Trending Inventors in France — the 7 days to 25 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed inventors on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 25 October 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Albert Einstein. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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143,630
Total Views (the 7 days to 25 October 2026)
1
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
8,957
views
views
2
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
6,702
views
views
3
Ceslaw Bojarski
French-Polish counterfeiter
6,367
views
views
4
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
6,133
views
views
5
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
5,560
views
views
6
Georges Perec
French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist (1936–1982)
5,485
views
views
7
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
4,835
views
views
8
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
4,588
views
views
9
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
2,761
views
views
10
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
2,729
views
views
11
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
2,726
views
views
12
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
2,642
views
views
13
Guy Debord
French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker (1931–1994)
2,534
views
views
14
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
2,306
views
views
15
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
2,189
views
views
16
Clément Ader
French inventor and engineer
2,170
views
views
17
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
2,153
views
views
18
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
2,088
views
views
19
Peter Madsen
Danish convicted murderer, entrepreneur and self-proclaimed engineer
2,054
views
views
20
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker and explorer (born 1954)
1,974
views
views
21
Jacques Cartier
Breton maritime explorer of North America (1491–1557)
1,970
views
views
22
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
1,941
views
views
23
Gaston
fictional character created by André Franquin
1,931
views
views
24
Alain Damasio
French writer
1,740
views
views
25
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
1,662
views
views
26
Marcel Dassault
French aircraft industrialist (1892-1986)
1,629
views
views
27
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
1,557
views
views
28
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
1,490
views
views
29
André-Jacques Garnerin
inventor of the frameless parachute
1,468
views
views
30
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
1,442
views
views
31
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
1,411
views
views
32
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
1,368
views
views
33
Nicéphore Niépce
French inventor and photographer (1765-1833)
1,310
views
views
34
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
1,254
views
views
35
Todd Stashwick
American actor and writer
1,157
views
views
36
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
1,157
views
views
37
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
1,138
views
views
38
Bill Wyman
British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
1,086
views
views
39
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
1,068
views
views
40
Eiji Aonuma
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
1,020
views
views
41
Ruth Handler
American businesswoman
1,005
views
views
42
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
969
views
views
43
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
962
views
views
44
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
943
views
views
45
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
935
views
views
46
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
929
views
views
47
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
917
views
views
48
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
891
views
views
49
Ambroise Paré
French surgeon
852
views
views
50
Mike Pondsmith
American game designer
836
views
views
51
Vince Zampella
American video game designer (1970–2025)
836
views
views
52
Ettore Bugatti
Italian automobile designer and manufacturer (1881–1947)
802
views
views
53
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
785
views
views
54
Mike Oldfield
English musician (born 1953)
756
views
views
55
Jean-Philippe Jaworski
French writer
749
views
views
56
Epic Games
American video game and software developer
742
views
views
57
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
French novelist, official and army general (1741–1803)
726
views
views
58
Joseph Pilates
German inventor of pilates (1883–1967)
708
views
views
59
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
701
views
views
60
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836)
691
views
views
61
Sergei Eisenstein
Soviet filmmaker (1898–1948)
688
views
views
62
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)
674
views
views
63
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
665
views
views
64
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
663
views
views
65
Jacques Capelovici
French television presenter (1922-2011)
662
views
views
66
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
651
views
views
67
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
632
views
views
68
Levi Strauss
German-Jewish-born American businessman (1829-1902)
629
views
views
69
Louis Renault
French industrialist
626
views
views
70
Nellie Bly
American journalist
616
views
views
71
Denis Papin
French physicist, mathematician and inventor (1647–1713)
615
views
views
72
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
607
views
views
73
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
596
views
views
74
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
587
views
views
75
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
574
views
views
76
Louis Blériot
French aviator, inventor and engineer (1872–1936)
561
views
views
77
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
556
views
views
78
David Packouz
American former arms dealer
553
views
views
79
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
526
views
views
80
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
525
views
views
81
René Laenne
French physician, inventor of stethoscope (1781-1826)
516
views
views
82
Emmett Brown
fictional character from the American sci-fi film trilogy Back to the Future
497
views
views
83
Ferdinand Porsche
Austrian-born German automotive engineer, inventor (1875–1951)
493
views
views
84
Madam C. J. Walker
American entrepreneur (1867-1919)
486
views
views
85
Cuthbert Calculus
fictional human
482
views
views
86
Peter Carl Fabergé
Russian jeweller (1846–1920)
477
views
views
87
Sam Houser
British video game producer and developer (born 1971)
465
views
views
88
John Jacob Astor IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel (1864–1912)
461
views
views
89
Palmer Luckey
American founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift
456
views
views
90
Rudolf Diesel
German inventor and mechanical engineer (1858–1913)
431
views
views
91
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
430
views
views
92
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
426
views
views
93
Naoki Hamaguchi
video game programmer
426
views
views
94
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
425
views
views
95
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
418
views
views
96
Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin
French magician (1805-1871)
416
views
views
97
Eddy Malou
Congolese writer
411
views
views
98
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
410
views
views
99
The Doctor
fictional character from the television series Doctor Who
407
views
views
100
Franz Reichelt
Austro-Hungarian-born French parachuting pioneer
404
views
views