Johann Sebastian Bach

Quality:

Johann Sebastian Bach - German composer (1685–1750). This person is the 302^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 98^th most popular person in German Wikipedia. Article “Johann Sebastian Bach” in German Wikipedia has 97 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 142 references and 43 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 354^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 323^rd most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 98^th most popular in people in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 826^th most popular in all topics.

The 388^th most popular in AI.

The 302^nd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 1132^nd most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2656^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1946^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Johann Sebastian Bach” was edited by 3 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 46 authors in all languages (1946^th place).

Since the creation of article “Johann Sebastian Bach”, its content was written by 828 registered users of German Wikipedia (323^rd place) and edited by 8727 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (388^th place).

Johann Sebastian Bach is on the 98^th place in local ranking of people in German Wikipedia and on the 302^nd place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 5872 times in German Wikipedia (1252^nd place) and cited 46461 times in all languages (3438^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #30 in February 2010
• Global: #80 in December 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #3 in December 2024
• Global: #157 in March 2019

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, 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) Johann Sebastian Bach		100
2	Chinese (zh) 约翰·塞巴斯蒂安·巴赫		100
3	Hungarian (hu) Johann Sebastian Bach		100
4	Georgian (ka) იოჰან სებასტიან ბახი		100
5	Norwegian (no) Johann Sebastian Bach		98.866
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Johann Sebastian Bach		97.5
7	German (de) Johann Sebastian Bach		96.9763
8	Estonian (et) Johann Sebastian Bach		96.8425
9	English (en) Johann Sebastian Bach		96.7603
10	Armenian (hy) Յոհան Սեբաստիան Բախ		96.1466

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Johann Sebastian Bach		28 703 461
2	Spanish (es) Johann Sebastian Bach		11 408 847
3	German (de) Johann Sebastian Bach		10 784 765
4	Russian (ru) Бах, Иоганн Себастьян		8 105 149
5	French (fr) Jean-Sébastien Bach		6 504 640
6	Japanese (ja) ヨハン・ゼバスティアン・バッハ		6 486 442
7	Italian (it) Johann Sebastian Bach		3 847 235
8	Polish (pl) Johann Sebastian Bach		3 759 793
9	Portuguese (pt) Johann Sebastian Bach		2 688 670
10	Chinese (zh) 约翰·塞巴斯蒂安·巴赫		2 196 000

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) Johann Sebastian Bach		78 674
2	German (de) Johann Sebastian Bach		27 477
3	Japanese (ja) ヨハン・ゼバスティアン・バッハ		26 849
4	Russian (ru) Бах, Иоганн Себастьян		20 324
5	Spanish (es) Johann Sebastian Bach		19 365
6	French (fr) Jean-Sébastien Bach		13 130
7	Chinese (zh) 约翰·塞巴斯蒂安·巴赫		7 660
8	Italian (it) Johann Sebastian Bach		7 229
9	Korean (ko) 요한 제바스티안 바흐		7 193
10	Portuguese (pt) Johann Sebastian Bach		6 517

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Johann Sebastian Bach		1 487
2	German (de) Johann Sebastian Bach		828
3	French (fr) Jean-Sébastien Bach		701
4	Italian (it) Johann Sebastian Bach		463
5	Spanish (es) Johann Sebastian Bach		443
6	Russian (ru) Бах, Иоганн Себастьян		342
7	Dutch (nl) Johann Sebastian Bach		326
8	Polish (pl) Johann Sebastian Bach		266
9	Chinese (zh) 约翰·塞巴斯蒂安·巴赫		209
10	Norwegian (no) Johann Sebastian Bach		203

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) Johann Sebastian Bach		18
2	Czech (cs) Johann Sebastian Bach		5
3	German (de) Johann Sebastian Bach		3
4	Italian (it) Johann Sebastian Bach		3
5	Japanese (ja) ヨハン・ゼバスティアン・バッハ		3
6	Chinese (zh) 约翰·塞巴斯蒂安·巴赫		3
7	Spanish (es) Johann Sebastian Bach		2
8	Hungarian (hu) Johann Sebastian Bach		2
9	Catalan (ca) Johann Sebastian Bach		1
10	Greek (el) Γιόχαν Σεμπάστιαν Μπαχ		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