John Williams

Quality:

John Williams - American composer and conductor (born 1932). This person is the 1336^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “John Williams” in English Wikipedia has 92.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 197 references and 24 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 3268^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 1666^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4484^th most popular in all topics.

The 2859^th most popular in AI.

The 1336^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3615^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4079^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4702^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “John Williams” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 30 authors in all languages (4702^nd place).

Since the creation of article “John Williams”, its content was written by 1647 registered users of English Wikipedia (1666^th place) and edited by 4534 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2859^th place).

John Williams is on the 1336^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 2946 times in English Wikipedia and cited 15563 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #552 in February 2016
• Global: #788 in February 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #540 in December 2015
• Global: #753 in December 2015

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) John Williams		92.4816
2	Malay (ms) John Williams		68.3596
3	Swedish (sv) John Williams		67.1131
4	Chinese (zh) 約翰·威廉斯		62.844
5	German (de) John Williams (Komponist)		59.8651
6	Thai (th) จอห์น วิลเลียมส์		57.0573
7	Spanish (es) John Williams (compositor)		48.4719
8	French (fr) John Williams (compositeur)		46.6299
9	Italian (it) John Williams		41.5914
10	Persian (fa) جان ویلیامز		36.4316

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) John Williams		25 243 901
2	Spanish (es) John Williams (compositor)		3 238 059
3	German (de) John Williams (Komponist)		2 987 773
4	French (fr) John Williams (compositeur)		2 809 486
5	Japanese (ja) ジョン・ウィリアムズ (作曲家)		1 969 776
6	Italian (it) John Williams		1 435 911
7	Russian (ru) Уильямс, Джон (композитор)		1 160 335
8	Portuguese (pt) John Williams		771 715
9	Dutch (nl) John Williams (componist)		567 339
10	Chinese (zh) 約翰·威廉斯		455 141

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) John Williams		126 577
2	German (de) John Williams (Komponist)		13 890
3	French (fr) John Williams (compositeur)		11 790
4	Spanish (es) John Williams (compositor)		10 301
5	Japanese (ja) ジョン・ウィリアムズ (作曲家)		8 839
6	Italian (it) John Williams		5 902
7	Russian (ru) Уильямс, Джон (композитор)		5 138
8	Portuguese (pt) John Williams		2 587
9	Chinese (zh) 約翰·威廉斯		2 174
10	Polish (pl) John Williams (kompozytor)		2 133

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) John Williams		1 647
2	German (de) John Williams (Komponist)		378
3	French (fr) John Williams (compositeur)		348
4	Italian (it) John Williams		239
5	Spanish (es) John Williams (compositor)		214
6	Dutch (nl) John Williams (componist)		144
7	Japanese (ja) ジョン・ウィリアムズ (作曲家)		109
8	Polish (pl) John Williams (kompozytor)		107
9	Russian (ru) Уильямс, Джон (композитор)		104
10	Hungarian (hu) John Williams (zeneszerző)		86

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	German (de) John Williams (Komponist)		7
2	English (en) John Williams		7
3	Hebrew (he) ג'ון ויליאמס (מלחין)		4
4	Spanish (es) John Williams (compositor)		3
5	Czech (cs) John Williams		2
6	French (fr) John Williams (compositeur)		2
7	Catalan (ca) John Williams		1
8	Hungarian (hu) John Williams (zeneszerző)		1
9	Italian (it) John Williams		1
10	Russian (ru) Уильямс, Джон (композитор)		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