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Notorious Figures

All Notorious Figures

Role: Any Criminal 18 Assassin 6 Financier 4 Fraudster 4 Intelligence Officer 4 Legislator 4

Order: Most notable By term A–Z Born earliest Born latest Longest lived Shortest lived

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J. Edgar Hoover 1895–1972Notorious FiguresLongtime FBI director who built a powerful national police institution while conducting extensive political surveillance and abuses.

Ethel Rosenberg 1915–1953Notorious FiguresExecuted in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage, on testimony her brother later recanted.

Julius Rosenberg 1918–1953Notorious FiguresRan a Soviet spy ring and was executed for espionage in 1953

Alger Hiss 1904–1996Notorious FiguresState Department official whose perjury conviction made Richard Nixon's career and split American opinion for decades.