Trending Astronomers this year
The 100 most-viewed astronomers this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Stephen Hawking.
100
Ranked
1,314,208
Total Views (this year)
Country
๐ Global
๐บ๐ธ USA
๐ฉ๐ช Germany
๐ซ๐ท France
๐ฏ๐ต Japan
๐ช๐ธ Spain
๐ง๐ท Brazil
๐ท๐บ Russia
๐จ๐ณ China
1
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942โ2018)
103,656
views
views
2
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452โ1519)
85,008
views
views
3
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642โ1727)
76,546
views
views
4
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
60,099
views
views
5
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
45,227
views
views
6
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
44,967
views
views
7
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564โ1642)
40,234
views
views
8
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934โ1996)
37,555
views
views
9
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
36,637
views
views
10
Renรฉ Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596โ1650)
29,845
views
views
11
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 โ c. 212 BC)
28,592
views
views
12
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503โ1566)
27,985
views
views
13
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
26,949
views
views
14
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707โ1783)
26,898
views
views
15
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951โ2012)
21,993
views
views
16
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980โ1037)
20,748
views
views
17
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
16,980
views
views
18
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791โ1871)
16,269
views
views
19
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
16,081
views
views
20
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777โ1855)
15,985
views
views
21
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
15,449
views
views
22
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
15,438
views
views
23
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548โ1600)
14,527
views
views
24
Moshe ben Maimon
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135โ1204)
13,957
views
views
25
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
13,885
views
views
26
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
13,869
views
views
27
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571โ1630)
13,807
views
views
28
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493โ1541)
12,737
views
views
29
Muแธฅammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
12,648
views
views
30
Alan Guth
American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
12,263
views
views
31
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 โ 1703)
10,727
views
views
32
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546โ1601
10,668
views
views
33
Imhotep
Egyptian polymath, later revered as a god
10,602
views
views
34
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
10,534
views
views
35
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
10,482
views
views
36
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
10,032
views
views
37
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743โ1794)
9,994
views
views
38
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
9,947
views
views
39
John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
9,930
views
views
40
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
9,902
views
views
41
Aryabhata
Pioneer astronomer who formulated zero, quadratic rules, and earth's rotation.
9,429
views
views
42
Omar Khayyรกm
Persian mathematician and poet (1048โ1131)
8,428
views
views
43
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126โ1198)
7,645
views
views
44
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081โ1124)
6,972
views
views
45
Henri Poincarรฉ
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854โ1912)
6,758
views
views
46
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749โ1827)
6,754
views
views
47
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824โ1907)
6,345
views
views
48
Michelle Thaller
American astronomer
6,093
views
views
49
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973โ1048)
6,076
views
views
50
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
6,001
views
views
51
Georges Lemaรฎtre
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894โ1966)
5,975
views
views
52
Ibn al-Haytham
Persian physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 โ c. 1040)
5,913
views
views
53
Robert H. Goddard
American physicist
5,908
views
views
54
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889โ1953)
5,838
views
views
55
Lawrence M. Krauss
American particle physicist and cosmologist
5,816
views
views
56
Christopher Wren
English architect (1632โ1723)
5,812
views
views
57
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629โ1695)
5,751
views
views
58
Tim Russ
American actor
5,717
views
views
59
Fritz Zwicky
Swiss astronomer who posited dark matter (1898โ1974)
5,569
views
views
60
John Harrison
British clockworker
5,265
views
views
61
Toghon Temรผr
Yuan and Northern Yuan emperor from 1333 to 1370
5,241
views
views
62
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738โ1822)
5,227
views
views
63
Thomas Brisbane
British Army general
5,193
views
views
64
Jane Foster
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
5,162
views
views
65
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Persian astronomer (1201โ1274)
4,921
views
views
66
Alastair Reynolds
British science fiction author (born 1966)
4,838
views
views
67
Idris
prophet
4,812
views
views
68
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
4,711
views
views
69
Sima Qian
2nd-century BCE Chinese historian and writer
4,675
views
views
70
Jacques Vallรฉe
Computer Scientist, UFO researcher
4,583
views
views
71
Avi Loeb
Israeli astrophysicist (1962-)
4,518
views
views
72
Ronald Fisher
British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890โ1962)
4,517
views
views
73
John of Damascus
Christian monk, priest, hymnographer and apologist (675/6-749)
4,513
views
views
74
Sean M. Carroll
American theoretical cosmologist
4,488
views
views
75
Johann Georg Faust
German Renaissance alchemist, astrologer, and magician
4,448
views
views
76
Max Tegmark
Swedish-American physicist and cosmologist
4,441
views
views
77
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880โ1930)
4,287
views
views
78
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736โ1813)
4,159
views
views
79
Nancy Roman
American astronomer and principal in the Hubble Space Telescope project (1925-2018)
4,134
views
views
80
Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
4,091
views
views
81
Brahmagupta
Indian mathematician and astronomer (c. 598 โ c. 668 CE)
4,069
views
views
82
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486โ1535)
4,043
views
views
83
Alfonso X of Castile and Leon
King of Castile from 1252 to 1284
3,973
views
views
84
Walter Lewin
Dutch-born American physicist (born 1936)
3,899
views
views
85
Pytheas
ancient Greek explorer
3,883
views
views
86
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
3,881
views
views
87
Aristarchus of Samos
Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.310โc.230 BC)
3,852
views
views
88
Farabi
10th century Persian philosopher and jurist
3,729
views
views
89
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
3,723
views
views
90
Vasiแนฃแนญha
ancient Indian sage
3,722
views
views
91
Leopold Bloom
fictional protagonist of James Joyce's novel Ulysses
3,647
views
views
92
Arthur Eddington
British astrophysicist (1882-1944)
3,632
views
views
93
Abe no Seimei
Japanese onmyลji
3,622
views
views
94
Ulugh Beg
Timurid sultan, astronomer and mathematician (1394โ1449)
3,592
views
views
95
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656โ1742)
3,516
views
views
96
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astrophysicist (born 1943)
3,497
views
views
97
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
3,381
views
views
98
Theodore von Kรกrmรกn
Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist (1881โ1963)
3,306
views
views
99
John Napier
Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (1550โ1617)
3,291
views
views
100
Michael Servetus
Spanish physician and theologian
3,274
views
views
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