Paul McCartney

Quality:

Paul McCartney - English musician and member of the Beatles (born 1942). This person is the 205^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 530^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Paul McCartney” in Simple English Wikipedia has 44 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 11 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4425^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1332^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 530^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 546^th most popular in all topics.

The 431^st most popular in AI.

The 205^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1935^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 816^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1777^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Paul McCartney”, its content was written by 70 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1332^nd place) and edited by 8455 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (431^st place).

Paul McCartney is on the 530^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 205^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 289 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 39212 times in all languages (4175^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #128 in October 2006
• Global: #149 in June 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #717 in December 2010
• Global: #125 in June 2022

There are 53 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	Spanish (es) Paul McCartney		100
2	Russian (ru) Маккартни, Пол		100
3	Chinese (zh) 保罗·麦卡特尼		100
4	Vietnamese (vi) Paul McCartney		100
5	Korean (ko) 폴 매카트니		100
6	Slovak (sk) Paul McCartney		100
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Paul McCartney		100
8	French (fr) Paul McCartney		98.4175
9	English (en) Paul McCartney		98.2521
10	Georgian (ka) პოლ მაკ-კარტნი		96.9231

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Paul McCartney		68 524 163
2	Spanish (es) Paul McCartney		11 188 345
3	Japanese (ja) ポール・マッカートニー		6 054 879
4	Russian (ru) Маккартни, Пол		5 816 030
5	German (de) Paul McCartney		5 558 832
6	French (fr) Paul McCartney		4 763 525
7	Italian (it) Paul McCartney		4 135 913
8	Portuguese (pt) Paul McCartney		3 866 475
9	Polish (pl) Paul McCartney		2 061 036
10	Dutch (nl) Paul McCartney		1 592 758

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) Paul McCartney		314 207
2	Spanish (es) Paul McCartney		31 934
3	Japanese (ja) ポール・マッカートニー		24 860
4	Russian (ru) Маккартни, Пол		23 256
5	German (de) Paul McCartney		20 312
6	French (fr) Paul McCartney		18 410
7	Italian (it) Paul McCartney		13 279
8	Portuguese (pt) Paul McCartney		11 046
9	Dutch (nl) Paul McCartney		5 394
10	Polish (pl) Paul McCartney		5 086

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Paul McCartney		2 738
2	Spanish (es) Paul McCartney		659
3	German (de) Paul McCartney		544
4	French (fr) Paul McCartney		502
5	Italian (it) Paul McCartney		411
6	Russian (ru) Маккартни, Пол		389
7	Japanese (ja) ポール・マッカートニー		313
8	Hebrew (he) פול מקרטני		256
9	Portuguese (pt) Paul McCartney		249
10	Dutch (nl) Paul McCartney		242

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	Italian (it) Paul McCartney		7
2	English (en) Paul McCartney		6
3	Spanish (es) Paul McCartney		6
4	French (fr) Paul McCartney		6
5	German (de) Paul McCartney		4
6	Finnish (fi) Paul McCartney		3
7	Indonesian (id) Paul McCartney		3
8	Catalan (ca) Paul McCartney		2
9	Japanese (ja) ポール・マッカートニー		2
10	Korean (ko) 폴 매카트니		2

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

On 21 February 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: Jeffrey Epstein, Alysa Liu, Eric Dane, 2026 Winter Olympics, Rebecca Gayheart, Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, Wuthering Heights, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, John F. Kennedy Jr..

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

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