Trending Inventors in France — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed inventors on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Ceslaw Bojarski. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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Ranked
702,393
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Ceslaw Bojarski
French-Polish counterfeiter
113,280
views
views
2
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
31,354
views
views
3
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
31,135
views
views
4
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
28,429
views
views
5
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
24,113
views
views
6
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
18,947
views
views
7
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
17,928
views
views
8
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
15,344
views
views
9
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
14,217
views
views
10
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
13,660
views
views
11
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
13,489
views
views
12
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker and explorer (born 1954)
12,123
views
views
13
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
11,259
views
views
14
Jacques Cartier
Breton maritime explorer of North America (1491–1557)
10,985
views
views
15
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
9,946
views
views
16
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
9,488
views
views
17
Georges Perec
French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist (1936–1982)
9,444
views
views
18
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
9,397
views
views
19
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
9,140
views
views
20
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
8,913
views
views
21
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
8,832
views
views
22
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
8,691
views
views
23
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
8,515
views
views
24
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
7,325
views
views
25
Nicéphore Niépce
French inventor and photographer (1765-1833)
7,287
views
views
26
Alain Damasio
French writer
7,206
views
views
27
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
6,726
views
views
28
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
6,664
views
views
29
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
6,661
views
views
30
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
6,358
views
views
31
Marcel Dassault
French aircraft industrialist (1892-1986)
6,114
views
views
32
Guy Debord
French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker (1931–1994)
5,939
views
views
33
Ambroise Paré
French surgeon
5,629
views
views
34
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
5,056
views
views
35
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
4,838
views
views
36
Gerardus Mercator
Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer (1512–1594)
4,779
views
views
37
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
4,779
views
views
38
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
4,569
views
views
39
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
4,438
views
views
40
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
4,334
views
views
41
Joseph Pilates
German inventor of pilates (1883–1967)
4,313
views
views
42
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
4,308
views
views
43
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
4,290
views
views
44
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
4,195
views
views
45
Mike Oldfield
English musician (born 1953)
4,160
views
views
46
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
4,146
views
views
47
Jean-Philippe Jaworski
French writer
4,061
views
views
48
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836)
3,956
views
views
49
Ettore Bugatti
Italian automobile designer and manufacturer (1881–1947)
3,708
views
views
50
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
3,704
views
views
51
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
3,658
views
views
52
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
3,624
views
views
53
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
3,624
views
views
54
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
3,379
views
views
55
Jacques Capelovici
French television presenter (1922-2011)
3,251
views
views
56
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
3,235
views
views
57
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
French novelist, official and army general (1741–1803)
3,184
views
views
58
Clément Ader
French inventor and engineer
3,183
views
views
59
Sergei Eisenstein
Soviet filmmaker (1898–1948)
3,125
views
views
60
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
3,082
views
views
61
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
2,996
views
views
62
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
2,983
views
views
63
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
2,866
views
views
64
Louis Renault
French industrialist
2,865
views
views
65
Laurie Anderson
American artist and musician (born 1947)
2,818
views
views
66
Emmett Brown
fictional character from the American sci-fi film trilogy Back to the Future
2,772
views
views
67
Nellie Bly
American journalist
2,714
views
views
68
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
2,711
views
views
69
Rudolf Diesel
German inventor and mechanical engineer (1858–1913)
2,614
views
views
70
Ruth Handler
American businesswoman
2,558
views
views
71
Ferdinand Porsche
Austrian-born German automotive engineer, inventor (1875–1951)
2,534
views
views
72
Tristan Bernard
French playwright (1866–1947)
2,520
views
views
73
Louis Blériot
French aviator, inventor and engineer (1872–1936)
2,375
views
views
74
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
2,335
views
views
75
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
2,333
views
views
76
Epic Games
American video game and software developer
2,271
views
views
77
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
French inventor (1725–1804)
2,241
views
views
78
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
2,231
views
views
79
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
2,216
views
views
80
Levi Strauss
German-Jewish-born American businessman (1829-1902)
2,201
views
views
81
John Jacob Astor IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel (1864–1912)
2,172
views
views
82
Denis Papin
French physicist, mathematician and inventor (1647–1713)
2,171
views
views
83
Bill Wyman
British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
2,127
views
views
84
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
2,098
views
views
85
René Laenne
French physician, inventor of stethoscope (1781-1826)
2,078
views
views
86
Satoshi Tajiri
Japanese video game designer
2,056
views
views
87
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
2,045
views
views
88
Roland Moreno
French inventor (1945-2012)
2,044
views
views
89
Cuthbert Calculus
fictional human
2,032
views
views
90
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
1,983
views
views
91
Gaston
fictional character created by André Franquin
1,973
views
views
92
David Packouz
American former arms dealer
1,963
views
views
93
Eddy Malou
Congolese writer
1,948
views
views
94
Salaì
Italian artist (1480-1524)
1,932
views
views
95
Auguste Piccard
Swiss physicist (1884–1962)
1,901
views
views
96
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
1,856
views
views
97
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
1,852
views
views
98
Mate Rimac
Croatian inventor and entrepreneur
1,848
views
views
99
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
1,827
views
views
100
Ernő Rubik
Hungarian inventor (born 1944)
1,816
views
views