David Bowie

Quality:

David Bowie - English musician and actor (1947–2016). This person is the 98^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 121^st most popular person in German Wikipedia. Article “David Bowie” in German Wikipedia has 90.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 77 references and 31 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:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 440^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 924^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 121^st most popular in people in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 261^st most popular in all topics.

The 459^th most popular in AI.

The 98^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 742^nd most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 690^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2977^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “David Bowie”, its content was written by 621 registered users of German Wikipedia (924^th place) and edited by 8263 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (459^th place).

David Bowie is on the 121^st place in local ranking of people in German Wikipedia and on the 98^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 1642 times in German Wikipedia (6168^th place) and cited 35195 times in all languages (4641^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #2 in January 2016
• Global: #1 in January 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #1 in January 2016
• Global: #1 in January 2016

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	Spanish (es) David Bowie		100
2	Russian (ru) Боуи, Дэвид		100
3	Italian (it) David Bowie		100
4	Ukrainian (uk) Девід Боуї		100
5	Norwegian (no) David Bowie		100
6	Persian (fa) دیوید بویی		100
7	Catalan (ca) David Bowie		100
8	Georgian (ka) დეივიდ ბოუი		100
9	English (en) David Bowie		99.901
10	Portuguese (pt) David Bowie		99.3325

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) David Bowie		89 409 710
2	Spanish (es) David Bowie		11 034 877
3	German (de) David Bowie		10 113 173
4	French (fr) David Bowie		8 799 836
5	Italian (it) David Bowie		8 550 660
6	Russian (ru) Боуи, Дэвид		8 404 210
7	Japanese (ja) デヴィッド・ボウイ		7 205 330
8	Portuguese (pt) David Bowie		3 787 332
9	Polish (pl) David Bowie		3 055 447
10	Dutch (nl) David Bowie		2 713 012

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) David Bowie		319 461
2	German (de) David Bowie		33 782
3	Japanese (ja) デヴィッド・ボウイ		30 623
4	Spanish (es) David Bowie		28 685
5	French (fr) David Bowie		27 075
6	Russian (ru) Боуи, Дэвид		25 262
7	Italian (it) David Bowie		24 365
8	Portuguese (pt) David Bowie		11 133
9	Polish (pl) David Bowie		6 715
10	Dutch (nl) David Bowie		5 543

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) David Bowie		2 922
2	German (de) David Bowie		621
3	French (fr) David Bowie		576
4	Italian (it) David Bowie		437
5	Spanish (es) David Bowie		382
6	Russian (ru) Боуи, Дэвид		358
7	Dutch (nl) David Bowie		286
8	Hebrew (he) דייוויד בואי		223
9	Japanese (ja) デヴィッド・ボウイ		206
10	Polish (pl) David Bowie		187

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) David Bowie		13
2	Japanese (ja) デヴィッド・ボウイ		4
3	French (fr) David Bowie		3
4	Russian (ru) Боуи, Дэвид		3
5	Catalan (ca) David Bowie		2
6	Hebrew (he) דייוויד בואי		2
7	Ukrainian (uk) Девід Боуї		2
8	Arabic (ar) ديفيد بوي		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Devid Boui		1
10	Spanish (es) David Bowie		1

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

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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 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