Gary Lineker

Quality:

Gary Lineker - English football pundit and former player. This person is the 2902^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Gary Lineker” in Simple English Wikipedia has 20 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 4 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:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 9730^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 5124^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9598^th most popular in AI.

The 2902^nd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4615^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1644^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Gary Lineker”, its content was written by 36 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (5124^th place) and edited by 2620 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9598^th place).

Gary Lineker is on the 2902^nd place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 126 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10482 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #320 in March 2023
• Global: #308 in March 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #629 in March 2023
• Global: #350 in March 2023

There are 50 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) Gary Lineker		86.574
2	Italian (it) Gary Lineker		50.2544
3	Spanish (es) Gary Lineker		39.1544
4	Portuguese (pt) Gary Lineker		38.3832
5	Finnish (fi) Gary Lineker		36.2626
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Gary Lineker		36.1756
7	German (de) Gary Lineker		35.4005
8	Arabic (ar) غاري لينيكر		33.5914
9	Japanese (ja) ゲーリー・リネカー		32.4383
10	Georgian (ka) გარი ლინეკერი		31.5258

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Gary Lineker		19 109 326
2	Japanese (ja) ゲーリー・リネカー		1 077 155
3	German (de) Gary Lineker		1 064 142
4	Spanish (es) Gary Lineker		1 038 532
5	Russian (ru) Линекер, Гари		822 751
6	Italian (it) Gary Lineker		818 994
7	French (fr) Gary Lineker		789 505
8	Polish (pl) Gary Lineker		507 777
9	Portuguese (pt) Gary Lineker		420 831
10	Dutch (nl) Gary Lineker		321 971

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) Gary Lineker		215 455
2	German (de) Gary Lineker		20 256
3	Japanese (ja) ゲーリー・リネカー		13 770
4	Spanish (es) Gary Lineker		10 292
5	French (fr) Gary Lineker		9 744
6	Italian (it) Gary Lineker		6 968
7	Russian (ru) Линекер, Гари		6 955
8	Portuguese (pt) Gary Lineker		5 188
9	Polish (pl) Gary Lineker		3 863
10	Persian (fa) گری لینکر		2 397

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Gary Lineker		976
2	German (de) Gary Lineker		157
3	Italian (it) Gary Lineker		145
4	French (fr) Gary Lineker		139
5	Russian (ru) Линекер, Гари		92
6	Spanish (es) Gary Lineker		86
7	Japanese (ja) ゲーリー・リネカー		81
8	Dutch (nl) Gary Lineker		63
9	Polish (pl) Gary Lineker		61
10	Hebrew (he) גארי ליניקר		59

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) Gary Lineker		6
2	German (de) Gary Lineker		3
3	Arabic (ar) غاري لينيكر		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) Qari Lineker		1
5	Catalan (ca) Gary Winston Lineker		1
6	Czech (cs) Gary Lineker		1
7	Greek (el) Γκάρι Λίνεκερ		1
8	Spanish (es) Gary Lineker		1
9	Hebrew (he) גארי ליניקר		1
10	Polish (pl) Gary Lineker		1

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