Cristiano Ronaldo & Lionel Messi: Athletes with most Wikipedia page views in 2021!
Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are the most-viewed athlete Wikipedia pages in the world for the year 2021. In fact, fans have shown more interest in Ronaldo's page than that of major major sporting events like the UEFA Euro 2020 and the Summer Olympics 2020. In the cumulative list of most viewed pages of 2021, the Portuguese superstar stands fifth, ahead of Messi who has been ranked 15th.
It is noteworthy that the two major sporting events of 2021 in UEFA Euro 2020 and the Tokyo Olympics stand at the seventh and the 13th position respectively.
Ronaldo and Messi are amongst the most popular faces in the world of football. It comes as no surprise that the Portuguese and the Argentine are on top of people's list when they view a Wikipedia page.
Let us take a look at the top 20 entries.
Rank | Page Name | Numbers |
|---|---|---|
1. | Deaths in 2021 | 42,748,490 |
2. | Elizabeth II | 25,290,406 |
3. | Elon Musk | 24,101,538 |
4. | Squid Game | 21,887,095 |
5. | Cristiano Ronaldo | 18,771,854 |
6. | Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | 18,192,061 |
7. | UEFA Euro 2020 | 17,485,883 |
8. | United States | 17,185,138 |
9. | Joe Biden | 16,823 |
10. | Donald Trump | 16,366,771 |
11. | WandaVision | 15,874,561 |
12. | Characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe | 15,560,945 |
13. | 2020 Summer Olympics | 14,537,440 |
14. | Spider-Man: No Way Home | 13,268,102 |
15. | Lionel Messi | 13,043,407 |
16. | Dune | 12,904,842 |
17. | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | 12,519,266 |
18. | Eternals | 12,343,639 |
19. | List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films | 12,117,229 |
20. | India | 11,982,035 |
*Data as of December 17, 2021
*Source: Wikimedia Foundation