Trending Physicians in France — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed physicians on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Ursula von der Leyen. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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Ranked
1,036,396
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Ursula von der Leyen
President of the European Commission since 2019
44,775
views
views
2
Che Guevara
Argentine Marxist revolutionary (1928–1967)
41,809
views
views
3
Josef Mengele
Nazi SS doctor and Military Officer at Auschwitz (1911–1979)
41,549
views
views
4
Blandine L'Hirondel
French athletics competitor
37,768
views
views
5
Didier Raoult
French physician and microbiologist
32,754
views
views
6
Fanny Sidney
French actress and theatre director
31,278
views
views
7
Gérard Larcher
French politician, President of the Senate of France
30,592
views
views
8
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
28,429
views
views
9
Claude Malhuret
French politician
24,609
views
views
10
Léon Schwartzenberg
French oncologist and professor (1923–2003)
22,455
views
views
11
Iris Mittenaere
French beauty pageant winner (born 1993)
21,741
views
views
12
Georges Clemenceau
Prime Minister of France, 1906–1909 and 1917–1920 (1841–1929)
21,678
views
views
13
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
French writer (1894–1961)
18,616
views
views
14
Laurent Alexandre
French political activist, surgeon, essayist and entrepreneur
18,073
views
views
15
Freida McFadden
American thriller author and practicing physician
17,645
views
views
16
Jérôme Cahuzac
French politician
16,228
views
views
17
Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
14,925
views
views
18
Douglas Kelley
U.S. Army officer, psychiatrist, criminoligist, professor, author (1912–1958)
14,808
views
views
19
Stéphane Delajoux
French neurosurgeon
14,774
views
views
20
Jimmy Mohamed
14,414
views
views
21
Mister Sinister
fictional character in Marvel Comics
13,947
views
views
22
Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
Norwegian princess; daughter of Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway
13,663
views
views
23
Bernard Kouchner
French doctor and politician
13,018
views
views
24
Salvador Allende
28th president of Chile (1908–1973
11,841
views
views
25
Bashar al-Assad
Syrian convicted fugitive and former President of Syria from 2000 to 2024
11,706
views
views
26
Françoise Dolto
French pediatrician & psychoanalyst (1908–1988)
11,246
views
views
27
Carl Jung
Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (1875–1961)
10,878
views
views
28
Frantz Fanon
French West Indian psychiatrist and philosopher (1925–1961)
10,578
views
views
29
Boris Cyrulnik
French psychiatrist
10,257
views
views
30
Luka Kovač
Fictional physician on television show ER
10,130
views
views
31
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
10,084
views
views
32
Louis Aragon
French poet (1897–1982)
10,024
views
views
33
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)
9,872
views
views
34
Agnès Buzyn
French hematologist and politician
9,650
views
views
35
François Rabelais
16th-century French writer and humanist (1494–1553)
9,519
views
views
36
Hildegard of Bingen
German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)
9,251
views
views
37
Jean-Paul Marat
politician and journalist during the French Revolution (1743-1793)
8,812
views
views
38
Jacques Lacan
French psychoanalyst and writer (1901–1981)
8,749
views
views
39
Renaud Muselier
French politician
8,604
views
views
40
Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician (1859–1930)
8,468
views
views
41
Jean-Christophe Rufin
French doctor, writer and diplomat
8,200
views
views
42
Gérard Miller
French writer
8,082
views
views
43
Caroline Goldman
French psychotherapist
8,076
views
views
44
Frédéric Saldmann
French physician
8,046
views
views
45
Shere Hite
German-American sexologist
7,813
views
views
46
Michel Cymes
French physician, television presenter and journalist
7,536
views
views
47
Caroline Eliacheff
French psychiatrist, child and adolescent psychotherapist, screenwriter and writer (1947-)
