Paul McCartney

Quality:

Paul McCartney - English musician and member of the Beatles (born 1942). This person is the 203^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 540^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Paul McCartney” in Simple English Wikipedia has 42.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 9 references and 11 sections.

This article has the best quality in Spanish Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4285^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1243^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 540^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 526^th most popular in all topics.

The 420^th most popular in AI.

The 203^rd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1521^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 2229^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 487^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 506^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Paul McCartney” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2229^th place) and written by 87 authors in all languages (506^th place).

Since the creation of article “Paul McCartney”, its content was written by 75 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1243^rd place) and edited by 8650 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (420^th place).

Paul McCartney is on the 540^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 203^rd place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 293 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 40805 times in all languages (4157^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #129 in October 2006
• Global: #150 in June 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #719 in December 2010
• Global: #127 in June 2022

There are 53 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	Spanish (es) Paul McCartney		100
2	Chinese (zh) 保罗·麦卡特尼		100
3	Vietnamese (vi) Paul McCartney		100
4	Korean (ko) 폴 매카트니		100
5	Slovak (sk) Paul McCartney		100
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Paul McCartney		100
7	Russian (ru) Маккартни, Пол		99.6604
8	German (de) Paul McCartney		98.7728
9	French (fr) Paul McCartney		98.7465
10	Georgian (ka) პოლ მაკ-კარტნი		95.7143

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Paul McCartney		73 152 987
2	Spanish (es) Paul McCartney		11 562 254
3	Russian (ru) Маккартни, Пол		6 500 221
4	Japanese (ja) ポール・マッカートニー		6 347 741
5	German (de) Paul McCartney		5 892 553
6	French (fr) Paul McCartney		5 014 371
7	Italian (it) Paul McCartney		4 310 861
8	Portuguese (pt) Paul McCartney		3 976 404
9	Polish (pl) Paul McCartney		2 147 558
10	Dutch (nl) Paul McCartney		1 662 762

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 McCartney		412 663
2	Spanish (es) Paul McCartney		36 624
3	Japanese (ja) ポール・マッカートニー		34 346
4	German (de) Paul McCartney		29 791
5	Russian (ru) Маккартни, Пол		28 975
6	French (fr) Paul McCartney		27 342
7	Italian (it) Paul McCartney		15 708
8	Portuguese (pt) Paul McCartney		10 141
9	Polish (pl) Paul McCartney		7 755
10	Dutch (nl) Paul McCartney		5 747

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Paul McCartney		2 823
2	Spanish (es) Paul McCartney		671
3	German (de) Paul McCartney		560
4	French (fr) Paul McCartney		521
5	Italian (it) Paul McCartney		417
6	Russian (ru) Маккартни, Пол		397
7	Japanese (ja) ポール・マッカートニー		325
8	Portuguese (pt) Paul McCartney		263
9	Hebrew (he) פול מקרטני		262
10	Dutch (nl) Paul McCartney		247

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 McCartney		17
2	Portuguese (pt) Paul McCartney		9
3	German (de) Paul McCartney		7
4	French (fr) Paul McCartney		5
5	Japanese (ja) ポール・マッカートニー		4
6	Korean (ko) 폴 매카트니		4
7	Russian (ru) Маккартни, Пол		4
8	Swedish (sv) Paul McCartney		3
9	Belarusian (be) Пол Мак-Картні		2
10	Czech (cs) Paul McCartney		2

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

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.

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