Lord Kelvin

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin - British physicist and engineer (1824–1907). This person is the 9692^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Lord Kelvin” in English Wikipedia has 91.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 146 references and 32 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.

In June 2026 the article “Lord Kelvin” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 21 authors in all languages (9764^th place).

Since the creation of article “Lord Kelvin”, its content was written by 799 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2948 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7546^th place).

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin is on the 9692^nd place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 1345 times in English Wikipedia and cited 8638 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #669 in October 2002
• Global: #893 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #27807 in June 2024
• Global: #21256 in February 2015

There are 52 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) Lord Kelvin		91.8815
2	Chinese (zh) 开尔文勋爵		90.0268
3	Czech (cs) William Thomson		53.3386
4	Catalan (ca) William Thomson		50.3872
5	Malay (ms) William Thomson, Baron Pertama Kelvin		49.0065
6	German (de) William Thomson, 1. Baron Kelvin		46.5776
7	Italian (it) William Thomson, I barone Kelvin		45.524
8	Spanish (es) William Thomson		43.8991
9	Swedish (sv) Lord Kelvin		40.4789
10	Hebrew (he) ויליאם תומסון		40.4004

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Lord Kelvin" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lord Kelvin		4 599 009
2	Spanish (es) William Thomson		2 000 387
3	German (de) William Thomson, 1. Baron Kelvin		674 384
4	Portuguese (pt) Lorde Kelvin		442 469
5	Russian (ru) Томсон, Уильям (лорд Кельвин)		437 971
6	French (fr) William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)		369 871
7	Italian (it) William Thomson, I barone Kelvin		303 967
8	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・トムソン		298 377
9	Polish (pl) William Thomson		274 602
10	Chinese (zh) 开尔文勋爵		167 891

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Lord Kelvin" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lord Kelvin		17 397
2	German (de) William Thomson, 1. Baron Kelvin		1 779
3	Spanish (es) William Thomson		1 711
4	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・トムソン		1 216
5	Russian (ru) Томсон, Уильям (лорд Кельвин)		1 127
6	French (fr) William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)		922
7	Chinese (zh) 开尔文勋爵		903
8	Italian (it) William Thomson, I barone Kelvin		682
9	Polish (pl) William Thomson		640
10	Portuguese (pt) Lorde Kelvin		597

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

Language versions of the article "Lord Kelvin" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lord Kelvin		799
2	German (de) William Thomson, 1. Baron Kelvin		261
3	French (fr) William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)		170
4	Italian (it) William Thomson, I barone Kelvin		170
5	Spanish (es) William Thomson		155
6	Dutch (nl) William Thomson (natuurkundige)		108
7	Russian (ru) Томсон, Уильям (лорд Кельвин)		97
8	Hebrew (he) ויליאם תומסון		94
9	Polish (pl) William Thomson		68
10	Hungarian (hu) William Thomson (matematikus)		65

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

Language versions of the article "Lord Kelvin" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lord Kelvin		7
2	Thai (th) ลอร์ดเคลวิน		3
3	Catalan (ca) William Thomson		2
4	Persian (fa) ویلیام تامسون		2
5	Czech (cs) William Thomson		1
6	Hebrew (he) ויליאם תומסון		1
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) William Thomson, 1. baron Kelvin		1
8	Slovak (sk) William Thomson		1
9	Serbian (sr) Вилијам Томсон, 1. барон Келвин		1
10	Turkish (tr) William Thomson		1

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

Language versions of the article "Lord Kelvin" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Lord Kelvin		1 345
2	Chinese (zh) 开尔文勋爵		673
3	Portuguese (pt) Lorde Kelvin		505
4	Arabic (ar) لورد كلفن		477
5	Slovenian (sl) William Thomson		398
6	Spanish (es) William Thomson		287
7	French (fr) William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)		269
8	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・トムソン		267
9	Korean (ko) 제1대 켈빈 남작 윌리엄 톰슨		262
10	Russian (ru) Томсон, Уильям (лорд Кельвин)		258

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic لورد كلفن
az	Azerbaijani Vilyam Tomson (Lord Kelvin)
be	Belarusian Уільям Томсан (лорд Кельвін)
bg	Bulgarian Уилям Томсън
ca	Catalan William Thomson
cs	Czech William Thomson
da	Danish William Thomson
de	German William Thomson, 1. Baron Kelvin
el	Greek Ουίλιαμ Τόμσον
en	English Lord Kelvin
eo	Esperanto William Thomson
es	Spanish William Thomson
et	Estonian William Thomson
eu	Basque William Thomson
fa	Persian ویلیام تامسون
fi	Finnish William Thomson
fr	French William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)
gl	Galician William Thomson
he	Hebrew ויליאם תומסון
hr	Croatian William Thomson
hu	Hungarian William Thomson (matematikus)
hy	Armenian Ուիլյամ Թոմսոն
id	Indonesian William Thomson
it	Italian William Thomson, I barone Kelvin
ja	Japanese ウィリアム・トムソン
ka	Georgian უილიამ ტომსონი
kk	Kazakh Уильям Томсон
ko	Korean 제1대 켈빈 남작 윌리엄 톰슨
la	Latin Gulielmus Thomson, baro Kelvinus
lt	Lithuanian William Thomson
ms	Malay William Thomson, Baron Pertama Kelvin
nl	Dutch William Thomson (natuurkundige)
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) William Thomson Kelvin
no	Norwegian William Thomson, Lord Kelvin
pl	Polish William Thomson
pt	Portuguese Lorde Kelvin
ro	Romanian William Thomson
ru	Russian Томсон, Уильям (лорд Кельвин)
sh	Serbo-Croatian William Thomson, 1. baron Kelvin
simple	Simple English William Thomson
sk	Slovak William Thomson
sl	Slovenian William Thomson
sr	Serbian Вилијам Томсон, 1. барон Келвин
sv	Swedish Lord Kelvin
ta	Tamil வில்லியம் தாம்சன்
th	Thai ลอร์ดเคลวิน
tr	Turkish William Thomson
uk	Ukrainian Вільям Томсон
uz	Uzbek William Thomson
vi	Vietnamese William Thomson
zh	Chinese 开尔文勋爵
zhminnan	Min Nan Tē 1 tāi Kelvin Lâm-chiok William Thomson

Best Rank

English: #27807 06.2024

Global: #21256 02.2015

Best Rank

English: #669 10.2002

Global: #893 04.2002

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