George Orwell

Quality:

George Orwell - British writer and journalist (1903–1950). This person is the 672^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 809^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “George Orwell” in Simple English Wikipedia has 49.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 16 references and 18 sections.

This article has the best quality in Bulgarian 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 6038^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1439^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 809^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2000^th most popular in all topics.

The 800^th most popular in AI.

The 672^nd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3487^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2435^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2218^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “George Orwell”, its content was written by 70 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1439^th place) and edited by 7003 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (800^th place).

George Orwell is on the 809^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 672^nd place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 67 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 14449 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #49 in November 2004
• Global: #80 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #531 in September 2010
• Global: #1091 in January 2021

There are 55 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	Bulgarian (bg) Джордж Оруел		100
2	Arabic (ar) جورج أورويل		100
3	English (en) George Orwell		97.893
4	Korean (ko) 조지 오웰		79.9496
5	German (de) George Orwell		78.1726
6	Serbian (sr) Џорџ Орвел		75.685
7	Greek (el) Τζωρτζ Όργουελ		73.7956
8	Russian (ru) Оруэлл, Джордж		73.5174
9	Armenian (hy) Ջորջ Օրուել		64.8998
10	French (fr) George Orwell		63.2419

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) George Orwell		32 341 809
2	Russian (ru) Оруэлл, Джордж		5 133 762
3	Spanish (es) George Orwell		4 997 459
4	French (fr) George Orwell		4 206 455
5	German (de) George Orwell		3 468 470
6	Italian (it) George Orwell		3 460 627
7	Portuguese (pt) George Orwell		2 045 978
8	Polish (pl) George Orwell		1 818 564
9	Japanese (ja) ジョージ・オーウェル		1 341 516
10	Czech (cs) George Orwell		1 239 072

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 Orwell		119 573
2	French (fr) George Orwell		19 716
3	Spanish (es) George Orwell		17 653
4	Russian (ru) Оруэлл, Джордж		17 418
5	German (de) George Orwell		14 503
6	Italian (it) George Orwell		10 281
7	Japanese (ja) ジョージ・オーウェル		7 262
8	Polish (pl) George Orwell		5 700
9	Portuguese (pt) George Orwell		5 357
10	Chinese (zh) 乔治·奥威尔		3 760

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) George Orwell		2 229
2	French (fr) George Orwell		546
3	German (de) George Orwell		462
4	Russian (ru) Оруэлл, Джордж		288
5	Spanish (es) George Orwell		276
6	Italian (it) George Orwell		250
7	Polish (pl) George Orwell		160
8	Dutch (nl) George Orwell		156
9	Portuguese (pt) George Orwell		149
10	Hebrew (he) ג'ורג' אורוול		143

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	Russian (ru) Оруэлл, Джордж		5
2	Chinese (zh) 乔治·奥威尔		5
3	Spanish (es) George Orwell		4
4	Serbian (sr) Џорџ Орвел		4
5	Arabic (ar) جورج أورويل		3
6	Hungarian (hu) George Orwell		3
7	Polish (pl) George Orwell		3
8	Hebrew (he) ג'ורג' אורוול		2
9	Japanese (ja) ジョージ・オーウェル		2
10	Azerbaijani (az) Corc Oruell		1

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

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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