Hans Christian Andersen

Quality:

Hans Christian Andersen - Danish writer and poet (1805–1875). This person is the 1052^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Hans Christian Andersen” in Simple English Wikipedia has 12.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in Portuguese 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 9543^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 4555^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3307^th most popular in all topics.

The 1286^th most popular in AI.

The 1052^nd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6263^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7164^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 9175^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Hans Christian Andersen”, its content was written by 38 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4555^th place) and edited by 5919 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1286^th place).

Hans Christian Andersen is on the 1052^nd place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 51 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 16296 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #101 in September 2014
• Global: #85 in December 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #805 in April 2010
• Global: #39 in April 2010

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	Portuguese (pt) Hans Christian Andersen		100
2	Swedish (sv) H.C. Andersen		97.3535
3	Esperanto (eo) Hans Christian Andersen		96.5824
4	French (fr) Hans Christian Andersen		93.2996
5	English (en) Hans Christian Andersen		90.5165
6	Italian (it) Hans Christian Andersen		78.4872
7	Bulgarian (bg) Ханс Кристиан Андерсен		77.9957
8	Catalan (ca) Hans Christian Andersen		77.1059
9	Latin (la) Ioannes Christianus Andersen		74.1208
10	Danish (da) H.C. Andersen		72.3506

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hans Christian Andersen		15 311 670
2	Russian (ru) Андерсен, Ханс Кристиан		6 122 687
3	Spanish (es) Hans Christian Andersen		4 900 230
4	German (de) Hans Christian Andersen		3 114 188
5	Japanese (ja) ハンス・クリスチャン・アンデルセン		2 824 677
6	French (fr) Hans Christian Andersen		2 301 434
7	Polish (pl) Hans Christian Andersen		2 261 208
8	Danish (da) H.C. Andersen		2 223 853
9	Italian (it) Hans Christian Andersen		1 479 912
10	Chinese (zh) 漢斯·安徒生		1 479 844

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) Hans Christian Andersen		52 163
2	Russian (ru) Андерсен, Ханс Кристиан		10 299
3	Japanese (ja) ハンス・クリスチャン・アンデルセン		9 386
4	German (de) Hans Christian Andersen		8 552
5	Spanish (es) Hans Christian Andersen		7 108
6	French (fr) Hans Christian Andersen		4 340
7	Chinese (zh) 漢斯·安徒生		3 999
8	Italian (it) Hans Christian Andersen		3 700
9	Danish (da) H.C. Andersen		3 304
10	Polish (pl) Hans Christian Andersen		2 578

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hans Christian Andersen		1 157
2	German (de) Hans Christian Andersen		469
3	Russian (ru) Андерсен, Ханс Кристиан		378
4	French (fr) Hans Christian Andersen		328
5	Danish (da) H.C. Andersen		265
6	Spanish (es) Hans Christian Andersen		240
7	Italian (it) Hans Christian Andersen		225
8	Polish (pl) Hans Christian Andersen		203
9	Swedish (sv) H.C. Andersen		200
10	Dutch (nl) Hans Christian Andersen		182

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) Hans Christian Andersen		4
2	Czech (cs) Hans Christian Andersen		3
3	French (fr) Hans Christian Andersen		3
4	German (de) Hans Christian Andersen		2
5	Arabic (ar) هانس كريستيان أندرسن		1
6	Catalan (ca) Hans Christian Andersen		1
7	Basque (eu) Hans Christian Andersen		1
8	Hungarian (hu) Hans Christian Andersen		1
9	Armenian (hy) Հանս Քրիստիան Անդերսեն		1
10	Italian (it) Hans Christian Andersen		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