Ian McKellen

Quality:

Ian McKellen - British actor (born 1939). This person is the 616^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Ian McKellen” in Basque Wikipedia has 4.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Basque) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 1824^th most popular in all topics.

The 4367^th most popular in AI.

The 616^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 2206^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Ian McKellen”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Basque Wikipedia and edited by 3823 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4367^th place).

Ian McKellen is on the 616^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 42 times in Basque Wikipedia and cited 11416 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Basque): #751 in July 2012
• Global: #886 in December 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Basque): #5654 in May 2014
• Global: #206 in December 2012

There are 51 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) Ian McKellen		95.0048
2	Greek (el) Ίαν ΜακΚέλεν		78.1186
3	Bulgarian (bg) Иън Маккелън		62.5695
4	Spanish (es) Ian McKellen		51.0701
5	Hungarian (hu) Ian McKellen		49.3185
6	Croatian (hr) Ian McKellen		48.4459
7	French (fr) Ian McKellen		48.1735
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Ian McKellen		44.8451
9	Italian (it) Ian McKellen		40.8541
10	Hebrew (he) איאן מקלן		38.3237

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ian McKellen		38 268 907
2	Russian (ru) Маккеллен, Иэн		5 951 021
3	German (de) Ian McKellen		5 628 651
4	Spanish (es) Ian McKellen		5 054 255
5	French (fr) Ian McKellen		3 810 703
6	Italian (it) Ian McKellen		3 396 137
7	Japanese (ja) イアン・マッケラン		1 848 837
8	Portuguese (pt) Ian McKellen		1 745 062
9	Chinese (zh) 伊恩·麦凯伦		1 034 937
10	Polish (pl) Ian McKellen		896 609

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) Ian McKellen		151 938
2	German (de) Ian McKellen		18 303
3	Russian (ru) Маккеллен, Иэн		16 022
4	French (fr) Ian McKellen		15 898
5	Spanish (es) Ian McKellen		13 644
6	Italian (it) Ian McKellen		10 468
7	Chinese (zh) 伊恩·麦凯伦		8 751
8	Japanese (ja) イアン・マッケラン		5 880
9	Portuguese (pt) Ian McKellen		4 641
10	Persian (fa) ایان مک‌کلن		2 113

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ian McKellen		1 261
2	German (de) Ian McKellen		269
3	French (fr) Ian McKellen		261
4	Russian (ru) Маккеллен, Иэн		190
5	Italian (it) Ian McKellen		187
6	Spanish (es) Ian McKellen		165
7	Hungarian (hu) Ian McKellen		116
8	Dutch (nl) Ian McKellen		104
9	Hebrew (he) איאן מקלן		94
10	Polish (pl) Ian McKellen		93

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) Ian McKellen		5
2	French (fr) Ian McKellen		3
3	Arabic (ar) إيان ماكيلين		2
4	Spanish (es) Ian McKellen		2
5	Ukrainian (uk) Ієн Мак-Келлен		2
6	Chinese (zh) 伊恩·麦凯伦		2
7	Catalan (ca) Ian McKellen		1
8	Persian (fa) ایان مک‌کلن		1
9	Portuguese (pt) Ian McKellen		1
10	Azerbaijani (az) Yan MakKellen		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 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