Trending Inventors in France this year
The 100 most-viewed inventors this year on Wikipedia (France). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Elon Musk.
100
Ranked
48,812
Total Views (this year)
Country
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1
Elon Musk
American businessman (born 1971)
4,219
views
views
2
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451β1506)
2,632
views
views
3
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
2,458
views
views
4
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879β1955)
2,312
views
views
5
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912β1977)
2,019
views
views
6
Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry
French writer and aviator (1900β1944)
1,419
views
views
7
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955β2011)
1,359
views
views
8
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856β1943)
1,297
views
views
9
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564β1642)
1,233
views
views
10
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker (born 1954)
1,167
views
views
11
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642β1727)
1,146
views
views
12
ErnΕ Rubik
Hungarian inventor (born 1944)
902
views
views
13
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901β1966)
872
views
views
14
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
855
views
views
15
Jacques Cartier
Breton maritime explorer of North America (1491β1557)
761
views
views
16
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pΓ©piniΓ©riste and inventor (born 1939)
739
views
views
17
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815β1852)
737
views
views
18
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
735
views
views
19
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
712
views
views
20
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706β1790)
712
views
views
21
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
637
views
views
22
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905β1976)
577
views
views
23
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847β1931)
574
views
views
24
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743β1826)
555
views
views
25
Georges Perec
French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist (1936β1982)
551
views
views
26
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 β c. 212 BC)
490
views
views
27
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
474
views
views
28
Marcel Dassault
French aircraft industrialist (1892-1986)
471
views
views
29
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
446
views
views
30
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918β1988)
445
views
views
31
Louis Renault
French industrialist
434
views
views
32
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863β1947)
400
views
views
33
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902β1974)
382
views
views
34
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
380
views
views
35
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
363
views
views
36
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707β1783)
341
views
views
37
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847β1922)
330
views
views
38
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916β2001)
327
views
views
39
Cuthbert Calculus
fictional human
318
views
views
40
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943β2008)
301
views
views
41
Carl Benz
German automotive and engine designer and manufacturer (1844β1929)
299
views
views
42
NicΓ©phore NiΓ©pce
French inventor and photographer (1765-1833)
298
views
views
43
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571β1630)
276
views
views
44
Jean-Philippe Jaworski
French writer
272
views
views
45
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
264
views
views
46
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833β1896)
262
views
views
47
Ferdinand Porsche
Austrian-born German automotive engineer, inventor (1875β1951)
262
views
views
48
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
259
views
views
49
Guy Debord
French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker (1931β1994)
253
views
views
50
John Jacob Astor IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel (1864β1912)
252
views
views
51
Bill Wyman
British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
252
views
views
52
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
248
views
views
53
Moondog
American composer (1916β1999)
241
views
views
54
ZoΓ« Quinn
American video game developer
240
views
views
55
Ettore Bugatti
Italian automobile designer and manufacturer (1881β1947)
240
views
views
56
Mike Oldfield
English musician (born 1953)
233
views
views
57
James Watt
British engineer (1736β1819)
229
views
views
58
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745β1827)
223
views
views
59
Jacques Capelovici
French television presenter (1922-2011)
218
views
views
60
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
214
views
views
61
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
French novelist, official and army general (1741β1803)
212
views
views
62
ClΓ©ment Ader
French inventor and engineer
210
views
views
63
Gerardus Mercator
Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer (1512β1594)
203
views
views
64
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917β2008)
202
views
views
65
Enrico Fermi
ItalianβAmerican physicist (1901β1954)
202
views
views
66
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881β1955)
201
views
views
67
Nellie Bly
American journalist
201
views
views
68
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist and mathematician (1775β1836)
201
views
views
69
Joseph Pilates
German inventor of pilates (1883β1967)
196
views
views
70
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
192
views
views
71
Levi Strauss
German-Jewish-born American businessman (1829-1902)
190
views
views
72
Louis BlΓ©riot
French aviator, inventor and engineer (1872β1936)
188
views
views
73
Denis Papin
French physicist, mathematician and inventor (1647β1713)
185
views
views
74
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
184
views
views
75
Justin Christofleau
inventor
184
views
views
76
Epic Games
American video game and software developer
181
views
views
77
Bertha Benz
German automobile pioneer, with husband Karl Benz (1849β1944)
176
views
views
78
Gaston
fictional character created by AndrΓ© Franquin
174
views
views
79
Jacob Schick
American businessman (1877-1937)
173
views
views
80
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
172
views
views
81
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
168
views
views
82
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
164
views
views
83
Alberto Santos-Dumont
Brazilian aviation pioneer (1873-1932)
163
views
views
84
Paul Allen
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953β2018)
161
views
views
85
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838β1914)
153
views
views
86
Ben Reilly
fictional character in Marvel Comics
152
views
views
87
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791β1867)
152
views
views
88
Madam C. J. Walker
American entrepreneur (1867-1919)
145
views
views
89
Sergei Eisenstein
Soviet filmmaker (1898β1948)
144
views
views
90
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629β1695)
141
views
views
91
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919β2013)
140
views
views
92
Louis-Γmile Bertin
French engineer (1840β1924)
138
views
views
93
Stanley Meyer
inventor of the "waterflokerβ
138
views
views
94
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
137
views
views
95
Roland Moreno
French inventor (1945-2012)
136
views
views
96
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
131
views
views
97
Peter Carl FabergΓ©
Russian jeweller (1846β1920)
129
views
views
98
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831β1879)
128
views
views
99
The Doctor
fictional character from the television series Doctor Who
126
views
views
100
Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer (born 1991)
122
views
views
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