The Buddha

Quality:

The Buddha - Indian philosopher and the founder of Buddhism (623 or 563 BCE – 543 or 483 BCE). This person is the 217^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 317^th most popular person in English Wikipedia. Article “The Buddha” in English Wikipedia has 95 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 648 references and 46 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 5 points.

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 605^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 642^nd most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 317^th most popular in people in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 585^th most popular in all topics.

The 610^th most popular in AI.

The 217^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2316^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1547^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3384^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “The Buddha” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 35 authors in all languages (3384^th place).

Since the creation of article “The Buddha”, its content was written by 2208 registered users of English Wikipedia (642^nd place) and edited by 7625 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (610^th place).

The Buddha is on the 317^th place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 217^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 9165 times in English Wikipedia (2231^st place) and cited 43152 times in all languages (3896^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #107 in November 2014
• Global: #119 in January 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #467 in September 2013
• Global: #453 in May 2024

There are 55 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	Spanish (es) Buda Gautama		100
2	Hungarian (hu) Gautama Sziddhártha		100
3	Tamil (ta) கௌதம புத்தர்		100
4	Slovenian (sl) Gautama Buda		100
5	English (en) The Buddha		95
6	Esperanto (eo) Budho Gotamo		91.8452
7	Japanese (ja) 釈迦		90.7599
8	French (fr) Siddhartha Gautama		89.9152
9	Italian (it) Gautama Buddha		81.746
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Gautama Buddha		78.2529

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Buddha		56 372 386
2	Spanish (es) Buda Gautama		11 725 665
3	Japanese (ja) 釈迦		8 719 395
4	Hindi (hi) गौतम बुद्ध		5 806 157
5	Chinese (zh) 释迦牟尼		4 769 772
6	Russian (ru) Будда Шакьямуни		4 328 836
7	German (de) Siddhartha Gautama		3 113 249
8	Vietnamese (vi) Thích-ca Mâu-ni		3 035 942
9	Indonesian (id) Siddhattha Gotama		2 935 164
10	Portuguese (pt) Sidarta Gautama		2 457 348

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) The Buddha		151 487
2	Japanese (ja) 釈迦		25 993
3	Chinese (zh) 释迦牟尼		18 796
4	Hindi (hi) गौतम बुद्ध		17 085
5	Spanish (es) Buda Gautama		17 000
6	Russian (ru) Будда Шакьямуни		13 217
7	Portuguese (pt) Sidarta Gautama		10 245
8	German (de) Siddhartha Gautama		8 822
9	Italian (it) Gautama Buddha		8 760
10	French (fr) Siddhartha Gautama		7 710

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Buddha		2 208
2	German (de) Siddhartha Gautama		416
3	Spanish (es) Buda Gautama		388
4	Japanese (ja) 釈迦		337
5	Chinese (zh) 释迦牟尼		279
6	French (fr) Siddhartha Gautama		278
7	Italian (it) Gautama Buddha		264
8	Russian (ru) Будда Шакьямуни		244
9	Vietnamese (vi) Thích-ca Mâu-ni		244
10	Dutch (nl) Gautama Boeddha		200

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) The Buddha		7
2	Japanese (ja) 釈迦		6
3	Spanish (es) Buda Gautama		3
4	Hungarian (hu) Gautama Sziddhártha		3
5	Arabic (ar) غوتاما بوذا		2
6	French (fr) Siddhartha Gautama		2
7	Hebrew (he) גאוטמה הבודהה		2
8	Italian (it) Gautama Buddha		2
9	Korean (ko) 석가모니		2
10	Chinese (zh) 释迦牟尼		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 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