David Bowie

Quality:

David Bowie - English musician and actor (1947–2016). This person is the 95^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 525^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “David Bowie” in Simple English Wikipedia has 34.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 12 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 4219^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2061^st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 525^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 252^nd most popular in all topics.

The 454^th most popular in AI.

The 95^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1909^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 104^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 938^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2453^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “David Bowie” was edited by 5 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (104^th place) and written by 41 authors in all languages (2453^rd place).

Since the creation of article “David Bowie”, its content was written by 58 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2061^st place) and edited by 8417 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (454^th place).

David Bowie is on the 525^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 95^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 223 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 36423 times in all languages (4644^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1 in January 2017
• Global: #1 in January 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #214 in January 2016
• Global: #1 in January 2016

There are 54 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) David Bowie		100
2	Russian (ru) Боуи, Дэвид		100
3	Persian (fa) دیوید بویی		100
4	Norwegian (no) David Bowie		100
5	Catalan (ca) David Bowie		100
6	Estonian (et) David Bowie		100
7	Georgian (ka) დეივიდ ბოუი		100
8	English (en) David Bowie		99.9045
9	Korean (ko) 데이비드 보위		99.0255
10	Portuguese (pt) David Bowie		98.4218

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) David Bowie		93 765 150
2	Spanish (es) David Bowie		11 427 551
3	German (de) David Bowie		10 893 960
4	French (fr) David Bowie		9 259 199
5	Russian (ru) Боуи, Дэвид		9 123 799
6	Italian (it) David Bowie		8 918 617
7	Japanese (ja) デヴィッド・ボウイ		7 484 618
8	Portuguese (pt) David Bowie		3 908 499
9	Polish (pl) David Bowie		3 166 974
10	Dutch (nl) David Bowie		2 863 975

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) David Bowie		261 310
2	German (de) David Bowie		27 441
3	Spanish (es) David Bowie		23 600
4	Japanese (ja) デヴィッド・ボウイ		20 833
5	French (fr) David Bowie		20 434
6	Russian (ru) Боуи, Дэвид		20 055
7	Italian (it) David Bowie		17 169
8	Polish (pl) David Bowie		7 408
9	Portuguese (pt) David Bowie		6 428
10	Dutch (nl) David Bowie		5 686

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) David Bowie		2 973
2	German (de) David Bowie		635
3	French (fr) David Bowie		595
4	Italian (it) David Bowie		452
5	Spanish (es) David Bowie		390
6	Russian (ru) Боуи, Дэвид		363
7	Dutch (nl) David Bowie		290
8	Hebrew (he) דייוויד בואי		229
9	Japanese (ja) デヴィッド・ボウイ		210
10	Polish (pl) David Bowie		194

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	Italian (it) David Bowie		7
2	English (en) David Bowie		5
3	Simple English (simple) David Bowie		5
4	Hebrew (he) דייוויד בואי		4
5	German (de) David Bowie		3
6	Arabic (ar) ديفيد بوي		2
7	French (fr) David Bowie		2
8	Hindi (hi) डेविड बोवी		2
9	Polish (pl) David Bowie		2
10	Swedish (sv) David Bowie		2

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