Notable Evildoers
This list is comprised of some of the most recognizable names among the world's evildoers and villains.
| Name | Lifespan | Other Names | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Herostratus | ?-356 BC | (Herostratos) |  |
| Gilles de Rais | c. 1405-1440 | | |
| Elizabeth Báthory | 1560-1614 | (Erzsébet) | |
| Henry Morgan | c. 1635-1688 | | |
| William Kidd | 1645-1701 | | |
| Edward Teach "Blackbeard" | c. 1680-1718 | | |
| Bartholomew Roberts | 1682-1722 | (Bart) | |
| "Calico" Jack Rackham | 1682-1720 | (John) | |
| Anne Bonny | 1697-17xx | | |
| Charlotte Corday | 1768-1793 | | |
| Zheng Yi Sao | 1775-1844 | | |
| Diogo Alves | 1810-1841 | | |
| John Wilkes Booth | 1838-1865 | | |
| Jesse James | 1847-1882 | | |
| Jack the Ripper | ?-18xx | | |
| Ned Kelly | 1854-1880 | (Edward) | |
| Billy "the Kid" Bonney | 1859-1881 | (William) | |
| Albert Fish | 1870-1936 | (Hamilton, Howard) | |
| Luigi Lucheni | 1873-1910 | | |
| Joseph Stalin | 1878-1953 | (Ioseb, Iosif) | |
| Charles Ponzi | 1882-1949 | (Carlo) | |
| Adolf Hitler | 1889-1945 | | |
| Arthur Seyss-Inquart | 1892-1946 | | |
| Hermann Göring | 1893-1946 | | |
| Gavrilo Princip | 1894-1918 | | |
| Cvjetko Popović | 1896-1980 | | |
| Joseph Goebbels | 1897-1945 | (Paul) | |
| Lucky Luciano | 1897-1962 | (Charles, Salvatore) | |
| Al Capone | 1899-1947 | (Alphonse) | |
| "Machine Gun" Kelly Barnes | 1900-1954 | | |
| Heinrich Himmler | 1900-1945 | | |
| John Dillinger | 1903-1934 | | |
| Reinhard Heydrich | 1904-1942 | | |
| Bugsy Siegel | 1906-1947 | | |
| Adolf Eichmann | 1906-1962 | (Otto) | |
| Ed Gein | 1906-1984 | (Edward) | |
| Amon Göth | 1908-1946 | | |
| Clyde Barrow | 1909-1934 | | |
| Bonnie Elizabeth Parker | 1910-1934 | | |
| Jack Ruby | 1911-1967 | | |
| Ramón Mercader | 1913-1978 | | |
| Robert Mugabe | 1924-2019 | (Gabriel) | |
| Idi Amin | c. 1925-2003 | | |
| Saloth Sar "Pol Pot" | 1925-1998 | | |
| Salvatore Riina | 1930-2017 | | |
| Charles Manson | 1934-2017 | | |
| Josef Fritzl | 1935- | | |
| Henry Lee Lucas | 1936-2001 | | |
| Andrei Chikatilo | 1936-1994 | | |
| Bernie Madoff | 1938-2021 | (Bernard) | |
| Lee Harvey Oswald | 1939-1963 | | |
| Gary Gilmore | 1940-1977 | | |
| John Wayne Gacy | 1942-1994 | | |
| Ted Kaczynski | 1942-2023 | (Theodore) | |
| Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo | 1946- | | |
| Harold Shipman | 1946-2004 | | |
| Ted Bundy | 1946-1989 | | |
| Frank Abagnale | 1948- | | |
| Pablo Escobar | 1949-1993 | | |
| Mark David Chapman | 1955- | | |
| Marc Dutroux | 1956- | | |
| Osama bin Laden | 1957-2011 | | |
| Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán | 1957- | | |
| Jeffrey Dahmer | 1960-1994 | | |
| Ariel Castro | 1960-2013 | | |
| Wolfgang Přiklopil | 1962-2006 | | |
| Volkert van der Graaf | 1969- | | |
| Andrew Cunanan | 1969-1997 | (Phillip) | |
| John Walker Lindh | 1981- | |