Trending Inventors in France — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed inventors on Wikipedia, September 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Ceslaw Bojarski. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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Ranked
656,261
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Ceslaw Bojarski
French-Polish counterfeiter
110,651
views
views
2
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
28,823
views
views
3
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
28,722
views
views
4
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
25,971
views
views
5
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
22,754
views
views
6
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
17,528
views
views
7
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
16,631
views
views
8
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
14,111
views
views
9
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
13,362
views
views
10
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
12,777
views
views
11
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
12,514
views
views
12
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker and explorer (born 1954)
10,956
views
views
13
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
10,522
views
views
14
Jacques Cartier
Breton maritime explorer of North America (1491–1557)
10,224
views
views
15
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
9,229
views
views
16
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
9,074
views
views
17
Georges Perec
French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist (1936–1982)
8,893
views
views
18
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
8,820
views
views
19
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
8,428
views
views
20
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
8,195
views
views
21
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
8,117
views
views
22
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
7,780
views
views
23
Nicéphore Niépce
French inventor and photographer (1765-1833)
6,989
views
views
24
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
6,894
views
views
25
Alain Damasio
French writer
6,798
views
views
26
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
6,770
views
views
27
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
6,360
views
views
28
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
6,346
views
views
29
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
6,174
views
views
30
Guy Debord
French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker (1931–1994)
5,686
views
views
31
Marcel Dassault
French aircraft industrialist (1892-1986)
5,643
views
views
32
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
5,619
views
views
33
Ambroise Paré
French surgeon
5,194
views
views
34
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
4,674
views
views
35
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
4,587
views
views
36
Gerardus Mercator
Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer (1512–1594)
4,576
views
views
37
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
4,393
views
views
38
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
4,239
views
views
39
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
4,124
views
views
40
Joseph Pilates
German inventor of pilates (1883–1967)
4,117
views
views
41
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
4,111
views
views
42
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
4,097
views
views
43
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
3,981
views
views
44
Mike Oldfield
English musician (born 1953)
3,927
views
views
45
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
3,890
views
views
46
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
3,884
views
views
47
Jean-Philippe Jaworski
French writer
3,789
views
views
48
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836)
3,755
views
views
49
Ettore Bugatti
Italian automobile designer and manufacturer (1881–1947)
3,468
views
views
50
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
3,456
views
views
51
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
3,394
views
views
52
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
3,297
views
views
53
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
3,178
views
views
54
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
3,177
views
views
55
Jacques Capelovici
French television presenter (1922-2011)
3,033
views
views
56
Sergei Eisenstein
Soviet filmmaker (1898–1948)
2,981
views
views
57
Clément Ader
French inventor and engineer
2,973
views
views
58
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
French novelist, official and army general (1741–1803)
2,972
views
views
59
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
2,930
views
views
60
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
2,795
views
views
61
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
2,761
views
views
62
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
2,729
views
views
63
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
2,707
views
views
64
Laurie Anderson
American artist and musician (born 1947)
2,707
views
views
65
Emmett Brown
fictional character from the American sci-fi film trilogy Back to the Future
2,656
views
views
66
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 or visually impaired
2,539
views
views
67
Nellie Bly
American journalist
2,513
views
views
68
Rudolf Diesel
German inventor and mechanical engineer (1858–1913)
2,502
views
views
69
Ruth Handler
American businesswoman
2,496
views
views
70
Louis Renault
French industrialist
2,431
views
views
71
Tristan Bernard
French playwright (1866–1947)
2,428
views
views
72
Ferdinand Porsche
Austrian-born German automotive engineer, inventor (1875–1951)
2,272
views
views
73
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
2,222
views
views
74
Louis Blériot
French aviator, inventor and engineer (1872–1936)
2,187
views
views
75
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
2,167
views
views
76
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
2,163
views
views
77
Epic Games
American video game and software developer
2,090
views
views
78
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
2,014
views
views
79
Levi Strauss
German-Jewish-born American businessman (1829-1902)
2,011
views
views
80
Denis Papin
French physicist, mathematician and inventor (1647–1713)
1,986
views
views
81
René Laenne
French physician, inventor of stethoscope (1781-1826)
1,978
views
views
82
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
1,970
views
views
83
Satoshi Tajiri
Japanese video game designer
1,961
views
views
84
John Jacob Astor IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel (1864–1912)
1,920
views
views
85
Roland Moreno
French inventor (1945-2012)
1,908
views
views
86
David Packouz
American former arms dealer
1,907
views
views
87
Bill Wyman
British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
1,875
views
views
88
Salaì
Italian artist (1480-1524)
1,857
views
views
89
Eddy Malou
Congolese writer
1,830
views
views
90
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
1,816
views
views
91
Gaston
fictional character created by André Franquin
1,799
views
views
92
Mate Rimac
Croatian inventor and entrepreneur
1,786
views
views
93
Frauke Petry
German politician
1,782
views
views
94
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
1,780
views
views
95
Cuthbert Calculus
fictional human
1,714
views
views
96
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
1,713
views
views
97
Sam Houser
British video game producer and developer (born 1971)
1,704
views
views
98
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
French inventor (1725–1804)
1,702
views
views
99
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
1,688
views
views
100
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)
1,637
views
views