Trending Biologists in France this year
The 100 most-viewed biologists this year on Wikipedia (France). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Leonardo da Vinci.
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Ranked
45,036
Total Views (this year)
1
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
2,458
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views
2
Paul Walker
American actor (1973–2013)
2,128
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views
3
Boris Cyrulnik
French psychiatrist
1,936
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views
4
Nicolas Hulot
French environmentalist, TV producer and presenter, politician
1,369
views
views
5
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
1,300
views
views
6
Jane Goodall
English primatologist and anthropologist (1934–2025)
1,151
views
views
7
Didier Raoult
French physician and microbiologist
1,065
views
views
8
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
1,013
views
views
9
Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
1,011
views
views
10
Olivier Messiaen
French composer, organist and ornithologist (1908–1992)
998
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views
11
Samah Karaki
French-Lebanese Neuroscientist
927
views
views
12
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
927
views
views
13
Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
912
views
views
14
Greta Thunberg
Swedish climate protection activist (born 2003)
792
views
views
15
Albert Moukheiber
French psychologist (born 1982)
783
views
views
16
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
776
views
views
17
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
735
views
views
18
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Ethiopian and politician, Director-General of the World Health Organization
710
views
views
19
David Attenborough
British broadcaster and naturalist (born 1926)
690
views
views
20
Jean-Christophe Rufin
French writer
652
views
views
21
Dian Fossey
American zoologist, gorilla researcher (1932–1985)
623
views
views
22
Stéphane Delajoux
French neurosurgeon
615
views
views
23
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
590
views
views
24
Albert François Lebrun
15th President of the French Republic (1871–1950)
584
views
views
25
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
555
views
views
26
Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909 (1858–1919)
553
views
views
27
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
547
views
views
28
Hirohito
emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989
484
views
views
29
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
484
views
views
30
Frederic Lewy
American neurologist (1885–1950)
448
views
views
31
Hildegard of Bingen
German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)
446
views
views
32
Ambroise Paré
French surgeon
435
views
views
33
Mayim Bialik
American actress, television personality, and author (born 1975)
431
views
views
34
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
428
views
views
35
Maximilian I of Mexico
emperor of Mexico (1832-1867)
415
views
views
36
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
414
views
views
37
Olivier Véran
French neurologist and politician
411
views
views
38
Albert I of Belgium
King of the Belgians from 1909 to 1934 (1875–1934)
386
views
views
39
Leopold III of Belgium
king of the Belgians from 1934 to 1951 (1901–1983)
381
views
views
40
Akihito
Emperor of Japan from 1989 to 2019
361
views
views
41
Henry David Thoreau
American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862)
358
views
views
42
James Cook
British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728–1779)
358
views
views
43
Maria Vorontsova
daughter and eldest child of Vladimir Putin
343
views
views
44
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
336
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views
45
Jean-Martin Charcot
French neurologist (1825–1893)
332
views
views
46
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
328
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views
47
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
327
views
views
48
Alain Fischer
French physician
317
views
views
49
Lionel Naccache
French neurologist & scholar
309
views
views
50
Matthieu Ricard
French writer and Buddhist monk
301
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views
51
Ernst Jünger
German writer (1895–1998)
296
views
views
52
Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778)
296
views
views
53
Allain Bougrain-Dubourg
French journalist
284
views
views
54
Cheikh Anta Diop
Senegalese politician, essayist (1923–1986)
281
views
views
55
Steve Irwin
Australian zookeeper, conservationist and TV personality (1962-2006)
275
views
views
56
Jessie Inchauspé
French biochemist
272
views
views
57
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist
267
views
views
58
Laurent Ségalat
French geneticist, essayist and jurist
262
views
views
59
Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899–1977)
248
views
views
60
Antoine-Augustin Parmentier
French agronomist, naturalist, nutritionist, and hygienist; promoter of the potato as a food source in Europe (1737-1813)
247
views
views
61
Andreas Vesalius
Flemish anatomist, physician and author (1514–1564)
246
views
views
62
Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum
Congolese virologist
245
views
views
63
Jean Piaget
Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher and academic (1896–1980)
244
views
views
64
Thom Yorke
English musician and singer for Radiohead
239
views
views
65
Jeanne Baret
French explorer, naturalist and botanist (1740-1807)
222
views
views
66
Georges Gilles de la Tourette
French physician (1857-1904)
208
views
views
67
Galen
2nd-century Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher
208
views
views
68
Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan
younger brother and heir presumptive of Emperor Naruhito of Japan
208
views
views
69
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
201
views
views
70
Amelia Shepherd
fictional character on the ABC American television medical drama Private Practice
195
views
views
71
Derek Shepherd
fictional character from the television show Grey's Anatomy
192
views
views
72
Philippe Henriot
French politician and entomologist (1889-1944)
190
views
views
73
Jean Rostand
French writer (1894–1977)
185
views
views
74
Claude Bernard
French physiologist (1813-1878)
180
views
views
75
Peter Kropotkin
Russian revolutionary socialist and philosopher (1842–1921)
179
views
views
76
Jean-Noël Thorel
French businessman and poker player
178
views
views
77
Ignaz Semmelweis
Hungarian physician, early pioneer of antiseptic procedures (1818–1865)
178
views
views
78
Stanislas Dehaene
French neuroscientist
176
views
views
79
David Rockefeller
American banker and philanthropist (1915–2017)
174
views
views
80
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden
King of Sweden (1950–1973); anthropologist, art historian, collector and archaeologist
170
views
views
81
Beatrix Potter
British children's writer and illustrator (1866–1943)
168
views
views
82
Luc Montagnier
French virologist and joint recipient of the Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine (2008)
166
views
views
83
Viktor Frankl
Austrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author (1905–1997)
166
views
views
84
Jules Dumont d'Urville
French Navy officer and explorer (1790–1842)
165
views
views
85
Geoffrey Hinton
British-Canadian computer scientist and psychologist
164
views
views
86
Dexter Holland
American rock musician
164
views
views
87
Théodore Monod
French naturalist and explorer (1902-2000)
164
views
views
88
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Austrian artist (1928–2000)
160
views
views
89
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
153
views
views
90
Pierre Joliot
French biochemist
150
views
views
91
Joël de Rosnay
French scientist
150
views
views
92
Gilles Clément
French botanist and garden designer
148
views
views
93
Alois Alzheimer
German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (1864–1915)
148
views
views
94
Yves Lévy
French immunologist
145
views
views
95
Richard E. Grant
British-Swazi actor
143
views
views
96
Laurent Schwartz
French mathematician (1915-2002)
141
views
views
97
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
141
views
views
98
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629–1695)
141
views
views
99
Jacques Monod
French biologist and biochemist, Nobel laureate (1910-1976)
141
views
views
100
Henri Laborit
French physician, writer and philosopher (1914-1995)
139
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