Trending Astronomers in France — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed astronomers on Wikipedia, the 12 months to 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
363,107
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
28,429
views
views
2
Jean-Pierre Petit
French astrophysicist, scientist and illustrator
18,693
views
views
3
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
18,603
views
views
4
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
18,370
views
views
5
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
15,344
views
views
6
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
15,052
views
views
7
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
13,660
views
views
8
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
11,105
views
views
9
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
10,084
views
views
10
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)
9,872
views
views
11
Aurélien Barrau
French astrophysicist
8,058
views
views
12
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
7,342
views
views
13
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)
6,917
views
views
14
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
6,726
views
views
15
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
6,664
views
views
16
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
5,822
views
views
17
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
5,588
views
views
18
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
5,547
views
views
19
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
5,145
views
views
20
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
4,873
views
views
21
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548–1600)
4,559
views
views
22
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
4,438
views
views
23
Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
4,220
views
views
24
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
4,075
views
views
25
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
3,943
views
views
26
François Arago
French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (1786-1853)
3,563
views
views
27
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
3,556
views
views
28
Cheikh Anta Diop
Senegalese politician, essayist (1923–1986)
3,461
views
views
29
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
3,360
views
views
30
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736–1813)
3,304
views
views
31
Moshe ben Maimon
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135–1204)
3,268
views
views
32
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
3,185
views
views
33
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
French writer and philosopher of the enlightenment (1657–1757)
3,166
views
views
34
Hubert Reeves
Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science (1932–2023)
3,136
views
views
35
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
3,124
views
views
36
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
3,117
views
views
37
Cécile Renault
French astrophysicist (1970-2021)
3,100
views
views
38
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
2,983
views
views
39
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)
2,582
views
views
40
Francis Rocard
French astrophysicist
2,572
views
views
41
Imhotep
Egyptian architect, physician, astronomer, and god of medicine in ancient Egyptian mythology.
2,461
views
views
42
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
2,333
views
views
43
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
2,327
views
views
44
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
2,231
views
views
45
Christophe Galfard
French physicist and writer
2,068
views
views
46
Georges Lemaître
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894–1966)
2,052
views
views
47
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
1,866
views
views
48
Jean Sylvain Bailly
French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader (1736-1793)
1,863
views
views
49
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
1,765
views
views
50
Sylvester II
Pope of the Catholic Church from 999 to 1003
1,689
views
views
51
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
1,643
views
views
52
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546–1601
1,639
views
views
53
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629–1695)
1,482
views
views
54
Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
1,452
views
views
55
Ibn al-Haytham
Arab physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)
1,388
views
views
56
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
1,380
views
views
57
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081–1124)
1,380
views
views
58
Farabi
10th century Persian philosopher and jurist
1,359
views
views
59
Michael Servetus
Spanish physician and theologian
1,348
views
views
60
Camille Flammarion
French astronomer and author (1842–1925)
1,345
views
views
61
Jacques Vallée
Computer Scientist, UFO researcher
1,263
views
views
62
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
1,235
views
views
63
Philipp Melanchthon
German reformer (1497-1560)
1,226
views
views
64
Yves Langevin
French astrophysicist
1,225
views
views
65
Siméon Denis Poisson
French mathematician, mechanician and physicist (1781–1840)
1,155
views
views
66
Pytheas
ancient Greek explorer
1,131
views
views
67
James E. Hansen
American climatologist (1941-)
1,122
views
views
68
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
1,085
views
views
69
Léon Foucault
French physicist (1819–1868)
1,076
views
views
70
Alastair Reynolds
British science fiction author (born 1966)
1,037
views
views
71
Jean-Pierre Luminet
French astrophysicist
997
views
views
72
Pierre Gassendi
French philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, priest, and scientist (*1592 – †1655)
980
views
views
73
John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
975
views
views
74
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Italian/French mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer (*1625 – †1712)
961
views
views
75
Françoise Combes
French astrophysicist and President of the French Academy of Sciences
960
views
views
76
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
952
views
views
77
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
930
views
views
78
Aristarchus of Samos
Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.310–c.230 BC)
921
views
views
79
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889–1953)
920
views
views
80
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
906
views
views
81
Urbain Le Verrier
French astronomer (1811-1877)
884
views
views
82
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486–1535)
868
views
views
83
Gerolamo Cardano
Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer (1501-1576)
868
views
views
84
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astrophysicist (born 1943)
856
views
views
85
John of Damascus
Christian monk, priest, hymnographer and apologist (675/6-749)
851
views
views
86
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters
846
views
views
87
Idris
prophet
844
views
views
88
Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin
British-born American astronomer
840
views
views
89
Alfonso X of Castile and Leon
King of Castile from 1252 to 1284
834
views
views
90
Svante August Arrhenius
Swedish astronomer, chemist and physicist (1859–1927)
833
views
views
91
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
826
views
views
92
Nicholas of Cusa
German philosopher (1401 – 1464)
823
views
views
93
Abbas Ibn Firnas
9th century astronomer and physician
815
views
views
94
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738–1822)
807
views
views
95
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
803
views
views
96
Al-Kindi
Muslim Arab philosopher, mathematician and physician (c.801–873)
800
views
views
97
Marin Mersenne
French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, often referred to as the "father of acoustics" (1588-1648)
768
views
views
98
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
759
views
views
99
John Napier
Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (1550–1617)
732
views
views
100
Jamshīd al-Kāshī
Persian astronomer and mathematician
716
views
views