Claude Shannon

Quality:

Claude Shannon - American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001). This person is the 7208^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Claude Shannon” in English Wikipedia has 85.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 182 references and 26 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 9.51 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7208^th most popular in people.

In June 2026 the article “Claude Shannon” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Claude Shannon”, its content was written by 640 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2492 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Claude Shannon is on the 7208^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 2777 times in English Wikipedia and cited 9461 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #285 in April 2016
• Global: #35 in April 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #24 in April 2016
• Global: #18 in April 2016

There are 48 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	Indonesian (id) Claude Shannon		87.7989
2	English (en) Claude Shannon		85.6155
3	Estonian (et) Claude Shannon		76.3663
4	Serbian (sr) Клод Елвуд Шенон		65.4518
5	Russian (ru) Шеннон, Клод		60.301
6	Romanian (ro) Claude Shannon		44.9925
7	Ukrainian (uk) Клод Шеннон		41.4368
8	German (de) Claude Shannon		40.957
9	Spanish (es) Claude Shannon		40.2048
10	Catalan (ca) Claude Elwood Shannon		38.9588

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Claude Shannon		6 988 917
2	Russian (ru) Шеннон, Клод		1 095 757
3	Spanish (es) Claude Shannon		1 028 926
4	German (de) Claude Shannon		800 386
5	Italian (it) Claude Shannon		720 773
6	French (fr) Claude Shannon		705 202
7	Japanese (ja) クロード・シャノン		569 938
8	Chinese (zh) 克劳德·香农		358 502
9	Polish (pl) Claude E. Shannon		344 803
10	Portuguese (pt) Claude Shannon		209 685

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) Claude Shannon		47 941
2	French (fr) Claude Shannon		4 429
3	German (de) Claude Shannon		3 888
4	Japanese (ja) クロード・シャノン		3 318
5	Spanish (es) Claude Shannon		2 542
6	Chinese (zh) 克劳德·香农		2 246
7	Russian (ru) Шеннон, Клод		1 923
8	Italian (it) Claude Shannon		1 918
9	Portuguese (pt) Claude Shannon		1 255
10	Polish (pl) Claude E. Shannon		662

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Claude Shannon		640
2	French (fr) Claude Shannon		204
3	German (de) Claude Shannon		183
4	Russian (ru) Шеннон, Клод		153
5	Italian (it) Claude Shannon		128
6	Spanish (es) Claude Shannon		101
7	Dutch (nl) Claude Shannon		90
8	Hebrew (he) קלוד שאנון		71
9	Chinese (zh) 克劳德·香农		70
10	Japanese (ja) クロード・シャノン		67

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	Chinese (zh) 克劳德·香农		4
2	English (en) Claude Shannon		3
3	Arabic (ar) كلود شانون		2
4	Danish (da) Claude Shannon		2
5	Czech (cs) Claude Shannon		1
6	German (de) Claude Shannon		1
7	Spanish (es) Claude Shannon		1
8	French (fr) Claude Shannon		1
9	Indonesian (id) Claude Shannon		1
10	Azerbaijani (az) Klod Şennon		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 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