George Michael

Quality:

George Michael - British singer (1963–2016). This person is the 307^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 241^st most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “George Michael” in Simple English Wikipedia has 59.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 23 references and 13 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

sim

The 2200^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

sim

The 3428^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 241^st most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 838^th most popular in all topics.

The 1995^th most popular in AI.

The 307^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

sim

The 445^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

sim

The 430^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1254^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 7634^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “George Michael” was edited by 4 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (430^th place) and written by 24 authors in all languages (7634^th place).

Since the creation of article “George Michael”, its content was written by 43 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3428^th place) and edited by 5033 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1995^th place).

George Michael is on the 241^st place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 307^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 116 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 11740 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #56 in December 2016
• Global: #3 in December 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #17 in December 2024
• Global: #2 in December 2016

There are 50 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	English (en) George Michael		96.5606
2	French (fr) George Michael		95.7895
3	Italian (it) George Michael		89.1201
4	Slovak (sk) George Michael		84.4816
5	Romanian (ro) George Michael		82.8536
6	Spanish (es) George Michael		81.4004
7	Polish (pl) George Michael		78.7202
8	Portuguese (pt) George Michael		76.1759
9	Hindi (hi) जॉर्ज माइकल		75.8571
10	Dutch (nl) George Michael		71.1543

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) George Michael		55 263 414
2	German (de) George Michael		6 604 053
3	Spanish (es) George Michael		6 359 691
4	French (fr) George Michael		5 335 894
5	Russian (ru) Джордж Майкл		4 923 016
6	Italian (it) George Michael		4 261 374
7	Polish (pl) George Michael		2 796 689
8	Japanese (ja) ジョージ・マイケル		2 573 620
9	Dutch (nl) George Michael		2 302 968
10	Portuguese (pt) George Michael		2 036 865

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) George Michael		226 841
2	Spanish (es) George Michael		26 610
3	Russian (ru) Джордж Майкл		20 591
4	German (de) George Michael		19 947
5	French (fr) George Michael		18 383
6	Italian (it) George Michael		14 249
7	Portuguese (pt) George Michael		12 792
8	Japanese (ja) ジョージ・マイケル		9 585
9	Polish (pl) George Michael		6 365
10	Dutch (nl) George Michael		6 150

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) George Michael		1 971
2	German (de) George Michael		349
3	French (fr) George Michael		314
4	Italian (it) George Michael		236
5	Dutch (nl) George Michael		201
6	Spanish (es) George Michael		194
7	Russian (ru) Джордж Майкл		173
8	Polish (pl) George Michael		140
9	Portuguese (pt) George Michael		117
10	Hebrew (he) ג'ורג' מייקל		97

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) George Michael		5
2	Simple English (simple) George Michael		4
3	Hungarian (hu) George Michael		3
4	German (de) George Michael		2
5	Spanish (es) George Michael		2
6	Finnish (fi) George Michael		1
7	Italian (it) George Michael		1
8	Korean (ko) 조지 마이클		1
9	Romanian (ro) George Michael		1
10	Russian (ru) Джордж Майкл		1

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

On 15 February 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: Jeffrey Epstein, Wuthering Heights, 2026 Winter Olympics, Epstein files, Ilia Malinin, Wuthering Heights, Ghislaine Maxwell, Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, 2026 Winter Olympics medal table, Valentine's Day.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: XXXTentacion, Black, List of European countries, Jeffrey Epstein, Vitruvian Man, Golden Edge, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, List of countries, Manon Bannerman, Megan Skiendiel.

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