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Ross Ulbricht

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Ross William Ulbricht (born March 27, 1984) is an American serving life imprisonment for creating and operating the darknet market website Silk Road from 2011 until his arrest in 2013. The site operated as a hidden service on the Tor network and facilitated the sale of narcotics and other illegal products and services. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ross Ulbricht has received more than 7,525,402 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Ross Ulbricht is the 183rd most popular extremist, the 5,274th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,329th in 2019) and the 66th most popular American Extremist.

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  • 7.5M

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  • 48.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Ross Ulbricht ranks 183 out of 209Before him are John Christie, Herbert Mullin, John Bodkin Adams, Robert Berdella, Ernst Zündel, and Abu Ayyub al-Masri. After him are Jonathan Wild, Irmgard Möller, Alexander Pichushkin, Nguyễn Văn Trỗi, Ahmad Sa'adat, and Marshall Applewhite.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1984, Ross Ulbricht ranks 38Before him are Maxi López, Badr Hari, Branislav Ivanović, Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland, Vágner Love, and Oleksiy Honcharuk. After him are Shin Min-a, Samir Handanović, Helene Fischer, Milo Yiannopoulos, Theo James, and Nigel de Jong.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ross Ulbricht ranks 5,274 out of 18,182Before him are Mike Wallace (1918), Charles Francis Hall (1821), Emma Roberts (1991), Genie (1957), Richard Sheldon (1878), and Pamela Reed (1949). After him are Charles Bacon (1885), Mike Resnick (1942), Paul R. Ehrlich (1932), Richard Marx (1963), Gordon Willis (1931), and Murray Hamilton (1923).

Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Ross Ulbricht ranks 66Before him are Mary Surratt (1823), Charles Starkweather (1938), Stanley Williams (1953), Frank James (1843), Herbert Mullin (1947), and Robert Berdella (1949). After him are Marshall Applewhite (1931), Joseph Paul Franklin (1950), Gary Gilmore (1940), John Hinckley Jr. (1955), Mildred Gillars (1900), and William Bonin (1947).

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