Stephen King

Quality:

Stephen King - American novelist and writer (born 1947). This person is the 212^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 358^th most popular person in English Wikipedia. Article “Stephen King” in English Wikipedia has 95.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 297 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 685^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 763^rd most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 358^th most popular in people in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 549^th most popular in all topics.

The 786^th most popular in AI.

The 212^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1912^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1443^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5639^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Stephen King” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 27 authors in all languages (5639^th place).

Since the creation of article “Stephen King”, its content was written by 2119 registered users of English Wikipedia (763^rd place) and edited by 7053 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (786^th place).

Stephen King is on the 358^th place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 212^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 3725 times in English Wikipedia (7593^rd place) and cited 20722 times in all languages (8310^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #25 in April 2002
• Global: #35 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #54 in September 2017
• Global: #33 in September 2017

There are 54 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	French (fr) Stephen King		98.0855
2	English (en) Stephen King		95.6413
3	German (de) Stephen King		89.3333
4	Russian (ru) Кинг, Стивен		89.1854
5	Spanish (es) Stephen King		88.8661
6	Armenian (hy) Սթիվեն Քինգ		81.4873
7	Hungarian (hu) Stephen King		72.4611
8	Italian (it) Stephen King		61.0684
9	Finnish (fi) Stephen King		55.7504
10	Romanian (ro) Stephen King		52.4216

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Stephen King		53 889 657
2	Russian (ru) Кинг, Стивен		13 182 368
3	Spanish (es) Stephen King		11 714 983
4	German (de) Stephen King		9 068 301
5	French (fr) Stephen King		7 730 904
6	Italian (it) Stephen King		6 211 565
7	Japanese (ja) スティーヴン・キング		5 247 726
8	Portuguese (pt) Stephen King		4 307 605
9	Polish (pl) Stephen King		3 882 714
10	Chinese (zh) 斯蒂芬·金		1 467 686

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		169 244
2	Japanese (ja) スティーヴン・キング		25 002
3	Russian (ru) Кинг, Стивен		24 817
4	Italian (it) Stephen King		19 467
5	German (de) Stephen King		19 425
6	French (fr) Stephen King		18 530
7	Spanish (es) Stephen King		18 222
8	Polish (pl) Stephen King		8 025
9	Portuguese (pt) Stephen King		5 382
10	Chinese (zh) 斯蒂芬·金		4 793

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		2 119
2	German (de) Stephen King		613
3	French (fr) Stephen King		438
4	Russian (ru) Кинг, Стивен		373
5	Italian (it) Stephen King		362
6	Spanish (es) Stephen King		349
7	Portuguese (pt) Stephen King		251
8	Polish (pl) Stephen King		189
9	Hebrew (he) סטיבן קינג		180
10	Swedish (sv) Stephen King		180

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	German (de) Stephen King		8
2	Spanish (es) Stephen King		4
3	English (en) Stephen King		3
4	Romanian (ro) Stephen King		2
5	Russian (ru) Кинг, Стивен		2
6	Arabic (ar) ستيفن كينغ		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Stiven Kinq		1
8	Basque (eu) Stephen King		1
9	Indonesian (id) Stephen King		1
10	Japanese (ja) スティーヴン・キング		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