Jesse Owens

Quality:

Jesse Owens - American track and field athlete (1913–1980). This person is the 2304^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Jesse Owens” in English Wikipedia has 98.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 369 references and 28 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 6417^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 3676^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7896^th most popular in all topics.

The 6213^th most popular in AI.

The 2304^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 9194^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9590^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Jesse Owens” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Jesse Owens”, its content was written by 1280 registered users of English Wikipedia (3676^th place) and edited by 3243 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6213^th place).

Jesse Owens is on the 2304^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 1465 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7229 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #96 in February 2016
• Global: #658 in February 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #214 in February 2016
• Global: #374 in August 2016

There are 49 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) Jesse Owens		98.5226
2	Catalan (ca) Jesse Owens		75.2087
3	German (de) Jesse Owens		72.5719
4	Arabic (ar) جيسي أوينز		59.5125
5	Spanish (es) Jesse Owens		49.5756
6	French (fr) Jesse Owens		48.6131
7	Polish (pl) Jesse Owens		44.4029
8	Greek (el) Τζέσε Όουενς		40.9845
9	Latin (la) Iesse Owens		38.9541
10	Finnish (fi) Jesse Owens		38.0708

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Jesse Owens		18 744 032
2	Italian (it) Jesse Owens		2 662 743
3	Spanish (es) Jesse Owens		2 537 393
4	French (fr) Jesse Owens		2 222 772
5	German (de) Jesse Owens		1 518 655
6	Russian (ru) Оуэнс, Джесси		970 239
7	Portuguese (pt) Jesse Owens		857 993
8	Polish (pl) Jesse Owens		523 701
9	Dutch (nl) Jesse Owens		305 810
10	Japanese (ja) ジェシー・オーエンス		294 107

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) Jesse Owens		63 328
2	Italian (it) Jesse Owens		12 669
3	French (fr) Jesse Owens		4 751
4	Spanish (es) Jesse Owens		4 560
5	German (de) Jesse Owens		4 466
6	Russian (ru) Оуэнс, Джесси		3 650
7	Portuguese (pt) Jesse Owens		1 795
8	Polish (pl) Jesse Owens		880
9	Japanese (ja) ジェシー・オーエンス		863
10	Dutch (nl) Jesse Owens		674

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Jesse Owens		1 280
2	French (fr) Jesse Owens		243
3	German (de) Jesse Owens		207
4	Italian (it) Jesse Owens		201
5	Spanish (es) Jesse Owens		103
6	Dutch (nl) Jesse Owens		97
7	Hebrew (he) ג'סי אוונס		94
8	Russian (ru) Оуэнс, Джесси		79
9	Polish (pl) Jesse Owens		65
10	Portuguese (pt) Jesse Owens		63

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) Jesse Owens		2
2	Italian (it) Jesse Owens		2
3	Catalan (ca) Jesse Owens		1
4	German (de) Jesse Owens		1
5	Basque (eu) Jesse Owens		1
6	Hungarian (hu) Jesse Owens		1
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Jesse Owens		1
8	Arabic (ar) جيسي أوينز		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Cessi Ouens		0
10	Belarusian (be) Джэсі Оўэнс		0

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.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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