Trending Biologists in France — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed biologists on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Paul Walker. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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693,244
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Paul Walker
American actor (1973–2013)
32,818
views
views
2
Didier Raoult
French physician and microbiologist
32,754
views
views
3
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
28,429
views
views
4
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
28,115
views
views
5
Robert Stroud
American inmate and ornithologist (1890-1963)
25,647
views
views
6
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
18,370
views
views
7
Freida McFadden
American thriller author and practicing physician
17,645
views
views
8
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
17,254
views
views
9
Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
14,925
views
views
10
Stéphane Delajoux
French neurosurgeon
14,774
views
views
11
Mister Sinister
fictional character in Marvel Comics
13,947
views
views
12
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
13,743
views
views
13
Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
11,726
views
views
14
Greta Thunberg
Swedish climate protection activist (born 2003)
11,331
views
views
15
Nicolas Hulot
French environmentalist, TV producer and presenter, politician
11,154
views
views
16
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
11,105
views
views
17
Albert Moukheiber
French psychologist (born 1982)
10,537
views
views
18
Boris Cyrulnik
French psychiatrist
10,257
views
views
19
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
9,786
views
views
20
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
9,607
views
views
21
Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909 (1858–1919)
9,567
views
views
22
Hildegard of Bingen
German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)
9,251
views
views
23
Albert Lebrun
15th President of the French Republic (1871–1950)
9,101
views
views
24
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
8,515
views
views
25
Jean-Christophe Rufin
French doctor, writer and diplomat
8,200
views
views
26
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
7,968
views
views
27
Henry David Thoreau
American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862)
7,632
views
views
28
Idriss Aberkane
French consultant
7,587
views
views
29
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
7,325
views
views
30
Geoffrey Hinton
British-Canadian computer scientist and psychologist
6,590
views
views
31
Leopold III of Belgium
king of the Belgians from 1934 to 1951 (1901–1983)
6,554
views
views
32
Allain Bougrain-Dubourg
French journalist
6,337
views
views
33
Jane Goodall
English primatologist and anthropologist (1934–2025)
6,297
views
views
34
Olivier Véran
French neurologist and politician
6,226
views
views
35
Dian Fossey
American zoologist, gorilla researcher (1932–1985)
6,206
views
views
36
Hirohito
emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989
6,037
views
views
37
Maria Vorontsova
daughter and eldest child of Vladimir Putin
5,854
views
views
38
Albert I of Belgium
King of the Belgians from 1909 to 1934 (1875–1934)
5,739
views
views
39
Mayim Bialik
American actress, television personality, and author (born 1975)
5,684
views
views
40
Maria Montessori
Italian physician and educator (1870-1952)
5,670
views
views
41
Ambroise Paré
French surgeon
5,629
views
views
42
James Cook
British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728–1779)
5,386
views
views
43
Steve Irwin
Australian zookeeper, conservationist and TV personality (1962-2006)
5,365
views
views
44
Maximilian I of Mexico
emperor of Mexico (1832-1867)
5,192
views
views
45
Ernst Jünger
German writer (1895–1998)
5,157
views
views
46
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
5,145
views
views
47
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
5,106
views
views
48
Lionel Naccache
French neurologist & scholar
4,907
views
views
49
Stanislas Dehaene
French neuroscientist
4,798
views
views
50
Matthieu Ricard
French writer and Buddhist monk
4,682
views
views
51
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
4,569
views
views
52
Laurent Ségalat
French geneticist, essayist and jurist
4,568
views
views
53
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
4,528
views
views
54
Jean-Martin Charcot
French neurologist (1825–1893)
4,311
views
views
55
Jean Piaget
Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher and academic (1896–1980)
4,228
views
views
56
Akihito
Emperor of Japan from 1989 to 2019
4,191
views
views
57
Thom Yorke
English musician and singer for Radiohead
4,039
views
views
58
Yasmine Belkaid
Algerian French immunologist
4,031
views
views
59
Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778); developed the foundations of modern taxonomy
3,940
views
views
60
Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899–1977)
3,893
views
views
61
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist
3,863
views
views
62
Léo Grasset
French popularizer of science and YouTuber
3,717
views
views
63
David Attenborough
British broadcaster and naturalist (born 1926)
3,648
views
views
64
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
3,624
views
views
65
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden
King of Sweden (1950–1973); anthropologist, art historian, collector and archaeologist
3,533
views
views
66
Cheikh Anta Diop
Senegalese politician, essayist (1923–1986)
3,461
views
views
67
Peter Kropotkin
Russian revolutionary socialist and philosopher (1842–1921)
3,269
views
views
68
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
3,235
views
views
69
Antoine-Augustin Parmentier
French agronomist, naturalist, nutritionist, and hygienist; promoter of the potato as a food source in Europe (1737-1813)
3,215
views
views
70
Jeanne Baret
French explorer, naturalist and botanist (1740-1807)
3,207
views
views
71
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
3,185
views
views
72
Olivier Messiaen
French composer, organist and ornithologist (1908–1992)
3,126
views
views
73
Claude Bernard
French physiologist (1813-1878)
3,100
views
views
74
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
2,996
views
views
75
Anthony Fauci
5th Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022
2,952
views
views
76
Ali Hazelwood
Italian neuroscientist and author
2,932
views
views
77
Philippe Couillard
Premier of Quebec (2014–2018)
2,787
views
views
78
Jean Rostand
French writer (1894–1977)
2,714
views
views
79
Luc Montagnier
French virologist and joint recipient of the Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine (2008)
2,689
views
views
80
Jessie Inchauspé
French biochemist
2,686
views
views
81
David Rockefeller
American banker and philanthropist (1915–2017)
2,665
views
views
82
Galen
2nd-century Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher
2,662
views
views
83
Philippe Henriot
French politician and entomologist (1889-1944)
2,656
views
views
84
Richard E. Grant
British-Swazi actor
2,632
views
views
85
Jules Dumont d'Urville
French Navy officer and explorer (1790–1842)
2,621
views
views
86
Doctor Strange
fictional character in Marvel Comics
2,557
views
views
87
Théodore Monod
French naturalist and explorer (1902-2000)
2,543
views
views
88
Jean Hamburger
French physician (1909–1992)
2,539
views
views
89
Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan
younger brother and heir presumptive of Emperor Naruhito of Japan
2,463
views
views
90
Rachel Carson
American marine biologist and conservationist (1907–1964)
2,435
views
views
91
François-Vincent Raspail
French chemist, naturalist, physician, physiologist, attorney, and socialist politician (1794-1878)
2,428
views
views
92
Alain Bombard
French scientist (1924-2005)
2,406
views
views
93
Wangari Muta Maathai
Kenyan environmentalist and politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 (1940–2011)
2,406
views
views
94
Eva Son-Forget
French radiologist and politician
2,385
views
views
95
Walter Jackson Freeman II
American neurologist (1895-1972)
2,365
views
views
96
Juliane Koepcke
mammalogist and only survivor of LANSA Flight 508
2,359
views
views
97
Viktor Frankl
Austrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author (1905–1997)
2,356
views
views
98
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
2,333
views
views
99
Beatrix Potter
British children's writer and illustrator (1866–1943)
2,325
views
views
100
Dexter Holland
American rock musician
2,240
views
views