Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe - English trader, writer, and journalist (1660–1731). This person is the 5222^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Daniel Defoe” in English Wikipedia has 78.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 93 references and 22 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.74 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “Daniel Defoe” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Daniel Defoe”, its content was written by 724 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 3310 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5956^th place).

Daniel Defoe is on the 5222^nd place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 1103 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5599 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #229 in July 2001
• Global: #256 in July 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #20812 in April 2008
• Global: #10383 in October 2014

There are 53 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	English (en) Daniel Defoe		78.7022
2	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Daniel Defoe		52.6521
3	Norwegian (no) Daniel Defoe		44.547
4	Greek (el) Ντάνιελ Ντεφόε		40.0345
5	Azerbaijani (az) Daniel Defo		37.7216
6	Catalan (ca) Daniel Defoe		36.1096
7	Basque (eu) Daniel Defoe		34.6271
8	Ukrainian (uk) Данієль Дефо		33.3288
9	Malay (ms) Daniel Defoe		33.0095
10	Slovak (sk) Daniel Defoe		32.1814

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Daniel Defoe" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Daniel Defoe		6 415 734
2	Russian (ru) Дефо, Даниель		2 492 536
3	Spanish (es) Daniel Defoe		1 518 249
4	German (de) Daniel Defoe		1 004 331
5	French (fr) Daniel Defoe		989 615
6	Italian (it) Daniel Defoe		981 101
7	Swedish (sv) Daniel Defoe		567 884
8	Czech (cs) Daniel Defoe		522 084
9	Polish (pl) Daniel Defoe		452 288
10	Portuguese (pt) Daniel Defoe		369 506

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Daniel Defoe" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Daniel Defoe		16 904
2	Russian (ru) Дефо, Даниель		4 899
3	German (de) Daniel Defoe		2 676
4	French (fr) Daniel Defoe		2 070
5	Spanish (es) Daniel Defoe		1 682
6	Italian (it) Daniel Defoe		1 468
7	Bulgarian (bg) Даниел Дефо		1 217
8	Japanese (ja) ダニエル・デフォー		1 056
9	Czech (cs) Daniel Defoe		805
10	Chinese (zh) 丹尼尔·笛福		658

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

Language versions of the article "Daniel Defoe" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Daniel Defoe		724
2	German (de) Daniel Defoe		287
3	French (fr) Daniel Defoe		241
4	Russian (ru) Дефо, Даниель		182
5	Swedish (sv) Daniel Defoe		156
6	Italian (it) Daniel Defoe		147
7	Spanish (es) Daniel Defoe		132
8	Dutch (nl) Daniel Defoe		96
9	Polish (pl) Daniel Defoe		83
10	Hungarian (hu) Daniel Defoe		72

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

Language versions of the article "Daniel Defoe" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Daniel Defoe		5
2	Serbian (sr) Данијел Дефо		3
3	Catalan (ca) Daniel Defoe		2
4	Arabic (ar) دانييل ديفو		1
5	German (de) Daniel Defoe		1
6	Esperanto (eo) Daniel Defoe		1
7	Hindi (hi) डैनियल डीफो		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Daniel Defo		0
9	Belarusian (be) Даніэль Дэфо		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Даниел Дефо		0

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

Language versions of the article "Daniel Defoe" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Daniel Defoe		1 103
2	French (fr) Daniel Defoe		422
3	German (de) Daniel Defoe		418
4	Russian (ru) Дефо, Даниель		330
5	Italian (it) Daniel Defoe		285
6	Spanish (es) Daniel Defoe		274
7	Japanese (ja) ダニエル・デフォー		185
8	Ukrainian (uk) Данієль Дефо		147
9	Romanian (ro) Daniel Defoe		144
10	Portuguese (pt) Daniel Defoe		137

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic دانييل ديفو
az	Azerbaijani Daniel Defo
be	Belarusian Даніэль Дэфо
bg	Bulgarian Даниел Дефо
ca	Catalan Daniel Defoe
cs	Czech Daniel Defoe
da	Danish Daniel Defoe
de	German Daniel Defoe
el	Greek Ντάνιελ Ντεφόε
en	English Daniel Defoe
eo	Esperanto Daniel Defoe
es	Spanish Daniel Defoe
et	Estonian Daniel Defoe
eu	Basque Daniel Defoe
fa	Persian دانیل دفو
fi	Finnish Daniel Defoe
fr	French Daniel Defoe
gl	Galician Daniel Defoe
he	Hebrew דניאל דפו
hi	Hindi डैनियल डीफो
hr	Croatian Daniel Defoe
hu	Hungarian Daniel Defoe
hy	Armenian Դանիել Դեֆո
id	Indonesian Daniel Defoe
it	Italian Daniel Defoe
ja	Japanese ダニエル・デフォー
ka	Georgian დანიელ დეფო
kk	Kazakh Даниэль Дефо
ko	Korean 대니얼 디포
la	Latin Daniel Defoe
lt	Lithuanian Daniel Defoe
ms	Malay Daniel Defoe
nl	Dutch Daniel Defoe
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Daniel Defoe
no	Norwegian Daniel Defoe
pl	Polish Daniel Defoe
pt	Portuguese Daniel Defoe
ro	Romanian Daniel Defoe
ru	Russian Дефо, Даниель
sh	Serbo-Croatian Daniel Defoe
simple	Simple English Daniel Defoe
sk	Slovak Daniel Defoe
sl	Slovenian Daniel Defoe
sr	Serbian Данијел Дефо
sv	Swedish Daniel Defoe
ta	Tamil டானியல் டீஃபோ
th	Thai แดเนียล เดโฟ
tr	Turkish Daniel Defoe
uk	Ukrainian Данієль Дефо
ur	Urdu ڈینیل ڈیفو
uz	Uzbek Daniel Defoe
vi	Vietnamese Daniel Defoe
zh	Chinese 丹尼尔·笛福

Best Rank

English: #20812 04.2008

Global: #10383 10.2014

Best Rank

English: #229 07.2001

Global: #256 07.2001

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