7,349
views
views
48
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
7,342
views
views
49
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)
6,917
views
views
50
Ayman al-Zawahiri
al-Qaeda terrorist leader (1951–2022), Muslim jurist and theologian (Sunni), surgeon
6,835
views
views
51
Claudie Haigneré
French astronaut, politician, doctor
6,765
views
views
52
Thomas Lilti
French film director and screenwriter
6,651
views
views
53
Anton Chekhov
Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
6,571
views
views
54
The Buddha
Indian philosopher and the founder of Buddhism (623 or 563 BCE – 543 or 483 BCE)
6,501
views
views
55
Olivier Véran
French neurologist and politician
6,226
views
views
56
Lionel Guedj
dentist
6,221
views
views
57
Hannibal Lecter
fictional character created by Thomas Harris
6,071
views
views
58
Max Ernst
German artist (1891–1976)
5,895
views
views
59
John Locke
English philosopher and physician (1632-1704)
5,871
views
views
60
Maria Vorontsova
daughter and eldest child of Vladimir Putin
5,854
views
views
61
Elias Zerhouni
Algerian-American radiologist
5,798
views
views
62
Philippe Douste-Blazy
French politician
5,795
views
views
63
Jacques Drucker
French physician
5,777
views
views
64
Maria Montessori
Italian physician and educator (1870-1952)
5,670
views
views
65
Ambroise Paré
French surgeon
5,629
views
views
66
Stéphanie Rist
French politician
5,568
views
views
67
Masoud Pezeshkian
9th President of Iran (2024-) and former Co-Interim Supreme Leader of Iran (in 2026)
5,544
views
views
68
Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali
spouse of the Prime Minister of Malaysia (1981–2003, 2018–2020)
5,427
views
views
69
Heiko von der Leyen
German physician
5,265
views
views
70
Marcel Petiot
sentenced to death in France
5,150
views
views
71
Marina Carrère d'Encausse
French physician and journalist
5,135
views
views
72
Michel Aupetit
French Roman Catholic archbishop
5,053
views
views
73
Albert Schweitzer
French-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher (1875-1965)
4,970
views
views
74
Lionel Naccache
French neurologist & scholar
4,907
views
views
75
Radovan Karadžić
Bosnian Serb politician, psychiatrist and poet convicted of genocide
4,763
views
views
76
François Patriat
French politician
4,602
views
views
77
Aquilino Morelle
French political activist, official and physician
4,509
views
views
78
Denis Mukwege
Congolese gynecologist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
4,389
views
views
79
Hippocrates
Greek physician (c. 460 – c. 370 BC)
4,359
views
views
80
Saadeddine Othmani
Moroccan politician
4,347
views
views
81
Jean-Martin Charcot
French neurologist (1825–1893)
4,311
views
views
82
Pauline Dubuisson
accused murderer (1927–1963)
4,291
views
views
83
Philippe Boxho
Medical examiner
4,238
views
views
84
Flora Brovina
Kosovar human rights activist
4,109
views
views
85
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
4,075
views
views
86
Eugène Sue
French writer (1804-1857)
3,994
views
views
87
Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778); developed the foundations of modern taxonomy
3,940
views
views
88
Luc Jouret
Belgian cult leader (1947–1994)
3,937
views
views
89
Osamu Tezuka
Japanese cartoonist and animator (1928–1989)
3,835
views
views
90
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Moroccan naturalized French writer
3,814
views
views
91
Friedrich Schiller
German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian (1759–1805)
3,677
views
views
92
Michèle Barzach
French politician, psychoanalyst and gynaecologist
3,640
views
views
93
Marcel Rufo
French pediatrician
3,620
views
views
94
Laurent Castillo
French politician (born 1962)
3,573
views
views
95
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
3,572
views
views
96
Baptiste Beaulieu
French physician and novelist
3,433
views
views
97
Charles-Henri Sanson
French executioner(1739-1806)
3,423
views
views
98
Hasnat Khan
Pakistani cardiothoracic surgeon
3,416
views
views
99
Rony Brauman
French physician
3,402
views
views
100
Philippe Juvin
French politician
3,400
views
views