Benjamin Franklin

Quality:

Benjamin Franklin - American polymath and statesman (1706–1790). This person is the 321^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Benjamin Franklin” in German Wikipedia has 97.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 147 references and 20 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 4767^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 3200^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 843^rd most popular in all topics.

The 731^st most popular in AI.

The 321^st most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 6077^th most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2059^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3807^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Benjamin Franklin” was edited by 3 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 33 authors in all languages (3807^th place).

Since the creation of article “Benjamin Franklin”, its content was written by 427 registered users of German Wikipedia (3200^th place) and edited by 7183 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (731^st place).

Benjamin Franklin is on the 321^st place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 975 times in German Wikipedia and cited 22314 times in all languages (7688^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #196 in January 2016
• Global: #102 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #1450 in January 2016
• Global: #254 in April 2024

There are 55 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, 2026 (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	Hindi (hi) बेंजामिन फ्रैंकलिन		99.9187
2	Esperanto (eo) Benjamin Franklin		98.0952
3	German (de) Benjamin Franklin		97.1302
4	Chinese (zh) 班哲文·富蘭克林		95.0419
5	English (en) Benjamin Franklin		93.5917
6	Persian (fa) بنجامین فرانکلین		81.6513
7	Vietnamese (vi) Benjamin Franklin		68.1365
8	Turkish (tr) Benjamin Franklin		66.6555
9	Polish (pl) Benjamin Franklin		64.8401
10	Russian (ru) Франклин, Бенджамин		62.4386

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Benjamin Franklin		58 155 663
2	Spanish (es) Benjamin Franklin		10 995 368
3	Russian (ru) Франклин, Бенджамин		5 512 012
4	French (fr) Benjamin Franklin		4 163 533
5	German (de) Benjamin Franklin		3 547 809
6	Portuguese (pt) Benjamin Franklin		2 737 952
7	Japanese (ja) ベンジャミン・フランクリン		2 554 001
8	Italian (it) Benjamin Franklin		1 766 841
9	Chinese (zh) 班哲文·富蘭克林		1 652 989
10	Polish (pl) Benjamin Franklin		1 493 212

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) Benjamin Franklin		165 229
2	French (fr) Benjamin Franklin		13 232
3	Spanish (es) Benjamin Franklin		12 575
4	Russian (ru) Франклин, Бенджамин		11 433
5	German (de) Benjamin Franklin		10 905
6	Japanese (ja) ベンジャミン・フランクリン		9 779
7	Chinese (zh) 班哲文·富蘭克林		6 590
8	Persian (fa) بنجامین فرانکلین		5 121
9	Portuguese (pt) Benjamin Franklin		4 415
10	Italian (it) Benjamin Franklin		4 283

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Benjamin Franklin		2 449
2	French (fr) Benjamin Franklin		560
3	German (de) Benjamin Franklin		427
4	Spanish (es) Benjamin Franklin		406
5	Russian (ru) Франклин, Бенджамин		270
6	Italian (it) Benjamin Franklin		246
7	Hebrew (he) בנג'מין פרנקלין		179
8	Portuguese (pt) Benjamin Franklin		159
9	Dutch (nl) Benjamin Franklin		145
10	Chinese (zh) 班哲文·富蘭克林		143

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) Benjamin Franklin		7
2	French (fr) Benjamin Franklin		5
3	German (de) Benjamin Franklin		3
4	Esperanto (eo) Benjamin Franklin		3
5	Serbian (sr) Бенџамин Френклин		3
6	Arabic (ar) بنجامين فرانكلين		2
7	Azerbaijani (az) Bencamin Franklin		2
8	Catalan (ca) Benjamin Franklin		2
9	Belarusian (be) Бенджамін Франклін		1
10	Persian (fa) بنجامین فرانکلین		1

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

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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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information