Trending Astronomers in USA this year
The 100 most-viewed astronomers this year on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Stephen Hawking.
100
Ranked
1,185,783
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)
95,286
views
views
2
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452โ1519)
71,701
views
views
3
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642โ1727)
69,216
views
views
4
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
52,815
views
views
5
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
44,347
views
views
6
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
42,204
views
views
7
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
36,201
views
views
8
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934โ1996)
35,319
views
views
9
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564โ1642)
33,931
views
views
10
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503โ1566)
25,674
views
views
11
Renรฉ Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596โ1650)
25,390
views
views
12
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 โ c. 212 BC)
25,185
views
views
13
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707โ1783)
24,451
views
views
14
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
22,489
views
views
15
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951โ2012)
21,459
views
views
16
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791โ1871)
15,565
views
views
17
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980โ1037)
15,061
views
views
18
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
14,794
views
views
19
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
14,787
views
views
20
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
14,404
views
views
21
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
13,691
views
views
22
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
13,631
views
views
23
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777โ1855)
13,519
views
views
24
Moshe ben Maimon
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135โ1204)
12,817
views
views
25
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
12,542
views
views
26
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548โ1600)
12,269
views
views
27
Alan Guth
American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
12,207
views
views
28
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571โ1630)
11,920
views
views
29
Muแธฅammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
11,480
views
views
30
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493โ1541)
10,704
views
views
31
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
10,104
views
views
32
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 โ 1703)
9,775
views
views
33
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546โ1601
9,731
views
views
34
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
9,622
views
views
35
Imhotep
Egyptian polymath, later revered as a god
9,415
views
views
36
Aryabhata
Pioneer astronomer who formulated zero, quadratic rules, and earth's rotation.
9,358
views
views
37
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
9,350
views
views
38
John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
9,242
views
views
39
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
8,654
views
views
40
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743โ1794)
8,259
views
views
41
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
7,804
views
views
42
Omar Khayyรกm
Persian mathematician and poet (1048โ1131)
6,958
views
views
43
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126โ1198)
6,363
views
views
44
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081โ1124)
6,240
views
views
45
Michelle Thaller
American astronomer
6,071
views
views
46
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749โ1827)
5,909
views
views
47
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824โ1907)
5,828
views
views
48
Henri Poincarรฉ
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854โ1912)
5,737
views
views
49
Lawrence M. Krauss
American particle physicist and cosmologist
5,709
views
views
50
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973โ1048)
5,697
views
views
51
Christopher Wren
English architect (1632โ1723)
5,644
views
views
52
Ibn al-Haytham
Persian physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 โ c. 1040)
5,607
views
views
53
Robert H. Goddard
American physicist
5,568
views
views
54
Tim Russ
American actor
5,513
views
views
55
Fritz Zwicky
Swiss astronomer who posited dark matter (1898โ1974)
5,471
views
views
56
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889โ1953)
5,387
views
views
57
Georges Lemaรฎtre
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894โ1966)
5,365
views
views
58
Thomas Brisbane
British Army general
5,172
views
views
59
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629โ1695)
5,162
views
views
60
Jane Foster
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
5,090
views
views
61
John Harrison
British clockworker
5,063
views
views
62
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Persian astronomer (1201โ1274)
4,806
views
views
63
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738โ1822)
4,764
views
views
64
Alastair Reynolds
British science fiction author (born 1966)
4,651
views
views
65
Idris
prophet
4,531
views
views
66
Toghon Temรผr
Yuan and Northern Yuan emperor from 1333 to 1370
4,499
views
views
67
Sean M. Carroll
American theoretical cosmologist
4,425
views
views
68
Jacques Vallรฉe
Computer Scientist, UFO researcher
4,362
views
views
69
Ronald Fisher
British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890โ1962)
4,341
views
views
70
Max Tegmark
Swedish-American physicist and cosmologist
4,247
views
views
71
John of Damascus
Christian monk, priest, hymnographer and apologist (675/6-749)
4,152
views
views
72
Avi Loeb
Israeli astrophysicist (1962-)
4,141
views
views
73
Johann Georg Faust
German Renaissance alchemist, astrologer, and magician
4,052
views
views
74
Nancy Roman
American astronomer and principal in the Hubble Space Telescope project (1925-2018)
4,043
views
views
75
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
4,005
views
views
76
Brahmagupta
Indian mathematician and astronomer (c. 598 โ c. 668 CE)
3,929
views
views
77
Sima Qian
2nd-century BCE Chinese historian and writer
3,799
views
views
78
Walter Lewin
Dutch-born American physicist (born 1936)
3,797
views
views
79
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486โ1535)
3,701
views
views
80
Pytheas
ancient Greek explorer
3,688
views
views
81
Vasiแนฃแนญha
ancient Indian sage
3,686
views
views
82
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880โ1930)
3,606
views
views
83
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
3,592
views
views
84
Leopold Bloom
fictional protagonist of James Joyce's novel Ulysses
3,575
views
views
85
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736โ1813)
3,565
views
views
86
Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
3,475
views
views
87
Arthur Eddington
British astrophysicist (1882-1944)
3,442
views
views
88
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
3,396
views
views
89
Aristarchus of Samos
Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.310โc.230 BC)
3,376
views
views
90
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astrophysicist (born 1943)
3,221
views
views
91
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656โ1742)
3,217
views
views
92
Farabi
10th century Persian philosopher and jurist
3,177
views
views
93
Ulugh Beg
Timurid sultan, astronomer and mathematician (1394โ1449)
3,126
views
views
94
Theodore von Kรกrmรกn
Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist (1881โ1963)
3,101
views
views
95
Benjamin Banneker
free African American scientist, surveyor, almanac author and farmer (1731โ1806)
3,100
views
views
96
Alan Hale
astronomer, co-discoverer of Comet HaleโBopp (1958โ2026)
3,086
views
views
97
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
3,064
views
views
98
Jabir ibn Hayyan
8th-century Islamic alchemist and author
3,042
views
views
99
Patrick Moore
English astronomer, broadcaster and writer (1923โ2012)
3,042
views
views
100
Graeme Segal
mathematician
3,034
views
views
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