Criminals
6 people.
Al Capone 1899–1947Notorious FiguresGangster whose criminal empire made him the defining symbol of Prohibition-era organized crime.
Ted Bundy 1946–1989Notorious FiguresSerial killer whose multi-state murders and televised trial shaped American criminal profiling and true-crime coverage.
Charles Manson 1934–2017Notorious FiguresCult leader whose followers’ murders became a lasting symbol of violence and the collapse of 1960s countercultural idealism.
Timothy McVeigh 1968–2001Notorious FiguresDomestic terrorist whose Oklahoma City bombing became one of the deadliest attacks in American history.
Nathan Bedford Forrest 1821–1877Notorious FiguresConfederate cavalry commander and early Ku Klux Klan leader whose legacy remains central to debates over racial violence and commemoration.
Jim Jones 1931–1978Notorious FiguresPeoples Temple founder whose 1978 Jonestown murder-suicide killed over nine hundred followers.