Paul Simon

Quality:

Paul Simon - American singer-songwriter (born 1941). This person is the 1534^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Paul Simon” in English Wikipedia has 86 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 196 references and 28 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 9.55 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 2721^st most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 5370^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5058^th most popular in all topics.

The 9201^st most popular in AI.

The 1534^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2319^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3557^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Paul Simon” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Paul Simon”, its content was written by 1105 registered users of English Wikipedia (5370^th place) and edited by 2677 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9201^st place).

Paul Simon is on the 1534^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 3393 times in English Wikipedia (9032^nd place) and cited 13195 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #690 in December 2003
• Global: #1114 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #182 in December 2016
• Global: #353 in December 2016

There are 43 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) Paul Simon		85.9857
2	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Paul Simon		78.8506
3	German (de) Paul Simon		62.5641
4	Portuguese (pt) Paul Simon		52.9363
5	Hebrew (he) פול סיימון		51.5476
6	Dutch (nl) Paul Simon (artiest)		47.0121
7	Finnish (fi) Paul Simon		46.9384
8	Persian (fa) پل سایمون		40.7068
9	Hungarian (hu) Paul Simon (zenész)		40.4142
10	Norwegian (no) Paul Simon		37.3474

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Paul Simon		28 914 462
2	German (de) Paul Simon		2 951 291
3	Spanish (es) Paul Simon		1 703 674
4	French (fr) Paul Simon (chanteur)		1 647 356
5	Japanese (ja) ポール・サイモン		1 636 588
6	Italian (it) Paul Simon		992 323
7	Portuguese (pt) Paul Simon		718 962
8	Dutch (nl) Paul Simon (artiest)		717 353
9	Polish (pl) Paul Simon		593 722
10	Swedish (sv) Paul Simon		515 549

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		151 399
2	Japanese (ja) ポール・サイモン		8 012
3	German (de) Paul Simon		7 916
4	French (fr) Paul Simon (chanteur)		5 517
5	Spanish (es) Paul Simon		5 150
6	Italian (it) Paul Simon		3 793
7	Portuguese (pt) Paul Simon		2 093
8	Dutch (nl) Paul Simon (artiest)		1 758
9	Russian (ru) Саймон, Пол		1 705
10	Polish (pl) Paul Simon		1 604

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		1 105
2	German (de) Paul Simon		209
3	French (fr) Paul Simon (chanteur)		133
4	Italian (it) Paul Simon		120
5	Hebrew (he) פול סיימון		102
6	Japanese (ja) ポール・サイモン		93
7	Dutch (nl) Paul Simon (artiest)		93
8	Russian (ru) Саймон, Пол		79
9	Spanish (es) Paul Simon		73
10	Polish (pl) Paul Simon		54

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		3
2	Catalan (ca) Paul Simon		1
3	Greek (el) Πολ Σάιμον		1
4	Estonian (et) Paul Simon		1
5	Persian (fa) پل سایمون		1
6	Hebrew (he) פול סיימון		1
7	Polish (pl) Paul Simon		1
8	Portuguese (pt) Paul Simon		1
9	Romanian (ro) Paul Simon		1
10	Turkish (tr) Paul Simon		1

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