Markus Persson

Quality:

Markus Persson - Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979). This person is the 5270^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Markus Persson” in Simple English Wikipedia has 26.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 1 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 6373^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5270^th most popular in people.

Since the creation of article “Markus Persson”, its content was written by 32 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (6373^rd place) and edited by 2341 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Markus Persson is on the 5270^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 18 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1148 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #13 in December 2011
• Global: #683 in September 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3958 in December 2011
• Global: #2683 in January 2016

There are 41 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) Markus Persson		81.4286
2	Portuguese (pt) Notch		80.3207
3	Malay (ms) Markus Persson		79.0659
4	Japanese (ja) マルクス・ペルソン		57.7799
5	Spanish (es) Markus Persson		48.7231
6	Chinese (zh) 马库斯·佩尔松		48.4301
7	Swedish (sv) Markus Persson		47.4706
8	German (de) Markus Persson		45.6589
9	Russian (ru) Перссон, Маркус		42.7953
10	Catalan (ca) Markus Persson		39.4283

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Markus Persson		10 457 042
2	Russian (ru) Перссон, Маркус		1 342 767
3	Spanish (es) Markus Persson		1 046 425
4	German (de) Markus Persson		903 143
5	French (fr) Markus Persson		671 669
6	Swedish (sv) Markus Persson		621 759
7	Japanese (ja) マルクス・ペルソン		432 909
8	Portuguese (pt) Notch		423 594
9	Polish (pl) Markus Persson		396 186
10	Italian (it) Markus Persson		364 462

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) Markus Persson		39 600
2	Russian (ru) Перссон, Маркус		5 432
3	German (de) Markus Persson		3 273
4	Spanish (es) Markus Persson		3 186
5	Japanese (ja) マルクス・ペルソン		3 139
6	French (fr) Markus Persson		2 479
7	Chinese (zh) 马库斯·佩尔松		2 215
8	Swedish (sv) Markus Persson		1 757
9	Polish (pl) Markus Persson		1 456
10	Portuguese (pt) Notch		1 245

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Markus Persson		617
2	Russian (ru) Перссон, Маркус		170
3	Spanish (es) Markus Persson		161
4	French (fr) Markus Persson		161
5	German (de) Markus Persson		160
6	Italian (it) Markus Persson		127
7	Swedish (sv) Markus Persson		112
8	Dutch (nl) Markus Persson		84
9	Polish (pl) Markus Persson		75
10	Portuguese (pt) Notch		70

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) Markus Persson		4
2	Japanese (ja) マルクス・ペルソン		3
3	Czech (cs) Markus Persson		1
4	Spanish (es) Markus Persson		1
5	Persian (fa) مارکوس پرسون		1
6	Polish (pl) Markus Persson		1
7	Swedish (sv) Markus Persson		1
8	Turkish (tr) Markus Alexej Persson		1
9	Arabic (ar) ماركوس بيرسون		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Маркус Персон		0

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

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