Kalpana Chawla

Quality:

Kalpana Chawla - American astronaut. This person is the 3645^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 55^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Kalpana Chawla” in Simple English Wikipedia has 18.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 3 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 510^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 55^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3645^th most popular in people.

Since the creation of article “Kalpana Chawla”, its content was written by 25 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1757 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Kalpana Chawla is on the 55^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 3645^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 8 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1189 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #138 in May 2018
• Global: #259 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #83 in July 2019
• Global: #1150 in August 2023

There are 39 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) Kalpana Chawla		81.5409
2	Tamil (ta) கல்பனா சாவ்லா		67.4454
3	Hindi (hi) कल्पना चावला		59.754
4	Greek (el) Καλπάνα Τσάβλα		32.312
5	Armenian (hy) Քալփանա Չավլա		29.857
6	Galician (gl) Kalpana Chawla		28.7692
7	Arabic (ar) كالبانا تشاولا		27.6869
8	Romanian (ro) Kalpana Chawla		27.5106
9	Turkish (tr) Kalpana Chawla		27.4291
10	Ukrainian (uk) Калпана Чавла		25.2883

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Kalpana Chawla		18 876 267
2	Hindi (hi) कल्पना चावला		2 552 917
3	Simple English (simple) Kalpana Chawla		509 386
4	Tamil (ta) கல்பனா சாவ்லா		394 382
5	German (de) Kalpana Chawla		208 440
6	Spanish (es) Kalpana Chawla		184 089
7	French (fr) Kalpana Chawla		168 382
8	Russian (ru) Чавла, Калпана		129 253
9	Japanese (ja) カルパナ・チャウラ		105 897
10	Italian (it) Kalpana Chawla		101 244

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) Kalpana Chawla		31 851
2	Hindi (hi) कल्पना चावला		2 479
3	German (de) Kalpana Chawla		685
4	Japanese (ja) カルパナ・チャウラ		437
5	Russian (ru) Чавла, Калпана		385
6	Spanish (es) Kalpana Chawla		383
7	French (fr) Kalpana Chawla		383
8	Polish (pl) Kalpana Chawla		246
9	Italian (it) Kalpana Chawla		229
10	Tamil (ta) கல்பனா சாவ்லா		229

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kalpana Chawla		898
2	French (fr) Kalpana Chawla		106
3	Hindi (hi) कल्पना चावला		75
4	German (de) Kalpana Chawla		70
5	Italian (it) Kalpana Chawla		55
6	Hebrew (he) קלפנה צ'אולה		47
7	Tamil (ta) கல்பனா சாவ்லா		46
8	Finnish (fi) Kalpana Chawla		37
9	Russian (ru) Чавла, Калпана		37
10	Chinese (zh) 卡尔帕娜·乔拉		35

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) كالبانا تشاولا		2
2	German (de) Kalpana Chawla		2
3	Catalan (ca) Kalpana Chawla		1
4	English (en) Kalpana Chawla		1
5	Spanish (es) Kalpana Chawla		1
6	Belarusian (be) Калпана Чаўла		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Калпана Чаула		0
8	Czech (cs) Kalpana Chawlaová		0
9	Danish (da) Kalpana Chawla		0
10	Greek (el) Καλπάνα Τσάβλα		0

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

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