Ed Gein

Quality:

Ed Gein - American murderer and human trophy collector (1906–1984). This person is the 255^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 245^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Ed Gein” in Simple English Wikipedia has 94.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 172 references and 13 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2142^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2301^st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 245^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 661^st most popular in all topics.

The 5159^th most popular in AI.

The 255^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 714^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1172^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Ed Gein”, its content was written by 55 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2301^st place) and edited by 3543 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5159^th place).

Ed Gein is on the 245^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 255^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 18 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 875 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #85 in November 2025
• Global: #13 in October 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #10 in October 2025
• Global: #1 in October 2025

There are 37 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	Simple English (simple) Ed Gein		94.4762
2	English (en) Ed Gein		88.5714
3	Indonesian (id) Ed Gein		78.3873
4	German (de) Ed Gein		74.6882
5	Spanish (es) Ed Gein		63.7219
6	Japanese (ja) エド・ゲイン		55.2943
7	Greek (el) Εντ Γκειν		55.2248
8	Portuguese (pt) Ed Gein		54.2263
9	Finnish (fi) Ed Gein		51.7765
10	Russian (ru) Гин, Эд		47.3224

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ed Gein		72 130 912
2	Spanish (es) Ed Gein		9 081 111
3	German (de) Ed Gein		6 331 563
4	French (fr) Ed Gein		6 046 022
5	Italian (it) Ed Gein		4 398 112
6	Russian (ru) Гин, Эд		4 332 291
7	Japanese (ja) エド・ゲイン		3 682 654
8	Portuguese (pt) Ed Gein		2 467 055
9	Polish (pl) Ed Gein		2 354 341
10	Dutch (nl) Ed Gein		1 336 972

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) Ed Gein		203 984
2	Spanish (es) Ed Gein		31 367
3	Russian (ru) Гин, Эд		23 202
4	German (de) Ed Gein		22 602
5	French (fr) Ed Gein		21 885
6	Italian (it) Ed Gein		14 700
7	Japanese (ja) エド・ゲイン		12 641
8	Polish (pl) Ed Gein		8 153
9	Portuguese (pt) Ed Gein		7 347
10	Chinese (zh) 艾德·蓋恩		4 458

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ed Gein		1 684
2	German (de) Ed Gein		219
3	French (fr) Ed Gein		185
4	Italian (it) Ed Gein		174
5	Spanish (es) Ed Gein		156
6	Russian (ru) Гин, Эд		123
7	Dutch (nl) Ed Gein		90
8	Japanese (ja) エド・ゲイン		81
9	Portuguese (pt) Ed Gein		80
10	Polish (pl) Ed Gein		78

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	Arabic (ar) إد جين		3
2	English (en) Ed Gein		3
3	German (de) Ed Gein		2
4	Portuguese (pt) Ed Gein		2
5	Danish (da) Ed Gein		1
6	Greek (el) Εντ Γκειν		1
7	Basque (eu) Ed Gein		1
8	Finnish (fi) Ed Gein		1
9	Italian (it) Ed Gein		1
10	Ukrainian (uk) Ед Ґейн		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