David Bowie

Quality:

David Bowie - English musician and actor (1947–2016). This person is the 95^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 124^th most popular person in Finnish Wikipedia. Article “David Bowie” in Finnish Wikipedia has 94.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 116 references and 26 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Finnish Wikipedia:

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The 501^st most popular in Finnish Wikipedia.

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The 1111^th most editable in Finnish Wikipedia.

The 124^th most popular in people in Finnish Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 252^nd most popular in all topics.

The 454^th most popular in AI.

The 95^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Finnish Wikipedia:

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The 2109^th most popular in Finnish Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 4435^th most editable in Finnish Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 938^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2453^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “David Bowie” was edited by 1 authors in Finnish Wikipedia (4435^th place) and written by 41 authors in all languages (2453^rd place).

Since the creation of article “David Bowie”, its content was written by 124 registered users of Finnish Wikipedia (1111^th place) and edited by 8417 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (454^th place).

David Bowie is on the 124^th place in local ranking of people in Finnish Wikipedia and on the 95^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 559 times in Finnish Wikipedia and cited 36423 times in all languages (4644^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Finnish): #1 in January 2016
• Global: #1 in January 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Finnish): #1 in January 2016
• Global: #1 in January 2016

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	Spanish (es) David Bowie		100
2	Russian (ru) Боуи, Дэвид		100
3	Persian (fa) دیوید بویی		100
4	Norwegian (no) David Bowie		100
5	Catalan (ca) David Bowie		100
6	Estonian (et) David Bowie		100
7	Georgian (ka) დეივიდ ბოუი		100
8	English (en) David Bowie		99.9045
9	Korean (ko) 데이비드 보위		99.0255
10	Portuguese (pt) David Bowie		98.4218

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) David Bowie		93 765 150
2	Spanish (es) David Bowie		11 427 551
3	German (de) David Bowie		10 893 960
4	French (fr) David Bowie		9 259 199
5	Russian (ru) Боуи, Дэвид		9 123 799
6	Italian (it) David Bowie		8 918 617
7	Japanese (ja) デヴィッド・ボウイ		7 484 618
8	Portuguese (pt) David Bowie		3 908 499
9	Polish (pl) David Bowie		3 166 974
10	Dutch (nl) David Bowie		2 863 975

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) David Bowie		261 310
2	German (de) David Bowie		27 441
3	Spanish (es) David Bowie		23 600
4	Japanese (ja) デヴィッド・ボウイ		20 833
5	French (fr) David Bowie		20 434
6	Russian (ru) Боуи, Дэвид		20 055
7	Italian (it) David Bowie		17 169
8	Polish (pl) David Bowie		7 408
9	Portuguese (pt) David Bowie		6 428
10	Dutch (nl) David Bowie		5 686

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) David Bowie		2 973
2	German (de) David Bowie		635
3	French (fr) David Bowie		595
4	Italian (it) David Bowie		452
5	Spanish (es) David Bowie		390
6	Russian (ru) Боуи, Дэвид		363
7	Dutch (nl) David Bowie		290
8	Hebrew (he) דייוויד בואי		229
9	Japanese (ja) デヴィッド・ボウイ		210
10	Polish (pl) David Bowie		194

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	Italian (it) David Bowie		7
2	English (en) David Bowie		5
3	Simple English (simple) David Bowie		5
4	Hebrew (he) דייוויד בואי		4
5	German (de) David Bowie		3
6	Arabic (ar) ديفيد بوي		2
7	French (fr) David Bowie		2
8	Hindi (hi) डेविड बोवी		2
9	Polish (pl) David Bowie		2
10	Swedish (sv) David Bowie		2

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 Finnish Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Kongon demokraattinen tasavalta, Senegal, Erling Braut Haaland, Kongon tasavalta, Harry Kane, Jalkapallon maailmanmestaruuskilpailut 2026, Jalkapallon maailmanmestaruuskilpailut, Romelu Lukaku, Kylian Mbappé, Norsunluurannikko.

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