Ray Kurzweil

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Raymond Kurzweil - American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventor (born 1948). This person is the 9054^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Ray Kurzweil” in Simple English Wikipedia has 60.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 47 references and 9 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:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9054^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 9674^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Ray Kurzweil” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (9674^th place) and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Ray Kurzweil”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1801 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Raymond Kurzweil is on the 9054^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 31 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4968 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #746 in July 2020
• Global: #664 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #7360 in March 2024
• Global: #12401 in June 2011

There are 39 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) Ray Kurzweil		86.2423
2	Simple English (simple) Ray Kurzweil		60.1851
3	Italian (it) Raymond Kurzweil		49.4231
4	German (de) Ray Kurzweil		48.136
5	Spanish (es) Raymond Kurzweil		47.2546
6	Basque (eu) Ray Kurzweil		39.9291
7	Greek (el) Ρέι Κέρζουελ		37.2411
8	Armenian (hy) Ռեյմոնդ Կուրցվեյլ		35.9133
9	Hungarian (hu) Raymond Kurzweil		33.9774
10	Arabic (ar) ريموند كرزويل		33.8641

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ray Kurzweil		7 363 203
2	Spanish (es) Raymond Kurzweil		554 880
3	German (de) Ray Kurzweil		529 406
4	Russian (ru) Курцвейл, Рэймонд		500 319
5	Japanese (ja) レイ・カーツワイル		412 313
6	French (fr) Raymond Kurzweil		367 160
7	Italian (it) Raymond Kurzweil		209 931
8	Portuguese (pt) Raymond Kurzweil		157 807
9	Polish (pl) Raymond Kurzweil		153 996
10	Dutch (nl) Raymond Kurzweil		123 308

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) Ray Kurzweil		26 272
2	German (de) Ray Kurzweil		2 763
3	Japanese (ja) レイ・カーツワイル		2 223
4	Spanish (es) Raymond Kurzweil		1 901
5	Italian (it) Raymond Kurzweil		1 508
6	Russian (ru) Курцвейл, Рэймонд		1 464
7	French (fr) Raymond Kurzweil		1 003
8	Portuguese (pt) Raymond Kurzweil		751
9	Chinese (zh) 雷蒙德·库茨魏尔		607
10	Polish (pl) Raymond Kurzweil		575

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ray Kurzweil		732
2	German (de) Ray Kurzweil		156
3	Italian (it) Raymond Kurzweil		88
4	French (fr) Raymond Kurzweil		78
5	Spanish (es) Raymond Kurzweil		74
6	Russian (ru) Курцвейл, Рэймонд		66
7	Hebrew (he) ריי קורצווייל		61
8	Dutch (nl) Raymond Kurzweil		59
9	Japanese (ja) レイ・カーツワイル		48
10	Polish (pl) Raymond Kurzweil		40

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) Ray Kurzweil		2
2	Arabic (ar) ريموند كرزويل		1
3	German (de) Ray Kurzweil		1
4	Italian (it) Raymond Kurzweil		1
5	Japanese (ja) レイ・カーツワイル		1
6	Simple English (simple) Ray Kurzweil		1
7	Catalan (ca) Raymond Kurzweil		0
8	Czech (cs) Ray Kurzweil		0
9	Danish (da) Ray Kurzweil		0
10	Greek (el) Ρέι Κέρζουελ		0

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

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