Trending Astronomers in Japan — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed astronomers on Wikipedia, September 2026 (Japanese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Leonardo da Vinci. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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Ranked
227,076
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
26,554
views
views
2
Abe no Seimei
Japanese onmyōji
11,251
views
views
3
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
9,958
views
views
4
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
9,645
views
views
5
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
9,600
views
views
6
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
8,981
views
views
7
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
7,916
views
views
8
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
6,504
views
views
9
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
5,858
views
views
10
Sima Qian
Chinese historian (c. 145 – c. 86 BCE)
5,542
views
views
11
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
5,153
views
views
12
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
5,098
views
views
13
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)
4,770
views
views
14
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
4,499
views
views
15
Takuya Matsuda
Japanese astronomer
4,140
views
views
16
Queen Seondeok of Silla
queen-regnant of Silla
3,784
views
views
17
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
3,511
views
views
18
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
3,442
views
views
19
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Persian astronomer (1201–1274)
3,415
views
views
20
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548–1600)
3,063
views
views
21
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081–1124)
3,048
views
views
22
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
2,969
views
views
23
Aya Ishihara
Japanese astrophysicist
2,802
views
views
24
Toghon Temür
Yuan and Northern Yuan emperor from 1333 to 1370
2,660
views
views
25
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
2,500
views
views
26
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
2,465
views
views
27
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
2,316
views
views
28
Shibukawa Shunkai
Japanese astronomer
2,312
views
views
29
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
2,041
views
views
30
Albert Brudzewski
Polish academic and diplomat
2,036
views
views
31
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546–1601
1,917
views
views
32
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
1,887
views
views
33
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
1,776
views
views
34
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
1,762
views
views
35
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
1,643
views
views
36
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
1,530
views
views
37
Imhotep
Egyptian architect, physician, astronomer, and god of medicine in ancient Egyptian mythology.
1,509
views
views
38
Tsuruhiko Kiuchi
Japanese amateur astronomer
1,459
views
views
39
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
1,354
views
views
40
Xu Guangqi
late-Ming-dynasty Chinese politician, Scholar, Lay Catholic leader and Servant of God (*1562 – †1633)
1,259
views
views
41
Aristarchus of Samos
Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.310–c.230 BC)
1,239
views
views
42
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
1,238
views
views
43
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
1,181
views
views
44
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
1,178
views
views
45
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736–1813)
1,135
views
views
46
Aikitu Tanakadate
Japanese physicist
1,111
views
views
47
Hōei Nojiri
Japanese astronomer (1885-1977)
1,071
views
views
48
Eiichirō Kokubo
Japanese astronomer
990
views
views
49
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738–1822)
966
views
views
50
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
961
views
views
51
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889–1953)
930
views
views
52
Jun'ichi Watanabe
Japanese astronomer
907
views
views
53
Nancy Roman
American astronomer and principal in the Hubble Space Telescope project (1925-2018)
903
views
views
54
Cai Yong
Chinese official and scholar (132-192)
895
views
views
55
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
893
views
views
56
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629–1695)
882
views
views
57
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
870
views
views
58
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)
836
views
views
59
John Harrison
British clockworker
824
views
views
60
Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
787
views
views
61
Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
779
views
views
62
Johann Georg Faust
German Renaissance alchemist, astrologer, and magician
777
views
views
63
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
770
views
views
64
Liu Ji
Chinese philosopher and politician (1311–1375)
760
views
views
65
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
755
views
views
66
Gerolamo Cardano
Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer (1501-1576)
704
views
views
67
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
703
views
views
68
John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
699
views
views
69
John Frederick William Herschel
English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and photographer (1792–1871)
699
views
views
70
Yamagata Bantō
scholar
676
views
views
71
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
647
views
views
72
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
636
views
views
73
H. A. Rey
Children's illustrator and writer (1898–1977)
618
views
views
74
Ken'ichi Nomoto
Japanese astronomer
612
views
views
75
Satoru Ikeuchi
Japanese astronomer
609
views
views
76
Darcy Lewis
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
607
views
views
77
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
599
views
views
78
Humitaka Sato
Japanese teacher
588
views
views
79
Ulugh Beg
Timurid sultan, astronomer and mathematician (1394–1449)
576
views
views
80
Chushiro Hayashi
Japanese astrophysicist (1920–2010)
561
views
views
81
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)
554
views
views
82
John Napier
Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (1550–1617)
544
views
views
83
William Rowan Hamilton
Irish mathematician and astronomer (1805-1865)
538
views
views
84
Svante August Arrhenius
Swedish astronomer, chemist and physicist (1859–1927)
526
views
views
85
Robert H. Goddard
American physicist
524
views
views
86
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
521
views
views
87
Arthur Eddington
British astrophysicist (1882-1944)
512
views
views
88
George Gamow
Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist (1904–1968)
511
views
views
89
Léon Foucault
French physicist (1819–1868)
511
views
views
90
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
508
views
views
91
Thomas Young
English polymath (1773-1829)
503
views
views
92
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
502
views
views
93
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)
498
views
views
94
Seitaro Urakawa
researcher ORCID ID = 0000-0001-7501-8983
481
views
views
95
Ronald Fisher
British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890–1962)
477
views
views
96
Clyde Tombaugh
American astronomer (1906–1997)
464
views
views
97
Hipparchus
2nd century Greek astronomer, geographer and mathematician
452
views
views
98
John Archibald Wheeler
American physicist (1911-2008)
451
views
views
99
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486–1535)
450
views
views
100
Takafumi Matsui
Japanese astronomer
448
views
views