Trending Astronomers in France — the 7 days to 26 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed astronomers on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 26 October 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Leonardo da Vinci. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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Ranked
74,216
Total Views (the 7 days to 26 October 2026)
1
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
6,601
views
views
2
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
3,527
views
views
3
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
3,250
views
views
4
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
3,116
views
views
5
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
2,892
views
views
6
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
2,824
views
views
7
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)
2,571
views
views
8
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
2,318
views
views
9
Aurélien Barrau
French astrophysicist
2,059
views
views
10
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
1,863
views
views
11
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)
1,721
views
views
12
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
1,642
views
views
13
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
1,529
views
views
14
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
1,523
views
views
15
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
1,378
views
views
16
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
1,133
views
views
17
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
1,080
views
views
18
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548–1600)
1,035
views
views
19
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
1,024
views
views
20
Jean-Pierre Petit
French astrophysicist, scientist and illustrator
1,020
views
views
21
Cheikh Anta Diop
Senegalese politician, essayist (1923–1986)
1,004
views
views
22
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
989
views
views
23
François Arago
French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (1786-1853)
977
views
views
24
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
962
views
views
25
Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
817
views
views
26
Imhotep
Egyptian architect, physician, astronomer, and god of medicine in ancient Egyptian mythology.
790
views
views
27
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
781
views
views
28
Cécile Renault
French astrophysicist (1970-2021)
759
views
views
29
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
728
views
views
30
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
723
views
views
31
Moshe ben Maimon
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135–1204)
709
views
views
32
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
704
views
views
33
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
674
views
views
34
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
611
views
views
35
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
598
views
views
36
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
582
views
views
37
Hubert Reeves
Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science (1932–2023)
557
views
views
38
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
514
views
views
39
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)
509
views
views
40
Georges Lemaître
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894–1966)
509
views
views
41
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
French writer and philosopher of the enlightenment (1657–1757)
480
views
views
42
Yves Langevin
French astrophysicist
450
views
views
43
Christophe Galfard
French physicist and writer
439
views
views
44
Jean Sylvain Bailly
French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader (1736-1793)
437
views
views
45
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736–1813)
418
views
views
46
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
399
views
views
47
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
394
views
views
48
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546–1601
387
views
views
49
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081–1124)
383
views
views
50
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
354
views
views
51
Philipp Melanchthon
German reformer (1497-1560)
347
views
views
52
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)
332
views
views
53
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
331
views
views
54
Farabi
10th century Persian philosopher and jurist
329
views
views
55
Ibn al-Haytham
Arab physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)
324
views
views
56
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629–1695)
317
views
views
57
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
306
views
views
58
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Italian/French mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer (*1625 – †1712)
303
views
views
59
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
298
views
views
60
Jacob Barnett
American child prodigy
294
views
views
61
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
288
views
views
62
Sylvester II
Pope of the Catholic Church from 999 to 1003
288
views
views
63
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
282
views
views
64
Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
282
views
views
65
Camille Flammarion
French astronomer and author (1842–1925)
276
views
views
66
Michael Servetus
Spanish physician and theologian
273
views
views
67
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
257
views
views
68
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486–1535)
234
views
views
69
Jean-Pierre Luminet
French astrophysicist
229
views
views
70
Francis Rocard
French astrophysicist
224
views
views
71
Nicholas of Cusa
German philosopher (1401 – 1464)
223
views
views
72
Alastair Reynolds
British science fiction author (born 1966)
221
views
views
73
Pytheas
ancient Greek explorer
210
views
views
74
Jacques Vallée
Computer Scientist, UFO researcher
206
views
views
75
David Elbaz
French astrophysicist
205
views
views
76
Nathalie A. Cabrol
French American astrobiologist
204
views
views
77
Pierre Gassendi
French philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, priest, and scientist (*1592 – †1655)
204
views
views
78
Léon Foucault
French physicist (1819–1868)
203
views
views
79
Anton Pannekoek
Dutch astronomer and Marxist theorist (1873-1960)
203
views
views
80
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
202
views
views
81
Idris
prophet
192
views
views
82
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astrophysicist (born 1943)
192
views
views
83
Siméon Denis Poisson
French mathematician, mechanician and physicist (1781–1840)
192
views
views
84
Gerolamo Cardano
Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer (1501-1576)
191
views
views
85
Urbain Le Verrier
French astronomer (1811-1877)
189
views
views
86
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889–1953)
189
views
views
87
Abbas Ibn Firnas
9th century astronomer and physician
184
views
views
88
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
183
views
views
89
Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin
British-born American astronomer
182
views
views
90
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters
179
views
views
91
Alfonso X of Castile and Leon
King of Castile from 1252 to 1284
177
views
views
92
Svante August Arrhenius
Swedish astronomer, chemist and physicist (1859–1927)
175
views
views
93
Al-Kindi
Muslim Arab philosopher, mathematician and physician (c.801–873)
174
views
views
94
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
174
views
views
95
John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
173
views
views
96
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
171
views
views
97
Abraham de Moivre
French mathematician (*1667 – †1754)
167
views
views
98
John of Damascus
Christian monk, priest, hymnographer and apologist (675/6-749)
166
views
views
99
Marin Mersenne
French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, often referred to as the "father of acoustics" (1588-1648)
165
views
views
100
al-Jazari
mathematician and engineer from Jazira, Artuqid State (1164–1206)
162
views
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