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Sammy Gravano

1945 - Today

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Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano (born March 12, 1945) is an American former mobster who rose to the position of underboss in the Gambino crime family. As the underboss, Gravano played a major role in prosecuting John Gotti, the crime family's boss, by agreeing to testify as a government witness against him and other mobsters in a deal in which he confessed to involvement in 19 murders. Originally an associate for the Colombo crime family, and later for the Brooklyn faction of the Gambino family, Gravano was part of the group in 1985 that conspired to murder Gambino boss Paul Castellano. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sammy Gravano has received more than 9,462,471 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Sammy Gravano is the 48th most popular mafioso, the 4,134th most popular biography from United States and the 18th most popular American Mafioso.

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  • 9.5M

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  • 52.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MAFIOSOS

Among mafiosos, Sammy Gravano ranks 48 out of 70. Before him are Salomon Morel, Giuseppe Morello, Vincent Gigante, Russell Bufalino, Lepke Buchalter, and Dutch Schultz. After him are Belle Starr, Teresa Claramunt Creus, Aafia Siddiqui, Joseph Colombo, Tony Accardo, and Joe Profaci.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Sammy Gravano ranks 276. Before him are Jean-Pierre Kutwa, Leonard Adleman, Cem Karaca, Sylvester Levay, David D. Friedman, and Pietro Grasso. After him are Rüdiger Safranski, Bruno Nuytten, Adrienne Barbeau, Prawit Wongsuwon, Zdeňka Vávrová, and Jim Davis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sammy Gravano ranks 4,134 out of 20,380. Before him are Allen Klein (1931), Robert Anton Wilson (1932), Richard Mentor Johnson (1780), Sally Kirkland (1941), Terry Dischinger (1940), and Raymond Moody (1944). After him are Floyd Council (1911), Edward Bellamy (1850), Kim Darby (1947), John Petrucci (1967), Andreas Katsulas (1946), and Eugene Odum (1913).

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Among MAFIOSOS In United States

Among mafiosos born in United States, Sammy Gravano ranks 18. Before him are Sundance Kid (1867), Mickey Cohen (1913), Robert Hanssen (1944), Vincent Gigante (1928), Lepke Buchalter (1897), and Dutch Schultz (1902). After him are Belle Starr (1848), Joseph Colombo (1923), Tony Accardo (1906), Jonathan Pollard (1954), Assata Shakur (1947), and Kenneth Lay (1942).

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