Paul McCartney

Quality:

Paul McCartney - English musician and member of the Beatles (born 1942). This person is the 205^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 169^th most popular person in English Wikipedia. Article “Paul McCartney” in English Wikipedia has 98.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 567 references and 40 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 332^nd most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 255^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

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

Global Wikipedia:

The 546^th most popular in all topics.

The 431^st most popular in AI.

The 205^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 683^rd most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 816^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1777^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Paul McCartney” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 48 authors in all languages (1777^th place).

Since the creation of article “Paul McCartney”, its content was written by 2738 registered users of English Wikipedia (255^th place) and edited by 8455 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (431^st place).

Paul McCartney is on the 169^th place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 205^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 7963 times in English Wikipedia (2553^rd place) and cited 39212 times in all languages (4175^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #118 in May 2010
• Global: #149 in June 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #74 in June 2018
• Global: #125 in June 2022

There are 53 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	Spanish (es) Paul McCartney		100
2	Russian (ru) Маккартни, Пол		100
3	Chinese (zh) 保罗·麦卡特尼		100
4	Vietnamese (vi) Paul McCartney		100
5	Korean (ko) 폴 매카트니		100
6	Slovak (sk) Paul McCartney		100
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Paul McCartney		100
8	French (fr) Paul McCartney		98.4175
9	English (en) Paul McCartney		98.2521
10	Georgian (ka) პოლ მაკ-კარტნი		96.9231

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Paul McCartney		68 524 163
2	Spanish (es) Paul McCartney		11 188 345
3	Japanese (ja) ポール・マッカートニー		6 054 879
4	Russian (ru) Маккартни, Пол		5 816 030
5	German (de) Paul McCartney		5 558 832
6	French (fr) Paul McCartney		4 763 525
7	Italian (it) Paul McCartney		4 135 913
8	Portuguese (pt) Paul McCartney		3 866 475
9	Polish (pl) Paul McCartney		2 061 036
10	Dutch (nl) Paul McCartney		1 592 758

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) Paul McCartney		314 207
2	Spanish (es) Paul McCartney		31 934
3	Japanese (ja) ポール・マッカートニー		24 860
4	Russian (ru) Маккартни, Пол		23 256
5	German (de) Paul McCartney		20 312
6	French (fr) Paul McCartney		18 410
7	Italian (it) Paul McCartney		13 279
8	Portuguese (pt) Paul McCartney		11 046
9	Dutch (nl) Paul McCartney		5 394
10	Polish (pl) Paul McCartney		5 086

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Paul McCartney		2 738
2	Spanish (es) Paul McCartney		659
3	German (de) Paul McCartney		544
4	French (fr) Paul McCartney		502
5	Italian (it) Paul McCartney		411
6	Russian (ru) Маккартни, Пол		389
7	Japanese (ja) ポール・マッカートニー		313
8	Hebrew (he) פול מקרטני		256
9	Portuguese (pt) Paul McCartney		249
10	Dutch (nl) Paul McCartney		242

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	Italian (it) Paul McCartney		7
2	English (en) Paul McCartney		6
3	Spanish (es) Paul McCartney		6
4	French (fr) Paul McCartney		6
5	German (de) Paul McCartney		4
6	Finnish (fi) Paul McCartney		3
7	Indonesian (id) Paul McCartney		3
8	Catalan (ca) Paul McCartney		2
9	Japanese (ja) ポール・マッカートニー		2
10	Korean (ko) 폴 매카트니		2

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