Trending Astronomers — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed astronomers on Wikipedia, September 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Stephen Hawking. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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Ranked
4,399,882
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
339,042
views
views
2
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
329,189
views
views
3
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
272,169
views
views
4
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
265,868
views
views
5
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
184,154
views
views
6
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
141,779
views
views
7
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
131,711
views
views
8
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
119,206
views
views
9
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
98,357
views
views
10
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
97,406
views
views
11
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
94,194
views
views
12
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
84,711
views
views
13
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)
78,750
views
views
14
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
69,707
views
views
15
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
69,196
views
views
16
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
65,557
views
views
17
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
65,474
views
views
18
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548–1600)
62,630
views
views
19
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
60,504
views
views
20
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
56,601
views
views
21
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
56,007
views
views
22
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
53,930
views
views
23
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
52,860
views
views
24
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
50,863
views
views
25
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
49,976
views
views
26
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
49,736
views
views
27
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
44,499
views
views
28
Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
43,947
views
views
29
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
42,863
views
views
30
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
42,830
views
views
31
Moshe ben Maimon
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135–1204)
39,600
views
views
32
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
37,727
views
views
33
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
37,548
views
views
34
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546–1601
33,157
views
views
35
Imhotep
Egyptian architect, physician, astronomer, and god of medicine in ancient Egyptian mythology.
32,524
views
views
36
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)
29,546
views
views
37
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
29,426
views
views
38
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
28,145
views
views
39
John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
26,552
views
views
40
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
26,461
views
views
41
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
25,889
views
views
42
Georges Lemaître
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894–1966)
24,653
views
views
43
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
21,608
views
views
44
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
21,205
views
views
45
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)
20,672
views
views
46
Alfonso X of Castile and Leon
King of Castile from 1252 to 1284
20,506
views
views
47
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
20,483
views
views
48
Tabata Amaral
Brazilian political scientist, astrophysicist, activist, politician and Federal Representative and former First Lady of Recife, Brazil
20,347
views
views
49
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
20,210
views
views
50
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736–1813)
19,101
views
views
51
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081–1124)
18,749
views
views
52
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889–1953)
18,732
views
views
53
Abe no Seimei
Japanese onmyōji
18,197
views
views
54
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
18,175
views
views
55
Aryabhata
Pioneer astronomer who formulated zero, quadratic rules, and earth's rotation.
17,926
views
views
56
Jean-Pierre Petit
French astrophysicist, scientist and illustrator
17,907
views
views
57
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629–1695)
17,661
views
views
58
Sima Qian
Chinese historian (c. 145 – c. 86 BCE)
17,410
views
views
59
Ibn al-Haytham
Arab physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)
17,244
views
views
60
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738–1822)
16,644
views
views
61
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
16,503
views
views
62
Luis Walter Alvarez
American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor (1911–1988)
16,478
views
views
63
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
16,405
views
views
64
Johann Georg Faust
German Renaissance alchemist, astrologer, and magician
15,586
views
views
65
Max Tegmark
Swedish-American physicist and cosmologist
15,532
views
views
66
Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
15,190
views
views
67
Jacques Vallée
Computer Scientist, UFO researcher
15,169
views
views
68
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Persian astronomer (1201–1274)
14,952
views
views
69
Farabi
10th century Persian philosopher and jurist
14,817
views
views
70
Christopher Wren
English architect (1632–1723)
14,706
views
views
71
Toghon Temür
Yuan and Northern Yuan emperor from 1333 to 1370
14,353
views
views
72
Aristarchus of Samos
Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.310–c.230 BC)
14,238
views
views
73
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486–1535)
13,291
views
views
74
Robert H. Goddard
American physicist
12,996
views
views
75
Tim Russ
American actor
12,864
views
views
76
Jane Foster
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
12,722
views
views
77
Nicholas of Cusa
German philosopher (1401 – 1464)
12,697
views
views
78
Anousheh Ansari
Iranian-American engineer and entrepreneur (born 1966)
12,598
views
views
79
Alastair Reynolds
British science fiction author (born 1966)
12,418
views
views
80
John Frederick William Herschel
English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and photographer (1792–1871)
12,402
views
views
81
John of Damascus
Christian monk, priest, hymnographer and apologist (675/6-749)
12,365
views
views
82
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
12,297
views
views
83
Ulugh Beg
Timurid sultan, astronomer and mathematician (1394–1449)
12,259
views
views
84
Michael Servetus
Spanish physician and theologian
12,204
views
views
85
Laura Overdeck
American maths education entrepreneur
11,872
views
views
86
Idris
prophet
11,721
views
views
87
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
11,564
views
views
88
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astrophysicist (born 1943)
11,560
views
views
89
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
11,549
views
views
90
Ronald Fisher
British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890–1962)
11,535
views
views
91
Siméon Denis Poisson
French mathematician, mechanician and physicist (1781–1840)
11,531
views
views
92
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)
11,351
views
views
93
John Archibald Wheeler
American physicist (1911-2008)
11,021
views
views
94
John Harrison
British clockworker
10,948
views
views
95
John Napier
Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (1550–1617)
10,654
views
views
96
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
10,578
views
views
97
Otto Schmidt
Russian geophysicist and polar explorer of Baltic German origin (1891-1956)
10,562
views
views
98
Harald Lesch
German physicist
10,256
views
views
99
Margherita Hack
Italian astrophysicist and popular science writer (1922-2013)
10,242
views
views
100
Queen Seondeok of Silla
queen-regnant of Silla
10,175
views
views