Trending Astronomers this month
The 100 most-viewed astronomers this month on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Stephen Hawking.
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Ranked
734,748
Total Views (this month)
Country
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1
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942โ2018)
50,697
views
views
2
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452โ1519)
43,818
views
views
3
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642โ1727)
41,050
views
views
4
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
34,871
views
views
5
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
25,134
views
views
6
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
22,552
views
views
7
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
21,640
views
views
8
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934โ1996)
20,531
views
views
9
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564โ1642)
20,156
views
views
10
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503โ1566)
17,355
views
views
11
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 โ c. 212 BC)
16,772
views
views
12
Renรฉ Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596โ1650)
15,841
views
views
13
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
13,786
views
views
14
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707โ1783)
13,645
views
views
15
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951โ2012)
12,386
views
views
16
Alan Guth
American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
11,737
views
views
17
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
11,345
views
views
18
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
10,744
views
views
19
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791โ1871)
9,989
views
views
20
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
9,809
views
views
21
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
9,288
views
views
22
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980โ1037)
9,113
views
views
23
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
8,735
views
views
24
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
7,957
views
views
25
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777โ1855)
7,898
views
views
26
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
7,834
views
views
27
Moshe ben Maimon
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135โ1204)
7,688
views
views
28
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
7,516
views
views
29
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548โ1600)
6,907
views
views
30
Muแธฅammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
6,450
views
views
31
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493โ1541)
6,431
views
views
32
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
6,419
views
views
33
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571โ1630)
6,404
views
views
34
Aryabhata
Pioneer astronomer who formulated zero, quadratic rules, and earth's rotation.
5,894
views
views
35
Imhotep
Egyptian polymath, later revered as a god
5,806
views
views
36
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546โ1601
5,577
views
views
37
John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
5,423
views
views
38
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
5,288
views
views
39
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743โ1794)
5,074
views
views
40
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
5,001
views
views
41
Fritz Zwicky
Swiss astronomer who posited dark matter (1898โ1974)
4,849
views
views
42
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 โ 1703)
4,824
views
views
43
Thomas Brisbane
British Army general
4,784
views
views
44
Omar Khayyรกm
Persian mathematician and poet (1048โ1131)
4,301
views
views
45
Lawrence M. Krauss
American particle physicist and cosmologist
4,194
views
views
46
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081โ1124)
4,074
views
views
47
Georges Lemaรฎtre
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894โ1966)
4,048
views
views
48
Jane Foster
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
4,025
views
views
49
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126โ1198)
3,928
views
views
50
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Persian astronomer (1201โ1274)
3,886
views
views
51
Tim Russ
American actor
3,541
views
views
52
Christopher Wren
English architect (1632โ1723)
3,530
views
views
53
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973โ1048)
3,530
views
views
54
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749โ1827)
3,459
views
views
55
Ibn al-Haytham
Persian physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 โ c. 1040)
3,329
views
views
56
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824โ1907)
3,299
views
views
57
Henri Poincarรฉ
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854โ1912)
3,288
views
views
58
John Harrison
British clockworker
3,238
views
views
59
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629โ1695)
3,135
views
views
60
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889โ1953)
3,106
views
views
61
Michelle Thaller
American astronomer
3,027
views
views
62
Robert H. Goddard
American physicist
2,982
views
views
63
Graeme Segal
mathematician
2,946
views
views
64
Sean M. Carroll
American theoretical cosmologist
2,927
views
views
65
Walter Lewin
Dutch-born American physicist (born 1936)
2,915
views
views
66
Alastair Reynolds
British science fiction author (born 1966)
2,866
views
views
67
Idris
prophet
2,846
views
views
68
Toghon Temรผr
Yuan and Northern Yuan emperor from 1333 to 1370
2,807
views
views
69
Nancy Roman
American astronomer and principal in the Hubble Space Telescope project (1925-2018)
2,790
views
views
70
Alan Hale
astronomer, co-discoverer of Comet HaleโBopp (1958โ2026)
2,789
views
views
71
Leopold Bloom
fictional protagonist of James Joyce's novel Ulysses
2,785
views
views
72
Ronald Fisher
British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890โ1962)
2,670
views
views
73
Jacques Vallรฉe
Computer Scientist, UFO researcher
2,591
views
views
74
Max Tegmark
Swedish-American physicist and cosmologist
2,586
views
views
75
Thomas Bopp
American astronomer (1949โ2018)
2,569
views
views
76
Johann Georg Faust
German Renaissance alchemist, astrologer, and magician
2,564
views
views
77
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738โ1822)
2,524
views
views
78
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
2,515
views
views
79
Avi Loeb
Israeli astrophysicist (1962-)
2,470
views
views
80
Pytheas
ancient Greek explorer
2,465
views
views
81
Shrinivas Kulkarni
American astronomer
2,461
views
views
82
Vasiแนฃแนญha
ancient Indian sage
2,460
views
views
83
Brahmagupta
Indian mathematician and astronomer (c. 598 โ c. 668 CE)
2,444
views
views
84
John of Damascus
Christian monk, priest, hymnographer and apologist (675/6-749)
2,330
views
views
85
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486โ1535)
2,304
views
views
86
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
2,266
views
views
87
Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
2,262
views
views
88
Sima Qian
2nd-century BCE Chinese historian and writer
2,209
views
views
89
Aristarchus of Samos
Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.310โc.230 BC)
2,159
views
views
90
Erik Selvig
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
2,144
views
views
91
Arthur Eddington
British astrophysicist (1882-1944)
2,143
views
views
92
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
2,077
views
views
93
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880โ1930)
2,076
views
views
94
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736โ1813)
2,053
views
views
95
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656โ1742)
2,048
views
views
96
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
2,001
views
views
97
Bhฤskara II
Indian mathematician and astronomer Mathematical genius who discovered early principles of calculus and solved indeterminate equations.
1,944
views
views
98
Farabi
10th century Persian philosopher and jurist
1,943
views
views
99
Clyde Tombaugh
American astronomer (1906โ1997)
1,942
views
views
100
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astrophysicist (born 1943)
1,919
views
views
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