Trending Astronomers in USA — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed astronomers on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (English-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Stephen Hawking. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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4,434,976
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
359,195
views
views
2
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
274,269
views
views
3
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
271,756
views
views
4
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
242,624
views
views
5
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
181,383
views
views
6
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
148,231
views
views
7
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
142,129
views
views
8
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
126,075
views
views
9
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
121,484
views
views
10
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
109,625
views
views
11
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
93,088
views
views
12
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
89,468
views
views
13
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
83,836
views
views
14
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)
83,179
views
views
15
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
61,964
views
views
16
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
60,944
views
views
17
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
60,785
views
views
18
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
57,578
views
views
19
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
55,073
views
views
20
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
54,360
views
views
21
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
54,182
views
views
22
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
52,015
views
views
23
Nancy Roman
American astronomer and principal in the Hubble Space Telescope project (1925-2018)
47,590
views
views
24
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548–1600)
46,083
views
views
25
Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
45,772
views
views
26
Moshe ben Maimon
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135–1204)
45,583
views
views
27
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
43,852
views
views
28
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
41,156
views
views
29
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
38,668
views
views
30
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546–1601
38,243
views
views
31
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
36,526
views
views
32
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
35,788
views
views
33
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
35,589
views
views
34
Imhotep
Egyptian architect, physician, astronomer, and god of medicine in ancient Egyptian mythology.
33,984
views
views
35
John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
33,672
views
views
36
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
31,907
views
views
37
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
30,149
views
views
38
Aryabhata
Pioneer astronomer who formulated zero, quadratic rules, and earth's rotation.
29,871
views
views
39
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
25,926
views
views
40
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
25,438
views
views
41
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
25,431
views
views
42
Georges Lemaître
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894–1966)
24,923
views
views
43
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
24,509
views
views
44
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
24,131
views
views
45
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)
23,074
views
views
46
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889–1953)
22,589
views
views
47
Laura Overdeck
American maths education entrepreneur
22,229
views
views
48
Ibn al-Haytham
Arab physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)
21,974
views
views
49
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
21,852
views
views
50
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738–1822)
21,831
views
views
51
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
21,448
views
views
52
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
21,323
views
views
53
Jane Foster
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
20,932
views
views
54
Luis Walter Alvarez
American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor (1911–1988)
20,566
views
views
55
Christopher Wren
English architect (1632–1723)
20,437
views
views
56
Max Tegmark
Swedish-American physicist and cosmologist
19,984
views
views
57
Robert H. Goddard
American physicist
19,387
views
views
58
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629–1695)
19,046
views
views
59
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081–1124)
18,948
views
views
60
Jacques Vallée
Computer Scientist, UFO researcher
18,523
views
views
61
Clifford Stoll
American astronomer
18,410
views
views
62
Tim Russ
American actor
18,150
views
views
63
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Persian astronomer (1201–1274)
16,999
views
views
64
Alastair Reynolds
British science fiction author (born 1966)
16,762
views
views
65
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)
16,438
views
views
66
Toghon Temür
Yuan and Northern Yuan emperor from 1333 to 1370
16,083
views
views
67
Ronald Fisher
British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890–1962)
16,010
views
views
68
Johann Georg Faust
German Renaissance alchemist, astrologer, and magician
15,640
views
views
69
Idris
prophet
15,284
views
views
70
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
15,220
views
views
71
John Harrison
British clockworker
15,048
views
views
72
John Archibald Wheeler
American physicist (1911-2008)
14,700
views
views
73
Maggie Aderin
British space scientist
14,568
views
views
74
Sima Qian
Chinese historian (c. 145 – c. 86 BCE)
14,557
views
views
75
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736–1813)
14,538
views
views
76
John of Damascus
Christian monk, priest, hymnographer and apologist (675/6-749)
13,953
views
views
77
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astrophysicist (born 1943)
13,807
views
views
78
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486–1535)
13,759
views
views
79
Vasiṣṭha
ancient Indian sage
13,750
views
views
80
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
13,692
views
views
81
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)
13,549
views
views
82
John Frederick William Herschel
English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and photographer (1792–1871)
13,470
views
views
83
Aristarchus of Samos
Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.310–c.230 BC)
13,426
views
views
84
Lawrence M. Krauss
American particle physicist and cosmologist
13,407
views
views
85
Brahmagupta
Indian mathematician and astronomer (c. 598 – c. 668 CE)
13,383
views
views
86
Erik Selvig
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
13,130
views
views
87
Sean M. Carroll
American theoretical cosmologist
13,105
views
views
88
Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
12,527
views
views
89
Benjamin Banneker
free African American scientist, surveyor, almanac author and farmer (1731–1806)
12,258
views
views
90
Avi Loeb
Israeli astrophysicist (1962-)
12,234
views
views
91
Farabi
10th century Persian philosopher and jurist
12,026
views
views
92
Basil Brown
British archaeologist
11,968
views
views
93
Arthur Eddington
British astrophysicist (1882-1944)
11,925
views
views
94
Fred Hoyle
British astronomer (1915–2001)
11,731
views
views
95
John Napier
Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (1550–1617)
11,457
views
views
96
Ulugh Beg
Timurid sultan, astronomer and mathematician (1394–1449)
11,437
views
views
97
Siméon Denis Poisson
French mathematician, mechanician and physicist (1781–1840)
11,435
views
views
98
Jabir ibn Hayyan
8th-century Islamic alchemist and author
11,284
views
views
99
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
10,904
views
views
100
Pytheas
ancient Greek explorer
10,775
views
views