Ed Gein

Quality:

Ed Gein - American murderer and human trophy collector (1906–1984). This person is the 255^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 169^th most popular person in English Wikipedia. Article “Ed Gein” in English Wikipedia has 88.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 144 references and 18 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 326^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 1668^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 169^th most popular in people in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 661^st most popular in all topics.

The 5159^th most popular in AI.

The 255^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1381^st most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1172^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

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

Since the creation of article “Ed Gein”, its content was written by 1684 registered users of English Wikipedia (1668^th place) and edited by 3543 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5159^th place).

Ed Gein is on the 169^th place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 255^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 155 times in English Wikipedia and cited 875 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #193 in October 2025
• Global: #13 in October 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1 in October 2025
• Global: #1 in October 2025

There are 37 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	Simple English (simple) Ed Gein		94.4762
2	English (en) Ed Gein		88.5714
3	Indonesian (id) Ed Gein		78.3873
4	German (de) Ed Gein		74.6882
5	Spanish (es) Ed Gein		63.7219
6	Japanese (ja) エド・ゲイン		55.2943
7	Greek (el) Εντ Γκειν		55.2248
8	Portuguese (pt) Ed Gein		54.2263
9	Finnish (fi) Ed Gein		51.7765
10	Russian (ru) Гин, Эд		47.3224

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ed Gein		72 130 912
2	Spanish (es) Ed Gein		9 081 111
3	German (de) Ed Gein		6 331 563
4	French (fr) Ed Gein		6 046 022
5	Italian (it) Ed Gein		4 398 112
6	Russian (ru) Гин, Эд		4 332 291
7	Japanese (ja) エド・ゲイン		3 682 654
8	Portuguese (pt) Ed Gein		2 467 055
9	Polish (pl) Ed Gein		2 354 341
10	Dutch (nl) Ed Gein		1 336 972

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) Ed Gein		203 984
2	Spanish (es) Ed Gein		31 367
3	Russian (ru) Гин, Эд		23 202
4	German (de) Ed Gein		22 602
5	French (fr) Ed Gein		21 885
6	Italian (it) Ed Gein		14 700
7	Japanese (ja) エド・ゲイン		12 641
8	Polish (pl) Ed Gein		8 153
9	Portuguese (pt) Ed Gein		7 347
10	Chinese (zh) 艾德·蓋恩		4 458

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ed Gein		1 684
2	German (de) Ed Gein		219
3	French (fr) Ed Gein		185
4	Italian (it) Ed Gein		174
5	Spanish (es) Ed Gein		156
6	Russian (ru) Гин, Эд		123
7	Dutch (nl) Ed Gein		90
8	Japanese (ja) エド・ゲイン		81
9	Portuguese (pt) Ed Gein		80
10	Polish (pl) Ed Gein		78

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	Arabic (ar) إد جين		3
2	English (en) Ed Gein		3
3	German (de) Ed Gein		2
4	Portuguese (pt) Ed Gein		2
5	Danish (da) Ed Gein		1
6	Greek (el) Εντ Γκειν		1
7	Basque (eu) Ed Gein		1
8	Finnish (fi) Ed Gein		1
9	Italian (it) Ed Gein		1
10	Ukrainian (uk) Ед Ґейн		1

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

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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