Trending Architects in France — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed architects on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Michelangelo. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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Ranked
481,885
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Michelangelo
Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
51,565
views
views
2
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
28,429
views
views
3
Larry Silverstein
American businessman
18,818
views
views
4
Sarah Poniatowski
French interior architecture
16,634
views
views
5
Tiakola
French rapper and singer
15,706
views
views
6
Marc Levy
French writer (born 1961)
13,581
views
views
7
Le Corbusier
Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer (1886–1965)
11,720
views
views
8
Boris Yeltsin
Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (1931–2007)
11,706
views
views
9
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
French military engineer (1633–1707)
11,500
views
views
10
Gustave Eiffel
French chemical engineer and architect (1832–1923)
11,221
views
views
11
Antoni Gaudí
Catalan architect (1852–1926)
10,319
views
views
12
Georges-Eugène Haussmann
French official and politician (1809-1891)
9,031
views
views
13
Christian Lacroix
French fashion and theater designer (born 1951)
7,893
views
views
14
Albert Speer
German Nazi architect, Government Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany and convicted Nazi War Criminal (1905–1981)
7,504
views
views
15
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
7,325
views
views
16
Alphonse Mucha
Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist (1860–1939)
7,128
views
views
17
Raphael
Italian painter and architect (1483–1520)
7,060
views
views
18
John Stewart
fictional superhero published by DC Comics
6,773
views
views
19
Paola Franchi
Italian interior designer
6,773
views
views
20
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
French architect (1814-1879)
6,681
views
views
21
Minoru Yamasaki
American architect (1912–1986)
6,335
views
views
22
Ferdinand Cheval
French architect (1836–1924)
6,321
views
views
23
Piet Mondrian
Dutch painter (1872–1944)
6,045
views
views
24
Rudolf Steiner
Austrian social reformer, occultist and esotericist (1861–1925)
5,145
views
views
25
Jean Nouvel
French architect (b.1945)
4,745
views
views
26
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
4,344
views
views
27
Egon Schiele
Austrian painter (1890-1918)
4,033
views
views
28
Farah Pahlavi
queen/empress consort of Iran from 1959 to 1979
3,988
views
views
29
Johan Otto von Spreckelsen
Danish architect (1929-1987)
3,802
views
views
30
Daedalus
son of Metion in Greek mythology
3,790
views
views
31
Zaha Hadid
Iraqi British architect, designer and painter (1950–2016)
3,788
views
views
32
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
French painter (1780–1867)
3,768
views
views
33
Juan Pablo Escobar Henao
Peace Ambassador, Colombian architect, author, and the son of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar
3,667
views
views
34
Oscar Niemeyer
Brazilian architect (1907–2012)
3,640
views
views
35
Renzo Piano
Italian architect (1937-)
3,593
views
views
36
Frank Gehry
Canadian and American architect (1929–2025)
3,479
views
views
37
Jan van Eyck
Flemish painter (c.1390–1441)
3,367
views
views
38
Issa Diabaté
Ivorian architect
3,293
views
views
39
Virgil Abloh
American fashion designer (1980-2021)
3,291
views
views
40
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
American actor
3,288
views
views
41
Auguste Perret
French architect (1874–1954)
3,276
views
views
42
Jacques Garcia
French architect
3,149
views
views
43
Frank Lloyd Wright
American architect (1867-1959)
3,019
views
views
44
Bianca Censori
Australian architect and model (born 1995)
3,004
views
views
45
Fulgence Bienvenüe
French civil engineer (1852–1936)
2,857
views
views
46
Jean Baptiste Kléber
French general, and architect (1753-1800)
2,842
views
views
47
H. R. Giger
Swiss artist (1940–2014)
2,821
views
views
48
William Morris
textile designer, artist, writer, printer (1834–1896)
2,794
views
views
49
Olena Zelenska
First Lady of Ukraine since 2019
2,794
views
views
50
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
ancient Roman statesman and general
2,781
views
views
51
Vitruvius
Roman architect and engineer
2,753
views
views
52
Elie Wiesel
Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928–2016)
2,741
views
views
53
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Italian sculptor and architect (1598–1680)
2,684
views
views
54
Charles Garnier
French architect (1825–1898)
2,585
views
views
55
Imhotep
Egyptian architect, physician, astronomer, and god of medicine in ancient Egyptian mythology.
