Paul Simon

Quality:

Paul Simon - American singer-songwriter (born 1941). This person is the 1536^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Paul Simon” in English Wikipedia has 84.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 175 references and 27 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 9.42 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.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2792^nd most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 5335^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5181^st most popular in all topics.

The 9269^th most popular in AI.

The 1536^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1747^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2714^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Paul Simon” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Paul Simon”, its content was written by 1080 registered users of English Wikipedia (5335^th place) and edited by 2624 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9269^th place).

Paul Simon is on the 1536^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 3131 times in English Wikipedia (9235^th place) and cited 12002 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #692 in December 2003
• Global: #1115 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #178 in December 2016
• Global: #350 in December 2016

There are 42 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) Paul Simon		84.7559
2	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Paul Simon		78.8506
3	German (de) Paul Simon		61.813
4	Portuguese (pt) Paul Simon		53.2529
5	Hebrew (he) פול סיימון		51.1025
6	Finnish (fi) Paul Simon		46.9344
7	Dutch (nl) Paul Simon (artiest)		46.2644
8	Hungarian (hu) Paul Simon (zenész)		40.4742
9	Norwegian (no) Paul Simon		37.5903
10	Spanish (es) Paul Simon		35.6437

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Paul Simon		27 206 982
2	German (de) Paul Simon		2 804 256
3	Spanish (es) Paul Simon		1 621 539
4	French (fr) Paul Simon (chanteur)		1 548 741
5	Japanese (ja) ポール・サイモン		1 543 144
6	Italian (it) Paul Simon		935 413
7	Portuguese (pt) Paul Simon		691 377
8	Dutch (nl) Paul Simon (artiest)		677 021
9	Polish (pl) Paul Simon		567 923
10	Russian (ru) Саймон, Пол		469 317

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 Simon		192 758
2	German (de) Paul Simon		12 121
3	French (fr) Paul Simon (chanteur)		8 484
4	Japanese (ja) ポール・サイモン		6 716
5	Swedish (sv) Paul Simon		6 319
6	Spanish (es) Paul Simon		6 318
7	Italian (it) Paul Simon		3 667
8	Portuguese (pt) Paul Simon		2 479
9	Dutch (nl) Paul Simon (artiest)		2 320
10	Russian (ru) Саймон, Пол		1 929

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Paul Simon		1 080
2	German (de) Paul Simon		204
3	French (fr) Paul Simon (chanteur)		131
4	Italian (it) Paul Simon		116
5	Hebrew (he) פול סיימון		95
6	Japanese (ja) ポール・サイモン		92
7	Dutch (nl) Paul Simon (artiest)		92
8	Russian (ru) Саймон, Пол		78
9	Spanish (es) Paul Simon		70
10	Norwegian (no) Paul Simon		59

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) Paul Simon		6
2	Simple English (simple) Paul Simon		3
3	Hebrew (he) פול סיימון		2
4	Japanese (ja) ポール・サイモン		1
5	Norwegian (no) Paul Simon		1
6	Polish (pl) Paul Simon		1
7	Russian (ru) Саймон, Пол		1
8	Serbian (sr) Пол Сајмон		1
9	Arabic (ar) بول سايمون		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Пол Саймън		0

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