Trending Painters in France — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed painters on Wikipedia, September 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Adolf Hitler. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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Ranked
1,358,083
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Adolf Hitler
Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945 (1889–1945)
49,267
views
views
2
Victoria
Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901 (1819-1901)
42,378
views
views
3
Sam Ringer
French painter (1918-1986)
41,726
views
views
4
Charles III
King of the United Kingdom since 2022 (born 1948)
41,147
views
views
5
Michelangelo
Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
37,802
views
views
6
Frida Kahlo
Mexican painter (1907–1954)
37,741
views
views
7
George W. Bush
43rd President of the United States (2001–2009)
35,339
views
views
8
Sylvester Stallone
American actor and filmmaker (born 1946)
31,624
views
views
9
Amanda Lear
French singer, actress, television presenter
30,537
views
views
10
Freddie Mercury
British singer, songwriter and musician, frontman of the rock band Queen (1946–1991)
29,834
views
views
11
Francis I of France
King of France from 1515 to 1547 (1494-1547)
28,178
views
views
12
Serge Gainsbourg
French singer, songwriter, composer, writer, actor and director (1928–1991)
27,606
views
views
13
Claude Monet
French painter (1840–1926)
26,955
views
views
14
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
25,971
views
views
15
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch painter (1853–1890)
24,381
views
views
16
Winston Churchill
British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)
24,151
views
views
17
Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
19,047
views
views
18
David Bowie
English musician and actor (1947–2016)
18,564
views
views
19
Jared Leto
American actor, singer, musician and songwriter (born 1971)
17,574
views
views
20
Andy Warhol
American artist, film director, and producer (1928–1987)
16,983
views
views
21
John Wayne Gacy
American serial killer (1942–1994)
16,976
views
views
22
Paul McCartney
English musician and member of the Beatles (born 1942)
16,938
views
views
23
Bob Dylan
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
16,113
views
views
24
Anthony Hopkins
Welsh actor (born 1937)
15,435
views
views
25
Michael Lonsdale
French actor (1931–2020)
14,874
views
views
26
Jim Carrey
Canadian-American actor and comedian (born 1962)
14,447
views
views
27
David Lynch
American filmmaker (1946–2025)
14,045
views
views
28
Paul Cézanne
French painter (1839–1906)
13,370
views
views
29
Salvador Dalí
Spanish artist (1904–1989)
13,124
views
views
30
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
French sculptor and painter (1834–1904)
13,105
views
views
31
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
12,816
views
views
32
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Consort of Queen Victoria from 1840 to 1861 (1819–1861)
12,577
views
views
33
Jacopo Tintoretto
Renaissance painter (1518/1519–1594)
12,473
views
views
34
Camille Claudel
French sculptor (1864–1943)
11,885
views
views
35
René Magritte
Belgian surrealist (1898–1967)
11,804
views
views
36
Caravaggio
Italian painter (1571–1610)
11,756
views
views
37
Boris Vian
French writer and musician (1920–1959)
11,619
views
views
38
Viggo Mortensen
American actor
11,604
views
views
39
Banksy
English graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
11,478
views
views
40
Sarah Bernhardt
French stage actress, painter and sculptor (1844–1923)
11,287
views
views
41
Yves Saint Laurent
French fashion designer (1936–2008)
11,253
views
views
42
Lucy Liu
American actress (born 1968)
10,954
views
views
43
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French painter and sculptor (1841–1919)
10,850
views
views
44
Le Corbusier
Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer (1886–1965)
10,699
views
views
45
Wilhelm II
as King of Prussia last German Emperor from 1888 to 1918 (1859–1941)
10,558
views
views
46
Jean Cocteau
French writer and film director (1889–1963)
10,271
views
views
47
Eva Gonzalès
French painter (1849-1883)
10,267
views
views
48
Carl Jung
Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (1875–1961)
