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 359^th most popular person in German Wikipedia. On German Wikipedia article about George Michael recently has been very popular. Article “George Michael” in German Wikipedia has 65.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 33 references and 22 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 1190^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 5495^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 359^th most popular in people in German 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:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 2130^th most popular in German 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 2 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 24 authors in all languages (7634^th place).

Since the creation of article “George Michael”, its content was written by 349 registered users of German Wikipedia (5495^th place) and edited by 5033 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1995^th place).

George Michael is on the 359^th place in local ranking of people in German Wikipedia and on the 307^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 590 times in German Wikipedia and cited 11740 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #9 in December 2016
• Global: #3 in December 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #1 in December 2016
• 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.

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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