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Samantha Lewthwaite

1983 - Today

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Samantha Louise Lewthwaite (; born 5 December 1983), also known as Sherafiyah Lewthwaite or the White Widow, is a British terrorist and suspected mass murderer who is one of the Western world's most wanted terrorism suspects. Lewthwaite, the widow of 7/7 London terrorist bomber Germaine Lindsay, is accused of causing the deaths of more than 400 people. She is a fugitive from justice in Kenya, where she is wanted on charges of possession of explosives and conspiracy to commit a felony and is the subject of an Interpol Red Notice requesting her arrest with a view to extradition. Lewthwaite is alleged to be a member of the Somalia-based radical Islamic militant group Al-Shabaab. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Samantha Lewthwaite is the 317th most popular extremist (down from 286th in 2024), the 8,199th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 7,684th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular British Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Samantha Lewthwaite ranks 317 out of 283. Before her are Yakub Memon, Zeynab Jalalian, Afzal Guru, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Reynhard Sinaga, and Omar Khadr. After her are Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Elliot Rodger, Adam Yahiye Gadahn, Dylann Roof, and Lucy Letby.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1983, Samantha Lewthwaite ranks 1,512. Before her are Domingues, Yoshiaki Fujita, Fausto Pinto, Brad Oleson, Lukas Kruse, and Eamon. After her are Jonathan Walters, Channing Frye, Laura Breckenridge, Paulo André, Hiroyuki Hayashi, and Michael Che.

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Among EXTREMISTS In United Kingdom

Among extremists born in United Kingdom, Samantha Lewthwaite ranks 22. Before her are Tommy Robinson (1982), John Bodkin Adams (1899), Howard Marks (1945), Stuart Christie (1946), Colin Pitchfork (1960), and Beverley Allitt (1968). After her are Elliot Rodger (1991), and Lucy Letby (1990).

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