Famous Black Criminals

Rank the Most Wicked Criminals

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 1 
Christopher Scarver
(Serial Killer)
Christopher Scarver
152
Birthdate: July 6, 1969
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Christopher Scarver is a convicted murderer whose physical assault on Jesse Anderson and serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer at the Columbia Correctional Institution resulted in the death of both Anderson and Dahmer. Already sentenced to life for killing a man named Steve Lohman, Christopher Scarver received two more life sentences for killing Anderson and Dahmer.

 2 
Pee Wee Kirkland
(Basketball player)
Pee Wee Kirkland
5
Birthdate: May 6, 1945
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Harlem, New York, United States
 3 
Derek Bentley
(Epileptic British Man Convicted and Hanged for the Murder of a Policeman, at the Age of 19)
Derek Bentley
6
Birthdate: June 30, 1933
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Southwark, London, England
Died: January 28, 1953

Derek Bentley was 19 when he was hanged for murdering a policeman during a burglary attempt. An illiterate, he had the mental age of 11 and also suffered from epilepsy. The controversial case led to a 45-long battle for a posthumous pardon, which was granted, and then a reversal of the murder charge.

 4 
Stanley Williams
(Criminal)
Stanley Williams
22
Birthdate: December 29, 1953
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Shreveport, Louisiana, United States
Died: December 13, 2005
 5 
Omar al-Bashir
(Former President of Sudan)
Omar al-Bashir
33
Birthdate: January 1, 1944
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Hosh Bannaga, Sudan

Omar al-Bashir is a Sudanese politician who served as the seventh president of Sudan. A former military officer, he is the founder of the National Congress Party that remained the dominant political party in the country until 2019. He was deposed in a coup d'état the same year and subsequently arrested and convicted on multiple corruption charges.

 6 
Lee Boyd Malvo
(American Serial Killer)
Lee Boyd Malvo
38
Birthdate: February 18, 1985
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Kingston, Jamaica

Lee Boyd Malvo was involved in the Beltway sniper attacks of 2002, which killed 10 people and injured three in the Washington Metropolitan Area. He had befriended his accomplice in the act, John Allen Muhammad, as a juvenile. Malvo is currently serving multiple life sentences at a supermax prison.

