Alexander the Great

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Alexander the Great - king of Macedonia and conqueror of Achaemenid Persia (356–323 BC). This person is the 58^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 147^th most popular person in English Wikipedia. Article “Alexander the Great” in English Wikipedia has 99.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 507 references and 54 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 280^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 249^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 147^th most popular in people in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 155^th most popular in all topics.

The 104^th most popular in AI.

The 58^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 712^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 339^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1590^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Alexander the Great” was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 51 authors in all languages (1590^th place).

Since the creation of article “Alexander the Great”, its content was written by 2754 registered users of English Wikipedia (249^th place) and edited by 11879 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (104^th place).

Alexander the Great is on the 147^th place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 58^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 6093 times in English Wikipedia (3651^st place) and cited 56839 times in all languages (2847^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #45 in November 2004
• Global: #18 in September 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #38 in February 2024
• Global: #24 in February 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, 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	Russian (ru) Александр Македонский		100
2	French (fr) Alexandre le Grand		100
3	Portuguese (pt) Alexandre, o Grande		100
4	Arabic (ar) الإسكندر الأكبر		100
5	Indonesian (id) Aleksander Agung		100
6	Vietnamese (vi) Alexandros Đại đế		100
7	Serbian (sr) Александар Велики		100
8	Azerbaijani (az) Makedoniyalı İsgəndər		100
9	Tamil (ta) பேரரசர் அலெக்சாந்தர்		100
10	Norwegian (no) Aleksander den store		100

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Alexander the Great		72 183 590
2	Spanish (es) Alejandro Magno		21 195 260
3	Russian (ru) Александр Македонский		13 731 345
4	French (fr) Alexandre le Grand		10 500 194
5	German (de) Alexander der Große		9 574 930
6	Italian (it) Alessandro Magno		7 424 467
7	Japanese (ja) アレクサンドロス3世		6 450 368
8	Portuguese (pt) Alexandre, o Grande		5 944 617
9	Arabic (ar) الإسكندر الأكبر		4 054 255
10	Polish (pl) Aleksander Macedoński		3 979 719

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) Alexander the Great		307 940
2	Spanish (es) Alejandro Magno		73 511
3	Russian (ru) Александр Македонский		52 258
4	French (fr) Alexandre le Grand		41 792
5	Portuguese (pt) Alexandre, o Grande		37 919
6	Japanese (ja) アレクサンドロス3世		34 609
7	German (de) Alexander der Große		26 513
8	Italian (it) Alessandro Magno		21 920
9	Chinese (zh) 亚历山大大帝		17 177
10	Turkish (tr) İskender		15 358

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Alexander the Great		2 754
2	French (fr) Alexandre le Grand		756
3	German (de) Alexander der Große		714
4	Spanish (es) Alejandro Magno		621
5	Italian (it) Alessandro Magno		613
6	Russian (ru) Александр Македонский		505
7	Hebrew (he) אלכסנדר הגדול		391
8	Dutch (nl) Alexander de Grote		391
9	Persian (fa) اسکندر مقدونی		333
10	Greek (el) Αλέξανδρος ο Μέγας		267

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) Alexander the Great		8
2	Greek (el) Αλέξανδρος ο Μέγας		5
3	Hindi (hi) सिकंदर		5
4	Chinese (zh) 亚历山大大帝		4
5	Hebrew (he) אלכסנדר הגדול		3
6	Polish (pl) Aleksander Macedoński		3
7	Russian (ru) Александр Македонский		3
8	Spanish (es) Alejandro Magno		2
9	French (fr) Alexandre le Grand		2
10	Armenian (hy) Ալեքսանդր Մակեդոնացի		2

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

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