Trending Biologists in France — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed biologists on Wikipedia, September 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Didier Raoult. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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Ranked
632,234
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Didier Raoult
French physician and microbiologist
31,689
views
views
2
Paul Walker
American actor (1973–2013)
30,690
views
views
3
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
26,815
views
views
4
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
25,971
views
views
5
Robert Stroud
American inmate and ornithologist (1890-1963)
25,615
views
views
6
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
17,357
views
views
7
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
16,478
views
views
8
Stéphane Delajoux
French neurosurgeon
14,159
views
views
9
Mister Sinister
fictional character in Marvel Comics
13,918
views
views
10
Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
13,914
views
views
11
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
12,816
views
views
12
Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
10,814
views
views
13
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
10,558
views
views
14
Greta Thunberg
Swedish climate protection activist (born 2003)
10,539
views
views
15
Nicolas Hulot
French environmentalist, TV producer and presenter, politician
9,785
views
views
16
Albert Moukheiber
French psychologist (born 1982)
9,754
views
views
17
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
9,302
views
views
18
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
9,017
views
views
19
Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909 (1858–1919)
9,014
views
views
20
Hildegard of Bingen
German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)
8,805
views
views
21
Albert Lebrun
15th President of the French Republic (1871–1950)
8,517
views
views
22
Boris Cyrulnik
French psychiatrist
8,321
views
views
23
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
7,780
views
views
24
Jean-Christophe Rufin
French doctor, writer and diplomat
7,548
views
views
25
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
7,540
views
views
26
Henry David Thoreau
American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862)
7,274
views
views
27
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
6,770
views
views
28
Idriss Aberkane
French consultant
6,508
views
views
29
Geoffrey Hinton
British-Canadian computer scientist and psychologist
6,426
views
views
30
Leopold III of Belgium
king of the Belgians from 1934 to 1951 (1901–1983)
6,173
views
views
31
Allain Bougrain-Dubourg
French journalist
6,053
views
views
32
Olivier Véran
French neurologist and politician
5,815
views
views
33
Dian Fossey
American zoologist, gorilla researcher (1932–1985)
5,583
views
views
34
Hirohito
emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989
5,553
views
views
35
Maria Vorontsova
daughter and eldest child of Vladimir Putin
5,511
views
views
36
Albert I of Belgium
King of the Belgians from 1909 to 1934 (1875–1934)
5,353
views
views
37
Mayim Bialik
American actress, television personality, and author (born 1975)
5,253
views
views
38
Maria Montessori
Italian physician and educator (1870-1952)
5,217
views
views
39
Ambroise Paré
French surgeon
5,194
views
views
40
Jane Goodall
English primatologist and anthropologist (1934–2025)
5,146
views
views
41
Steve Irwin
Australian zookeeper, conservationist and TV personality (1962-2006)
5,090
views
views
42
James Cook
British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728–1779)
5,028
views
views
43
Ernst Jünger
German writer (1895–1998)
4,861
views
views
44
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
4,809
views
views
45
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
4,778
views
views
46
Maximilian I of Mexico
emperor of Mexico (1832-1867)
4,777
views
views
47
Stanislas Dehaene
French neuroscientist
4,622
views
views
48
Lionel Naccache
French neurologist & scholar
4,598
views
views
49
Matthieu Ricard
French writer and Buddhist monk
4,381
views
views
50
Laurent Ségalat
French geneticist, essayist and jurist
4,306
views
views
51
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
4,239
views
views
52
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
4,114
views
views
53
Jean Piaget
Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher and academic (1896–1980)
3,984
views
views
54
Jean-Martin Charcot
French neurologist (1825–1893)
3,979
views
views
55
Yasmine Belkaid
Algerian French immunologist
3,931
views
views
56
Akihito
Emperor of Japan from 1989 to 2019
3,830
views
views
57
Thom Yorke
English musician and singer for Radiohead
3,800
views
views
58
Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899–1977)
3,645
views
views
59
Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778); developed the foundations of modern taxonomy
3,644
views
views
60
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist
3,596
views
views
61
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden
King of Sweden (1950–1973); anthropologist, art historian, collector and archaeologist
3,363
views
views
62
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
3,297
views
views
63
Cheikh Anta Diop
Senegalese politician, essayist (1923–1986)
3,180
views
views
64
Peter Kropotkin
Russian revolutionary socialist and philosopher (1842–1921)
3,090
views
views
65
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
3,061
views
views
66
Jeanne Baret
French explorer, naturalist and botanist (1740-1807)
2,985
views
views
67
Antoine-Augustin Parmentier
French agronomist, naturalist, nutritionist, and hygienist; promoter of the potato as a food source in Europe (1737-1813)
2,968
views
views
68
David Attenborough
British broadcaster and naturalist (born 1926)
2,958
views
views
69
Claude Bernard
French physiologist (1813-1878)
2,920
views
views
70
Ali Hazelwood
Italian neuroscientist and author
2,869
views
views
71
Anthony Fauci
5th Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022
2,868
views
views
72
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
2,795
views
views
73
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
2,761
views
views
74
Philippe Couillard
Premier of Quebec (2014–2018)
2,660
views
views
75
Jean Rostand
French writer (1894–1977)
2,529
views
views
76
Luc Montagnier
French virologist and joint recipient of the Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine (2008)
2,523
views
views
77
David Rockefeller
American banker and philanthropist (1915–2017)
2,491
views
views
78
Richard E. Grant
British-Swazi actor
2,489
views
views
79
Philippe Henriot
French politician and entomologist (1889-1944)
2,466
views
views
80
Doctor Strange
fictional character in Marvel Comics
2,464
views
views
81
Jules Dumont d'Urville
French Navy officer and explorer (1790–1842)
2,456
views
views
82
Galen
2nd-century Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher
2,454
views
views
83
Jessie Inchauspé
French biochemist
2,414
views
views
84
Théodore Monod
French naturalist and explorer (1902-2000)
2,379
views
views
85
François-Vincent Raspail
French chemist, naturalist, physician, physiologist, attorney, and socialist politician (1794-1878)
2,337
views
views
86
Rachel Carson
American marine biologist and conservationist (1907–1964)
2,329
views
views
87
Wangari Muta Maathai
Kenyan environmentalist and politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 (1940–2011)
2,297
views
views
88
Walter Jackson Freeman II
American neurologist (1895-1972)
2,286
views
views
89
Juliane Koepcke
mammalogist and only survivor of LANSA Flight 508
2,283
views
views
90
Alain Bombard
French scientist (1924-2005)
2,270
views
views
91
Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan
younger brother and heir presumptive of Emperor Naruhito of Japan
2,255
views
views
92
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
2,222
views
views
93
Jean Hamburger
French physician (1909–1992)
2,199
views
views
94
Viktor Frankl
Austrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author (1905–1997)
2,190
views
views
95
Beatrix Potter
British children's writer and illustrator (1866–1943)
2,157
views
views
96
Olivier Messiaen
French composer, organist and ornithologist (1908–1992)
2,128
views
views
97
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps
American educator, botanist, author (1793-1884)
2,123
views
views
98
Dexter Holland
American rock musician
2,076
views
views
99
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
2,070
views
views
100
Colin Niel
French crime writer and former environment engineer
2,015
views
views