Trending Astronomers of all time
The 100 most-viewed astronomers of all time on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Leonardo da Vinci.
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167,736
Total Views (of all time)
Country
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1
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
47,174
views
views
2
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
24,544
views
views
3
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
16,662
views
views
4
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
8,779
views
views
5
Imhotep
Egyptian polymath, later revered as a god
6,696
views
views
6
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
4,223
views
views
7
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
3,738
views
views
8
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
3,249
views
views
9
Thomas Bopp
American astronomer (1949β2018)
2,611
views
views
10
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934β1996)
2,357
views
views
11
Gaius Julius Hyginus
Roman freedman and writer (c. 64 BC β AD 17)
2,101
views
views
12
Ulugh Beg
Timurid sultan, astronomer and mathematician (1394β1449)
1,912
views
views
13
Steven Hawley
American astronaut
1,488
views
views
14
Hillary Diane Andales
Filipino astronomer and astrophysicist
1,277
views
views
15
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951β2012)
1,196
views
views
16
Charles Mason
English astronomer and surveyor
1,172
views
views
17
Kate Adamala
Synthetic biologist
1,164
views
views
18
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980β1037)
1,142
views
views
19
MuαΈ₯ammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
1,064
views
views
20
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
12th-century Sunni Muslim theologian and philosopher
1,052
views
views
21
Andrea M. Ghez
American astronomer
1,034
views
views
22
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
979
views
views
23
Martin Rees
British cosmologist and astrophysicist (1942-)
963
views
views
24
Charles Messier
18th- and 19th-century French astronomer
961
views
views
25
Moshe ben Maimon
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135β1204)
951
views
views
26
Will Hay
English comedian, actor, film director & astronomer (1888-1949)
941
views
views
27
Venkatraman Radhakrishnan
Indian space scientist (1929-2011)
913
views
views
28
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
902
views
views
29
Anousheh Ansari
Iranian-American engineer and entrepreneur
838
views
views
30
Zhang Heng
Chinese scientist and statesman (78β139)
805
views
views
31
Rodney Marks
Australian astrophysicist who died of poisoning in Antarctica
769
views
views
32
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
703
views
views
33
Robert Grosseteste
English bishop and philosopher
672
views
views
34
Marin Mersenne
French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, often referred to as the "father of acoustics" (1588-1648)
672
views
views
35
Jean Sylvain Bailly
French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader (1736-1793)
657
views
views
36
David Brewster
Scottish astronomer and mathematician (1781β1868)
657
views
views
37
Hermann of Reichenau
German 11th-century Benedictine monk
654
views
views
38
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
651
views
views
39
Samuel Langley
American physicist, pioneer of aviation, and 3rd Secretary of the Smithsonian (1834-1906)
650
views
views
40
Robert B. Leighton
American astronomer (1919β1997)
598
views
views
41
Sylvester James Gates
American physicist
588
views
views
42
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081β1124)
582
views
views
43
Carolyn Porco
American planetary scientist
579
views
views
44
Simplicius of Cilicia
6th-century Greek pagan philosopher
522
views
views
45
Barry C. Barish
American physicist
481
views
views
46
Eric W. Weisstein
American mathematician
478
views
views
47
Tim Russ
American actor
417
views
views
48
Kathleen Ollerenshaw
English mathematician (1912-2014)
404
views
views
49
Erik Selvig
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
396
views
views
50
Harlow Shapley
American astronomer (1885-1972)
391
views
views
51
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824β1907)
388
views
views
52
Thomas Gold
Austrian astrophysicist (1920-2004)
384
views
views
53
Sean M. Carroll
American theoretical cosmologist
371
views
views
54
Charles Liu
astrophysicist
370
views
views
55
Donald J. Kessler
American astrophysicist
368
views
views
56
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889β1953)
354
views
views
57
Otto Schmidt
Russian geophysicist and polar explorer of Baltic German origin (1891-1956)
354
views
views
58
Brian Schmidt
American-born Australian astrophysicist
350
views
views
59
Toghon TemΓΌr
Yuan and Northern Yuan emperor from 1333 to 1370
324
views
views
60
John Harrison
British clockworker
322
views
views
61
Idris
prophet
314
views
views
62
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880β1930)
308
views
views
63
Alastair Reynolds
British science fiction author (born 1966)
306
views
views
64
Robert M. Wald
American physicist
298
views
views
65
Peter Naur
Danish computer scientist (1928β2016) and Turing Award winner (2005); author of 'Programming as Theory Building' (1985); co-editor of the 19
278
views
views
66
Jill Tarter
American astronomer
277
views
views
67
Johann Georg Faust
German Renaissance alchemist, astrologer, and magician
277
views
views
68
Jack Horkheimer
American astronomer
276
views
views
69
Theodore von KΓ‘rmΓ‘n
Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist (1881β1963)
276
views
views
70
Percival Lowell
American astronomer (1855-1916)
271
views
views
71
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738β1822)
269
views
views
72
Karl Schwarzschild
German physicist, astronomer and mathematician (1873β1916)
269
views
views
73
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
268
views
views
74
Michelle Thaller
American astronomer
266
views
views
75
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656β1742)
262
views
views
76
Chadwick Trujillo
American astronomer
257
views
views
77
VasiαΉ£αΉha
ancient Indian sage
256
views
views
78
al-Jazari
mathematician and engineer from Jazira, Artuqid State (1164β1206)
246
views
views
79
Bonaventura Cavalieri
Italian mathematician and astronomer (1598β1647)
243
views
views
80
Steven Weinberg
American theoretical physicist (1933-2021)
242
views
views
81
Aomawa Shields
astronomer
237
views
views
82
Donald Howard Menzel
American astronomer (1901β1976)
235
views
views
83
Lawrence Hargrave
Australian engineer and inventor (1850β1915)
234
views
views
84
Alfonso X of Castile and Leon
King of Castile from 1252 to 1284
231
views
views
85
Nikodem PopΕawski
Polish physicist
229
views
views
86
Anthony W. Case
American astrophysicist
228
views
views
87
Mikhail Subbotin
Soviet mathematician and astronomer (1893β1966)
225
views
views
88
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486β1535)
222
views
views
89
Willem de Sitter
Dutch cosmologist (*1872 β β 1934)
216
views
views
90
Jabir ibn Hayyan
8th-century Islamic alchemist and author
214
views
views
91
Robert H. Dicke
American astronomer (1916β1997)
210
views
views
92
Queen Seondeok of Silla
queen-regnant of Silla
209
views
views
93
Γtienne LΓ©opold Trouvelot
astronomer, entomologist and lithographer from France (1827-1895)
206
views
views
94
EdmΓ©e Chandon
French astronomer
205
views
views
95
Wang Chong
1st century Chinese meteorologist, astronomer, and philosopher
204
views
views
96
Petrus Plancius
Dutch-Flemish astronomer, cartographer and clergyman
203
views
views
97
John Frederick William Herschel
English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and photographer (1792β1871)
200
views
views
98
Daniel Whiteson
physicist
194
views
views
99
Gerhard Herzberg
German-Canadian physicist and physical chemist (1904-1999)
192
views
views
100
Abraham Gotthelf KΓ€stner
German mathematician (1719β1800)
189
views
views
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