Trending Astronomers in Germany — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed astronomers on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (German-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Stephen Hawking. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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346,671
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
22,987
views
views
2
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
22,499
views
views
3
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
16,860
views
views
4
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
14,749
views
views
5
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
14,007
views
views
6
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
13,485
views
views
7
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
12,952
views
views
8
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
12,660
views
views
9
Harald Lesch
German physicist
10,910
views
views
10
Sibylle Anderl
German astrophysicist
8,930
views
views
11
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
8,663
views
views
12
Anousheh Ansari
Iranian-American engineer and entrepreneur (born 1966)
8,387
views
views
13
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
8,134
views
views
14
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
7,329
views
views
15
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
7,191
views
views
16
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
6,868
views
views
17
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
6,398
views
views
18
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
6,330
views
views
19
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548–1600)
5,144
views
views
20
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)
5,054
views
views
21
Philipp Melanchthon
German reformer (1497-1560)
4,482
views
views
22
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)
4,348
views
views
23
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
German physicist (1912–2007)
3,744
views
views
24
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546–1601
3,651
views
views
25
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
3,642
views
views
26
Johann Georg Faust
German Renaissance alchemist, astrologer, and magician
3,370
views
views
27
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
3,331
views
views
28
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
3,196
views
views
29
Johann Gottfried Galle
German astronomer (1812-1910)
3,115
views
views
30
Nicholas of Cusa
German philosopher (1401 – 1464)
2,839
views
views
31
Urbain Le Verrier
French astronomer (1811-1877)
2,800
views
views
32
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
2,733
views
views
33
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
2,587
views
views
34
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
2,579
views
views
35
Imhotep
Egyptian architect, physician, astronomer, and god of medicine in ancient Egyptian mythology.
2,441
views
views
36
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
German scientist and satirist (1742-1799)
2,381
views
views
37
Lyudmila Chernykh
Soviet astronomer
2,293
views
views
38
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
2,222
views
views
39
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
2,103
views
views
40
Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
2,098
views
views
41
Ernst Abbe
German physicist (1840-1905)
2,086
views
views
42
Joseph von Fraunhofer
Bavarian physicist and optical lens manufacturer
1,926
views
views
43
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
1,802
views
views
44
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738–1822)
1,623
views
views
45
Moshe ben Maimon
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135–1204)
1,588
views
views
46
Cecilia Scorza de Appl
researcher and astronomer
1,562
views
views
47
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
1,538
views
views
48
Tim Russ
American actor
1,493
views
views
49
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
1,459
views
views
50
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)
1,438
views
views
51
John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
1,418
views
views
52
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
1,412
views
views
53
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629–1695)
1,398
views
views
54
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
1,395
views
views
55
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
1,385
views
views
56
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
1,319
views
views
57
Karl Schwarzschild
German physicist, astronomer and mathematician (1873–1916)
1,247
views
views
58
Heinz Haber
German physicist (1913–1990)
1,246
views
views
59
Reinhard Genzel
German astronomer
1,244
views
views
60
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
1,243
views
views
61
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
1,236
views
views
62
Georges Lemaître
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894–1966)
1,167
views
views
63
Josef M. Gaßner
German astrophysicist, non-fiction author and YouTuber
1,160
views
views
64
Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
German astronomer (1822–1875)
1,156
views
views
65
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
1,132
views
views
66
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
1,110
views
views
67
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
1,093
views
views
68
Thomas Zurbuchen
Swiss-American astrophysicist
1,087
views
views
69
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
1,084
views
views
70
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
1,071
views
views
71
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486–1535)
1,068
views
views
72
Heino Falcke
German astronomer
1,052
views
views
73
Christian Dopplerr
Austrian mathematician and physicist (1803-1853)
1,045
views
views
74
Nancy Roman
American astronomer and principal in the Hubble Space Telescope project (1925-2018)
1,041
views
views
75
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736–1813)
1,027
views
views
76
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
1,026
views
views
77
Hermann of Reichenau
German 11th-century Benedictine monk
982
views
views
78
Alfonso X of Castile and Leon
King of Castile from 1252 to 1284
968
views
views
79
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
953
views
views
80
Kevin Schawinski
Swiss astronomer
924
views
views
81
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889–1953)
908
views
views
82
Svante August Arrhenius
Swedish astronomer, chemist and physicist (1859–1927)
898
views
views
83
Josef Aschbacher
Austrian space researcher and manager, director general of ESA
897
views
views
84
Burkhard Heim
German physicist (1925–2001)
869
views
views
85
Fritz Zwicky
Swiss astronomer (1898–1974)
869
views
views
86
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081–1124)
851
views
views
87
Felix Hausdorff
German mathematician (*1868 – †1942)
847
views
views
88
James E. Hansen
American climatologist (1941-)
825
views
views
89
John Frederick William Herschel
English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and photographer (1792–1871)
813
views
views
90
Martin Behaim
German navigator and geographer to the King of Portugal (1459–1507)
789
views
views
91
Hanns Hörbiger
Austrian inventor and scientist (1860-1931)
782
views
views
92
Friedrich Bessel
German astronomer and mathematician
779
views
views
93
Theodore von Kármán
Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist (1881–1963)
768
views
views
94
August Ferdinand Möbius
German mathematician and astronomer (1790–1868)
753
views
views
95
Florian Freistetter
Austrian astronomer, blogger and writer
750
views
views
96
Léon Foucault
French physicist (1819–1868)
740
views
views
97
Aristarchus of Samos
Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.310–c.230 BC)
726
views
views
98
Max Tegmark
Swedish-American physicist and cosmologist
722
views
views
99
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
699
views
views
100
Christopher Wren
English architect (1632–1723)
690
views
views