Trending Astronomers in France — the 7 days to 27 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed astronomers on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 27 October 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Leonardo da Vinci. Data as of 27 October 2026.
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Ranked
75,470
Total Views (the 7 days to 27 October 2026)
1
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
6,634
views
views
2
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
3,529
views
views
3
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
3,229
views
views
4
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
3,127
views
views
5
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
2,910
views
views
6
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
2,893
views
views
7
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)
2,596
views
views
8
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
2,381
views
views
9
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)
2,059
views
views
10
Aurélien Barrau
French astrophysicist
2,029
views
views
11
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
1,882
views
views
12
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
1,677
views
views
13
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
1,570
views
views
14
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
1,569
views
views
15
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
1,527
views
views
16
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
1,127
views
views
17
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
1,105
views
views
18
Cheikh Anta Diop
Senegalese politician, essayist (1923–1986)
1,054
views
views
19
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
1,049
views
views
20
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548–1600)
1,033
views
views
21
Jean-Pierre Petit
French astrophysicist, scientist and illustrator
1,021
views
views
22
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
996
views
views
23
François Arago
French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (1786-1853)
988
views
views
24
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
980
views
views
25
Imhotep
Egyptian architect, physician, astronomer, and god of medicine in ancient Egyptian mythology.
839
views
views
26
Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
836
views
views
27
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
800
views
views
28
Cécile Renault
French astrophysicist (1970-2021)
763
views
views
29
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
749
views
views
30
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
742
views
views
31
Moshe ben Maimon
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135–1204)
737
views
views
32
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
717
views
views
33
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
675
views
views
34
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
623
views
views
35
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
594
views
views
36
Hubert Reeves
Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science (1932–2023)
590
views
views
37
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
584
views
views
38
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
537
views
views
39
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)
509
views
views
40
Georges Lemaître
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894–1966)
503
views
views
41
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
French writer and philosopher of the enlightenment (1657–1757)
477
views
views
42
Christophe Galfard
French physicist and writer
459
views
views
43
Yves Langevin
French astrophysicist
441
views
views
44
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736–1813)
432
views
views
45
Jean Sylvain Bailly
French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader (1736-1793)
421
views
views
46
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546–1601
401
views
views
47
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
398
views
views
48
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081–1124)
398
views
views
49
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
393
views
views
50
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
372
views
views
51
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
353
views
views
52
Philipp Melanchthon
German reformer (1497-1560)
352
views
views
53
Jacob Barnett
American child prodigy
347
views
views
54
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)
347
views
views
55
Farabi
10th century Persian philosopher and jurist
332
views
views
56
Ibn al-Haytham
Arab physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)
332
views
views
57
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629–1695)
331
views
views
58
Michael Servetus
Spanish physician and theologian
312
views
views
59
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
304
views
views
60
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
297
views
views
61
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
296
views
views
62
Sylvester II
Pope of the Catholic Church from 999 to 1003
294
views
views
63
Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
291
views
views
64
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Italian/French mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer (*1625 – †1712)
283
views
views
65
Camille Flammarion
French astronomer and author (1842–1925)
281
views
views
66
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486–1535)
261
views
views
67
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
253
views
views
68
Alastair Reynolds
British science fiction author (born 1966)
233
views
views
69
Nicholas of Cusa
German philosopher (1401 – 1464)
226
views
views
70
Jean-Pierre Luminet
French astrophysicist
224
views
views
71
Francis Rocard
French astrophysicist
213
views
views
72
David Elbaz
French astrophysicist
212
views
views
73
Jacques Vallée
Computer Scientist, UFO researcher
211
views
views
74
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
210
views
views
75
Pytheas
ancient Greek explorer
207
views
views
76
Pierre Gassendi
French philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, priest, and scientist (*1592 – †1655)
206
views
views
77
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astrophysicist (born 1943)
202
views
views
78
Léon Foucault
French physicist (1819–1868)
202
views
views
79
Idris
prophet
199
views
views
80
Nathalie A. Cabrol
French American astrobiologist
197
views
views
81
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
195
views
views
82
Anton Pannekoek
Dutch astronomer and Marxist theorist (1873-1960)
192
views
views
83
Al-Kindi
Muslim Arab philosopher, mathematician and physician (c.801–873)
191
views
views
84
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters
189
views
views
85
Abbas Ibn Firnas
9th century astronomer and physician
187
views
views
86
Gerolamo Cardano
Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer (1501-1576)
185
views
views
87
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889–1953)
182
views
views
88
Siméon Denis Poisson
French mathematician, mechanician and physicist (1781–1840)
180
views
views
89
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
176
views
views
90
John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
175
views
views
91
John of Damascus
Christian monk, priest, hymnographer and apologist (675/6-749)
172
views
views
92
Svante August Arrhenius
Swedish astronomer, chemist and physicist (1859–1927)
169
views
views
93
Aristarchus of Samos
Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.310–c.230 BC)
169
views
views
94
Urbain Le Verrier
French astronomer (1811-1877)
167
views
views
95
Trinh Xuan Thuan
Vietnamese-American astrophysicist
164
views
views
96
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
164
views
views
97
Alfonso X of Castile and Leon
King of Castile from 1252 to 1284
164
views
views
98
Sima Qian
Chinese historian (c. 145 – c. 86 BCE)
163
views
views
99
Abraham de Moivre
French mathematician (*1667 – †1754)
162
views
views
100
Marin Mersenne
French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, often referred to as the "father of acoustics" (1588-1648)
161
views
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