Trending Chemists in France — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed chemists on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Pope Francis. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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Ranked
513,569
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
124,966
views
views
2
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
44,250
views
views
3
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
28,429
views
views
4
Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990
17,853
views
views
5
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
17,254
views
views
6
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
15,763
views
views
7
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
13,743
views
views
8
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
13,660
views
views
9
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
11,105
views
views
10
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
11,048
views
views
11
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
7,342
views
views
12
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
6,681
views
views
13
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
6,599
views
views
14
Pierre Curie
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
5,698
views
views
15
Karen Wetterhahn
American chemist (1948–1997)
5,389
views
views
16
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
5,251
views
views
17
Lionel Dahmer
American chemist and writer; father of Jeffrey Dahmer
5,198
views
views
18
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Russian businessman, philanthropist and former oligarch
5,031
views
views
19
Walter White
fictional character in the television drama series Breaking Bad
4,860
views
views
20
Claude Allègre
French politician and geochemist (1937–2025)
4,541
views
views
21
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
4,528
views
views
22
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1900-1958)
4,527
views
views
23
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
4,334
views
views
24
Vincent Reynouard
French Holocaust denier
4,321
views
views
25
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
4,146
views
views
26
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
4,075
views
views
27
Paul Langevin
French physicist, philosopher of science and pedagogue (1872-1946)
3,970
views
views
28
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836)
3,956
views
views
29
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
3,601
views
views
30
The Joker
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
3,522
views
views
31
Cheikh Anta Diop
Senegalese politician, essayist (1923–1986)
3,461
views
views
32
Antoine-Augustin Parmentier
French agronomist, naturalist, nutritionist, and hygienist; promoter of the potato as a food source in Europe (1737-1813)
3,215
views
views
33
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
3,179
views
views
34
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
3,167
views
views
35
Claude Bernard
French physiologist (1813-1878)
3,100
views
views
36
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
3,082
views
views
37
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
2,996
views
views
38
Eugène Schueller
French chemist and businessman (1881–1957)
2,835
views
views
39
Jessie Inchauspé
French biochemist
2,686
views
views
40
Elio Di Rupo
Belgian politician (born 1951)
2,574
views
views
41
François-Vincent Raspail
French chemist, naturalist, physician, physiologist, attorney, and socialist politician (1794-1878)
2,428
views
views
42
Amedeo Avogadro
Italian scientist
2,417
views
views
43
Antoine Henri Becquerel
French physicist (1852–1908)
2,357
views
views
44
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
2,273
views
views
45
Gaspard Monge
French mathematician, inventor of descriptive geometry and father of differential geometry (1746-1818)
2,246
views
views
46
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
2,211
views
views
47
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
2,187
views
views
48
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
2,045
views
views
49
Bernard Palissy
French potter and engineer (1510-1590)
2,040
views
views
50
Marcellin Berthelot
French chemist and politician (1827-1907)
2,022
views
views
51
Louis Daguerre
French scientist, artist and photographer (1787–1851)
1,936
views
views
52
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
1,892
views
views
53
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
1,856
views
views
54
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
1,852
views
views
55
Jacques Bergier
French writer and scientist (1912–1978)
1,817
views
views
56
Frauke Petry
German politician
1,795
views
views
57
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849–1936)
1,777
views
views
58
Jacques Monod
French biologist and biochemist, Nobel laureate (1910-1976)
1,750
views
views
59
Elena Ceaușescu
Romanian politician (1919–1989)
1,715
views
views
60
Albert Wesker
fictional character from Resident Evil
1,712
views
views
61
Jean-Baptiste Perrin
French physicist (1870–1942)
1,688
views
views
62
Jean-René Dufort
Canadian journalist, television presenter and radio host
1,684
views
views
63
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
1,587
views
views
64
Henri Laborit
French physician, writer and philosopher (1914-1995)
1,577
views
views
65
Elias Canetti
Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer (1905–1994)
1,456
views
views
66
Alain Mérieux
French businessman
1,446
views
views
67
Josiane Serre
French chemist (1922-2004)
1,375
views
views
68
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
1,296
views
views
69
Bane
fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain
1,290
views
views
70
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
1,281
views
views
71
Emmanuelle Charpentier
French microbiologist and biochemist (born 1968)
1,260
views
views
72
Louis Lumière
French inventor (1864–1948)
1,259
views
views
73
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
1,253
views
views
74
Pierre Joliot
French biochemist
1,250
views
views
75
Mary-Anne Paulzzze Lavoisier
French chemist and painter (1758-1836)
1,250
views
views
76
Sophie Berthelot
French chemist (1837-1907)
1,228
views
views
77
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
1,228
views
views
78
Jean-Antoine Chaptal
French chemist and physician (1756–1832)
1,182
views
views
79
Henri Nestlé
businessman (1814-2019)
1,152
views
views
80
Alain Devaquet
French politician (1942–2018)
1,133
views
views
81
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
1,122
views
views
82
Ilya Prigogine
Russian-Belgian physical chemist (1917–2003)
1,109
views
views
83
Leo Rudolf Raubal
Adolf Hitler's nephew (1906–1977)
1,093
views
views
84
Alexander Borodin
Russian composer, doctor and chemist (1833–1887)
1,092
views
views
85
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
1,085
views
views
86
Armando Bukele Kattán
Salvadorean chemist (1944-2015)
1,076
views
views
87
Beast
fictional character in Marvel Comics
1,066
views
views
88
Hans Christian Ørsted
Danish physicist and chemist (1777-1851)
1,054
views
views
89
Abu Bakr al-Razi
Persian polymath, physician, chemist and philosopher (854-925)
1,025
views
views
90
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
1,013
views
views
91
Poison Ivy
fictional character throughout the DC Universe
1,003
views
views
92
Michel Eugène Chevreul
French chemist (1786-1889)
1,001
views
views
93
Frédérique Vidal
French biochemist and politician
986
views
views
94
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
986
views
views
95
Jean-François Pilatre de Rozier
French balloonist
983
views
views
96
Louis Le Prince
French artist and cinematographer, pioneer of cinema
968
views
views
97
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
952
views
views
98
Wang Chuanfu
Chinese chemist and manager
946
views
views
99
John Magufuli
5th President of Tanzania from 2015 to 2021
940
views
views
100
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
930
views
views
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