Trending Astronomers in Japan this year
The 100 most-viewed astronomers this year on Wikipedia (Japan). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Leonardo da Vinci.
100
Ranked
16,075
Total Views (this year)
Country
๐ Global
๐บ๐ธ USA
๐ฉ๐ช Germany
๐ซ๐ท France
๐ฏ๐ต Japan
๐ช๐ธ Spain
๐ง๐ท Brazil
๐ท๐บ Russia
๐จ๐ณ China
1
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452โ1519)
1,468
views
views
2
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
880
views
views
3
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942โ2018)
863
views
views
4
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564โ1642)
804
views
views
5
Abe no Seimei
Japanese onmyลji
718
views
views
6
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
683
views
views
7
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642โ1727)
616
views
views
8
Nikolai Kardashev
Soviet and Russian astronomer
431
views
views
9
Renรฉ Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596โ1650)
427
views
views
10
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 โ c. 212 BC)
424
views
views
11
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503โ1566)
417
views
views
12
Sima Qian
2nd-century BCE Chinese historian and writer
365
views
views
13
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
331
views
views
14
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707โ1783)
326
views
views
15
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493โ1541)
318
views
views
16
Queen Seondeok of Silla
queen-regnant of Silla
302
views
views
17
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
254
views
views
18
Albert Brudzewski
Polish academic and diplomat
249
views
views
19
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777โ1855)
235
views
views
20
Hisako Koyama
Japanese solar observer
215
views
views
21
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571โ1630)
214
views
views
22
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934โ1996)
194
views
views
23
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546โ1601
185
views
views
24
Toghon Temรผr
Yuan and Northern Yuan emperor from 1333 to 1370
184
views
views
25
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743โ1794)
169
views
views
26
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081โ1124)
161
views
views
27
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
155
views
views
28
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548โ1600)
154
views
views
29
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 โ 1703)
151
views
views
30
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
134
views
views
31
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
127
views
views
32
Shibukawa Shunkai
Japanese astronomer
125
views
views
33
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749โ1827)
116
views
views
34
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
116
views
views
35
Tsuruhiko Kiuchi
Japanese amateur astronomer
114
views
views
36
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736โ1813)
109
views
views
37
Imhotep
Egyptian polymath, later revered as a god
106
views
views
38
Aristarchus of Samos
Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.310โc.230 BC)
105
views
views
39
Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
98
views
views
40
Henri Poincarรฉ
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854โ1912)
96
views
views
41
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
95
views
views
42
John Harrison
British clockworker
94
views
views
43
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880โ1930)
82
views
views
44
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
77
views
views
45
Jun'ichi Watanabe
Japanese astronomer
77
views
views
46
Menelaus of Alexandria
Greek mathematician and astronomer
74
views
views
47
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791โ1871)
68
views
views
48
Cai Yong
Chinese official and scholar (132-192)
67
views
views
49
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980โ1037)
66
views
views
50
Hลei Nojiri
Japanese astronomer (1885-1977)
65
views
views
51
Omar Khayyรกm
Persian mathematician and poet (1048โ1131)
64
views
views
52
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
64
views
views
53
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889โ1953)
63
views
views
54
Johann Georg Faust
German Renaissance alchemist, astrologer, and magician
61
views
views
55
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629โ1695)
61
views
views
56
Robert H. Goddard
American physicist
59
views
views
57
Muแธฅammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
58
views
views
58
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824โ1907)
58
views
views
59
Clyde Tombaugh
American astronomer (1906โ1997)
58
views
views
60
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
56
views
views
61
Camille Flammarion
French astronomer and author (1842โ1925)
56
views
views
62
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656โ1742)
56
views
views
63
John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
55
views
views
64
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738โ1822)
53
views
views
65
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
51
views
views
66
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
50
views
views
67
Satoru Ikeuchi
Japanese astronomer
49
views
views
68
Toshima Araki
Japanese astronomer
47
views
views
69
John Napier
Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (1550โ1617)
46
views
views
70
Hayato Shimabukuro
Japanese astronomer
46
views
views
71
Arthur Eddington
British astrophysicist (1882-1944)
45
views
views
72
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Italian/French mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer (*1625 โ โ 1712)
45
views
views
73
Hipparchus
2nd century Greek astronomer, geographer and mathematician
44
views
views
74
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
42
views
views
75
Liu Ji
Chinese philosopher and politician (1311โ1375)
42
views
views
76
Ronald Fisher
British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890โ1962)
41
views
views
77
Ibn al-Haytham
Persian physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 โ c. 1040)
41
views
views
78
Chang Yลngsil
Korean mechanical engineer, scientist and inventor
40
views
views
79
Svante August Arrhenius
Swedish astronomer, chemist and physicist (1859โ1927)
37
views
views
80
Yamagata Bantล
scholar
37
views
views
81
Akira Fujii
Japanese astrophotographer (1941โ2022)
36
views
views
82
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486โ1535)
35
views
views
83
Alfonso X of Castile and Leon
King of Castile from 1252 to 1284
35
views
views
84
Qiao Zhou
Shu Han official and scholar (died 270)
34
views
views
85
William Rowan Hamilton
Irish mathematician and astronomer (1805-1865)
34
views
views
86
Thomas Young
English polymath (1773-1829)
33
views
views
87
Lรฉon Foucault
French physicist (1819โ1868)
33
views
views
88
Theodore von Kรกrmรกn
Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist (1881โ1963)
33
views
views
89
Liu Xiang
Chinese official, scholar and writer (77โ6 BCE)
32
views
views
90
Fred Hoyle
British astronomer (1915โ2001)
32
views
views
91
Georges Lemaรฎtre
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894โ1966)
32
views
views
92
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
32
views
views
93
Kลichi Itagaki
Japanese entrepreneur and astronomer
32
views
views
94
George Gamow
Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist (1904โ1968)
31
views
views
95
Brahmagupta
Indian mathematician and astronomer (c. 598 โ c. 668 CE)
31
views
views
96
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126โ1198)
31
views
views
97
Norio Kaifu
Japanese astronomer
31
views
views
98
Hisashi Kimura
Japanese astronomer (1870โ1943)
30
views
views
99
Tsutomu Seki
Japanese astronomer
30
views
views
100
Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli
Florentine astronomer
29
views
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