diff --git a/doc/changes/dev/13867.other.rst b/doc/changes/dev/13867.other.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0e1687b1827
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/changes/dev/13867.other.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Enable the Sphinx-Gallery example recommender so each gallery page links to the most similar examples, by :newcontrib:`Kidus Abebe`.
diff --git a/doc/changes/names.inc b/doc/changes/names.inc
index ff8921c3e76..b545afb1527 100644
--- a/doc/changes/names.inc
+++ b/doc/changes/names.inc
@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@
 .. _Katia Al-Amir: https://github.com/katia-sentry
 .. _Kay Robbins: https://github.com/VisLab
 .. _Keith Doelling: https://github.com/kdoelling1919
+.. _Kidus Abebe: https://github.com/kidusabe1
 .. _Konstantinos Tsilimparis: https://contsili.github.io/
 .. _Kostiantyn Maksymenko: https://github.com/makkostya
 .. _Kristijan Armeni: https://github.com/kristijanarmeni
diff --git a/doc/conf.py b/doc/conf.py
index e7f740db907..dc9161b6fea 100644
--- a/doc/conf.py
+++ b/doc/conf.py
@@ -569,6 +569,7 @@
     ),
     "copyfile_regex": r".*index\.rst",  # allow custom index.rst files
     "parallel": sphinx_gallery_parallel,
+    "recommender": {"enable": True},
 }
 assert is_serializable(sphinx_gallery_conf)
 # Files were renamed from plot_* with: