Trending Inventors in France this month
The 100 most-viewed inventors this month on Wikipedia (France). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk.
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Ranked
31,273
Total Views (this month)
Country
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1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
2,783
views
views
2
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451β1506)
1,758
views
views
3
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
1,755
views
views
4
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879β1955)
1,517
views
views
5
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955β2011)
963
views
views
6
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564β1642)
961
views
views
7
ErnΕ Rubik
Hungarian inventor (born 1944)
862
views
views
8
Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry
French writer and aviator (1900β1944)
818
views
views
9
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642β1727)
801
views
views
10
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856β1943)
771
views
views
11
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815β1852)
585
views
views
12
Jacques Cartier
Breton maritime explorer of North America (1491β1557)
573
views
views
13
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pΓ©piniΓ©riste and inventor (born 1939)
573
views
views
14
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901β1966)
476
views
views
15
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706β1790)
457
views
views
16
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
446
views
views
17
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker (born 1954)
437
views
views
18
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
430
views
views
19
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
425
views
views
20
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
421
views
views
21
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
399
views
views
22
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847β1931)
397
views
views
23
Louis Renault
French industrialist
364
views
views
24
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 β c. 212 BC)
338
views
views
25
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743β1826)
336
views
views
26
Georges Perec
French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist (1936β1982)
333
views
views
27
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912β1977)
291
views
views
28
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863β1947)
290
views
views
29
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
289
views
views
30
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918β1988)
278
views
views
31
Marcel Dassault
French aircraft industrialist (1892-1986)
276
views
views
32
Cuthbert Calculus
fictional human
275
views
views
33
Carl Benz
German automotive and engine designer and manufacturer (1844β1929)
269
views
views
34
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
268
views
views
35
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905β1976)
260
views
views
36
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902β1974)
246
views
views
37
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847β1922)
234
views
views
38
Moondog
American composer (1916β1999)
214
views
views
39
NicΓ©phore NiΓ©pce
French inventor and photographer (1765-1833)
208
views
views
40
Bill Wyman
British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
201
views
views
41
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571β1630)
197
views
views
42
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707β1783)
191
views
views
43
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916β2001)
186
views
views
44
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745β1827)
182
views
views
45
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
182
views
views
46
Ferdinand Porsche
Austrian-born German automotive engineer, inventor (1875β1951)
176
views
views
47
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
175
views
views
48
Justin Christofleau
inventor
175
views
views
49
James Watt
British engineer (1736β1819)
174
views
views
50
Bertha Benz
German automobile pioneer, with husband Karl Benz (1849β1944)
174
views
views
51
Jacob Schick
American businessman (1877-1937)
173
views
views
52
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833β1896)
171
views
views
53
Jean-Philippe Jaworski
French writer
165
views
views
54
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
161
views
views
55
Guy Debord
French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker (1931β1994)
159
views
views
56
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
156
views
views
57
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943β2008)
156
views
views
58
Enrico Fermi
ItalianβAmerican physicist (1901β1954)
151
views
views
59
Gerardus Mercator
Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer (1512β1594)
141
views
views
60
Mike Oldfield
English musician (born 1953)
139
views
views
61
ClΓ©ment Ader
French inventor and engineer
139
views
views
62
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
French novelist, official and army general (1741β1803)
137
views
views
63
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917β2008)
134
views
views
64
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
134
views
views
65
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881β1955)
133
views
views
66
Louis BlΓ©riot
French aviator, inventor and engineer (1872β1936)
132
views
views
67
Nellie Bly
American journalist
131
views
views
68
Epic Games
American video game and software developer
127
views
views
69
Ettore Bugatti
Italian automobile designer and manufacturer (1881β1947)
126
views
views
70
Jacques Capelovici
French television presenter (1922-2011)
126
views
views
71
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist and mathematician (1775β1836)
124
views
views
72
Ben Reilly
fictional character in Marvel Comics
124
views
views
73
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838β1914)
118
views
views
74
Denis Papin
French physicist, mathematician and inventor (1647β1713)
115
views
views
75
Louis Braille
French organist and teacher (1809-1852), inventor of braille, a system for reading and writing text and music, used by people who are blind
114
views
views
76
Stanley Meyer
inventor of the "waterflokerβ
113
views
views
77
Joseph Pilates
German inventor of pilates (1883β1967)
113
views
views
78
Levi Strauss
German-Jewish-born American businessman (1829-1902)
108
views
views
79
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
107
views
views
80
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
105
views
views
81
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629β1695)
102
views
views
82
Madam C. J. Walker
American entrepreneur (1867-1919)
101
views
views
83
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
101
views
views
84
Gaston
fictional character created by AndrΓ© Franquin
100
views
views
85
Alberto Santos-Dumont
Brazilian aviation pioneer (1873-1932)
100
views
views
86
Michel Ancel
French video game designer
99
views
views
87
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
98
views
views
88
John Jacob Astor IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel (1864β1912)
95
views
views
89
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 β 1703)
94
views
views
90
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791β1867)
94
views
views
91
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919β2013)
92
views
views
92
Sergei Eisenstein
Soviet filmmaker (1898β1948)
91
views
views
93
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
90
views
views
94
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
90
views
views
95
Patrick Chamoiseau
Martiniquais writer (born 1953)
87
views
views
96
Emmett Brown
fictional character from the American sci-fi film trilogy Back to the Future
85
views
views
97
AndrΓ© Coyne
French civil engineer specialized in dam design and construction (1891-1960)
85
views
views
98
Thomas Newcomen
English inventor, ironmonger and Baptist lay preacher (1664-1729)
83
views
views
99
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
82
views
views
100
Louis Lumière
French inventor (1864β1948)
82
views
views
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