Bob Ross

Quality:

Bob Ross - American painter, art instructor, television host, and Air Force master sergeant (1942–1995). This person is the 1006^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 602^nd most popular person in English Wikipedia. Article “Bob Ross” in English Wikipedia has 91 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 113 references and 15 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1239^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 5359^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 602^nd most popular in people in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3272^nd most popular in all topics.

The 1006^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3663^rd most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5501^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Bob Ross” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Bob Ross”, its content was written by 1079 registered users of English Wikipedia (5359^th place) and edited by 2126 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Bob Ross is on the 602^nd place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 1006^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 131 times in English Wikipedia and cited 429 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #78 in November 2015
• Global: #171 in November 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #42 in October 2012
• Global: #162 in October 2012

There are 38 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) Bob Ross		91.0174
2	Greek (el) Μπομπ Ρος		60.2663
3	Chinese (zh) 鮑伯·魯斯		49.7972
4	Catalan (ca) Bob Ross		45.0296
5	French (fr) Bob Ross		44.5825
6	Armenian (hy) Բոբ Ռոսս		43.1629
7	Italian (it) Bob Ross (pittore)		35.3758
8	Spanish (es) Bob Ross		33.9685
9	Russian (ru) Росс, Боб		32.9616
10	Romanian (ro) Bob Ross		32.9419

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bob Ross		39 671 631
2	German (de) Bob Ross (Maler)		4 080 419
3	Spanish (es) Bob Ross		1 470 045
4	Dutch (nl) Bob Ross		942 612
5	French (fr) Bob Ross		654 379
6	Russian (ru) Росс, Боб		634 497
7	Turkish (tr) Bob Ross		624 092
8	Persian (fa) باب راس		544 201
9	Japanese (ja) ボブ・ロス		543 764
10	Chinese (zh) 鮑伯·魯斯		363 342

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) Bob Ross		125 740
2	German (de) Bob Ross (Maler)		11 109
3	Spanish (es) Bob Ross		5 079
4	Japanese (ja) ボブ・ロス		3 487
5	Russian (ru) Росс, Боб		3 357
6	French (fr) Bob Ross		2 712
7	Dutch (nl) Bob Ross		2 501
8	Turkish (tr) Bob Ross		1 538
9	Italian (it) Bob Ross (pittore)		1 537
10	Persian (fa) باب راس		1 385

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bob Ross		1 079
2	German (de) Bob Ross (Maler)		248
3	Dutch (nl) Bob Ross		116
4	French (fr) Bob Ross		78
5	Persian (fa) باب راس		59
6	Italian (it) Bob Ross (pittore)		55
7	Russian (ru) Росс, Боб		54
8	Spanish (es) Bob Ross		53
9	Turkish (tr) Bob Ross		46
10	Japanese (ja) ボブ・ロス		29

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) Bob Ross		2
2	Armenian (hy) Բոբ Ռոսս		2
3	Arabic (ar) بوب روس		1
4	Czech (cs) Bob Ross		1
5	German (de) Bob Ross (Maler)		1
6	Persian (fa) باب راس		1
7	Turkish (tr) Bob Ross		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Bob Ross		0
9	Catalan (ca) Bob Ross		0
10	Danish (da) Bob Ross		0

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