The Man Who Would Be King

The Man Who Would Be King - 1975 film by John Huston. This film is the 5502^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films. Article “The Man Who Would Be King” in Dutch Wikipedia has 9.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 8 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “The Man Who Would Be King” was edited by 1 authors in Dutch Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Man Who Would Be King”, its content was written by 21 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia and edited by 715 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Man Who Would Be King is on the 5502^nd place in global ranking of films on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 55 times in Dutch Wikipedia and cited 1191 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Dutch): #5442 in June 2011
• Global: #21706 in December 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Dutch): #35353 in February 2019
• Global: #11254 in November 2020

There are 29 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, 2025 (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) The Man Who Would Be King (film)		46.9947
2	Greek (el) Ο άνθρωπος που θα γινόταν βασιλιάς (ταινία, 1975)		24.8305
3	Bulgarian (bg) Човекът, който искаше да бъде крал		24.1158
4	German (de) Der Mann, der König sein wollte (Film)		22.7794
5	Malay (ms) The Man Who Would Be King		21.692
6	Polish (pl) Człowiek, który chciał być królem		21.6719
7	Catalan (ca) L'home que volia ser rei		20.1425
8	Japanese (ja) 王になろうとした男 (映画)		19.6806
9	Norwegian (no) Mannen som ville bli konge		19.1633
10	Romanian (ro) Omul care voia să fie rege (film)		17.7801

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

The most popular language versions of the article "The Man Who Would Be King" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Man Who Would Be King (film)		2 936 613
2	German (de) Der Mann, der König sein wollte (Film)		274 460
3	Spanish (es) The Man Who Would Be King (película)		245 288
4	French (fr) L'Homme qui voulut être roi (film)		197 235
5	Italian (it) L'uomo che volle farsi re (film)		188 652
6	Russian (ru) Человек, который хотел быть королём (фильм)		153 444
7	Portuguese (pt) O Homem Que Queria Ser Rei		86 740
8	Japanese (ja) 王になろうとした男 (映画)		76 795
9	Polish (pl) Człowiek, który chciał być królem		32 898
10	Persian (fa) مردی که می‌خواست سلطان باشد (فیلم)		29 366

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "The Man Who Would Be King" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Man Who Would Be King (film)		16 288
2	French (fr) L'Homme qui voulut être roi (film)		1 562
3	German (de) Der Mann, der König sein wollte (Film)		1 045
4	Italian (it) L'uomo che volle farsi re (film)		912
5	Spanish (es) The Man Who Would Be King (película)		876
6	Russian (ru) Человек, который хотел быть королём (фильм)		747
7	Japanese (ja) 王になろうとした男 (映画)		623
8	Persian (fa) مردی که می‌خواست سلطان باشد (فیلم)		220
9	Portuguese (pt) O Homem Que Queria Ser Rei		163
10	Chinese (zh) 霸王鐵金剛		115

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

Language versions of the article "The Man Who Would Be King" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Man Who Would Be King (film)		210
2	French (fr) L'Homme qui voulut être roi (film)		95
3	German (de) Der Mann, der König sein wollte (Film)		66
4	Italian (it) L'uomo che volle farsi re (film)		52
5	Russian (ru) Человек, который хотел быть королём (фильм)		42
6	Spanish (es) The Man Who Would Be King (película)		30
7	Swedish (sv) Mannen som ville bli kung		30
8	Dutch (nl) The Man Who Would Be King		21
9	Portuguese (pt) O Homem Que Queria Ser Rei		18
10	Norwegian (no) Mannen som ville bli konge		16

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

Language versions of the article "The Man Who Would Be King" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Der Mann, der König sein wollte (Film)		1
2	Basque (eu) Errege nahi zuen gizona		1
3	Italian (it) L'uomo che volle farsi re (film)		1
4	Korean (ko) 왕이 되려던 사나이		1
5	Dutch (nl) The Man Who Would Be King		1
6	Swedish (sv) Mannen som ville bli kung		1
7	Arabic (ar) الرجل الذي سيصبح ملكا (فيلم)		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Човекът, който искаше да бъде крал		0
9	Catalan (ca) L'home que volia ser rei		0
10	Greek (el) Ο άνθρωπος που θα γινόταν βασιλιάς (ταινία, 1975)		0

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

Language versions of the article "The Man Who Would Be King" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Man Who Would Be King (film)		150
2	French (fr) L'Homme qui voulut être roi (film)		116
3	German (de) Der Mann, der König sein wollte (Film)		80
4	Italian (it) L'uomo che volle farsi re (film)		70
5	Russian (ru) Человек, который хотел быть королём (фильм)		70
6	Portuguese (pt) O Homem Que Queria Ser Rei		65
7	Japanese (ja) 王になろうとした男 (映画)		55
8	Dutch (nl) The Man Who Would Be King		55
9	Polish (pl) Człowiek, który chciał być królem		55
10	Catalan (ca) L'home que volia ser rei		52

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الرجل الذي سيصبح ملكا (فيلم)
bg	Bulgarian Човекът, който искаше да бъде крал
ca	Catalan L'home que volia ser rei
de	German Der Mann, der König sein wollte (Film)
el	Greek Ο άνθρωπος που θα γινόταν βασιλιάς (ταινία, 1975)
en	English The Man Who Would Be King (film)
es	Spanish The Man Who Would Be King (película)
eu	Basque Errege nahi zuen gizona
fa	Persian مردی که می‌خواست سلطان باشد (فیلم)
fi	Finnish Man Who Would Be King – Seikkailujen sankarit
fr	French L'Homme qui voulut être roi (film)
gl	Galician O home que puido reinar
he	Hebrew האיש שרצה להיות מלך (סרט)
hu	Hungarian Aki király akart lenni
it	Italian L'uomo che volle farsi re (film)
ja	Japanese 王になろうとした男 (映画)
ko	Korean 왕이 되려던 사나이
ms	Malay The Man Who Would Be King
nl	Dutch The Man Who Would Be King
no	Norwegian Mannen som ville bli konge
pl	Polish Człowiek, który chciał być królem
pt	Portuguese O Homem Que Queria Ser Rei
ro	Romanian Omul care voia să fie rege (film)
ru	Russian Человек, который хотел быть королём (фильм)
sh	Serbo-Croatian The Man Who Would Be King
simple	Simple English The Man Who Would Be King
sr	Serbian Човек који је хтео да буде краљ
sv	Swedish Mannen som ville bli kung
zh	Chinese 霸王鐵金剛

Best Rank

Dutch: #35353 02.2019

Global: #11254 11.2020

Best Rank

Dutch: #5442 06.2011

Global: #21706 12.2019

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