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 and the 299^th most popular person in English Wikipedia. Article “Benjamin Franklin” in English Wikipedia has 93.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 356 references and 54 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 566^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 443^rd most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 299^th most popular in people in English 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:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1987^th most popular in English 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 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 33 authors in all languages (3807^th place).

Since the creation of article “Benjamin Franklin”, its content was written by 2449 registered users of English Wikipedia (443^rd place) and edited by 7183 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (731^st place).

Benjamin Franklin is on the 299^th place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 321^st place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 5483 times in English Wikipedia (4317^th place) and cited 22314 times in all languages (7688^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #67 in November 2005
• Global: #102 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #184 in April 2024
• 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.

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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