Thor Heyerdahl

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Thor Heyerdahl - Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer (1914-2002). This person is the 5439^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 333^rd most popular person in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. Article “Thor Heyerdahl” in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia has 29.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in Hebrew Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia:

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The 4279^th most popular in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

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The 321^st most editable in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

The 333^rd most popular in people in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8714^th most popular in AI.

The 5439^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia:

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The 1474^th most popular in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Thor Heyerdahl”, its content was written by 22 registered users of Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia (321^st place) and edited by 2707 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8714^th place).

Thor Heyerdahl is on the 333^rd place in local ranking of people in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and on the 5439^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 43 times in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and cited 3079 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #79 in April 2015
• Global: #72 in October 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #297 in September 2012
• Global: #21 in October 2014

There are 48 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	Hebrew (he) תור היירדאל		100
2	English (en) Thor Heyerdahl		96.1916
3	Norwegian (no) Thor Heyerdahl		88.8911
4	Catalan (ca) Thor Heyerdahl		87.2243
5	German (de) Thor Heyerdahl		71.9227
6	Georgian (ka) თურ ჰეიერდალი		64.3845
7	Polish (pl) Thor Heyerdahl		63.7114
8	Estonian (et) Thor Heyerdahl		63.7072
9	Russian (ru) Хейердал, Тур		58.0972
10	Finnish (fi) Thor Heyerdahl		58.0577

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Thor Heyerdahl		5 499 625
2	Russian (ru) Хейердал, Тур		2 967 831
3	German (de) Thor Heyerdahl		1 436 157
4	Spanish (es) Thor Heyerdahl		1 235 747
5	Norwegian (no) Thor Heyerdahl		771 367
6	Italian (it) Thor Heyerdahl		699 196
7	Swedish (sv) Thor Heyerdahl		489 334
8	Polish (pl) Thor Heyerdahl		476 374
9	Japanese (ja) トール・ヘイエルダール		406 418
10	French (fr) Thor Heyerdahl		270 039

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) Thor Heyerdahl		14 894
2	Russian (ru) Хейердал, Тур		6 077
3	German (de) Thor Heyerdahl		4 424
4	Norwegian (no) Thor Heyerdahl		2 087
5	Swedish (sv) Thor Heyerdahl		1 225
6	Spanish (es) Thor Heyerdahl		1 123
7	Italian (it) Thor Heyerdahl		1 050
8	French (fr) Thor Heyerdahl		928
9	Japanese (ja) トール・ヘイエルダール		742
10	Polish (pl) Thor Heyerdahl		720

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Thor Heyerdahl		532
2	German (de) Thor Heyerdahl		312
3	Norwegian (no) Thor Heyerdahl		194
4	Russian (ru) Хейердал, Тур		171
5	French (fr) Thor Heyerdahl		127
6	Italian (it) Thor Heyerdahl		123
7	Dutch (nl) Thor Heyerdahl		104
8	Spanish (es) Thor Heyerdahl		91
9	Hebrew (he) תור היירדאל		91
10	Swedish (sv) Thor Heyerdahl		75

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) Thor Heyerdahl		7
2	Hebrew (he) תור היירדאל		3
3	Czech (cs) Thor Heyerdahl		2
4	Spanish (es) Thor Heyerdahl		2
5	Norwegian (no) Thor Heyerdahl		2
6	Chinese (zh) 托尔·海尔达尔		2
7	Turkish (tr) Thor Heyerdahl		1
8	Arabic (ar) ثور هايردال		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Tur Heyerdal		0
10	Belarusian (be) Тур Хеердал		0

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

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