10,101
views
views
49
Paul Éluard
French poet (1895–1952)
10,065
views
views
50
Pascal Obispo
French singer, producer and songwriter
10,053
views
views
51
Laurent Fabius
87th Prime Minister of France (born 1946)
10,013
views
views
52
Jean-Michel Basquiat
American artist (1960–1988)
9,797
views
views
53
Henri Matisse
French artist (1869–1954)
9,742
views
views
54
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
9,406
views
views
55
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French painter and illustrator (1864–1901)
9,357
views
views
56
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
9,302
views
views
57
Niki de Saint Phalle
plastician, painter and sculptor (1930–2002)
9,204
views
views
58
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
9,074
views
views
59
Marjane Satrapi
Iranian-French graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author (1969–2026)
9,037
views
views
60
Marc Chagall
Belarusian-French artist (1887–1985)
8,974
views
views
61
Yayoi Kusama
Japanese artist (1929–2026)
8,970
views
views
62
Hildegard of Bingen
German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)
8,805
views
views
63
Ringo Starr
British musician, drummer for the Beatles (born 1940)
8,464
views
views
64
Gustave Courbet
French painter (1819–1877)
8,389
views
views
65
François-Marie Banier
French playwright, photographer, actor and writer
8,327
views
views
66
Jean Marais
French actor and theatre director (1913-1998)
8,316
views
views
67
Georges Moustaki
Greek-French singer (1934–2013)
8,172
views
views
68
Marie de Villepin
French artist, actress and model
7,954
views
views
69
Marko Rupnik
Slovenian priest, theologian, mosaic artist and former Jesuit (born 1954)
7,948
views
views
70
Anouk Grinberg
French actress
7,931
views
views
71
Jean-Noël Vandaele
French painter
7,869
views
views
72
Margrethe II of Denmark
Queen of Denmark from 1972 to 2024 (born 1940)
7,655
views
views
73
Akira Kurosawa
Japanese filmmaker (1910–1998)
7,498
views
views
74
Marcel Marceau
French actor and mime artist (1923–2007)
7,487
views
views
75
Rosa Bonheur
French artist (1822-1899)
7,368
views
views
76
Théophile Gautier
French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic (1811–1872)
7,342
views
views
77
Paul Gauguin
French painter and printmaker (1848–1903)
7,214
views
views
78
Alexandra Grant
American artist (*1973)
7,111
views
views
79
Eugène Delacroix
French painter (1798–1863)
7,064
views
views
80
Wassily Kandinsky
avant-garde painter of Russian origin (1866–1944)
7,022
views
views
81
Édouard Manet
French painter (1832–1883)
6,925
views
views
82
Yoko Ono
Japanese artist and activist based in the United States (born 1933)
6,867
views
views
83
Alphonse Mucha
Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist (1860–1939)
6,840
views
views
84
Gary Ridgway
American serial killer
6,617
views
views
85
Prosper Mérimée
French writer, archaeologist and historian (1803–1870)
6,579
views
views
86
Keith Haring
American artist and social activist (1958-1990)
6,559
views
views
87
Charles Trenet
French singer-songwriter
6,556
views
views
88
Miyamoto Musashi
Japanese swordsman, philosopher, strategist, writer, artist, and rōnin (1584–1645)
6,441
views
views
89
Hermann Hesse
Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)
6,437
views
views
90
Raphael
Italian painter and architect (1483–1520)
6,434
views
views
91
Gustav Klimt
Austrian symbolist painter (1862–1918)
6,424
views
views
92
Otto Dix
German painter and printmaker (1891–1969)
6,415
views
views
93
Charlélie Couture
French-American singer and artist
6,346
views
views
94
Serge Reggiani
French singer and actor (1922–2004)
6,171
views
views
95
John Leguizamo
American actor, comedian, producer, and writer (born 1960)
6,131
views
views
96
Marc-Édouard Nabe
French writer (born 1958)
6,097
views
views
97
Rhea Seehorn
American actress (born 1972)
6,049
views
views
98
Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
member of the royal family of France, Regent of the Kingdom from 1715 to 1723 (1674–1723)
5,997
views
views
99
Adrien de Witte
Belgian painter, engraver (1850-1935)
5,907
views
views
100
Francisco Goya
Spanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828)
5,877
views
views
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