Lee Kuan Yew

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Lee Kuan Yew - 1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore (1923–2015). This person is the 3684^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 656^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Lee Kuan Yew” in Simple English Wikipedia has 64.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 36 references and 15 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5276^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 6757^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 656^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5697^th most popular in AI.

The 3684^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6720^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7063^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 8860^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Lee Kuan Yew”, its content was written by 30 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (6757^th place) and edited by 3333 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5697^th place).

Lee Kuan Yew is on the 656^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 3684^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 25 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4493 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #137 in December 2015
• Global: #10 in March 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #126 in March 2015
• Global: #51 in March 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, 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) Lee Kuan Yew		98.0015
2	Malay (ms) Lee Kuan Yew		84
3	Chinese (zh) 李光耀		81.7894
4	Armenian (hy) Լի Կուան Յու		80.9
5	Simple English (simple) Lee Kuan Yew		64.8396
6	Ukrainian (uk) Лі Куан Ю		62.6475
7	Catalan (ca) Lee Kuan Yew		59.3226
8	German (de) Lee Kuan Yew		54.979
9	French (fr) Lee Kuan Yew		53.2759
10	Vietnamese (vi) Lý Quang Diệu		49.5008

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lee Kuan Yew		13 083 755
2	Chinese (zh) 李光耀		2 813 013
3	Russian (ru) Ли Куан Ю		1 585 423
4	Japanese (ja) リー・クアンユー		1 058 732
5	Vietnamese (vi) Lý Quang Diệu		629 484
6	Spanish (es) Lee Kuan Yew		384 115
7	Indonesian (id) Lee Kuan Yew		335 369
8	German (de) Lee Kuan Yew		262 207
9	Thai (th) ลี กวนยู		253 084
10	French (fr) Lee Kuan Yew		250 908

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) Lee Kuan Yew		97 662
2	Chinese (zh) 李光耀		13 096
3	Russian (ru) Ли Куан Ю		6 015
4	Japanese (ja) リー・クアンユー		5 356
5	Spanish (es) Lee Kuan Yew		3 706
6	French (fr) Lee Kuan Yew		2 188
7	Vietnamese (vi) Lý Quang Diệu		2 163
8	Indonesian (id) Lee Kuan Yew		2 112
9	German (de) Lee Kuan Yew		1 839
10	Thai (th) ลี กวนยู		1 174

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lee Kuan Yew		1 278
2	Chinese (zh) 李光耀		325
3	French (fr) Lee Kuan Yew		138
4	German (de) Lee Kuan Yew		128
5	Japanese (ja) リー・クアンユー		127
6	Vietnamese (vi) Lý Quang Diệu		124
7	Russian (ru) Ли Куан Ю		115
8	Spanish (es) Lee Kuan Yew		78
9	Italian (it) Lee Kuan Yew		71
10	Hebrew (he) לי קואן יו		61

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) Lee Kuan Yew		12
2	Catalan (ca) Lee Kuan Yew		2
3	Vietnamese (vi) Lý Quang Diệu		2
4	Azerbaijani (az) Li Kuan Yu		1
5	Danish (da) Lee Kuan Yew		1
6	Spanish (es) Lee Kuan Yew		1
7	Malay (ms) Lee Kuan Yew		1
8	Turkish (tr) Lee Kuan Yew		1
9	Chinese (zh) 李光耀		1
10	Arabic (ar) لي كوان يو		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