Alan Shearer

Quality:

Alan Shearer - English footballer. This person is the 3308^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 825^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Alan Shearer” in Simple English Wikipedia has 62.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 48 references and 6 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6137^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 8626^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 825^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9069^th most popular in AI.

The 3308^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4175^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 3619^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4797^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Alan Shearer” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (3619^th place) and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Alan Shearer”, its content was written by 27 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (8626^th place) and edited by 2692 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9069^th place).

Alan Shearer is on the 825^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 3308^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 138 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 12163 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #349 in June 2016
• Global: #679 in April 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1254 in December 2023
• Global: #3216 in August 2022

There are 50 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) Alan Shearer		96.4264
2	Hindi (hi) ऐलन शियर्र		87.1429
3	Russian (ru) Ширер, Алан		84.4404
4	Arabic (ar) آلان شيرر		82.9985
5	German (de) Alan Shearer		80.1659
6	Simple English (simple) Alan Shearer		62.6128
7	French (fr) Alan Shearer		50.8451
8	Italian (it) Alan Shearer		50.8174
9	Azerbaijani (az) Alan Şirer		42.6623
10	Spanish (es) Alan Shearer		39.5027

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Alan Shearer		16 152 609
2	Russian (ru) Ширер, Алан		1 222 840
3	Italian (it) Alan Shearer		1 105 712
4	Spanish (es) Alan Shearer		852 674
5	German (de) Alan Shearer		801 711
6	French (fr) Alan Shearer		773 030
7	Japanese (ja) アラン・シアラー		727 819
8	Polish (pl) Alan Shearer		505 008
9	Portuguese (pt) Alan Shearer		393 431
10	Arabic (ar) آلان شيرر		361 868

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) Alan Shearer		119 965
2	German (de) Alan Shearer		5 643
3	Russian (ru) Ширер, Алан		4 395
4	Italian (it) Alan Shearer		3 992
5	Spanish (es) Alan Shearer		3 660
6	Japanese (ja) アラン・シアラー		3 623
7	French (fr) Alan Shearer		3 530
8	Chinese (zh) 阿兰·希勒		2 913
9	Polish (pl) Alan Shearer		1 680
10	Portuguese (pt) Alan Shearer		1 633

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Alan Shearer		1 097
2	French (fr) Alan Shearer		139
3	Italian (it) Alan Shearer		138
4	German (de) Alan Shearer		115
5	Russian (ru) Ширер, Алан		83
6	Hebrew (he) אלן שירר		77
7	Spanish (es) Alan Shearer		68
8	Japanese (ja) アラン・シアラー		62
9	Dutch (nl) Alan Shearer		60
10	Vietnamese (vi) Alan Shearer		48

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	German (de) Alan Shearer		2
2	English (en) Alan Shearer		2
3	Vietnamese (vi) Alan Shearer		2
4	Spanish (es) Alan Shearer		1
5	Italian (it) Alan Shearer		1
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Alan Shearer		1
7	Simple English (simple) Alan Shearer		1
8	Arabic (ar) آلان شيرر		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Alan Şirer		0
10	Belarusian (be) Алан Шырэр		0

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 Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

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