List of South Africans

List of South Africans - Wikimedia list article. Article “List of South Africans” in English Wikipedia has 58 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 37 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.05 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 “List of South Africans” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “List of South Africans”, its content was written by 424 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 477 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 32 times in English Wikipedia and cited 50 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1064 in February 2003
• Global: #2663 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #47765 in June 2010
• Global: #73098 in June 2010

There are 4 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) List of South Africans		57.9686
2	Simple English (simple) List of South Africans		45.2588
3	Japanese (ja) 南アフリカ人の一覧		6.3369
4	Chinese (zh) 南非人列表		0.3923

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

The most popular language versions of the article "List of South Africans" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of South Africans		1 400 130
2	Japanese (ja) 南アフリカ人の一覧		165 141
3	Simple English (simple) List of South Africans		2 571
4	Chinese (zh) 南非人列表		2 333

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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 "List of South Africans" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of South Africans		2 091
2	Japanese (ja) 南アフリカ人の一覧		481
3	Simple English (simple) List of South Africans		26
4	Chinese (zh) 南非人列表		14

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of South Africans		424
2	Japanese (ja) 南アフリカ人の一覧		43
3	Simple English (simple) List of South Africans		5
4	Chinese (zh) 南非人列表		5

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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 "List of South Africans" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of South Africans		1
2	Japanese (ja) 南アフリカ人の一覧		0
3	Simple English (simple) List of South Africans		0
4	Chinese (zh) 南非人列表		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 "List of South Africans" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) List of South Africans		32
2	Japanese (ja) 南アフリカ人の一覧		15
3	Chinese (zh) 南非人列表		3
4	Simple English (simple) List of South Africans		0

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#	Language	Value
en	English List of South Africans
ja	Japanese 南アフリカ人の一覧
simple	Simple English List of South Africans
zh	Chinese 南非人列表

Best Rank

English: #47765 06.2010

Global: #73098 06.2010

Best Rank

English: #1064 02.2003

Global: #2663 10.2001

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