Christopher Hitchens

Quality:

Christopher Hitchens - English American author and journalist (1949–2011). This person is the 2692^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Christopher Hitchens” in Simple English Wikipedia has 16.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 3 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:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9347^th most popular in all topics.

The 5542^nd most popular in AI.

The 2692^nd most popular in people.

Since the creation of article “Christopher Hitchens”, its content was written by 21 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 3420 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5542^nd place).

Christopher Hitchens is on the 2692^nd place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 20 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3614 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #51 in December 2011
• Global: #17 in December 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #650 in January 2012
• Global: #48 in December 2011

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	English (en) Christopher Hitchens		95.2729
2	Italian (it) Christopher Hitchens		82.9996
3	Georgian (ka) კრისტოფერ ჰიტჩენსი		81.1818
4	French (fr) Christopher Hitchens		73.7455
5	Arabic (ar) كريستوفر هيتشنز		61.1754
6	German (de) Christopher Hitchens		50.0105
7	Portuguese (pt) Christopher Hitchens		41.545
8	Norwegian (no) Christopher Hitchens		41.5336
9	Korean (ko) 크리스토퍼 히친스		39.1857
10	Finnish (fi) Christopher Hitchens		37.24

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Christopher Hitchens		25 323 533
2	German (de) Christopher Hitchens		651 281
3	Spanish (es) Christopher Hitchens		577 854
4	French (fr) Christopher Hitchens		332 607
5	Russian (ru) Хитченс, Кристофер		324 767
6	Italian (it) Christopher Hitchens		299 758
7	Portuguese (pt) Christopher Hitchens		285 372
8	Polish (pl) Christopher Hitchens		276 648
9	Dutch (nl) Christopher Hitchens		225 147
10	Swedish (sv) Christopher Hitchens		193 133

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) Christopher Hitchens		68 574
2	German (de) Christopher Hitchens		2 196
3	Spanish (es) Christopher Hitchens		1 251
4	French (fr) Christopher Hitchens		1 034
5	Polish (pl) Christopher Hitchens		872
6	Dutch (nl) Christopher Hitchens		799
7	Italian (it) Christopher Hitchens		789
8	Russian (ru) Хитченс, Кристофер		765
9	Portuguese (pt) Christopher Hitchens		531
10	Persian (fa) کریستوفر هیچنز		446

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Christopher Hitchens		1 934
2	German (de) Christopher Hitchens		166
3	Italian (it) Christopher Hitchens		149
4	French (fr) Christopher Hitchens		142
5	Dutch (nl) Christopher Hitchens		75
6	Spanish (es) Christopher Hitchens		71
7	Persian (fa) کریستوفر هیچنز		64
8	Portuguese (pt) Christopher Hitchens		62
9	Hebrew (he) כריסטופר היצ'נס		59
10	Russian (ru) Хитченс, Кристофер		58

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) Christopher Hitchens		10
2	Arabic (ar) كريستوفر هيتشنز		2
3	Catalan (ca) Christopher Hitchens		1
4	Basque (eu) Christopher Hitchens		1
5	Finnish (fi) Christopher Hitchens		1
6	Georgian (ka) კრისტოფერ ჰიტჩენსი		1
7	Portuguese (pt) Christopher Hitchens		1
8	Romanian (ro) Christopher Hitchens		1
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Christopher Hitchens		1
10	Serbian (sr) Кристофер Хиченс		1

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

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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