Paul the Apostle

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Paul the Apostle - Early Christian apostle and missionary (c. AD 5 – c. 64/65). This person is the 479^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 244^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Paul the Apostle” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 5 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 2129^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1002^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 244^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1385^th most popular in all topics.

The 597^th most popular in AI.

The 479^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3094^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2034^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2692^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Paul the Apostle”, its content was written by 84 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1002^nd place) and edited by 7662 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (597^th place).

Paul the Apostle is on the 244^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 479^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 292 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 52780 times in all languages (3113^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #64 in May 2009
• Global: #86 in May 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #155 in February 2024
• Global: #761 in April 2025

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	English (en) Paul the Apostle		100
2	German (de) Paulus von Tarsus		100
3	Indonesian (id) Paulus dari Tarsus		100
4	Estonian (et) Paulus		100
5	Spanish (es) Pablo de Tarso		99.4665
6	Italian (it) Paolo di Tarso		98.7869
7	Armenian (hy) Պողոս առաքյալ		97.7778
8	Polish (pl) Paweł z Tarsu		96.1481
9	Portuguese (pt) Paulo de Tarso		92.1893
10	Malay (ms) Paulus		90.43

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Paul the Apostle		30 367 518
2	Spanish (es) Pablo de Tarso		12 062 335
3	Portuguese (pt) Paulo de Tarso		5 411 463
4	German (de) Paulus von Tarsus		4 531 022
5	Italian (it) Paolo di Tarso		4 252 924
6	French (fr) Paul de Tarse		3 899 714
7	Polish (pl) Paweł z Tarsu		3 265 626
8	Russian (ru) Апостол Павел		3 059 413
9	Indonesian (id) Paulus dari Tarsus		1 961 623
10	Japanese (ja) パウロ		1 462 942

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 the Apostle		114 954
2	Spanish (es) Pablo de Tarso		31 451
3	German (de) Paulus von Tarsus		14 525
4	French (fr) Paul de Tarse		13 933
5	Portuguese (pt) Paulo de Tarso		13 751
6	Italian (it) Paolo di Tarso		13 631
7	Russian (ru) Апостол Павел		12 896
8	Polish (pl) Paweł z Tarsu		7 833
9	Chinese (zh) 保罗 (使徒)		5 847
10	Japanese (ja) パウロ		4 891

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Paul the Apostle		2 000
2	German (de) Paulus von Tarsus		778
3	French (fr) Paul de Tarse		514
4	Italian (it) Paolo di Tarso		444
5	Spanish (es) Pablo de Tarso		407
6	Polish (pl) Paweł z Tarsu		242
7	Dutch (nl) Paulus (apostel)		235
8	Portuguese (pt) Paulo de Tarso		226
9	Russian (ru) Апостол Павел		220
10	Hebrew (he) פאולוס		187

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	Russian (ru) Апостол Павел		5
2	Portuguese (pt) Paulo de Tarso		4
3	Chinese (zh) 保罗 (使徒)		4
4	German (de) Paulus von Tarsus		3
5	English (en) Paul the Apostle		3
6	Turkish (tr) Pavlus		3
7	Arabic (ar) بولس		2
8	Azerbaijani (az) Həvari Pavel		2
9	French (fr) Paul de Tarse		2
10	Korean (ko) 사도 바울로		2

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