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. 2013 Oct 3;8(10):e74554. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074554

Table 7. List of global heroes by PageRank and 2DRank for all 9 Wikipedia editions.

Rank PageRank global heroes Inline graphic Inline graphic 2DRank global heroes Inline graphic Inline graphic
1st Napoleon 259 9 Micheal Jackson 119 5
2nd Jesus 239 9 Adolf Hitler 93 6
3rd Carl Linnaeus 235 8 Julius Caesar 85 5
4th Aristotle 228 9 Pope Benedict XVI 80 4
5th Adolf Hitler 200 9 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 75 5
6th Julius Caesar 161 8 Pope John Paul II 71 4
7th Plato 119 6 Ludwig van Beethoven 69 4
8th Charlemagne 111 8 Bob Dylan 66 4
9th William Shakespeare 110 7 William Shakespeare 57 3
10th Pope John Paul II 108 6 Alexander the Great 56 3

All names are represented by article titles in English Wikipedia. Here, Inline graphic is the ranking score of the algorithm Inline graphic (5); Inline graphic is the number of appearances of a given person in the top 30 rank for all editions.