Billy Bob Thornton

Quality:

Billy Bob Thornton - American actor, filmmaker, and musician. This person is the 1007^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Billy Bob Thornton” in Simple English Wikipedia has 59 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 28 references and 14 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.11 points.

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 7325^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3172^nd most popular in all topics.

The 1007^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2905^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2461^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Billy Bob Thornton”, its content was written by 20 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2107 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Billy Bob Thornton is on the 1007^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 37 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 8295 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #65 in December 2016
• Global: #534 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #308 in November 2024
• Global: #140 in November 2025

There are 43 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) Billy Bob Thornton		83.1585
2	Greek (el) Μπίλι Μπομπ Θόρντον		65.2141
3	Simple English (simple) Billy Bob Thornton		59.0061
4	Hungarian (hu) Billy Bob Thornton		49.3525
5	Persian (fa) بیلی باب تورنتون		40.496
6	French (fr) Billy Bob Thornton		34.383
7	Estonian (et) Billy Bob Thornton		33.7999
8	Polish (pl) Billy Bob Thornton		31.828
9	Romanian (ro) Billy Bob Thornton		31.0856
10	Armenian (hy) Բիլի Բոբ Թորնթոն		30.5427

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Billy Bob Thornton		35 632 222
2	Russian (ru) Торнтон, Билли Боб		3 696 738
3	German (de) Billy Bob Thornton		3 219 225
4	Spanish (es) Billy Bob Thornton		2 594 066
5	Italian (it) Billy Bob Thornton		1 919 413
6	French (fr) Billy Bob Thornton		1 749 490
7	Japanese (ja) ビリー・ボブ・ソーントン		1 077 228
8	Portuguese (pt) Billy Bob Thornton		759 962
9	Polish (pl) Billy Bob Thornton		592 874
10	Persian (fa) بیلی باب تورنتون		483 162

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) Billy Bob Thornton		179 660
2	Russian (ru) Торнтон, Билли Боб		14 115
3	German (de) Billy Bob Thornton		11 184
4	Spanish (es) Billy Bob Thornton		7 122
5	French (fr) Billy Bob Thornton		6 926
6	Italian (it) Billy Bob Thornton		5 550
7	Japanese (ja) ビリー・ボブ・ソーントン		4 980
8	Polish (pl) Billy Bob Thornton		2 400
9	Persian (fa) بیلی باب تورنتون		2 364
10	Portuguese (pt) Billy Bob Thornton		1 948

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Billy Bob Thornton		900
2	German (de) Billy Bob Thornton		161
3	French (fr) Billy Bob Thornton		142
4	Russian (ru) Торнтон, Билли Боб		86
5	Italian (it) Billy Bob Thornton		80
6	Spanish (es) Billy Bob Thornton		64
7	Dutch (nl) Billy Bob Thornton		64
8	Japanese (ja) ビリー・ボブ・ソーントン		53
9	Hebrew (he) בילי בוב תורנטון		48
10	Polish (pl) Billy Bob Thornton		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	English (en) Billy Bob Thornton		5
2	Arabic (ar) بيلي بوب ثورنتون		1
3	Catalan (ca) Billy Bob Thornton		1
4	Esperanto (eo) Billy Bob Thornton		1
5	Basque (eu) Billy Bob Thornton		1
6	Russian (ru) Торнтон, Билли Боб		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Billy Bob Tornton		0
8	Belarusian (be) Білі Боб Торнтан		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Били Боб Торнтън		0
10	Czech (cs) Billy Bob Thornton		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