Trending Astronomers — the 7 days to 26 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed astronomers on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 26 October 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Leonardo da Vinci. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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1,038,132
Total Views (the 7 days to 26 October 2026)
1
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
83,873
views
views
2
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
67,741
views
views
3
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
63,141
views
views
4
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
49,439
views
views
5
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
48,290
views
views
6
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
30,243
views
views
7
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
27,622
views
views
8
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
26,509
views
views
9
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
25,667
views
views
10
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
24,743
views
views
11
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
24,644
views
views
12
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
21,334
views
views
13
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
20,000
views
views
14
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
19,262
views
views
15
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)
19,215
views
views
16
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548–1600)
15,927
views
views
17
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
15,146
views
views
18
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
14,364
views
views
19
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546–1601
14,215
views
views
20
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
13,368
views
views
21
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
13,170
views
views
22
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
12,561
views
views
23
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
12,357
views
views
24
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
12,016
views
views
25
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
11,689
views
views
26
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
11,535
views
views
27
Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
10,627
views
views
28
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
10,415
views
views
29
Tabata Amaral
Brazilian political scientist, astrophysicist, activist, politician and Federal Representative and former First Lady of Recife, Brazil
9,884
views
views
30
Moshe ben Maimon
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135–1204)
9,654
views
views
31
Imhotep
Egyptian architect, physician, astronomer, and god of medicine in ancient Egyptian mythology.
8,951
views
views
32
Harald Lesch
German physicist
8,216
views
views
33
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
8,129
views
views
34
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)
7,878
views
views
35
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
7,808
views
views
36
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
7,702
views
views
37
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
7,592
views
views
38
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
7,423
views
views
39
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
7,357
views
views
40
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
6,617
views
views
41
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
6,414
views
views
42
Georges Lemaître
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894–1966)
6,187
views
views
43
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
6,033
views
views
44
John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
5,926
views
views
45
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889–1953)
5,913
views
views
46
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
5,689
views
views
47
Aryabhata
Pioneer astronomer who formulated zero, quadratic rules, and earth's rotation.
5,536
views
views
48
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)
5,360
views
views
49
Alfonso X of Castile and Leon
King of Castile from 1252 to 1284
5,211
views
views
50
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
5,025
views
views
51
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
4,994
views
views
52
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
4,892
views
views
53
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
4,586
views
views
54
Benjamin Apthorp Gould
American astronomer (1824–1896)
4,432
views
views
55
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736–1813)
4,143
views
views
56
Toghon Temür
Yuan and Northern Yuan emperor from 1333 to 1370
4,136
views
views
57
Sima Qian
Chinese historian (c. 145 – c. 86 BCE)
4,120
views
views
58
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629–1695)
4,107
views
views
59
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081–1124)
4,100
views
views
60
Abe no Seimei
Japanese onmyōji
4,041
views
views
61
Christopher Wren
English architect (1632–1723)
3,909
views
views
62
Farabi
10th century Persian philosopher and jurist
3,855
views
views
63
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738–1822)
3,831
views
views
64
Ibn al-Haytham
Arab physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)
3,732
views
views
65
Johann Georg Faust
German Renaissance alchemist, astrologer, and magician
3,715
views
views
66
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
3,696
views
views
67
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)
3,569
views
views
68
Amalia Ercoli-Finzi
Italian engineer
3,522
views
views
69
John of Damascus
Christian monk, priest, hymnographer and apologist (675/6-749)
3,388
views
views
70
Nicholas of Cusa
German philosopher (1401 – 1464)
3,338
views
views
71
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486–1535)
3,307
views
views
72
Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
3,299
views
views
73
Laura Overdeck
American maths education entrepreneur
3,256
views
views
74
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astrophysicist (born 1943)
3,233
views
views
75
Philipp Melanchthon
German reformer (1497-1560)
3,226
views
views
76
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
3,133
views
views
77
Michael Servetus
Spanish physician and theologian
3,089
views
views
78
Ulugh Beg
Timurid sultan, astronomer and mathematician (1394–1449)
3,058
views
views
79
John Harrison
British clockworker
3,053
views
views
80
Aristarchus of Samos
Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.310–c.230 BC)
3,029
views
views
81
Margherita Hack
Italian astrophysicist and popular science writer (1922-2013)
2,883
views
views
82
Jacques Vallée
Computer Scientist, UFO researcher
2,876
views
views
83
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
2,802
views
views
84
Ronald Fisher
British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890–1962)
2,800
views
views
85
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
2,796
views
views
86
Luis Walter Alvarez
American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor (1911–1988)
2,768
views
views
87
Robert H. Goddard
American physicist
2,753
views
views
88
Amina Helmi
Argentinian-Dutch astronomer
2,748
views
views
89
Tim Russ
American actor
2,707
views
views
90
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
2,667
views
views
91
Alastair Reynolds
British science fiction author (born 1966)
2,615
views
views
92
Brahmagupta
Indian mathematician and astronomer (c. 598 – c. 668 CE)
2,559
views
views
93
John Archibald Wheeler
American physicist (1911-2008)
2,556
views
views
94
Idris
prophet
2,553
views
views
95
Satoru Ikeuchi
Japanese astronomer
2,516
views
views
96
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
2,485
views
views
97
August Ferdinand Möbius
German mathematician and astronomer (1790–1868)
2,481
views
views
98
Vasiṣṭha
ancient Indian sage
2,479
views
views
99
Fred Hoyle
British astronomer (1915–2001)
2,341
views
views
100
John Napier
Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (1550–1617)
2,340
views
views