1948 - Today
Raymond Kurzweil (, KURZ-wyle; born February 12, 1948) is an American computer scientist, author, inventor, and futurist. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology and electronic keyboard instruments. He has written books on health technology, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ray Kurzweil has received more than 3,332,165 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia. Ray Kurzweil is the 18th most popular computer scientist (down from 14th in 2019), the 1,314th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,268th in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Computer Scientist.
Ray Kurzweil is an inventor and futurist who has been called "the restless genius." He has been a pioneer in the fields of computer science, artificial intelligence, and text-to-speech synthesis.
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Among computer scientists, Ray Kurzweil ranks 18 out of 201. Before him are John McCarthy, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Vint Cerf, Edgar F. Codd, and Andrew S. Tanenbaum. After him are Ken Thompson, Dorothy Vaughan, Marvin Minsky, Guido van Rossum, Alan Kay, and John Backus.
1927 - 2011
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 12
1973 - Present
HPI: 61.54
Rank: 13
1973 - Present
HPI: 61.48
Rank: 14
1943 - Present
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 15
1923 - 2003
HPI: 60.90
Rank: 16
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.89
Rank: 17
1948 - Present
HPI: 60.29
Rank: 18
1943 - Present
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 19
1910 - 2008
HPI: 59.70
Rank: 20
1927 - 2016
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 21
1956 - Present
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 22
1940 - Present
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 23
1924 - 2007
HPI: 58.59
Rank: 24
Among people born in 1948, Ray Kurzweil ranks 65. Before him are Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, William Gibson, Rory Gallagher, Svetlana Savitskaya, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, and Andrew Lloyd Webber. After him are Tom Wilkinson, Agnieszka Holland, Arie Haan, Claude Jade, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, and Hans Rosling.
1948 - Present
HPI: 61.24
Rank: 59
1948 - Present
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 60
1948 - 1995
HPI: 61.17
Rank: 61
1948 - Present
HPI: 60.52
Rank: 62
1948 - Present
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 63
1948 - Present
HPI: 60.29
Rank: 64
1948 - Present
HPI: 60.29
Rank: 65
1948 - 2023
HPI: 60.28
Rank: 66
1948 - Present
HPI: 60.24
Rank: 67
1948 - Present
HPI: 60.17
Rank: 68
1948 - 2006
HPI: 60.11
Rank: 69
1948 - Present
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 70
1948 - 2017
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 71
Among people born in United States, Ray Kurzweil ranks 1,314 out of 18,182. Before him are Gordon Moore (1929), F. Sherwood Rowland (1927), Benjamin Bloom (1913), Sacagawea (1780), Lance Armstrong (1971), and Edward Emerson Barnard (1857). After him are Kenny Rogers (1938), Izzy Stradlin (1962), Max Wright (1943), Queen Noor of Jordan (1951), Linda McCartney (1941), and Douglas McGregor (1906).
1929 - 2023
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 1,308
1927 - 2012
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 1,309
1913 - 1999
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 1,310
1780 - 1812
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 1,311
1971 - Present
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 1,312
1857 - 1923
HPI: 60.29
Rank: 1,313
1948 - Present
HPI: 60.29
Rank: 1,314
1938 - 2020
HPI: 60.28
Rank: 1,315
1962 - Present
HPI: 60.28
Rank: 1,316
1943 - 2019
HPI: 60.28
Rank: 1,317
1951 - Present
HPI: 60.28
Rank: 1,318
1941 - 1998
HPI: 60.28
Rank: 1,319
1906 - 1964
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 1,320
Among computer scientists born in United States, Ray Kurzweil ranks 10. Before him are Donald Knuth (1938), George Dantzig (1914), John McCarthy (1927), Larry Page (1973), Vint Cerf (1943), and Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944). After him are Ken Thompson (1943), Dorothy Vaughan (1910), Marvin Minsky (1927), Alan Kay (1940), John Backus (1924), and Ward Cunningham (1949).
1938 - Present
HPI: 64.42
Rank: 4
1914 - 2005
HPI: 62.22
Rank: 5
1927 - 2011
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 6
1973 - Present
HPI: 61.54
Rank: 7
1943 - Present
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 8
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.89
Rank: 9
1948 - Present
HPI: 60.29
Rank: 10
1943 - Present
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 11
1910 - 2008
HPI: 59.70
Rank: 12
1927 - 2016
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 13
1940 - Present
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 14
1924 - 2007
HPI: 58.59
Rank: 15
1949 - Present
HPI: 57.83
Rank: 16