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Marcel Petiot

1897 - 1946

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Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot (17 January 1897 – 25 May 1946) was a French medical doctor and serial killer. He was convicted of multiple murders of Jews after the discovery of the remains of 23 people in the basement of his home in Paris during World War II. He is suspected of the murder of about 60 to 200 mostly Jewish victims during his lifetime, although the true number remains unknown. During the Nazi occupation of France in World War II, Petiot set up a fake escape network under the name “Dr. Eugène.” He claimed he could help Jews and others wanted by the Gestapo flee to South America via Portugal, for a large fee. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marcel Petiot is the 206th most popular physician (up from 242nd in 2019), the 1,510th most popular biography from France (up from 1,894th in 2019) and the 20th most popular French Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Marcel Petiot ranks 206 out of 726. Before him are Franciscus Sylvius, Robert Lefkowitz, Leander of Seville, Duchenne de Boulogne, Leonid Rogozov, and Georges Gilles de la Tourette. After him are Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, Patch Adams, Louis Ignarro, Philipp Franz von Siebold, Thomas Willis, and Frederick Griffith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Marcel Petiot ranks 71. Before him are Yeghishe Charents, Dmitry Pavlov, Adolf Heusinger, Sepp Herberger, Yuri Kondratyuk, and Hans Baur. After him are Karl Löwith, Bernard Lyot, Sidney Bechet, Philippe Soupault, Ana Aslan, and Lester B. Pearson. Among people deceased in 1946, Marcel Petiot ranks 52. Before him are Francisco Largo Caballero, Gustav Noske, Otto Georg Thierack, Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, Clemens August Graf von Galen, and Carl Schuhmann. After him are Anton Mussert, Rüdiger von der Goltz, Othenio Abel, Shefqet Vërlaci, Willi Herold, and Masaharu Homma.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marcel Petiot ranks 1,510 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis Paul Cailletet (1832), Georges Gilles de la Tourette (1857), Eugène Atget (1857), Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697), Philippe de Gaulle (1921), and Julien Duvivier (1896). After him are Victor Noir (1848), Henri Cartan (1904), Théodule-Armand Ribot (1839), Arman (1928), Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz (1936), and Étienne Mourrut (1939).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Marcel Petiot ranks 20. Before him are Jean Nicot (1530), Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805), Marie François Xavier Bichat (1771), Jean Marc Gaspard Itard (1774), Duchenne de Boulogne (1806), and Georges Gilles de la Tourette (1857). After him are Guy de Chauliac (1300), Maurice Bucaille (1920), Paul Gachet (1828), Dominique Jean Larrey (1766), Albert Calmette (1863), and Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis (1757).

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