Trending Astronomers in USA this week
The 100 most-viewed astronomers this week on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Stephen Hawking.
100
Ranked
350,656
Total Views (this week)
Country
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๐จ๐ณ China
1
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942โ2018)
25,155
views
views
2
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452โ1519)
20,416
views
views
3
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642โ1727)
19,808
views
views
4
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
16,589
views
views
5
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
12,431
views
views
6
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
11,895
views
views
7
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
9,794
views
views
8
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934โ1996)
9,666
views
views
9
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564โ1642)
9,648
views
views
10
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503โ1566)
9,149
views
views
11
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 โ c. 212 BC)
7,674
views
views
12
Renรฉ Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596โ1650)
7,265
views
views
13
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
6,725
views
views
14
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707โ1783)
5,756
views
views
15
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
5,665
views
views
16
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
5,338
views
views
17
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
5,329
views
views
18
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791โ1871)
4,724
views
views
19
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951โ2012)
4,481
views
views
20
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
4,314
views
views
21
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980โ1037)
4,292
views
views
22
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
3,885
views
views
23
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777โ1855)
3,780
views
views
24
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
3,776
views
views
25
Alan Guth
American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
3,734
views
views
26
Moshe ben Maimon
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135โ1204)
3,677
views
views
27
Muแธฅammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
3,477
views
views
28
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
3,430
views
views
29
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548โ1600)
3,416
views
views
30
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493โ1541)
3,272
views
views
31
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
3,102
views
views
32
Helen Sawyer Hogg
astronomer (1905-1993)
3,091
views
views
33
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
3,021
views
views
34
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571โ1630)
3,015
views
views
35
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546โ1601
2,938
views
views
36
John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
2,772
views
views
37
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
2,766
views
views
38
Imhotep
Egyptian polymath, later revered as a god
2,724
views
views
39
Aryabhata
Pioneer astronomer who formulated zero, quadratic rules, and earth's rotation.
2,596
views
views
40
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
2,566
views
views
41
Nancy Roman
American astronomer and principal in the Hubble Space Telescope project (1925-2018)
2,477
views
views
42
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743โ1794)
2,458
views
views
43
Jane Foster
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
2,159
views
views
44
Georges Lemaรฎtre
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894โ1966)
2,111
views
views
45
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081โ1124)
2,106
views
views
46
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 โ 1703)
2,096
views
views
47
Omar Khayyรกm
Persian mathematician and poet (1048โ1131)
2,000
views
views
48
Hillary Diane Andales
Filipino astronomer and astrophysicist
1,963
views
views
49
Fritz Zwicky
Swiss astronomer who posited dark matter (1898โ1974)
1,909
views
views
50
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126โ1198)
1,819
views
views
51
Max Tegmark
Swedish-American physicist and cosmologist
1,785
views
views
52
Tim Russ
American actor
1,654
views
views
53
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973โ1048)
1,653
views
views
54
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824โ1907)
1,644
views
views
55
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749โ1827)
1,634
views
views
56
Jacques Vallรฉe
Computer Scientist, UFO researcher
1,629
views
views
57
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Persian astronomer (1201โ1274)
1,557
views
views
58
John Harrison
British clockworker
1,548
views
views
59
Christopher Wren
English architect (1632โ1723)
1,548
views
views
60
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629โ1695)
1,543
views
views
61
Lawrence M. Krauss
American particle physicist and cosmologist
1,535
views
views
62
Ibn al-Haytham
Persian physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 โ c. 1040)
1,503
views
views
63
Henri Poincarรฉ
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854โ1912)
1,497
views
views
64
Sean M. Carroll
American theoretical cosmologist
1,494
views
views
65
Shrinivas Kulkarni
American astronomer
1,396
views
views
66
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889โ1953)
1,382
views
views
67
Robert H. Goddard
American physicist
1,360
views
views
68
Idris
prophet
1,346
views
views
69
Michelle Thaller
American astronomer
1,338
views
views
70
Avi Loeb
Israeli astrophysicist (1962-)
1,331
views
views
71
Alastair Reynolds
British science fiction author (born 1966)
1,302
views
views
72
Toghon Temรผr
Yuan and Northern Yuan emperor from 1333 to 1370
1,266
views
views
73
Aristarchus of Samos
Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.310โc.230 BC)
1,249
views
views
74
Leopold Bloom
fictional protagonist of James Joyce's novel Ulysses
1,207
views
views
75
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738โ1822)
1,207
views
views
76
Ronald Fisher
British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890โ1962)
1,177
views
views
77
Johann Georg Faust
German Renaissance alchemist, astrologer, and magician
1,176
views
views
78
Vasiแนฃแนญha
ancient Indian sage
1,170
views
views
79
Erik Selvig
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
1,150
views
views
80
Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
1,148
views
views
81
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880โ1930)
1,111
views
views
82
Sima Qian
2nd-century BCE Chinese historian and writer
1,100
views
views
83
Brahmagupta
Indian mathematician and astronomer (c. 598 โ c. 668 CE)
1,094
views
views
84
Percival Lowell
American astronomer (1855-1916)
1,093
views
views
85
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
1,080
views
views
86
John of Damascus
Christian monk, priest, hymnographer and apologist (675/6-749)
1,056
views
views
87
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astrophysicist (born 1943)
1,016
views
views
88
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486โ1535)
1,003
views
views
89
Pytheas
ancient Greek explorer
990
views
views
90
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656โ1742)
989
views
views
91
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
983
views
views
92
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
981
views
views
93
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
976
views
views
94
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736โ1813)
954
views
views
95
Theodore von Kรกrmรกn
Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist (1881โ1963)
945
views
views
96
Basil Brown
British archaeologist
943
views
views
97
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
938
views
views
98
Arthur Eddington
British astrophysicist (1882-1944)
930
views
views
99
Jabir ibn Hayyan
8th-century Islamic alchemist and author
904
views
views
100
Farabi
10th century Persian philosopher and jurist
891
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views
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