Michael Essien

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Michael Essien

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Michael Essien - Ghanaian footballer (born 1982). This person is the 6230th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Michael Essien” in Simple English Wikipedia has 65.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 45 references and 8 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:
Global Wikipedia:
The 6230th most popular in people.
Achievements in the last month:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 2029th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Michael Essien”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2519 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Michael Essien is on the 6230th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 45 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4174 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #1706 in May 2010
  • Global: #135 in January 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #2029 in June 2026
  • Global: #1658 in September 2012

There are 45 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Michael Essien
93.0686
2Polish (pl)
Michael Essien
81.7973
3German (de)
Michael Essien
73.5338
4Simple English (simple)
Michael Essien
65.7047
5Korean (ko)
마이클 에시엔
64.0209
6Turkish (tr)
Michael Essien
61.2104
7Vietnamese (vi)
Michael Essien
56.0748
8Malay (ms)
Michael Essien
46.0021
9Indonesian (id)
Michael Essien
39.8777
10Italian (it)
Michael Essien
36.423
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Michael Essien" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Michael Essien
7 570 186
2French (fr)
Michael Essien
1 198 174
3Spanish (es)
Michael Essien
1 107 740
4Italian (it)
Michael Essien
943 219
5Russian (ru)
Эссьен, Майкл
812 606
6Japanese (ja)
マイケル・エッシェン
633 722
7Indonesian (id)
Michael Essien
460 571
8Portuguese (pt)
Michael Essien
416 313
9Polish (pl)
Michael Essien
407 532
10German (de)
Michael Essien
392 871
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Michael Essien" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Michael Essien
35 427
2French (fr)
Michael Essien
5 078
3Spanish (es)
Michael Essien
2 696
4Italian (it)
Michael Essien
2 122
5Russian (ru)
Эссьен, Майкл
2 018
6Japanese (ja)
マイケル・エッシェン
1 878
7German (de)
Michael Essien
1 569
8Portuguese (pt)
Michael Essien
1 514
9Indonesian (id)
Michael Essien
1 471
10Polish (pl)
Michael Essien
918
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Michael Essien" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Michael Essien
691
2Italian (it)
Michael Essien
165
3French (fr)
Michael Essien
156
4Spanish (es)
Michael Essien
149
5German (de)
Michael Essien
141
6Russian (ru)
Эссьен, Майкл
101
7Dutch (nl)
Michael Essien
78
8Polish (pl)
Michael Essien
72
9Japanese (ja)
マイケル・エッシェン
65
10Indonesian (id)
Michael Essien
59
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "Michael Essien" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Azerbaijani (az)
Maykl Essyen
3
2Spanish (es)
Michael Essien
3
3French (fr)
Michael Essien
2
4Arabic (ar)
مايكل إيسيان
1
5English (en)
Michael Essien
1
6Armenian (hy)
Մայքլ Էսսյեն
1
7Korean (ko)
마이클 에시엔
1
8Belarusian (be)
Майкл Эсьен
0
9Bulgarian (bg)
Майкъл Есиен
0
10Catalan (ca)
Michael Kojo Essien
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Michael Essien" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Michael Essien
481
2Russian (ru)
Эссьен, Майкл
280
3Hungarian (hu)
Michael Essien
248
4French (fr)
Michael Essien
230
5Arabic (ar)
مايكل إيسيان
209
6Italian (it)
Michael Essien
196
7Turkish (tr)
Michael Essien
189
8Portuguese (pt)
Michael Essien
163
9Ukrainian (uk)
Майкл Ессьєн
152
10Polish (pl)
Michael Essien
147
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
مايكل إيسيان
azAzerbaijani
Maykl Essyen
beBelarusian
Майкл Эсьен
bgBulgarian
Майкъл Есиен
caCatalan
Michael Kojo Essien
csCzech
Michael Essien
daDanish
Michael Essien
deGerman
Michael Essien
elGreek
Μικαέλ Εσιέν
enEnglish
Michael Essien
esSpanish
Michael Essien
etEstonian
Michael Essien
faPersian
مایکل اسین
fiFinnish
Michael Essien
frFrench
Michael Essien
heHebrew
מייקל אסיין
hrCroatian
Michael Essien
huHungarian
Michael Essien
hyArmenian
Մայքլ Էսսյեն
idIndonesian
Michael Essien
itItalian
Michael Essien
jaJapanese
マイケル・エッシェン
kaGeorgian
მაიკლ ესიენი
kkKazakh
Майкл Эссьен
koKorean
마이클 에시엔
ltLithuanian
Michael Essien
msMalay
Michael Essien
nlDutch
Michael Essien
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Michael Essien
noNorwegian
Michael Essien
plPolish
Michael Essien
ptPortuguese
Michael Essien
roRomanian
Michael Essien
ruRussian
Эссьен, Майкл
shSerbo-Croatian
Michael Essien
simpleSimple English
Michael Essien
skSlovak
Michael Essien
srSerbian
Микаел Есјен
svSwedish
Michael Essien
thThai
มิคาเอล เอสเซียง
trTurkish
Michael Essien
ukUkrainian
Майкл Ессьєн
uzUzbek
Michael Essien
viVietnamese
Michael Essien
zhChinese
迈克尔·埃辛

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#2029
06.2026
Global:
#1658
09.2012

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#1706
05.2010
Global:
#135
01.2014

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Michael Essien from Wikipedia articles about Como 1907, 2012 UEFA Champions League Final, 2012–13 Real Madrid C.F. season, Olympique Lyonnais and 2008 UEFA Champions League Final. Whereas reading the article about Michael Essien people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Səbail FK, FC Nordsjælland, Persib Bandung, SC Bastia and Panathinaikos F.C..

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

News from 1 July 2026

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

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.

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