Time Person of the Year

Quality:

Time Person of the Year - man, woman or idea that "most influenced events in the preceding year" chosen by Time magazine. Article “Time Person of the Year” in Simple English Wikipedia has 76.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 137 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 1657^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 4241^st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5865^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2197^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Time Person of the Year”, its content was written by 40 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4241^st place) and edited by 3334 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5865^th place).

The article is cited 109 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4180 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #190 in April 2023
• Global: #111 in December 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #23 in December 2020
• Global: #284 in December 2019

There are 44 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) Time Person of the Year		92.2092
2	Slovak (sk) Person of the Year		88.6957
3	Romanian (ro) Time Person of the Year		76.6238
4	Simple English (simple) Time Person of the Year		76.312
5	Tamil (ta) ஆண்டின் மனிதர் (டைம் இதழ்)		73.7582
6	Chinese (zh) 時代年度風雲人物		68.741
7	Japanese (ja) パーソン・オブ・ザ・イヤー		65.5046
8	Arabic (ar) شخصية العام (مجلة التايم)		61.2503
9	Catalan (ca) Persona de l'Any de la Revista Time		56.3184
10	German (de) Person of the Year		50.3698

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Time Person of the Year		14 080 479
2	Russian (ru) Человек года (Time)		1 696 428
3	German (de) Person of the Year		803 574
4	Polish (pl) Człowiek Roku tygodnika „Time”		700 055
5	French (fr) Personnalité de l'année selon Time Magazine		638 658
6	Italian (it) Persona dell'anno del Time		494 212
7	Chinese (zh) 時代年度風雲人物		426 691
8	Spanish (es) Persona del año		405 676
9	Japanese (ja) パーソン・オブ・ザ・イヤー		363 444
10	Portuguese (pt) Pessoa do Ano		317 125

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) Time Person of the Year		25 719
2	Russian (ru) Человек года (Time)		3 866
3	Chinese (zh) 時代年度風雲人物		1 327
4	Polish (pl) Człowiek Roku tygodnika „Time”		1 308
5	Japanese (ja) パーソン・オブ・ザ・イヤー		926
6	German (de) Person of the Year		651
7	French (fr) Personnalité de l'année selon Time Magazine		592
8	Simple English (simple) Time Person of the Year		542
9	Persian (fa) شخص سال		492
10	Spanish (es) Persona del año		469

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Time Person of the Year		1 170
2	Russian (ru) Человек года (Time)		208
3	French (fr) Personnalité de l'année selon Time Magazine		199
4	German (de) Person of the Year		193
5	Chinese (zh) 時代年度風雲人物		136
6	Hungarian (hu) Az év embereinek listája		107
7	Italian (it) Persona dell'anno del Time		101
8	Spanish (es) Persona del año		96
9	Polish (pl) Człowiek Roku tygodnika „Time”		86
10	Hebrew (he) איש השנה של המגזין "טיים"		75

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	Azerbaijani (az) İlin adamı (Time)		2
2	Arabic (ar) شخصية العام (مجلة التايم)		1
3	Catalan (ca) Persona de l'Any de la Revista Time		1
4	English (en) Time Person of the Year		1
5	Hungarian (hu) Az év embereinek listája		1
6	Portuguese (pt) Pessoa do Ano		1
7	Romanian (ro) Time Person of the Year		1
8	Russian (ru) Человек года (Time)		1
9	Slovak (sk) Person of the Year		1
10	Tamil (ta) ஆண்டின் மனிதர் (டைம் இதழ்)		1

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

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