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Whitey Bulger

1929 - 2018

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James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger Jr. ( ; September 3, 1929 – October 30, 2018) was an American organized crime boss who led the Winter Hill Gang, an Irish Mob group in the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, a city directly northwest of Boston. On December 23, 1994, Bulger fled the Boston area and went into hiding after his former FBI handler, John Connolly, tipped him off about a pending RICO indictment against him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Whitey Bulger has received more than 23,695,349 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Whitey Bulger is the 93rd most popular extremist (up from 97th in 2019), the 1,924th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,174th in 2019) and the 27th most popular American Extremist.

Whitey Bulger is most famous for being an Irish-American mobster who became a government informant and was a fugitive from the law for 16 years before being captured in 2011.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Whitey Bulger ranks 93 out of 283. Before him are Susan Atkins, Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova, Fritz Honka, Nedeljko Čabrinović, Henry Lee Lucas, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. After him are Jacques Mesrine, Luciano Leggio, Jack Unterweger, Harold Shipman, Sirhan Sirhan, and Wilhelm Voigt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Whitey Bulger ranks 126. Before him are Hugo Claus, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, Don Murray, Filaret, and Carolyn S. Shoemaker. After him are Fred Phelps, Robert Faurisson, Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti, Rafael Eitan, Édouard Balladur, and Michael Michai Kitbunchu. Among people deceased in 2018, Whitey Bulger ranks 77. Before him are Quini, Thorvald Stoltenberg, Girma Wolde-Giorgis, Efraín Ríos Montt, Henri Michel, and Samir Amin. After him are James Mirrlees, Odvar Nordli, Richard Pipes, Robert Faurisson, Uri Avnery, and Hayden White.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Whitey Bulger ranks 1,924 out of 20,380. Before him are Frank Stella (1936), Lee Remick (1935), Fred Haise (1933), Bruno Mars (1985), Eddie Constantine (1913), and Jean Arthur (1900). After him are Frances Conroy (1953), Nancy Fraser (1947), Armand Assante (1949), Natalie Zemon Davis (1928), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807), and Bruce McCandless II (1937).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Whitey Bulger ranks 27. Before him are Jordan Belfort (1962), Frank Sheeran (1920), Ma Barker (1873), James Earl Ray (1928), Susan Atkins (1948), and Henry Lee Lucas (1936). After him are Robert Hansen (1939), Barry Seal (1939), Richard Ramirez (1960), Baruch Goldstein (1956), Delphine LaLaurie (1787), and Aldrich Ames (1941).

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