Trending Inventors in France — the 7 days to 27 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed inventors on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 27 October 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Albert Einstein. Data as of 27 October 2026.
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159,327
Total Views (the 7 days to 27 October 2026)
1
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
8,944
views
views
2
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
7,236
views
views
3
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
6,634
views
views
4
Ceslaw Bojarski
French-Polish counterfeiter
6,357
views
views
5
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
6,015
views
views
6
Georges Perec
French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist (1936–1982)
5,617
views
views
7
Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)
4,983
views
views
8
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
4,832
views
views
9
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
4,016
views
views
10
Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
3,446
views
views
11
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
2,910
views
views
12
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
2,893
views
views
13
Spider-Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
2,812
views
views
14
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
2,800
views
views
15
Guy Debord
French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker (1931–1994)
2,720
views
views
16
Mate Rimac
Croatian inventor and entrepreneur
2,467
views
views
17
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
2,294
views
views
18
Peter Madsen
Danish convicted murderer, entrepreneur and self-proclaimed engineer
2,290
views
views
19
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
2,287
views
views
20
Jacques Cartier
Breton maritime explorer of North America (1491–1557)
2,225
views
views
21
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
2,214
views
views
22
Gaston
fictional character created by André Franquin
2,196
views
views
23
Clément Ader
French inventor and engineer
2,190
views
views
24
James Cameron
Canadian filmmaker and explorer (born 1954)
2,084
views
views
25
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
1,994
views
views
26
Alain Damasio
French writer
1,816
views
views
27
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
1,799
views
views
28
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
1,736
views
views
29
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
1,605
views
views
30
Marcel Dassault
French aircraft industrialist (1892-1986)
1,563
views
views
31
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
1,527
views
views
32
Bill Wyman
British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones
1,496
views
views
33
André-Jacques Garnerin
inventor of the frameless parachute
1,467
views
views
34
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
1,436
views
views
35
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
1,390
views
views
36
Nicéphore Niépce
French inventor and photographer (1765-1833)
1,372
views
views
37
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
1,331
views
views
38
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
1,306
views
views
39
Ettore Bugatti
Italian automobile designer and manufacturer (1881–1947)
1,223
views
views
40
Eiji Aonuma
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
1,214
views
views
41
Mike Pondsmith
American game designer
1,208
views
views
42
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer (born 1952)
1,168
views
views
43
Todd Stashwick
American actor and writer
1,138
views
views
44
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
1,087
views
views
45
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
999
views
views
46
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
996
views
views
47
Ambroise Paré
French surgeon
986
views
views
48
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
980
views
views
49
Ruth Handler
American businesswoman
978
views
views
50
James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist
973
views
views
51
Hideo Kojima
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
971
views
views
52
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
964
views
views
53
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
882
views
views
54
Jacques Capelovici
French television presenter (1922-2011)
868
views
views
55
Epic Games
American video game and software developer
864
views
views
56
Mike Oldfield
English musician (born 1953)
840
views
views
57
Jean-Philippe Jaworski
French writer
808
views
views
58
Linus Torvalds
Finnish software engineer (born 1969)
776
views
views
59
Vince Zampella
American video game designer (1970–2025)
752
views
views
60
Iron Man
fictional character in Marvel Comics
743
views
views
61
Joseph Pilates
German inventor of pilates (1883–1967)
742
views
views
62
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836)
736
views
views
63
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
713
views
views
64
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
French novelist, official and army general (1741–1803)
712
views
views
65
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
711
views
views
66
Sergei Eisenstein
Soviet filmmaker (1898–1948)
711
views
views
67
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
687
views
views
68
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)
675
views
views
69
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
670
views
views
70
Louis Braille
French organist and teacher (1809-1852), inventor of braille, a system for reading and writing text and music, used by people who are blind or visually impaired
660
views
views
71
Denis Papin
French physicist, mathematician and inventor (1647–1713)
658
views
views
72
Louis Renault
French industrialist
646
views
views
73
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
640
views
views
74
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
629
views
views
75
Ken Kutaragi
Japanese businessman
624
views
views
76
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
623
views
views
77
John Jacob Astor IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel (1864–1912)
607
views
views
78
Nellie Bly
American journalist
597
views
views
79
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
594
views
views
80
Markus Persson
Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang (born 1979)
588
views
views
81
Gabe Newell
American computer programmer and businessman
580
views
views
82
Peter Carl Fabergé
Russian jeweller (1846–1920)
578
views
views
83
Demis Hassabis
British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
573
views
views
84
David Packouz
American former arms dealer
570
views
views
85
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
554
views
views
86
Louis Blériot
French aviator, inventor and engineer (1872–1936)
547
views
views
87
Rudolf Diesel
German inventor and mechanical engineer (1858–1913)
546
views
views
88
Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin
French magician (1805-1871)
529
views
views
89
Ferdinand Porsche
Austrian-born German automotive engineer, inventor (1875–1951)
523
views
views
90
Emmett Brown
fictional character from the American sci-fi film trilogy Back to the Future
522
views
views
91
Madam C. J. Walker
American entrepreneur (1867-1919)
520
views
views
92
Naoki Hamaguchi
video game programmer
517
views
views
93
Palmer Luckey
American founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift
507
views
views
94
René Laenne
French physician, inventor of stethoscope (1781-1826)
503
views
views
95
Sam Houser
British video game producer and developer (born 1971)
483
views
views
96
Cuthbert Calculus
fictional human
478
views
views
97
John G. Trump
American electrical engineer (1907–1985)
477
views
views
98
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
464
views
views
99
Levi Strauss
German-Jewish-born American businessman (1829-1902)
462
views
views
100
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
453
views
views