1942 - 2023
Theodore John Kaczynski ( kə-ZIN-skee; May 22, 1942 – June 10, 2023), also known as the Unabomber ( YOO-nə-bom-ər), was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. He was a mathematics prodigy, but abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a primitive lifestyle. Between 1978 and 1995, Kaczynski murdered three individuals and injured 23 others in a nationwide mail bombing campaign against people he believed to be advancing modern technology and the destruction of the natural environment. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ted Kaczynski has received more than 41,501,636 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Ted Kaczynski is the 12th most popular extremist (up from 16th in 2019), the 240th most popular biography from United States (up from 356th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Extremist.
Ted Kaczynski is most famous for being the Unabomber. He sent a series of bombs to people in universities and airlines. He killed three people and injured 23 others.
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Among extremists, Ted Kaczynski ranks 12 out of 209. Before him are Osama bin Laden, Ted Bundy, Herostratus, Lee Harvey Oswald, Man in the Iron Mask, and Gilles de Rais. After him are Andrei Chikatilo, Ramón Mercader, Abdullah Öcalan, Zodiac Killer, Ed Gein, and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
1957 - 2011
HPI: 77.69
Rank: 6
1946 - 1989
HPI: 75.74
Rank: 7
301 BC - 356 BC
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 8
1939 - 1963
HPI: 72.83
Rank: 9
1640 - 1703
HPI: 72.71
Rank: 10
1405 - 1440
HPI: 72.60
Rank: 11
1942 - 2023
HPI: 70.46
Rank: 12
1936 - 1994
HPI: 69.53
Rank: 13
1913 - 1978
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 14
1949 - Present
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 15
1940 - Present
HPI: 68.43
Rank: 16
1906 - 1984
HPI: 68.39
Rank: 17
1971 - 2019
HPI: 68.11
Rank: 18
Among people born in 1942, Ted Kaczynski ranks 20. Before him are Barbra Streisand, Daniel Barenboim, Peter Handke, Scatman John, Jacques Rogge, and Isabel Allende. After him are Ronnie James Dio, Brian Jones, Brian Wilson, Dino Zoff, Michael Haneke, and Calvin Klein. Among people deceased in 2023, Ted Kaczynski ranks 9. Before him are Tina Turner, Silvio Berlusconi, Gina Lollobrigida, Constantine II of Greece, Michael Gambon, and Jeff Beck. After him are Luis Suárez, Jane Birkin, Toto Cutugno, Bobby Charlton, Louise Glück, and Just Fontaine.
1942 - Present
HPI: 73.74
Rank: 14
1942 - Present
HPI: 73.63
Rank: 15
1942 - Present
HPI: 71.92
Rank: 16
1942 - 1999
HPI: 71.70
Rank: 17
1942 - 2021
HPI: 71.50
Rank: 18
1942 - Present
HPI: 70.97
Rank: 19
1942 - 2023
HPI: 70.46
Rank: 20
1942 - 2010
HPI: 70.45
Rank: 21
1942 - 1969
HPI: 70.37
Rank: 22
1942 - Present
HPI: 69.58
Rank: 23
1942 - Present
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 24
1942 - Present
HPI: 69.47
Rank: 25
1942 - Present
HPI: 68.37
Rank: 26
1939 - 2023
HPI: 76.57
Rank: 3
1936 - 2023
HPI: 76.49
Rank: 4
1927 - 2023
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 5
1940 - 2023
HPI: 73.16
Rank: 6
1940 - 2023
HPI: 71.82
Rank: 7
1944 - 2023
HPI: 71.26
Rank: 8
1942 - 2023
HPI: 70.46
Rank: 9
1935 - 2023
HPI: 70.22
Rank: 10
1946 - 2023
HPI: 69.99
Rank: 11
1943 - 2023
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 12
1937 - 2023
HPI: 69.49
Rank: 13
1943 - 2023
HPI: 69.11
Rank: 14
1933 - 2023
HPI: 68.59
Rank: 15
Among people born in United States, Ted Kaczynski ranks 240 out of 18,182. Before him are Henry Miller (1891), Robert F. Kennedy (1925), J. Edgar Hoover (1895), Philip Kotler (1931), Rita Hayworth (1918), and Brigham Young (1801). After him are John Ford (1894), Ronnie James Dio (1942), Burt Lancaster (1913), Tony Curtis (1925), Desmond Doss (1919), and Robert Duvall (1931).
1891 - 1980
HPI: 70.60
Rank: 234
1925 - 1968
HPI: 70.54
Rank: 235
1895 - 1972
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 236
1931 - Present
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 237
1918 - 1987
HPI: 70.49
Rank: 238
1801 - 1877
HPI: 70.48
Rank: 239
1942 - 2023
HPI: 70.46
Rank: 240
1894 - 1973
HPI: 70.46
Rank: 241
1942 - 2010
HPI: 70.45
Rank: 242
1913 - 1994
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 243
1925 - 2010
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 244
1919 - 2006
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 245
1931 - Present
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 246
Among extremists born in United States, Ted Kaczynski ranks 5. Before him are John Wilkes Booth (1838), Charles Manson (1934), Ted Bundy (1946), and Lee Harvey Oswald (1939). After him are Zodiac Killer (1940), Ed Gein (1906), Albert Fish (1870), John Wayne Gacy (1942), Jim Jones (1931), Machine Gun Kelly (1895), and H. H. Holmes (1861).
1838 - 1865
HPI: 79.24
Rank: 1
1934 - 2017
HPI: 78.85
Rank: 2
1946 - 1989
HPI: 75.74
Rank: 3
1939 - 1963
HPI: 72.83
Rank: 4
1942 - 2023
HPI: 70.46
Rank: 5
1940 - Present
HPI: 68.43
Rank: 6
1906 - 1984
HPI: 68.39
Rank: 7
1870 - 1936
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 8
1942 - 1994
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 9
1931 - 1978
HPI: 67.28
Rank: 10
1895 - 1954
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 11
1861 - 1896
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 12