James Earl Ray

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James Earl Ray - American criminal, convicted for the murder of civil rights activist and Nobel peace prize laureate Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. This person is the 3335^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “James Earl Ray” in English Wikipedia has 70.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 69 references and 17 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 6534^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3335^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 9339^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “James Earl Ray” was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “James Earl Ray”, its content was written by 707 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1542 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

James Earl Ray is on the 3335^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 282 times in English Wikipedia and cited 691 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #302 in January 2019
• Global: #2203 in January 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #210 in April 2018
• Global: #533 in April 2018

There are 31 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, 2025 (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) James Earl Ray		70.1648
2	Serbian (sr) Џејмс Ерл Реј		42.4323
3	German (de) James Earl Ray		40.1467
4	Danish (da) James Earl Ray		33.363
5	Norwegian (no) James Earl Ray		32.6133
6	Arabic (ar) جيمس إرل راي		30.3256
7	Portuguese (pt) James Earl Ray		27.6879
8	Italian (it) James Earl Ray		27.3951
9	Ukrainian (uk) Джеймс Ерл Рей		27.0443
10	Chinese (zh) 詹姆斯·厄尔·雷		26.8432

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) James Earl Ray		17 687 234
2	German (de) James Earl Ray		1 176 331
3	French (fr) James Earl Ray		945 181
4	Russian (ru) Рэй, Джеймс Эрл		678 621
5	Spanish (es) James Earl Ray		656 355
6	Portuguese (pt) James Earl Ray		480 986
7	Japanese (ja) ジェームズ・アール・レイ		348 864
8	Polish (pl) James Earl Ray		287 203
9	Dutch (nl) James Earl Ray		262 389
10	Italian (it) James Earl Ray		231 764

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) James Earl Ray		70 564
2	German (de) James Earl Ray		3 592
3	Spanish (es) James Earl Ray		2 543
4	Russian (ru) Рэй, Джеймс Эрл		2 456
5	French (fr) James Earl Ray		2 070
6	Japanese (ja) ジェームズ・アール・レイ		1 685
7	Dutch (nl) James Earl Ray		1 271
8	Portuguese (pt) James Earl Ray		1 161
9	Italian (it) James Earl Ray		1 115
10	Polish (pl) James Earl Ray		796

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) James Earl Ray		707
2	German (de) James Earl Ray		115
3	French (fr) James Earl Ray		107
4	Dutch (nl) James Earl Ray		60
5	Russian (ru) Рэй, Джеймс Эрл		53
6	Danish (da) James Earl Ray		43
7	Hebrew (he) ג'יימס ארל ריי		43
8	Italian (it) James Earl Ray		41
9	Spanish (es) James Earl Ray		39
10	Swedish (sv) James Earl Ray		35

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) James Earl Ray		8
2	German (de) James Earl Ray		1
3	Italian (it) James Earl Ray		1
4	Chinese (zh) 詹姆斯·厄尔·雷		1
5	Arabic (ar) جيمس إرل راي		0
6	Catalan (ca) James Earl Ray		0
7	Czech (cs) James Earl Ray		0
8	Danish (da) James Earl Ray		0
9	Esperanto (eo) James Earl Ray		0
10	Spanish (es) James Earl Ray		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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information