2,461
views
views
56
Fernand Pouillon
French architect (1912–1986)
2,453
views
views
57
Giotto
Italian painter and architect (c. 1267–1337)
2,445
views
views
58
Aa
ancient Egyptian architect
2,443
views
views
59
El Greco
Greek artist, painter, sculptor and architect (1541–1614)
2,414
views
views
60
Iannis Xenakis
Greek-French composer, architect and engineer (1922–2001)
2,388
views
views
61
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
2,333
views
views
62
André Le Nôtre
French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France (1613–1700)
2,298
views
views
63
Charlotte Perriand
French architect and designer (1903–1999)
2,281
views
views
64
John Ruskin
English writer and art critic (1819–1900)
2,271
views
views
65
Giorgio Vasari
Italian painter, architect, writer and historian (1511-1574)
2,261
views
views
66
Christian Devillers
French architect
2,253
views
views
67
Yolanda Hadid
American television personality and former model
2,224
views
views
68
I. M. Pei
Chinese-American architect (1917–2019)
2,167
views
views
69
Jean Tinguely
Swiss sculptor (1925–1991)
2,166
views
views
70
Paul Andreu
French architect (1938-2018)
2,143
views
views
71
Norman Foster
British architect (born 1935)
2,095
views
views
72
Ai Weiwei
Chinese Conceptual artist (born 1957)
1,998
views
views
73
Madison Cox
American landscape architect
1,996
views
views
74
Joan Fontaine
British actress (1917–2013)
1,965
views
views
75
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
cousin of Queen Elizabeth II; youngest grandchild of King George V and Queen Mary (born 1944)
1,961
views
views
76
Louis Daguerre
French scientist, artist and photographer (1787–1851)
1,936
views
views
77
René Iché
French artist (1897-1954)
1,921
views
views
78
César Manrique
Spanish artist, sculptor, architect and nature activist (1919–1992)
1,911
views
views
79
Princess Rajwa Al Hussein
Saudi royal
1,891
views
views
80
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
German architect (1886–1969)
1,889
views
views
81
Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi
engineer and politician (1972–2026)
1,849
views
views
82
Christian de Portzamparc
French architect (born 1944)
1,837
views
views
83
Robert Mallet-Stevens
French architect and designer (1886–1945)
1,819
views
views
84
Ernő Rubik
Hungarian inventor (born 1944)
1,816
views
views
85
Ricardo Bofill
Catalan architect (1939-2022)
1,801
views
views
86
Jean Prouvé
French architect and designer (1901-1984)
1,795
views
views
87
Santiago Calatrava
Spanish-Swiss engineer, architect, and artist (born 1951)
1,782
views
views
88
Gilles Clément
French botanist and garden designer (born 1943)
1,734
views
views
89
Pierre-Paul Riquet
French engineer
1,729
views
views
90
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Austrian artist (1928–2000)
1,715
views
views
91
Eileen Gray
Irish architect and designer (1878–1976)
1,677
views
views
92
Hector Guimard
French architect (1867–1942)
1,665
views
views
93
John Singer Sargent
American painter (1856–1925)
1,662
views
views
94
Victor Horta
Belgian architect, designer, publicist, teacher and creator of Art Nouveau (1861–1947)
1,642
views
views
95
Jean-Pierre Balladur
French architect (1924–2002)
1,628
views
views
96
Martha Stewart
American businesswoman, writer, TV personality (born 1941)
1,615
views
views
97
Pierre Paulin
French designer (1927–2009)
1,603
views
views
98
Abbot Suger
French abbot-statesmen, historian and the influential first patron of Gothic architecture (1080-1151)
1,596
views
views
99
Charles Le Brun
17th-century French painter and art theorist (1619—1690)
1,594
views
views
100
Filippo Brunelleschi
Italian architect, sculptor and engineer
1,573
views
views