Sam Shepard

Quality:

Sam Shepard - American playwright and actor (1943–2017). This person is the 2897^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Sam Shepard” in Simple English Wikipedia has 29.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 10 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 2897^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7279^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Sam Shepard”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1477 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Sam Shepard is on the 2897^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 29 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4062 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2566 in June 2012
• Global: #120 in August 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6925 in August 2017
• Global: #59 in August 2017

There are 39 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) Sam Shepard		69.9195
2	Greek (el) Σαμ Σέπαρντ		53.7064
3	Portuguese (pt) Sam Shepard		44.9711
4	Hungarian (hu) Sam Shepard		43.7169
5	Norwegian (no) Sam Shepard		38.3029
6	Romanian (ro) Sam Shepard		33.8246
7	French (fr) Sam Shepard		33.3026
8	Polish (pl) Sam Shepard		31.9809
9	Arabic (ar) سام شيبارد		29.8749
10	Russian (ru) Шепард, Сэм		29.5589

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sam Shepard		20 010 807
2	German (de) Sam Shepard		1 831 047
3	French (fr) Sam Shepard		1 390 490
4	Spanish (es) Sam Shepard		1 215 151
5	Italian (it) Sam Shepard		1 033 660
6	Russian (ru) Шепард, Сэм		645 116
7	Japanese (ja) サム・シェパード		613 676
8	Portuguese (pt) Sam Shepard		299 370
9	Polish (pl) Sam Shepard		168 437
10	Dutch (nl) Sam Shepard		162 433

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) Sam Shepard		93 591
2	German (de) Sam Shepard		6 078
3	Italian (it) Sam Shepard		5 004
4	French (fr) Sam Shepard		4 328
5	Spanish (es) Sam Shepard		4 170
6	Japanese (ja) サム・シェパード		2 836
7	Russian (ru) Шепард, Сэм		2 659
8	Portuguese (pt) Sam Shepard		832
9	Dutch (nl) Sam Shepard		613
10	Polish (pl) Sam Shepard		534

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sam Shepard		418
2	French (fr) Sam Shepard		143
3	German (de) Sam Shepard		136
4	Italian (it) Sam Shepard		104
5	Spanish (es) Sam Shepard		73
6	Hebrew (he) סם שפרד		56
7	Russian (ru) Шепард, Сэм		53
8	Japanese (ja) サム・シェパード		51
9	Dutch (nl) Sam Shepard		47
10	Polish (pl) Sam Shepard		33

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	Catalan (ca) Sam Shepard		2
2	English (en) Sam Shepard		2
3	Arabic (ar) سام شيبارد		1
4	Italian (it) Sam Shepard		1
5	Korean (ko) 샘 셰퍼드		1
6	Russian (ru) Шепард, Сэм		1
7	Belarusian (be) Сэм Шэпард		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Сам Шепърд		0
9	Czech (cs) Sam Shepard		0
10	Danish (da) Sam Shepard		0

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