George Best

Quality:

George Best - Northern Irish footballer (1946–2005). This person is the 2248^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 375^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “George Best” in Simple English Wikipedia has 39.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 20 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in Russian 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 3220^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 7134^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 375^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7663^rd most popular in all topics.

The 6427^th most popular in AI.

The 2248^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5864^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4010^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 9162^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “George Best”, its content was written by 30 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (7134^th place) and edited by 3189 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6427^th place).

George Best is on the 375^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 2248^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 150 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9857 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #214 in October 2019
• Global: #37 in November 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #332 in May 2023
• Global: #1244 in July 2017

There are 49 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	Russian (ru) Бест, Джордж		99.571
2	English (en) George Best		96.4565
3	Hungarian (hu) George Best		87.1429
4	Spanish (es) George Best		85.7749
5	Armenian (hy) Ջորջ Բեսթ		74.0306
6	Portuguese (pt) George Best		67.4337
7	Italian (it) George Best		58.9389
8	Greek (el) Τζορτζ Μπεστ		57.3059
9	Japanese (ja) ジョージ・ベスト		44.7268
10	Georgian (ka) ჯორჯ ბესტი		43.8088

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) George Best		16 519 131
2	Italian (it) George Best		3 563 595
3	Spanish (es) George Best		2 189 047
4	French (fr) George Best		1 670 973
5	German (de) George Best		1 543 111
6	Russian (ru) Бест, Джордж		1 423 718
7	Japanese (ja) ジョージ・ベスト		902 711
8	Portuguese (pt) George Best		751 281
9	Polish (pl) George Best		694 099
10	Dutch (nl) George Best		495 737

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) George Best		108 760
2	Spanish (es) George Best		9 633
3	French (fr) George Best		8 881
4	Italian (it) George Best		8 174
5	Russian (ru) Бест, Джордж		8 054
6	Japanese (ja) ジョージ・ベスト		7 568
7	German (de) George Best		4 715
8	Portuguese (pt) George Best		4 202
9	Turkish (tr) George Best		2 176
10	Vietnamese (vi) George Best		2 115

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) George Best		1 064
2	Italian (it) George Best		248
3	French (fr) George Best		175
4	German (de) George Best		166
5	Spanish (es) George Best		121
6	Russian (ru) Бест, Джордж		106
7	Dutch (nl) George Best		90
8	Hebrew (he) ג'ורג' בסט		74
9	Polish (pl) George Best		69
10	Japanese (ja) ジョージ・ベスト		68

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	Spanish (es) George Best		5
2	English (en) George Best		3
3	Portuguese (pt) George Best		3
4	Azerbaijani (az) Corc Best		2
5	Catalan (ca) George Best		2
6	Arabic (ar) جورج بست		1
7	Greek (el) Τζορτζ Μπεστ		1
8	Hungarian (hu) George Best		1
9	Japanese (ja) ジョージ・ベスト		1
10	Turkish (tr) George Best		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