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Dux: "The top (male or female) academic student in a school, or in a year of school; the top student in a specified academic discipline."

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dux

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/dux

And Führer means "driver", and the fact it means driver is irrelevant to why it would be a terrible name choice for a piece of software unless you're trying to appeal to a very specific audience. I'm not sure what point you think you're making.
both "driver" and "leader"
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