Ian McKellen

Quality:

Ian McKellen - British actor (born 1939). This person is the 611^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 726^th most popular person in English Wikipedia. Article “Ian McKellen” in English Wikipedia has 93.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 171 references and 17 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 1511^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 3808^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 726^th most popular in people in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1862^nd most popular in all topics.

The 4458^th most popular in AI.

The 611^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3180^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3380^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Ian McKellen” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Ian McKellen”, its content was written by 1231 registered users of English Wikipedia (3808^th place) and edited by 3735 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4458^th place).

Ian McKellen is on the 726^th place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 611^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 1958 times in English Wikipedia and cited 11010 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #135 in July 2004
• Global: #887 in December 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #271 in December 2012
• Global: #207 in December 2012

There are 51 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) Ian McKellen		93.3519
2	Greek (el) Ίαν ΜακΚέλεν		80.9546
3	Bulgarian (bg) Иън Маккелън		67.0486
4	Spanish (es) Ian McKellen		50.1206
5	Hungarian (hu) Ian McKellen		49.4124
6	Croatian (hr) Ian McKellen		48.4563
7	French (fr) Ian McKellen		48.1475
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Ian McKellen		44.8451
9	Italian (it) Ian McKellen		38.8781
10	Hebrew (he) איאן מקלן		38.4206

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ian McKellen		36 122 074
2	Russian (ru) Маккеллен, Иэн		5 482 591
3	German (de) Ian McKellen		5 359 393
4	Spanish (es) Ian McKellen		4 849 688
5	French (fr) Ian McKellen		3 606 181
6	Italian (it) Ian McKellen		3 235 655
7	Japanese (ja) イアン・マッケラン		1 766 119
8	Portuguese (pt) Ian McKellen		1 683 049
9	Chinese (zh) 伊恩·麦凯伦		982 916
10	Polish (pl) Ian McKellen		850 822

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) Ian McKellen		135 937
2	Russian (ru) Маккеллен, Иэн		16 005
3	Spanish (es) Ian McKellen		11 653
4	German (de) Ian McKellen		11 593
5	French (fr) Ian McKellen		9 576
6	Italian (it) Ian McKellen		8 433
7	Japanese (ja) イアン・マッケラン		5 058
8	Portuguese (pt) Ian McKellen		4 054
9	Chinese (zh) 伊恩·麦凯伦		3 475
10	Polish (pl) Ian McKellen		2 033

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ian McKellen		1 231
2	German (de) Ian McKellen		263
3	French (fr) Ian McKellen		251
4	Russian (ru) Маккеллен, Иэн		184
5	Italian (it) Ian McKellen		178
6	Spanish (es) Ian McKellen		155
7	Hungarian (hu) Ian McKellen		111
8	Dutch (nl) Ian McKellen		103
9	Polish (pl) Ian McKellen		91
10	Hebrew (he) איאן מקלן		90

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) Ian McKellen		5
2	Urdu (ur) ایان میک کیلن		4
3	Russian (ru) Маккеллен, Иэн		2
4	Catalan (ca) Ian McKellen		1
5	French (fr) Ian McKellen		1
6	Hebrew (he) איאן מקלן		1
7	Croatian (hr) Ian McKellen		1
8	Japanese (ja) イアン・マッケラン		1
9	Simple English (simple) Ian McKellen		1
10	Serbian (sr) Ијан Макелен		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 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