Roy Orbison

Quality:

Roy Orbison - American musician (1936 –1988). This person is the 2047^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Roy Orbison” in Italian Wikipedia has 36.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 23 references and 18 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.08 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6948^th most popular in all topics.

The 2047^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Italian Wikipedia:

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The 6104^th most popular in Italian Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4379^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Roy Orbison” was edited by 1 authors in Italian Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Roy Orbison”, its content was written by 76 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 2360 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Roy Orbison is on the 2047^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 507 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 7957 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #2027 in April 2008
• Global: #30 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #6104 in June 2026
• Global: #1460 in August 2022

There are 45 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) Roy Orbison		100
2	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Roy Orbison		100
3	Russian (ru) Орбисон, Рой		83.0769
4	Armenian (hy) Ռոյ Օրբիսոն		80.957
5	German (de) Roy Orbison		39.717
6	Italian (it) Roy Orbison		36.7434
7	Galician (gl) Roy Orbison		31.4878
8	Spanish (es) Roy Orbison		31.342
9	Portuguese (pt) Roy Orbison		30.3567
10	Czech (cs) Roy Orbison		29.8257

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Roy Orbison		24 673 701
2	German (de) Roy Orbison		2 013 371
3	Spanish (es) Roy Orbison		1 662 455
4	Russian (ru) Орбисон, Рой		961 380
5	French (fr) Roy Orbison		926 607
6	Dutch (nl) Roy Orbison		921 200
7	Portuguese (pt) Roy Orbison		840 720
8	Italian (it) Roy Orbison		577 237
9	Polish (pl) Roy Orbison		543 032
10	Swedish (sv) Roy Orbison		482 666

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) Roy Orbison		124 795
2	German (de) Roy Orbison		7 176
3	Italian (it) Roy Orbison		6 642
4	French (fr) Roy Orbison		6 583
5	Spanish (es) Roy Orbison		5 882
6	Portuguese (pt) Roy Orbison		4 313
7	Russian (ru) Орбисон, Рой		2 318
8	Polish (pl) Roy Orbison		2 183
9	Dutch (nl) Roy Orbison		2 145
10	Japanese (ja) ロイ・オービソン		1 965

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Roy Orbison		962
2	German (de) Roy Orbison		160
3	French (fr) Roy Orbison		116
4	Russian (ru) Орбисон, Рой		113
5	Dutch (nl) Roy Orbison		105
6	Spanish (es) Roy Orbison		94
7	Italian (it) Roy Orbison		76
8	Hebrew (he) רוי אורביסון		62
9	Portuguese (pt) Roy Orbison		58
10	Polish (pl) Roy Orbison		54

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	Spanish (es) Roy Orbison		2
2	Arabic (ar) روي أوربيسون		1
3	German (de) Roy Orbison		1
4	Greek (el) Ρόι Όρμπισον		1
5	English (en) Roy Orbison		1
6	Basque (eu) Roy Orbison		1
7	Finnish (fi) Roy Orbison		1
8	Italian (it) Roy Orbison		1
9	Polish (pl) Roy Orbison		1
10	Romanian (ro) Roy Orbison		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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