Trending Astronomers in France — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed astronomers on Wikipedia, September 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Leonardo da Vinci. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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Ranked
337,827
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
25,971
views
views
2
Jean-Pierre Petit
French astrophysicist, scientist and illustrator
17,508
views
views
3
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
17,444
views
views
4
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
17,357
views
views
5
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
14,111
views
views
6
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
14,027
views
views
7
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
12,514
views
views
8
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
10,558
views
views
9
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
9,406
views
views
10
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)
9,345
views
views
11
Aurélien Barrau
French astrophysicist
7,520
views
views
12
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
6,805
views
views
13
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)
6,410
views
views
14
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
6,346
views
views
15
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
6,174
views
views
16
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
5,541
views
views
17
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
5,126
views
views
18
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
5,019
views
views
19
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
4,809
views
views
20
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
4,532
views
views
21
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548–1600)
4,224
views
views
22
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
4,097
views
views
23
Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
3,887
views
views
24
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
3,770
views
views
25
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
3,654
views
views
26
François Arago
French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (1786-1853)
3,415
views
views
27
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
3,255
views
views
28
Cheikh Anta Diop
Senegalese politician, essayist (1923–1986)
3,180
views
views
29
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736–1813)
3,173
views
views
30
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
3,117
views
views
31
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
3,061
views
views
32
Moshe ben Maimon
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135–1204)
3,047
views
views
33
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
French writer and philosopher of the enlightenment (1657–1757)
2,967
views
views
34
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
2,960
views
views
35
Cécile Renault
French astrophysicist (1970-2021)
2,938
views
views
36
Hubert Reeves
Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science (1932–2023)
2,909
views
views
37
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
2,854
views
views
38
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
2,707
views
views
39
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)
2,515
views
views
40
Imhotep
Egyptian architect, physician, astronomer, and god of medicine in ancient Egyptian mythology.
2,287
views
views
41
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
2,222
views
views
42
Francis Rocard
French astrophysicist
2,218
views
views
43
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
2,163
views
views
44
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
2,137
views
views
45
Christophe Galfard
French physicist and writer
1,925
views
views
46
Georges Lemaître
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894–1966)
1,905
views
views
47
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
1,780
views
views
48
Jean Sylvain Bailly
French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader (1736-1793)
1,776
views
views
49
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
1,679
views
views
50
Sylvester II
Pope of the Catholic Church from 999 to 1003
1,584
views
views
51
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
1,536
views
views
52
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546–1601
1,511
views
views
53
Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
1,366
views
views
54
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629–1695)
1,341
views
views
55
Ibn al-Haytham
Arab physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)
1,281
views
views
56
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081–1124)
1,277
views
views
57
Farabi
10th century Persian philosopher and jurist
1,267
views
views
58
Michael Servetus
Spanish physician and theologian
1,253
views
views
59
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
1,241
views
views
60
Camille Flammarion
French astronomer and author (1842–1925)
1,235
views
views
61
Jacques Vallée
Computer Scientist, UFO researcher
1,203
views
views
62
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
1,161
views
views
63
Philipp Melanchthon
German reformer (1497-1560)
1,160
views
views
64
James E. Hansen
American climatologist (1941-)
1,114
views
views
65
Siméon Denis Poisson
French mathematician, mechanician and physicist (1781–1840)
1,075
views
views
66
Yves Langevin
French astrophysicist
1,050
views
views
67
Pytheas
ancient Greek explorer
1,041
views
views
68
Léon Foucault
French physicist (1819–1868)
1,011
views
views
69
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
991
views
views
70
Alastair Reynolds
British science fiction author (born 1966)
978
views
views
71
Jean-Pierre Luminet
French astrophysicist
923
views
views
72
Pierre Gassendi
French philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, priest, and scientist (*1592 – †1655)
913
views
views
73
Françoise Combes
French astrophysicist and President of the French Academy of Sciences
901
views
views
74
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
899
views
views
75
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Italian/French mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer (*1625 – †1712)
878
views
views
76
Aristarchus of Samos
Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.310–c.230 BC)
860
views
views
77
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
856
views
views
78
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889–1953)
846
views
views
79
John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
836
views
views
80
Urbain Le Verrier
French astronomer (1811-1877)
827
views
views
81
Gerolamo Cardano
Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer (1501-1576)
825
views
views
82
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
817
views
views
83
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486–1535)
814
views
views
84
Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin
British-born American astronomer
805
views
views
85
John of Damascus
Christian monk, priest, hymnographer and apologist (675/6-749)
802
views
views
86
Svante August Arrhenius
Swedish astronomer, chemist and physicist (1859–1927)
799
views
views
87
Alfonso X of Castile and Leon
King of Castile from 1252 to 1284
797
views
views
88
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters
777
views
views
89
Nicholas of Cusa
German philosopher (1401 – 1464)
766
views
views
90
Idris
prophet
757
views
views
91
Abbas Ibn Firnas
9th century astronomer and physician
743
views
views
92
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738–1822)
741
views
views
93
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astrophysicist (born 1943)
736
views
views
94
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
731
views
views
95
Al-Kindi
Muslim Arab philosopher, mathematician and physician (c.801–873)
731
views
views
96
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
719
views
views
97
Marin Mersenne
French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, often referred to as the "father of acoustics" (1588-1648)
710
views
views
98
Sima Qian
Chinese historian (c. 145 – c. 86 BCE)
673
views
views
99
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
665
views
views
100
Trinh Xuan Thuan
Vietnamese-American astrophysicist
659
views
views