Trending Astronomers in Japan — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed astronomers on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (Japanese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Leonardo da Vinci. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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Ranked
241,688
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
28,022
views
views
2
Abe no Seimei
Japanese onmyōji
11,969
views
views
3
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
10,821
views
views
4
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
10,525
views
views
5
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
10,404
views
views
6
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
9,597
views
views
7
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
8,599
views
views
8
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
6,931
views
views
9
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
6,282
views
views
10
Sima Qian
Chinese historian (c. 145 – c. 86 BCE)
5,907
views
views
11
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
5,429
views
views
12
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
5,280
views
views
13
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)
5,187
views
views
14
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
4,825
views
views
15
Takuya Matsuda
Japanese astronomer
4,158
views
views
16
Queen Seondeok of Silla
queen-regnant of Silla
4,086
views
views
17
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
3,829
views
views
18
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
3,677
views
views
19
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Persian astronomer (1201–1274)
3,435
views
views
20
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
3,223
views
views
21
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548–1600)
3,217
views
views
22
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081–1124)
3,209
views
views
23
Toghon Temür
Yuan and Northern Yuan emperor from 1333 to 1370
2,844
views
views
24
Aya Ishihara
Japanese astrophysicist
2,819
views
views
25
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
2,714
views
views
26
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
2,531
views
views
27
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
2,485
views
views
28
Shibukawa Shunkai
Japanese astronomer
2,437
views
views
29
Albert Brudzewski
Polish academic and diplomat
2,285
views
views
30
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
2,235
views
views
31
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546–1601
2,102
views
views
32
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
2,003
views
views
33
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
1,892
views
views
34
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
1,857
views
views
35
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
1,739
views
views
36
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
1,681
views
views
37
Imhotep
Egyptian architect, physician, astronomer, and god of medicine in ancient Egyptian mythology.
1,615
views
views
38
Tsuruhiko Kiuchi
Japanese amateur astronomer
1,573
views
views
39
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
1,488
views
views
40
Aristarchus of Samos
Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.310–c.230 BC)
1,344
views
views
41
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
1,336
views
views
42
Xu Guangqi
late-Ming-dynasty Chinese politician, Scholar, Lay Catholic leader and Servant of God (*1562 – †1633)
1,286
views
views
43
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
1,280
views
views
44
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
1,255
views
views
45
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736–1813)
1,244
views
views
46
Hōei Nojiri
Japanese astronomer (1885-1977)
1,136
views
views
47
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
1,029
views
views
48
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738–1822)
1,019
views
views
49
Eiichirō Kokubo
Japanese astronomer
1,001
views
views
50
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889–1953)
993
views
views
51
Jun'ichi Watanabe
Japanese astronomer
984
views
views
52
Cai Yong
Chinese official and scholar (132-192)
962
views
views
53
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
957
views
views
54
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629–1695)
943
views
views
55
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
934
views
views
56
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)
918
views
views
57
John Harrison
British clockworker
918
views
views
58
Nancy Roman
American astronomer and principal in the Hubble Space Telescope project (1925-2018)
913
views
views
59
Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
877
views
views
60
Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
845
views
views
61
Johann Georg Faust
German Renaissance alchemist, astrologer, and magician
838
views
views
62
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
821
views
views
63
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
813
views
views
64
Liu Ji
Chinese philosopher and politician (1311–1375)
802
views
views
65
John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
754
views
views
66
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
753
views
views
67
Gerolamo Cardano
Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer (1501-1576)
753
views
views
68
John Frederick William Herschel
English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and photographer (1792–1871)
716
views
views
69
Yamagata Bantō
scholar
713
views
views
70
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
703
views
views
71
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
662
views
views
72
Satoru Ikeuchi
Japanese astronomer
658
views
views
73
H. A. Rey
Children's illustrator and writer (1898–1977)
641
views
views
74
Ken'ichi Nomoto
Japanese astronomer
630
views
views
75
Nikolai Kardashev
Soviet and Russian astronomer
626
views
views
76
Darcy Lewis
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
620
views
views
77
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
609
views
views
78
Humitaka Sato
Japanese teacher
607
views
views
79
Ulugh Beg
Timurid sultan, astronomer and mathematician (1394–1449)
603
views
views
80
John Napier
Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (1550–1617)
590
views
views
81
Chushiro Hayashi
Japanese astrophysicist (1920–2010)
589
views
views
82
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)
585
views
views
83
Robert H. Goddard
American physicist
583
views
views
84
William Rowan Hamilton
Irish mathematician and astronomer (1805-1865)
572
views
views
85
Svante August Arrhenius
Swedish astronomer, chemist and physicist (1859–1927)
563
views
views
86
Arthur Eddington
British astrophysicist (1882-1944)
557
views
views
87
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)
554
views
views
88
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
553
views
views
89
Léon Foucault
French physicist (1819–1868)
544
views
views
90
George Gamow
Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist (1904–1968)
542
views
views
91
Thomas Young
English polymath (1773-1829)
536
views
views
92
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
536
views
views
93
Clyde Tombaugh
American astronomer (1906–1997)
522
views
views
94
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
521
views
views
95
Ronald Fisher
British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890–1962)
518
views
views
96
Hipparchus
2nd century Greek astronomer, geographer and mathematician
496
views
views
97
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486–1535)
485
views
views
98
Seitaro Urakawa
researcher ORCID ID = 0000-0001-7501-8983
481
views
views
99
John Archibald Wheeler
American physicist (1911-2008)
480
views
views
100
Takafumi Matsui
Japanese astronomer
473
views
views