Stephen King

Quality:

Stephen King - American novelist and writer (born 1947). This person is the 211^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 363^rd most popular person in English Wikipedia. Article “Stephen King” in English Wikipedia has 95.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 300 references and 38 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 703^rd most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 782^nd most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 363^rd most popular in people in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 573^rd most popular in all topics.

The 793^rd most popular in AI.

The 211^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1576^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1229^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4427^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Stephen King” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 31 authors in all languages (4427^th place).

Since the creation of article “Stephen King”, its content was written by 2064 registered users of English Wikipedia (782^nd place) and edited by 6942 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (793^rd place).

Stephen King is on the 363^rd place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 211^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 3594 times in English Wikipedia (7480^th place) and cited 19898 times in all languages (8341^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #25 in April 2002
• Global: #34 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #55 in September 2017
• Global: #33 in September 2017

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	French (fr) Stephen King		98.2594
2	English (en) Stephen King		95.6471
3	Spanish (es) Stephen King		89.9426
4	Russian (ru) Кинг, Стивен		88.9044
5	Armenian (hy) Սթիվեն Քինգ		81.4609
6	Hungarian (hu) Stephen King		70.7472
7	German (de) Stephen King		66.3773
8	Italian (it) Stephen King		60.3668
9	Ukrainian (uk) Стівен Кінг		54.7991
10	Finnish (fi) Stephen King		54.023

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Stephen King		50 716 514
2	Russian (ru) Кинг, Стивен		11 719 306
3	Spanish (es) Stephen King		11 301 850
4	German (de) Stephen King		8 659 531
5	French (fr) Stephen King		7 347 712
6	Italian (it) Stephen King		5 886 716
7	Japanese (ja) スティーヴン・キング		4 964 749
8	Portuguese (pt) Stephen King		4 209 367
9	Polish (pl) Stephen King		3 745 397
10	Chinese (zh) 斯蒂芬·金		1 388 236

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) Stephen King		204 482
2	Russian (ru) Кинг, Стивен		33 251
3	Spanish (es) Stephen King		26 235
4	French (fr) Stephen King		25 689
5	German (de) Stephen King		24 613
6	Italian (it) Stephen King		22 034
7	Japanese (ja) スティーヴン・キング		17 485
8	Polish (pl) Stephen King		7 797
9	Portuguese (pt) Stephen King		7 228
10	Chinese (zh) 斯蒂芬·金		5 413

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Stephen King		2 064
2	German (de) Stephen King		595
3	French (fr) Stephen King		426
4	Russian (ru) Кинг, Стивен		370
5	Italian (it) Stephen King		354
6	Spanish (es) Stephen King		338
7	Portuguese (pt) Stephen King		258
8	Polish (pl) Stephen King		186
9	Swedish (sv) Stephen King		177
10	Hebrew (he) סטיבן קינג		169

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) Stephen King		7
2	Spanish (es) Stephen King		4
3	French (fr) Stephen King		3
4	Hebrew (he) סטיבן קינג		3
5	German (de) Stephen King		2
6	Japanese (ja) スティーヴン・キング		2
7	Chinese (zh) 斯蒂芬·金		2
8	Danish (da) Stephen King		1
9	Italian (it) Stephen King		1
10	Polish (pl) Stephen King		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