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Vincent Gigante

1928 - 2005

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Vincent Louis Gigante ( jig-AN-tee, Italian: [dʒiˈɡante]; March 29, 1928 – December 19, 2005), also known as "Chin", was an American mobster who was boss of the Genovese crime family in New York City from 1981 to 2005. Gigante started out as a professional boxer who fought in 25 matches between 1944 and 1947. He then started working as a Mafia enforcer for what was then the Luciano crime family, forerunner of the Genovese family. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vincent Gigante has received more than 5,027,087 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Vincent Gigante is the 44th most popular mafioso (up from 49th in 2019), the 3,726th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,834th in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Mafioso.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MAFIOSOS

Among mafiosos, Vincent Gigante ranks 44 out of 70. Before him are Murder of Kitty Genovese, Salvatore Maranzano, Robert Hanssen, Vyacheslav Ivankov, Salomon Morel, and Giuseppe Morello. After him are Russell Bufalino, Lepke Buchalter, Dutch Schultz, Sammy Gravano, Belle Starr, and Teresa Claramunt Creus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Vincent Gigante ranks 242. Before him are Bengt Gustavsson, Franciszek Pieczka, Horace Silver, William Berger, Kevin Hagen, and Pierre Étaix. After him are Orson Bean, Hans Herrmann, Abdellatif Filali, Steingrímur Hermannsson, Nicolas Roeg, and Yevgeny Svetlanov. Among people deceased in 2005, Vincent Gigante ranks 125. Before him are Vasco Gonçalves, James Doohan, Andre Norton, Kevin Hagen, Zoran Mušič, and Eddie Albert. After him are Sergio Endrigo, Gordon Gould, Raoul Bott, Jimmy Smith, Suzanne Flon, and Alain Bombard.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Vincent Gigante ranks 3,726 out of 20,380. Before him are Kourtney Kardashian (1979), Tiffany Trump (1993), Tracy Chapman (1964), Leo Ryan (1925), Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1847), and Anna Gunn (1968). After him are Doyle Brunson (1933), Frederick Wiseman (1930), George Ellery Hale (1868), L. L. Langstroth (1810), Catherine Wolfe Bruce (1816), and Thomas E. Dewey (1902).

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Among MAFIOSOS In United States

Among mafiosos born in United States, Vincent Gigante ranks 15. Before him are John Gotti (1940), Richard Kuklinski (1935), Frank Lucas (1930), Sundance Kid (1867), Mickey Cohen (1913), and Robert Hanssen (1944). After him are Lepke Buchalter (1897), Dutch Schultz (1902), Sammy Gravano (1945), Belle Starr (1848), Joseph Colombo (1923), and Tony Accardo (1906).

American born Mafiosos

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