 7 
Nicky Barnes
(Former crime boss, active in New York City during the 1970s)
Nicky Barnes
6
Birthdate: October 15, 1933
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Harlem, New York, United States
Died: June 18, 2012
 8 
Javaris Crittenton
(Basketball player)
Javaris Crittenton
2
Birthdate: December 31, 1987
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
 9 
Phillip Adams
(American football player)
Phillip Adams
5
Birthdate: July 20, 1988
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Rock Hill, South Carolina, United States
Died: April 8, 2021
Height: 5'11" (180 cm)
 10 
Christopher Dorner
(Former Officer of the Los Angeles Police Department Who Committed a Series of Shootings)
Christopher Dorner
12
Birthdate: June 4, 1979
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: New York, United States
Died: February 12, 2013
 11 
Dave Meggett
(American Football Player)
Dave Meggett
1
Birthdate: April 30, 1966
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Height: 5'7" (170 cm)
 12 
Félicien Kabuga
(Commited genocide in Rwanda)
Félicien Kabuga
2
Birthdate: March 1, 1933
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Byumba, Rwanda
 13 
Lorenzo Nichols
(Drug trafficker)
Lorenzo Nichols
5
Birthdate: September 8, 1959
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: New York, New York, United States
 14 
Sam Hurd
(American football player)
Sam Hurd
3
Birthdate: April 24, 1985
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: San Antonio, Texas, United States
Height: 6'3" (190 cm)
 15 
Solomon Mahlangu
(Activist)
Solomon Mahlangu
4
Birthdate: July 10, 1956
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Mamelodi, Pretoria, South Africa
Died: April 6, 1979
 16 
Robert Kajuga
(Commited genocide in Rwanda)
Robert Kajuga
1
Birthdate: 1960 AD
Birthplace: Kibungo, Rwanda
Died: February 29, 2007
 17 
Brien Taylor
(Baseball player)
Brien Taylor
0
Birthdate: December 26, 1971
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Beaufort, North Carolina, United States
 18 
Estella Marie Thompson
(Prostitute)
Estella Marie Thompson
10
Birthdate: August 9, 1969
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: San Francisco, USA
 19 
Gregory Woolley
(Canadian Criminal Best Known For His Association With 'The Hells Angels' Motorcycle Club)
Gregory Woolley
3
Birthdate: 1972 AD
Birthplace: Tabarre, Haiti
 20 
Ahmed Ghailani
(Terrorist)
Ahmed Ghailani
2
Birthdate: April 14, 1974
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Zanzibar, Tanzania
 21 
Alieu Kosiah
(Military commander, Criminal)
Alieu Kosiah
1
Birthdate: March 3, 1975
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Ganta, Nimba County, Liberia
 22 
Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi
(Drug trafficker)
Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi
0
Birthdate: 1985 AD
Birthplace: Nigeria
Died: January 26, 2007
 23 
Roger Khan
(Druglord, Head of Phantom Squad)
Roger Khan
0
Birthdate: January 13, 1972
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Guyana
 24 
Bi Sidi Souleymane
(Warlord)
Bi Sidi Souleymane
1
Birthdate: July 20, 1962
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Bocaranga, Central African Republic
Died: March 25, 2021
 25 
Louis Till
(Soldier, Criminal)
Louis Till
7
Birthdate: February 7, 1922
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: New Madrid, Missouri, United States
Died: July 2, 1945
 26 
ʻAkosita Lavulavu
(Minister for Infrastructure and Tourism (2019-2021))
ʻAkosita Lavulavu
0
Birthdate: 1985 AD
Birthplace: Tonga
 27 
Fatima Bernawi
(The First Woman from Palestine to Have Organized a Paramilitary Operation During the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict)
Fatima Bernawi
1
Birthdate: 1939 AD
Birthplace: Jerusalem, Mandate for Palestine
Fatima Bernawi was an Afro-Palestinian militant who took active part in the Palestinian Freedom Movement. She was the first woman from Palestine to have organized a paramilitary operation during the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; Fatima Bernawi organized a terrorist attack in an Israeli movie theater in 1967.
 28 
Orlando Anderson
(Musicians)
Orlando Anderson
16
Birthdate: August 13, 1974
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Compton, California, United States
Died: May 29, 1998
Height: 6'1" (185 cm)
 29 
Charles Laplace
(Recent person executed by Saint Kitts and Nevis.)
Charles Laplace
0
Birthplace: Unknown
Died: December 19, 2008
 30 
Bernard Coard
(Prime Minister of Grenada (14 October 1983 – 19 October 1983))
Bernard Coard
1
Birthdate: August 10, 1944
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Victoria, Grenada
 31 
Bernard Ntuyahaga
(Military Leader)
Bernard Ntuyahaga
0
Birthdate: 1952 AD
Birthplace: Rwanda
 32 
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed
(Comorian-Kenyan member of al-Qaeda, and the leader of its presence in East Africa)
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed
3
Birthdate: December 25, 1974
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Moroni, Comoros
Died: June 8, 2011
 33 
James Butler
(Boxer)
James Butler
4
Birthdate: December 18, 1972
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Harlem, New York, United States
Height: 6'0" (183 cm)
 34 
Tharcisse Renzaho
(Politician, Criminal)
Tharcisse Renzaho
0
Birthdate: July 17, 1944
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Kibungo, Rwanda-Urundi
 35 
James Rosemond
(Drug trafficker)
James Rosemond
1
Birthdate: February 5, 1965
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, United States
 36 
Mahmood Hussein Mattan
(Criminal, Sailor)
Mahmood Hussein Mattan
1
Birthdate: 1923 AD
Birthplace: British Somaliland
Died: September 3, 1952
 37 
Reggie Harding
(Basketball player)
Reggie Harding
0
Birthdate: May 4, 1942
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan, United States
Died: September 2, 1972
Height: 7'0" (213 cm)
 38 
Fulgence Kayishema
(Police Officer, Criminal)
Fulgence Kayishema
1
Birthdate: 1960 AD
Birthplace: Kivumu, Rwanda-Burundi
 39 
Mel Hall
(Baseball player)
Mel Hall
1
Birthdate: September 16, 1960
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Lyons, New York, United States
Height: 6'0" (183 cm)
 40 
Athanase Seromba
(Commited genocide in Rwanda)
Athanase Seromba
1
Birthdate: 1963 AD
Birthplace: Kibuye, Rwanda
 41 
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
(Underwear Bomber)
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
5
Birthdate: December 22, 1986
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Lagos
 42 
Khalfan Khamis Mohamed
(Al-Qaeda suspect)
Khalfan Khamis Mohamed
1
Birthdate: March 5, 1974
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Pemba, Tanzania
 43 
Charles Mihayo
(Tanzanian Man Who Killed His Two Daughters)
Charles Mihayo
1
Birthplace: Tanzania
 44 
Annanias Mathe
(Rapist)
Annanias Mathe
1
Birthdate: 1976 AD
Birthplace: Mozambique
Died: December 27, 2016
 45 
Alpo Martinez
(Former drug kingpin known for his notorious ways throughout the 1980's and 1990's in New York and Washington, D.C.)
Alpo Martinez
21
Birthdate: June 8, 1966
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: East Harlem, New York, United States
Died: October 31, 2021
 46 
Augustin Bizimungu
(Military personnel)
Augustin Bizimungu
2
Birthdate: August 28, 1952
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Rwanda
 47 
Harrison Pennoh
(Assassins of the Then-President of Liberia William Tolbert)
Harrison Pennoh
0
Birthplace: Liberia
 48 
Mbaye Diagne
(Commited genocide in Rwanda)
Mbaye Diagne
2
Birthdate: March 18, 1958
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Koki, Senegal
Died: May 31, 1994
 49 
Dominic Ongwen
(Military personnel, Criminal)
Dominic Ongwen
1
Birthdate: February 10, 1975
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Coorom, Kilak County, Amuru district, Uganda
 50 
Bosco Ntaganda
(Military Chief, War Criminal)
Bosco Ntaganda
1
Birthdate: November 5, 1973
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Kiningi, Rwanda