William S. Burroughs

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William S. Burroughs - American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer (1914–1997). This person is the 3409^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “William S. Burroughs” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 55.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 64 references and 12 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8635^th most popular in AI.

The 3409^th most popular in people.

Since the creation of article “William S. Burroughs”, its content was written by 48 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia and edited by 2765 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8635^th place).

William S. Burroughs is on the 3409^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 190 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 5483 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #3530 in December 2010
• Global: #285 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #8363 in December 2024
• Global: #3144 in December 2024

There are 44 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	Russian (ru) Берроуз, Уильям Сьюард		88.2567
2	English (en) William S. Burroughs		85.6391
3	Latin (la) Gulielmus Seward Burroughs II		62.4373
4	Armenian (hy) Ուիլյամ Սյուարդ Բերրոուզ		57.0814
5	Portuguese (pt) William S. Burroughs		55.8337
6	German (de) William S. Burroughs		54.7664
7	Swedish (sv) William S. Burroughs		49.3391
8	Greek (el) Γουίλιαμ Μπάροουζ		42.0585
9	Georgian (ka) უილიამ სიუარდ ბეროუზი		41.9723
10	Italian (it) William S. Burroughs		41.7372

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) William S. Burroughs		14 252 158
2	Russian (ru) Берроуз, Уильям Сьюард		2 985 737
3	Spanish (es) William Burroughs		1 505 744
4	Italian (it) William S. Burroughs		1 143 158
5	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・S・バロウズ		1 087 533
6	French (fr) William S. Burroughs		1 052 784
7	German (de) William S. Burroughs		1 027 894
8	Polish (pl) William S. Burroughs		369 438
9	Portuguese (pt) William S. Burroughs		312 154
10	Czech (cs) William Seward Burroughs		201 608

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) William S. Burroughs		56 520
2	Russian (ru) Берроуз, Уильям Сьюард		6 722
3	Spanish (es) William Burroughs		4 034
4	Italian (it) William S. Burroughs		3 874
5	French (fr) William S. Burroughs		3 572
6	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・S・バロウズ		3 481
7	German (de) William S. Burroughs		3 315
8	Polish (pl) William S. Burroughs		1 190
9	Czech (cs) William Seward Burroughs		558
10	Portuguese (pt) William S. Burroughs		521

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) William S. Burroughs		928
2	French (fr) William S. Burroughs		199
3	German (de) William S. Burroughs		190
4	Russian (ru) Берроуз, Уильям Сьюард		173
5	Italian (it) William S. Burroughs		137
6	Spanish (es) William Burroughs		96
7	Dutch (nl) William S. Burroughs II		75
8	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・S・バロウズ		73
9	Polish (pl) William S. Burroughs		59
10	Hebrew (he) ויליאם ס. בורוז		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	English (en) William S. Burroughs		6
2	French (fr) William S. Burroughs		3
3	Urdu (ur) ولیم ایس بروز		3
4	Italian (it) William S. Burroughs		2
5	Catalan (ca) William Seward Burroughs		1
6	Esperanto (eo) William S. Burroughs		1
7	Basque (eu) William Burroughs		1
8	Georgian (ka) უილიამ სიუარდ ბეროუზი		1
9	Arabic (ar) ويليام بوروز		0
10	Belarusian (be) Уільям С’юард Бероуз		0

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

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