Paul Dirac

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Paul Dirac - British theoretical physicist (1902–1984). This person is the 8118^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Paul Dirac” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 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 7029^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8483^rd most popular in AI.

The 8118^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1767^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Paul Dirac” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (1767^th place) and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Paul Dirac”, its content was written by 29 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (7029^th place) and edited by 2742 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8483^rd place).

Paul Dirac is on the 8118^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 211 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 16320 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #479 in November 2015
• Global: #883 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1867 in April 2014
• Global: #11905 in July 2023

There are 54 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, 2025 (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) Paul Dirac		99.5778
2	Catalan (ca) Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac		90.7692
3	Chinese (zh) 保罗·狄拉克		87.2156
4	Korean (ko) 폴 디랙		85.0511
5	Russian (ru) Дирак, Поль		70.3444
6	Georgian (ka) პოლ დირაკი		64.7614
7	Arabic (ar) بول ديراك		62.3216
8	Ukrainian (uk) Поль Дірак		44.2287
9	Portuguese (pt) Paul Dirac		41.5009
10	German (de) Paul Dirac		39.9425

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Paul Dirac		5 441 115
2	Spanish (es) Paul Dirac		1 260 600
3	German (de) Paul Dirac		678 340
4	French (fr) Paul Dirac		613 282
5	Italian (it) Paul Dirac		592 237
6	Russian (ru) Дирак, Поль		519 683
7	Japanese (ja) ポール・ディラック		486 843
8	Polish (pl) Paul Dirac		314 905
9	Chinese (zh) 保罗·狄拉克		310 328
10	Portuguese (pt) Paul Dirac		296 642

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) Paul Dirac		23 230
2	Spanish (es) Paul Dirac		4 038
3	French (fr) Paul Dirac		3 138
4	Italian (it) Paul Dirac		2 384
5	German (de) Paul Dirac		2 364
6	Japanese (ja) ポール・ディラック		2 082
7	Russian (ru) Дирак, Поль		1 944
8	Chinese (zh) 保罗·狄拉克		1 671
9	Portuguese (pt) Paul Dirac		935
10	Polish (pl) Paul Dirac		800

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Paul Dirac		594
2	French (fr) Paul Dirac		186
3	German (de) Paul Dirac		162
4	Italian (it) Paul Dirac		144
5	Russian (ru) Дирак, Поль		128
6	Spanish (es) Paul Dirac		97
7	Chinese (zh) 保罗·狄拉克		87
8	Japanese (ja) ポール・ディラック		84
9	Dutch (nl) Paul Dirac		77
10	Hebrew (he) פול דיראק		68

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) Paul Dirac		4
2	Simple English (simple) Paul Dirac		2
3	German (de) Paul Dirac		1
4	Spanish (es) Paul Dirac		1
5	Basque (eu) Paul Dirac		1
6	French (fr) Paul Dirac		1
7	Russian (ru) Дирак, Поль		1
8	Swedish (sv) Paul Dirac		1
9	Turkish (tr) Paul Dirac		1
10	Urdu (ur) پال ڈیراک		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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information