Trending Architects in France this year
The 100 most-viewed architects this year on Wikipedia (France). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Michelangelo.
100
Ranked
42,973
Total Views (this year)
1
Michelangelo
Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
13,763
views
views
2
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
2,458
views
views
3
Antoni Gaudí
Catalan architect (1852–1926)
1,224
views
views
4
Gustave Eiffel
French chemical engineer and architect (1832–1923)
1,168
views
views
5
Le Corbusier
Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer (1886–1965)
1,021
views
views
6
Jacques Garcia
French architect
941
views
views
7
Ernő Rubik
Hungarian inventor (born 1944)
902
views
views
8
Eileen Gray
Irish architect and designer (1878-1976)
659
views
views
9
Sarah Poniatowski
French interior architecture
626
views
views
10
Raphael
Italian painter and architect (1483–1520)
626
views
views
11
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
French military engineer (1633–1707)
581
views
views
12
Boris Yeltsin
Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (1931–2007)
580
views
views
13
Ferdinand Cheval
French architect (1836–1924)
572
views
views
14
Georges-Eugène Haussmann
French official and politician (1809-1891)
560
views
views
15
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
555
views
views
16
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
American actor
534
views
views
17
Yolanda Hadid
American television personality and former model
490
views
views
18
Albert Speer
German Nazi architect, Government Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany and convicted Nazi War Criminal (1905–1981)
481
views
views
19
Renzo Piano
Italian architect (1937-)
466
views
views
20
Rudolf Steiner
Austrian social reformer, occultist and esotericist (1861–1925)
396
views
views
21
Johan Otto von Spreckelsen
Danish architect (1929-1987)
387
views
views
22
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
French architect (1814-1879)
383
views
views
23
Egon Schiele
Austrian painter (1890-1918)
364
views
views
24
Juan Pablo Escobar Henao
Peace Ambassador, Colombian architect, author, and the son of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar
359
views
views
25
Piet Mondrian
Dutch painter (1872–1944)
344
views
views
26
Jean Baptiste Kléber
French general, and architect (1753-1800)
320
views
views
27
Zaha Hadid
Iraqi British architect, designer and painter (1950–2016)
294
views
views
28
Jean Tinguely
Swiss sculptor (1925–1991)
291
views
views
29
Alphonse Mucha
Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist (1860–1939)
288
views
views
30
Farah Pahlavi
queen/empress consort of Iran from 1959 to 1979
283
views
views
31
Jean Nouvel
French architect (b.1945)
276
views
views
32
Jan van Eyck
Flemish painter (c.1390–1441)
275
views
views
33
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
French painter (1780–1867)
272
views
views
34
Bianca Censori
Australian architect and model
264
views
views
35
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Italian sculptor and architect (1598–1680)
257
views
views
36
Frank Gehry
Canadian and American architect (1929–2025)
234
views
views
37
Auguste Perret
French architect (1874–1954)
232
views
views
38
Daedalus
son of Metion in Greek mythology
229
views
views
39
El Greco
Greek artist, painter, sculptor and architect (1541–1614)
228
views
views
40
Fulgence Bienvenüe
French civil engineer (1852–1936)
210
views
views
41
Paul Andreu
French architect (1938-2018)
204
views
views
42
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
ancient Roman statesman and general
203
views
views
43
André Le Nôtre
French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France (1613–1700)
202
views
views
44
Ricardo Bofill
Catalan architect (1939-2022)
196
views
views
45
Frank Lloyd Wright
American architect (1867-1959)
194
views
views
46
Norman Foster
British architect (born 1935)
194
views
views
47
Elie Wiesel
Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928-2016)
193
views
views
48
William Morris
British textile artist, author, and socialist (1834-1896)
183
views
views
49
John Stewart
fictional superhero published by DC Comics
182
views
views
50
Vitruvius
Roman architect and engineer
182
views
views
51
H. R. Giger
Swiss artist (1940–2014)
181
views
views
52
Marcel Breuer
Hungarian-American architect (1902-1981)
176
views
views
53
Imhotep
Egyptian polymath, later revered as a god
174
views
views
54
Oscar Niemeyer
Brazilian architect (1907–2012)
169
views
views
55
Jean Badovici
Romanian architect (1893-1956)
166
views
views
56
Charlotte Perriand
French architect and designer (1903-1999)
165
views
views
57
Pierre-Paul Riquet
French engineer
163
views
views
58
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Austrian artist (1928–2000)
160
views
views
59
Joan Fontaine
British actress (1917–2013)
159
views
views
60
Martine Buron
French politician (born 1944)
155
views
views
61
Virgil Abloh
American fashion designer (1980-2021)
155
views
views
62
Gabrielle Van Zuylen
Dutch writer
155
views
views
63
Aa
ancient Egyptian architect
153
views
views
64
John Singer Sargent
American painter (1856–1925)
152
views
views
65
Gilles Clément
French botanist and garden designer
148
views
views
66
Robert Mallet-Stevens
French architect and designer (1886–1945)
147
views
views
67
Zdzisław Beksiński
Polish artist (1929-2005)
145
views
views
68
Madison Cox
American landscape architect
141
views
views
69
Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi
engineer and politician (1972–2026)
141
views
views
70
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
German architect (1886–1969)
140
views
views
71
Giotto
Italian painter and architect (c. 1267–1337)
139
views
views
72
Jean Walter
French architect (1883–1957)
134
views
views
73
Charles Le Brun
17th-century French painter and art theorist (1619—1690)
133
views
views
74
Christian Lacroix
French fashion and theater designer (born 1951)
129
views
views
75
Hector Guimard
French architect (1867–1942)
129
views
views
76
Fernand Pouillon
French architect (1912–1986)
128
views
views
77
Neri Oxman
Israeli-American designer and academic (born 1976)
127
views
views
78
Larry Silverstein
American businessman
124
views
views
79
I. M. Pei
Chinese-American architect (1917–2019)
123
views
views
80
Martha Stewart
American businesswoman, writer, TV personality (born 1941)
121
views
views
81
Mary the Jewess
alchemist who lived between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE in Alexandria
121
views
views
82
John Ruskin
English writer and art critic (1819–1900)
118
views
views
83
Santiago Calatrava
Spanish-Swiss engineer, architect, and artist (born 1951)
116
views
views
84
Princess Rajwa Al Hussein
Saudi royal
115
views
views
85
Victor Horta
Belgian architect, designer, publicist, teacher and creator of Art Nouveau (1861–1947)
115
views
views
86
Walter Gropius
German-American architect (1883–1969)
114
views
views
87
Jean Prouvé
French architect and designer (1901-1984)
113
views
views
88
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
111
views
views
89
Giorgio Vasari
Italian painter, architect, writer and historian (1511-1574)
111
views
views
90
Abbot Suger
French abbot-statesmen, historian and the influential first patron of Gothic architecture (1080-1151)
110
views
views
91
Gorō Miyazaki
Japanese anime director (born 1967)
110
views
views
92
Jules Hardouin-Mansart
French Baroque architect (1646–1708)
110
views
views
93
Simon Wiesenthal
Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter (1908–2005)
110
views
views
94
Tony Garnier
French architect (1869–1948)
109
views
views
95
Kengo Kuma
Japanese architect (1954-)
109
views
views
96
Charles Eames
American designer (1907-1978)
108
views
views
97
Amenhotep III
ninth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt
106
views
views
98
Emmanuelle Andreani
105
views
views
99
Phidias
Greek sculptor, painter and architect (c.480–430 BC)
103
views
views
100
Filippo Brunelleschi
Italian architect, sculptor and engineer
101
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