Langston Hughes

Quality:

Langston Hughes - American writer and social activist (1901–1967). This person is the 5700^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 820^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Langston Hughes” in Simple English Wikipedia has 48.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 13 references and 16 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 6117^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2503^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 820^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5700^th most popular in people.

Since the creation of article “Langston Hughes”, its content was written by 53 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2503^rd place) and edited by 2003 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Langston Hughes is on the 820^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 5700^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 21 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3110 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #45 in February 2011
• Global: #2546 in February 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #256 in February 2011
• Global: #1644 in February 2015

There are 44 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) Langston Hughes		96.687
2	Catalan (ca) Langston Hughes		55.2413
3	Ukrainian (uk) Ленгстон Г'юз		50.0735
4	Dutch (nl) Langston Hughes		48.5835
5	Simple English (simple) Langston Hughes		48.3455
6	Uzbek (uz) Langston Hughes		47.6253
7	German (de) Langston Hughes		43.0515
8	Portuguese (pt) Langston Hughes		43.0487
9	Latin (la) Langston Hughes		42.169
10	Norwegian (no) Langston Hughes		41.2719

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Langston Hughes		15 129 006
2	French (fr) Langston Hughes		322 958
3	German (de) Langston Hughes		262 601
4	Spanish (es) Langston Hughes		208 041
5	Italian (it) Langston Hughes		163 617
6	Japanese (ja) ラングストン・ヒューズ		113 795
7	Russian (ru) Хьюз, Лэнгстон		102 929
8	Portuguese (pt) Langston Hughes		75 008
9	Simple English (simple) Langston Hughes		71 241
10	Persian (fa) لنگستون هیوز		66 792

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) Langston Hughes		29 732
2	German (de) Langston Hughes		640
3	French (fr) Langston Hughes		632
4	Spanish (es) Langston Hughes		408
5	Japanese (ja) ラングストン・ヒューズ		346
6	Russian (ru) Хьюз, Лэнгстон		311
7	Italian (it) Langston Hughes		270
8	Portuguese (pt) Langston Hughes		230
9	Chinese (zh) 兰斯顿·休斯		204
10	Persian (fa) لنگستون هیوز		145

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Langston Hughes		984
2	German (de) Langston Hughes		112
3	French (fr) Langston Hughes		105
4	Italian (it) Langston Hughes		97
5	Simple English (simple) Langston Hughes		53
6	Danish (da) Langston Hughes		47
7	Spanish (es) Langston Hughes		44
8	Russian (ru) Хьюз, Лэнгстон		44
9	Arabic (ar) لانغستون هيوز		43
10	Dutch (nl) Langston Hughes		34

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	Urdu (ur) لینگسٹن ہیوز		4
2	English (en) Langston Hughes		3
3	Arabic (ar) لانغستون هيوز		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) Lenston Hyuz		1
5	Catalan (ca) Langston Hughes		1
6	Belarusian (be) Джэймс Мёрсер Лэнгстан Х’юз		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Лангстън Хюз		0
8	Czech (cs) Langston Hughes		0
9	Danish (da) Langston Hughes		0
10	German (de) Langston Hughes		0

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