Famous Criminals - List of Famous Criminals - page 2

Criminals are the individuals who have committed a crime. Crimes refer to any unlawful activity that is punishable by a state. The term “criminal” is not a strictly defined one as different states have different laws regarding crimes and unlawful activities. A crime generally can be said to be an activity that causes harm to an individual, the community or the state. Criminals may commit crimes as a means of earning their livelihood, out of jealousy, greed or malice, for recreational purposes, out of boredom, or for a plethora of other reasons. Crimes may be classified as personal crimes, property crimes, inchoate crimes and statutory crimes. Offences that cause harm to a person such as assault, murder, sexual offences, etc. come under personal crimes while robbery, burglary, arson and forgery are categorized as property crimes. Often high profile criminals are given wide coverage in mass media which accords to them a sort of celebrity status. So fascinated are people with the tales of murderers that Jack the Ripper till date remains a hot topic of discussion. Serial killer Ted Bundy is so notorious that many books and films were based on his life. Jim Jones of the infamous People’s Temple incident continues to intrigue psychologists till date. Read on to learn lurid details about the notorious criminals from all over the world.

The Most Famous Criminals

NameBirthdayNationalityBio
Edmund KemperDecember 18, 1948AmericanEdmund Kemper is a convicted serial killer from America who murdered ten people
Irma GreseOctober 7, 1923GermanIrma Grese was a notorious German Nazi concentration camp guard during the Second World War
Ayman al-ZawahiriJune 19, 1951EgyptianAyman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri is the current leader of terrorist group al-Qaeda
Carlos LehderSeptember 7, 1949ColombianCarlos Lehder is a former Colombian drug lord who is currently imprisoned in United States
Mirtha JungCuban, AmericanMirtha Jung is the ex-wife of former drug smuggler George Jung
Karla HomolkaMay 4, 1970CanadianKarla Homolka is one of Canada’s most infamous female serial killers
Benjamin RuggieroApril 19, 1926AmericanBenjamin Ruggiero was a mobster or ‘soldato’ hailing from the Bonnano crime family
Gary RidgwayFebruary 18, 1949AmericanGary Leon Ridgway is a dreaded American serial killer
Julianna FarraitPuerto RicanJulianna Farrait, also known as Julie Farrait, is the wife of notorious drug dealer Frank Lucas
Danny GreeneNovember 14, 1933AmericanDanny Greene was an infamous Irish American gangster who rose to dominate the criminal underbelly of the city of Cleveland during the 1970s
Oskar Groening

Oskar Groening

Oskar Gröning is a German ex- SS junior squad leader and posted at Auschwitz concentration camp during the World War II.

GermanJune 10, 1921157 views

John Demjanjuk

John Demjanjuk was a former Nazi guard in the Sobibór extermination camp in the occupied Poland, convicted in Germany for assisting in the murder of 28,060 Jews.

UkrainianApril 3, 1920109 views

Ilse Koch

Ilse Koch was the wife of Karl-Otto Koch, the chief of the Nazi concentration camps in Buchenwald and Majdanek

GermanSeptember 22, 1906612 views

Karl Brandt

Karl Brandt was a German physician who served as Adolf Hitler’s personal physician

GermanJanuary 8, 1904471 views

Carlos Marcello

Carlos Marcello was an Italian-American crime boss operating in New Orleans region of Louisiana

Griselda Blanco

Griselda Blanco was a Columbian drug trafficker who went on to head one of the largest drug distribution networks in the United States of America

ColombianFebruary 15, 1943277 views

Gilles de Rais

Gilles de Retz or Gilles de Rais was a lord and knight of Anjou, Poitou and Brittany who later became infamous as a serial killer of children

FrenchSeptember 4, 1404137 views

Richard Ramirez

Richard Ramirez was an American serial killer and rapist dubbed as the “Night Stalker”

AmericanFebruary 29, 19601,068 views

Jeffrey Dahmer

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was an American was a serial killer and a sex offender

AmericanMay 21, 1960513 views