A serial rapist is someone who commits multiple rapes, whether with multiple victims or a single victim repeatedly over a period of time. This list does not include serial killers who raped their victims, then killed them; only serial rapists who non-fatally attacked their victims and raped them should be included here. This list should include serial rapists with at least three victims. Serial killers who raped at least three victims without murdering them are also included.
Name Country Years activeVictims Notes Yemen c. 517 CE Unknown Himyarite king who, according to traditional histories, regularly sodomised young boys at his royal apartments, afterwards sticking a toothpick in their mouths so that everyone would know how he had dishonoured them. His goal was to disgrace and humiliate other males of royal blood so that they would be unable to succeed him as king. In 517 he was stabbed to death in self-defense by an intended victim. Thomas Thistlewood Jamaica 1751–1781 138 Plantation owner whose diaries recorded numerous brutalities against his slaves, including a total of 3,852 acts of rape against 138 enslaved women. He began abusing enslaved women within days of beginning work at the "Egypt" plantation in 1751 and continued until 1781, when he developed the syphilis that would eventually kill him.Douglas Hall, In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 1750–86, Macmillan, 1999, Aijaz Sheikh India 1980's-2014 5,000 As an Imam, he used his power to abuse thousands of Children. A single victim of Sheikh's stated that he was subjected to over 500 Rapes in a three year period. https://freepresskashmir.news/2025/02/18/paedophile-aijaz-sheikh-convicted-sentenced-to-14-years-rigorous-imprisonment-for-sexually-abusing-children/ Marquis de Sade France 1772–1776 11 French aristocrat notorious for his sexual perversion who was implicated in the rape and sexual torture of multiple women and teenagers of both genders. He largely avoided punishment thanks to his influential connections, but was eventually committed to an asylum at the command of Napoleon Bonaparte and died there in 1814. The term sadism is derived from his name. United States 1890–1934 3–100+ Fish was a sadist, pedophile, serial killer, and cannibal who murdered at least three children in New York City in the 1920s. In addition to murders, he claimed to have sexually abused numerous young boys, mostly around the age of 6, in New York from 1890 onwards. The majority of these victims were black and/or intellectually disabled, as Fish felt they would be easier prey, and many were also sexually mutilated. He boasted of having victimized hundreds of children in every state, though it is unclear if he was referring to rapes or murders. Executed in 1936.Taylor, Troy. Albert Fish: The Life & Crimes of One of America's Most Deranged Killers." Dead Men Do Tell Tales. 2004. United States, Angola 1910–1928 20–1,000+ Serial killer and rapist who victimized men and boys of all ages across the United States and in Angola in Western-Africa. By his own estimation he had committed 21 murders and over a thousand rapes. Executed in 1930.https://www.factualamerica.com/serial-cuts/americas-darkest-son-the-vengeful-voyage-of-carl-panzramUnited States1920–19505,000Child trafficker and suspect serial killer who kindapped, trafficked, and abused an estimated 5,000 children; with at least 19 believed to have been killed.