Stephen Hawking

Quality:

Stephen Hawking - British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018). This person is the 16^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 131^st most popular person in Vietnamese Wikipedia. Article “Stephen Hawking” in Vietnamese Wikipedia has 98.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 438 references and 23 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Vietnamese) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Vietnamese Wikipedia:

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The 541^st most popular in Vietnamese Wikipedia.

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The 689^th most editable in Vietnamese Wikipedia.

The 131^st most popular in people in Vietnamese Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 53^rd most popular in all topics.

The 267^th most popular in AI.

The 16^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Vietnamese Wikipedia:

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The 1875^th most popular in Vietnamese Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 6812^th most editable in Vietnamese Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1011^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2678^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Stephen Hawking” was edited by 1 authors in Vietnamese Wikipedia (6812^th place) and written by 39 authors in all languages (2678^th place).

Since the creation of article “Stephen Hawking”, its content was written by 132 registered users of Vietnamese Wikipedia (689^th place) and edited by 9829 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (267^th place).

Stephen Hawking is on the 131^st place in local ranking of people in Vietnamese Wikipedia and on the 16^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 236 times in Vietnamese Wikipedia and cited 15386 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Vietnamese): #4 in March 2018
• Global: #1 in March 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Vietnamese): #2 in March 2018
• Global: #1 in March 2018

There are 55 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) Stephen Hawking		100
2	Chinese (zh) 史蒂芬·霍金		100
3	Vietnamese (vi) Stephen Hawking		98.1818
4	Indonesian (id) Stephen Hawking		97.5
5	Italian (it) Stephen Hawking		95.7895
6	Russian (ru) Хокинг, Стивен		87.6923
7	Finnish (fi) Stephen Hawking		87.0606
8	Ukrainian (uk) Стівен Гокінг		85.3313
9	German (de) Stephen Hawking		81.2855
10	Spanish (es) Stephen Hawking		81.2212

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Stephen Hawking		126 649 685
2	Spanish (es) Stephen Hawking		35 331 731
3	Russian (ru) Хокинг, Стивен		17 821 747
4	German (de) Stephen Hawking		15 978 690
5	French (fr) Stephen Hawking		12 242 951
6	Portuguese (pt) Stephen Hawking		10 616 195
7	Italian (it) Stephen Hawking		9 347 537
8	Chinese (zh) 史蒂芬·霍金		6 064 703
9	Japanese (ja) スティーヴン・ホーキング		6 035 292
10	Polish (pl) Stephen Hawking		6 033 926

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) Stephen Hawking		213 668
2	Italian (it) Stephen Hawking		25 110
3	Spanish (es) Stephen Hawking		24 782
4	Russian (ru) Хокинг, Стивен		24 069
5	French (fr) Stephen Hawking		21 487
6	German (de) Stephen Hawking		20 690
7	Japanese (ja) スティーヴン・ホーキング		13 114
8	Chinese (zh) 史蒂芬·霍金		9 321
9	Portuguese (pt) Stephen Hawking		9 128
10	Persian (fa) استیون هاوکینگ		7 053

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Stephen Hawking		2 911
2	German (de) Stephen Hawking		675
3	French (fr) Stephen Hawking		541
4	Spanish (es) Stephen Hawking		478
5	Italian (it) Stephen Hawking		461
6	Russian (ru) Хокинг, Стивен		406
7	Chinese (zh) 史蒂芬·霍金		368
8	Persian (fa) استیون هاوکینگ		269
9	Dutch (nl) Stephen Hawking		264
10	Portuguese (pt) Stephen Hawking		256

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) Stephen Hawking		9
2	Spanish (es) Stephen Hawking		5
3	French (fr) Stephen Hawking		4
4	Italian (it) Stephen Hawking		4
5	Japanese (ja) スティーヴン・ホーキング		3
6	Basque (eu) Stephen Hawking		2
7	Persian (fa) استیون هاوکینگ		2
8	Russian (ru) Хокинг, Стивен		2
9	Arabic (ar) ستيفن هوكينج		1
10	Belarusian (be) Стывен Хокінг		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 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