diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c92c3ea6d64..c0a4c8bb253 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 - Fix Plotly Express mutating lists passed to the `x` or `y` arguments in wide mode [[#5727](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/pull/5727)], with thanks to @cpruijsen for the contribution!
 - Fix `px.sunburst`, `px.treemap` and `px.icicle` listing sectors in a different order on every run when `path` is used with a Polars DataFrame; sectors now follow their order of first appearance for all dataframe backends [[#5766](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/pull/5766)], with thanks to @Irahan2 for the contribution!
 - Fix `mpl_to_plotly` conversion of matplotlib contour lines and line collections: close contour rings ending with `Z` codes, support dash styles, convert date x-axes, separate disjoint subpaths with `None` separators, hide line collection traces from the legend by default, and group consecutive same-style lines into single traces [[#5770](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/pull/5770)], with thanks to @robertoffmoura for the contribution!
+- Fix graph object properties rejecting NumPy scalars: integer properties (such as `nticks`, `nbinsx` and `updatemenus[].active`) now accept NumPy integers, and string properties (such as `name` and `text`) now accept NumPy numbers, as they already did Python `int` and `float` values [[#5828](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/pull/5828)], with thanks to @RaphaelFakhri for the contribution!
 
 ## [7.1.0] - 2026-09-15
 
diff --git a/_plotly_utils/basevalidators.py b/_plotly_utils/basevalidators.py
index 1ffc63e5add..e770a759588 100644
--- a/_plotly_utils/basevalidators.py
+++ b/_plotly_utils/basevalidators.py
@@ -918,7 +918,9 @@ def validate_coerce(self, v):
         elif self.array_ok and is_simple_array(v):
             # Check integer type
             invalid_els = [
-                e for e in v if not isinstance(e, int) and e not in self.extras
+                e
+                for e in v
+                if not isinstance(e, numbers.Integral) and e not in self.extras
             ]
 
             if invalid_els:
@@ -929,7 +931,10 @@ def validate_coerce(self, v):
                 invalid_els = [
                     e
                     for e in v
-                    if not (isinstance(e, int) and self.min_val <= e <= self.max_val)
+                    if not (
+                        isinstance(e, numbers.Integral)
+                        and self.min_val <= e <= self.max_val
+                    )
                     and e not in self.extras
                 ]
 
@@ -939,7 +944,7 @@ def validate_coerce(self, v):
             v = to_scalar_or_list(v)
         else:
             # Check int
-            if not isinstance(v, int):
+            if not isinstance(v, numbers.Integral):
                 # don't let int() cast strings to ints
                 self.raise_invalid_val(v)
 
@@ -1100,7 +1105,7 @@ def validate_coerce(self, v):
             else:
                 if isinstance(v, str):
                     pass
-                elif isinstance(v, (int, float)):
+                elif isinstance(v, numbers.Number):
                     # Convert value to a string
                     v = str(v)
                 else:
diff --git a/tests/test_plotly_utils/validators/test_integer_validator.py b/tests/test_plotly_utils/validators/test_integer_validator.py
index ef4011ebf2c..4ac6e522fe9 100644
--- a/tests/test_plotly_utils/validators/test_integer_validator.py
+++ b/tests/test_plotly_utils/validators/test_integer_validator.py
@@ -46,7 +46,9 @@ def validator_extras_aok():
 
 
 # Acceptance
-@pytest.mark.parametrize("val", [1, -19, 0, -1234])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "val", [1, -19, 0, -1234, np.int64(5), np.int32(-3), np.uint8(7)]
+)
 def test_acceptance(val, validator):
     assert validator.validate_coerce(val) == val
 
@@ -64,7 +66,7 @@ def test_rejection_by_value(val, validator):
 
 # With min/max
 # min == -1 and max == 2
-@pytest.mark.parametrize("val", [0, 1, -1, 2])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("val", [0, 1, -1, 2, np.int64(2)])
 def test_acceptance_min_max(val, validator_min_max):
     assert validator_min_max.validate_coerce(val) == approx(val)
 
@@ -91,7 +93,7 @@ def test_rejection_extras(val, validator_extras):
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
-    "val", [-1.01, -10, 2.1, 3, np.iinfo(int).max, np.iinfo(int).min]
+    "val", [-1.01, -10, 2.1, 3, np.int64(3), np.iinfo(int).max, np.iinfo(int).min]
 )
 def test_rejection_min_max(val, validator_min_max):
     with pytest.raises(ValueError) as validation_failure:
@@ -140,7 +142,10 @@ def test_acceptance_aok_scalars(val, validator_aok):
     assert validator_aok.validate_coerce(val) == val
 
 
-@pytest.mark.parametrize("val", [[1, 0], [1], [-2, 1, 8], np.array([3, 2, -1, 5])])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "val",
+    [[1, 0], [1], [-2, 1, 8], [np.int64(3), np.int32(-1)], np.array([3, 2, -1, 5])],
+)
 def test_acceptance_aok_list(val, validator_aok):
     assert np.array_equal(validator_aok.validate_coerce(val), val)
 
diff --git a/tests/test_plotly_utils/validators/test_string_validator.py b/tests/test_plotly_utils/validators/test_string_validator.py
index 7bb59ec3348..af968fcfb76 100644
--- a/tests/test_plotly_utils/validators/test_string_validator.py
+++ b/tests/test_plotly_utils/validators/test_string_validator.py
@@ -56,7 +56,18 @@ def validator_no_blanks_aok():
 # Not strict
 # Acceptance
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
-    "val", ["bar", 234, np_nan(), "HELLO!!!", "world!@#$%^&*()", "", "\u03bc"]
+    "val",
+    [
+        "bar",
+        234,
+        np_nan(),
+        np.int64(234),
+        np.float32(1.5),
+        "HELLO!!!",
+        "world!@#$%^&*()",
+        "",
+        "\u03bc",
+    ],
 )
 def test_acceptance(val, validator):
     expected = str(val) if not isinstance(val, str) else val