Trending Astronomers in France this year
The 100 most-viewed astronomers this year on Wikipedia (France). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Leonardo da Vinci.
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Ranked
26,695
Total Views (this year)
1
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
2,458
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views
2
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
1,233
views
views
3
Jean-Pierre Petit
French astrophysicist, scientist and illustrator
1,185
views
views
4
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
1,159
views
views
5
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
1,146
views
views
6
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
1,025
views
views
7
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
1,013
views
views
8
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
678
views
views
9
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
547
views
views
10
Aurélien Barrau
French astrophysicist
538
views
views
11
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
537
views
views
12
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
528
views
views
13
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)
527
views
views
14
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)
507
views
views
15
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
490
views
views
16
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
462
views
views
17
Michel Mayor
Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics
404
views
views
18
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
380
views
views
19
Francis Rocard
French astrophysicist
354
views
views
20
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
341
views
views
21
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
341
views
views
22
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
336
views
views
23
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548–1600)
335
views
views
24
Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
333
views
views
25
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
305
views
views
26
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
301
views
views
27
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
289
views
views
28
David Elbaz
French astrophysicist
283
views
views
29
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
281
views
views
30
Cheikh Anta Diop
Senegalese politician, essayist (1923–1986)
281
views
views
31
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
276
views
views
32
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
263
views
views
33
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
243
views
views
34
Hubert Reeves
Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science (1932–2023)
227
views
views
35
Moshe ben Maimon
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135–1204)
221
views
views
36
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
French writer and philosopher of the enlightenment (1657–1757)
199
views
views
37
Franck Marchis
American astronomer
196
views
views
38
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
190
views
views
39
François Forget
researcher
184
views
views
40
Yves Langevin
French astrophysicist
175
views
views
41
Imhotep
Egyptian polymath, later revered as a god
174
views
views
42
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
164
views
views
43
Cécile Renault
French astrophysicist (1970-2021)
162
views
views
44
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
161
views
views
45
François Arago
French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (1786-1853)
148
views
views
46
Georges Lemaître
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894–1966)
147
views
views
47
Christophe Galfard
French physicist and writer
143
views
views
48
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629–1695)
141
views
views
49
John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
139
views
views
50
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
139
views
views
51
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736–1813)
131
views
views
52
Didier Queloz
Swiss astronomer
129
views
views
53
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546–1601
128
views
views
54
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
124
views
views
55
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astrophysicist (born 1943)
120
views
views
56
Nathalie A. Cabrol
French American astrobiologist
111
views
views
57
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
111
views
views
58
Samantha Carter
fictional character in the Stargate universe
110
views
views
59
Camille Flammarion
French astronomer and author (1842–1925)
110
views
views
60
Jamshīd al-Kāshī
Persian astronomer and mathematician
108
views
views
61
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
107
views
views
62
Ibn al-Haytham
Persian physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)
107
views
views
63
Sylvester II
Pope of the Catholic Church from 938 to 1003
105
views
views
64
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081–1124)
103
views
views
65
John Napier
Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (1550–1617)
100
views
views
66
Ziryab
9th-century poet and musician
99
views
views
67
Michael Servetus
Spanish physician and theologian
95
views
views
68
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
94
views
views
69
Farabi
10th century Persian philosopher and jurist
92
views
views
70
Pytheas
ancient Greek explorer
90
views
views
71
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
89
views
views
72
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
89
views
views
73
Idris
prophet
87
views
views
74
Jean Sylvain Bailly
French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader (1736-1793)
87
views
views
75
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
86
views
views
76
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
86
views
views
77
Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
86
views
views
78
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Italian/French mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer (*1625 – †1712)
83
views
views
79
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
83
views
views
80
Siméon Denis Poisson
French mathematician, mechanician and physicist (1781–1840)
80
views
views
81
Roland Lehoucq
French astrophysicist
76
views
views
82
Jean-Pierre Luminet
French astrophysicist
74
views
views
83
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
74
views
views
84
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889–1953)
74
views
views
85
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
74
views
views
86
Alessandro Morbidelli
Italian astronomer
73
views
views
87
Abbas Ibn Firnas
9th century astronomer and physician
72
views
views
88
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
72
views
views
89
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters
69
views
views
90
Al-Kindi
Muslim Arab philosopher, mathematician and physician (c.801–873)
69
views
views
91
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
68
views
views
92
Pierre Gassendi
French philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, priest, and scientist (*1592 – †1655)
67
views
views
93
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)
67
views
views
94
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)
66
views
views
95
Philipp Melanchthon
German reformer (1497-1560)
66
views
views
96
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738–1822)
66
views
views
97
Léon Foucault
French physicist (1819–1868)
65
views
views
98
Thomas Gouye
French astronomer
63
views
views
99
Aristarchus of Samos
Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.310–c.230 BC)
61
views
views
100
Eugene Merle Shoemaker
American geologist and astronomer
60
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