Alexander the Great

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Alexander the Great - king of Macedonia and conqueror of Achaemenid Persia (356–323 BC). This person is the 58^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 91^st most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Alexander the Great” in Simple English Wikipedia has 42.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 10 references and 4 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:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 862^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 313^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 91^st most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 151^st most popular in all topics.

The 105^th most popular in AI.

The 58^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 610^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 309^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 592^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1058^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Alexander the Great” was edited by 3 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (309^th place) and written by 61 authors in all languages (1058^th place).

Since the creation of article “Alexander the Great”, its content was written by 142 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (313^th place) and edited by 12005 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (105^th place).

Alexander the Great is on the 91^st place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 58^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 223 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 58356 times in all languages (2867^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #4 in March 2021
• Global: #18 in September 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #32 in September 2014
• Global: #24 in February 2024

There are 55 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) Alejandro Magno		100
2	Russian (ru) Александр Македонский		100
3	French (fr) Alexandre le Grand		100
4	Portuguese (pt) Alexandre, o Grande		100
5	Indonesian (id) Aleksander Agung		100
6	Vietnamese (vi) Alexandros Đại đế		100
7	Serbian (sr) Александар Велики		100
8	Tamil (ta) பேரரசர் அலெக்சாந்தர்		100
9	Norwegian (no) Aleksander den store		100
10	Azerbaijani (az) Makedoniyalı İsgəndər		100

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Alexander the Great		75 789 022
2	Spanish (es) Alejandro Magno		21 947 507
3	Russian (ru) Александр Македонский		15 560 545
4	French (fr) Alexandre le Grand		10 942 610
5	German (de) Alexander der Große		9 992 899
6	Italian (it) Alessandro Magno		7 743 255
7	Japanese (ja) アレクサンドロス3世		6 745 015
8	Portuguese (pt) Alexandre, o Grande		6 149 657
9	Arabic (ar) الإسكندر الأكبر		4 222 842
10	Polish (pl) Aleksander Macedoński		4 169 764

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) Alexander the Great		251 992
2	Spanish (es) Alejandro Magno		45 904
3	Russian (ru) Александр Македонский		45 186
4	German (de) Alexander der Große		29 246
5	French (fr) Alexandre le Grand		27 395
6	Japanese (ja) アレクサンドロス3世		25 187
7	Italian (it) Alessandro Magno		18 009
8	Portuguese (pt) Alexandre, o Grande		14 795
9	Persian (fa) اسکندر مقدونی		13 426
10	Turkish (tr) İskender		12 699

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Alexander the Great		2 804
2	French (fr) Alexandre le Grand		772
3	German (de) Alexander der Große		725
4	Spanish (es) Alejandro Magno		642
5	Italian (it) Alessandro Magno		620
6	Russian (ru) Александр Македонский		514
7	Hebrew (he) אלכסנדר הגדול		402
8	Dutch (nl) Alexander de Grote		395
9	Persian (fa) اسکندر مقدونی		344
10	Greek (el) Αλέξανδρος ο Μέγας		274

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) Alexander the Great		11
2	Arabic (ar) الإسكندر الأكبر		5
3	Serbian (sr) Александар Велики		4
4	Catalan (ca) Alexandre el Gran		3
5	Greek (el) Αλέξανδρος ο Μέγας		3
6	Italian (it) Alessandro Magno		3
7	Russian (ru) Александр Македонский		3
8	Simple English (simple) Alexander the Great		3
9	Azerbaijani (az) Makedoniyalı İsgəndər		2
10	Czech (cs) Alexandr Veliký		2

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

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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