herbert Selpin. After him are Lillian Copeland, Paul Mattick, Margery Allingham, Alfredo Brilhante da Costa, Tommy Douglas, and Boris Livanov. Among people deceased in 1934, Pretty Boy Floyd ranks 128. Before him are E. A. Wallis Budge, Nelly Diener, Eduard Bagritsky, Orest Khvolson, Wallace Fard Muhammad, and Manuel Márquez Sterling. After him are Sergey Oldenburg, Bunzō Hayata, Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso, Cecilia Grierson, Nathaniel Lord Britton, and Jiro Sato.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Pretty Boy Floyd ranks 7,006 out of 20,380. Before him are David Leitch (1975), Billie Dove (1903), Peter Fleming (1955), Lee Friedlander (1934), Jack LaLanne (1914), and Samantha Fox (1950). After him are Roger Maris (1934), Consuelo Vanderbilt (1877), Seán Patrick O'Malley (1944), Lillian Copeland (1904), Anne Osborn Krueger (1934), and James Juvenal (1874).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Pretty Boy Floyd ranks 67. Before him are William Lloyd Garrison (1805), Lucy Stone (1818), Medgar Evers (1925), Phyllis Schlafly (1924), Mumia Abu-Jamal (1954), and Fred Hampton (1948). After him are Dorothea Dix (1802), William Luther Pierce (1933), Jerry Rubin (1938), Lucy Parsons (1853), Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842), and Ruby Bridges (1954).

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