Cyrus the Great

Quality:

Cyrus the Great - founder of the Achaemenid Empire (559–529 BC). This person is the 1487^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Cyrus the Great” in English Wikipedia has 95.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 214 references and 26 sections.

This article has the best quality in Slovenian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 7169^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 3700^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4983^rd most popular in all topics.

The 2268^th most popular in AI.

The 1487^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1975^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 6960^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1382^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 9361^st most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Cyrus the Great” was edited by 11 authors in English Wikipedia (6960^th place) and written by 22 authors in all languages (9361^st place).

Since the creation of article “Cyrus the Great”, its content was written by 1246 registered users of English Wikipedia (3700^th place) and edited by 4844 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2268^th place).

Cyrus the Great is on the 1487^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 1554 times in English Wikipedia and cited 12138 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #887 in October 2015
• Global: #139 in July 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #522 in January 2017
• Global: #1107 in January 2017

There are 54 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Slovenian (sl) Kir II.		100
2	Turkish (tr) II. Kiros		98.6462
3	Indonesian (id) Koresh Agung		98.1927
4	Croatian (hr) Kir Veliki		97.3687
5	English (en) Cyrus the Great		95.4045
6	Malay (ms) Cyrus Agung		95
7	Persian (fa) کوروش بزرگ		94.5853
8	German (de) Kyros II.		92.8571
9	Esperanto (eo) Ciro la 2-a		92.5
10	Hungarian (hu) II. Kurus perzsa király		90.0832

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cyrus the Great		16 773 811
2	Persian (fa) کوروش بزرگ		8 618 636
3	Spanish (es) Ciro II el Grande		2 505 743
4	Russian (ru) Кир II Великий		2 163 181
5	French (fr) Cyrus le Grand		1 209 047
6	Portuguese (pt) Ciro II		1 091 511
7	Arabic (ar) كورش الكبير		1 019 748
8	German (de) Kyros II.		1 006 961
9	Italian (it) Ciro II di Persia		830 403
10	Japanese (ja) キュロス2世		626 869

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cyrus the Great		179 884
2	Persian (fa) کوروش بزرگ		34 844
3	Russian (ru) Кир II Великий		24 143
4	Spanish (es) Ciro II el Grande		19 053
5	Turkish (tr) II. Kiros		13 989
6	French (fr) Cyrus le Grand		12 527
7	Arabic (ar) كورش الكبير		11 497
8	Portuguese (pt) Ciro II		10 523
9	Hebrew (he) כורש		9 981
10	Italian (it) Ciro II di Persia		9 011

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cyrus the Great		1 246
2	Persian (fa) کوروش بزرگ		613
3	German (de) Kyros II.		273
4	French (fr) Cyrus le Grand		207
5	Russian (ru) Кир II Великий		183
6	Italian (it) Ciro II di Persia		170
7	Hebrew (he) כורש		167
8	Spanish (es) Ciro II el Grande		128
9	Dutch (nl) Cyrus II de Grote		124
10	Polish (pl) Cyrus II Wielki		86

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cyrus the Great		11
2	Turkish (tr) II. Kiros		5
3	Persian (fa) کوروش بزرگ		2
4	Russian (ru) Кир II Великий		2
5	Spanish (es) Ciro II el Grande		1
6	Indonesian (id) Koresh Agung		1
7	Arabic (ar) كورش الكبير		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) II Kir		0
9	Belarusian (be) Кір II Вялікі		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Кир II		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

On 28 February 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: Ali Khamenei, Iran, Ruhollah Khomeini, Jeffrey Epstein, Supreme Leader of Iran, Mohammad Reza I of Iran, 2026 Israeli–United States strikes on Iran, Neil Sedaka, Masoud Pezeshkian, Resident Evil Requiem.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Ali Khamenei, 2026 Israeli–United States strikes on Iran, Neil Sedaka, Iran, Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran–Israel conflict, Supreme Leader of Iran, Scream 7, Elimination Chamber (2026), World War III.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information