Trending Astronomers this month
The 100 most-viewed astronomers this month on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Stephen Hawking.
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Ranked
575,006
Total Views (this month)
Country
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๐จ๐ณ China
1
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942โ2018)
40,512
views
views
2
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452โ1519)
34,268
views
views
3
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642โ1727)
32,820
views
views
4
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
27,514
views
views
5
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
20,058
views
views
6
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
17,499
views
views
7
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
17,429
views
views
8
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934โ1996)
16,186
views
views
9
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564โ1642)
15,771
views
views
10
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503โ1566)
14,330
views
views
11
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 โ c. 212 BC)
13,276
views
views
12
Renรฉ Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596โ1650)
12,183
views
views
13
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
10,906
views
views
14
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707โ1783)
10,139
views
views
15
Alan Guth
American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
9,045
views
views
16
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
9,008
views
views
17
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
8,123
views
views
18
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951โ2012)
8,054
views
views
19
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791โ1871)
7,807
views
views
20
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
7,658
views
views
21
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
7,142
views
views
22
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980โ1037)
7,067
views
views
23
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
6,971
views
views
24
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
6,937
views
views
25
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
6,257
views
views
26
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
6,216
views
views
27
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777โ1855)
6,138
views
views
28
Moshe ben Maimon
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135โ1204)
6,019
views
views
29
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548โ1600)
5,615
views
views
30
Muแธฅammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
5,128
views
views
31
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
5,123
views
views
32
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571โ1630)
5,111
views
views
33
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493โ1541)
4,993
views
views
34
Aryabhata
Pioneer astronomer who formulated zero, quadratic rules, and earth's rotation.
4,737
views
views
35
Imhotep
Egyptian polymath, later revered as a god
4,540
views
views
36
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546โ1601
4,392
views
views
37
John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
4,221
views
views
38
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
4,210
views
views
39
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743โ1794)
4,033
views
views
40
Fritz Zwicky
Swiss astronomer who posited dark matter (1898โ1974)
3,892
views
views
41
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
3,885
views
views
42
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 โ 1703)
3,745
views
views
43
Omar Khayyรกm
Persian mathematician and poet (1048โ1131)
3,338
views
views
44
Jane Foster
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
3,298
views
views
45
Georges Lemaรฎtre
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894โ1966)
3,281
views
views
46
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081โ1124)
3,257
views
views
47
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126โ1198)
3,024
views
views
48
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Persian astronomer (1201โ1274)
3,013
views
views
49
Tim Russ
American actor
2,911
views
views
50
Christopher Wren
English architect (1632โ1723)
2,797
views
views
51
Lawrence M. Krauss
American particle physicist and cosmologist
2,755
views
views
52
John Harrison
British clockworker
2,754
views
views
53
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973โ1048)
2,741
views
views
54
Walter Lewin
Dutch-born American physicist (born 1936)
2,689
views
views
55
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749โ1827)
2,687
views
views
56
Henri Poincarรฉ
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854โ1912)
2,632
views
views
57
Ibn al-Haytham
Persian physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 โ c. 1040)
2,624
views
views
58
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824โ1907)
2,567
views
views
59
Nancy Roman
American astronomer and principal in the Hubble Space Telescope project (1925-2018)
2,501
views
views
60
Sean M. Carroll
American theoretical cosmologist
2,435
views
views
61
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629โ1695)
2,408
views
views
62
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889โ1953)
2,371
views
views
63
Michelle Thaller
American astronomer
2,368
views
views
64
Robert H. Goddard
American physicist
2,316
views
views
65
Idris
prophet
2,270
views
views
66
Alastair Reynolds
British science fiction author (born 1966)
2,250
views
views
67
Shrinivas Kulkarni
American astronomer
2,181
views
views
68
Max Tegmark
Swedish-American physicist and cosmologist
2,170
views
views
69
Toghon Temรผr
Yuan and Northern Yuan emperor from 1333 to 1370
2,146
views
views
70
Leopold Bloom
fictional protagonist of James Joyce's novel Ulysses
2,109
views
views
71
Ronald Fisher
British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890โ1962)
2,102
views
views
72
Jacques Vallรฉe
Computer Scientist, UFO researcher
2,070
views
views
73
Avi Loeb
Israeli astrophysicist (1962-)
2,025
views
views
74
Vasiแนฃแนญha
ancient Indian sage
2,012
views
views
75
Johann Georg Faust
German Renaissance alchemist, astrologer, and magician
1,997
views
views
76
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738โ1822)
1,993
views
views
77
Brahmagupta
Indian mathematician and astronomer (c. 598 โ c. 668 CE)
1,945
views
views
78
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
1,939
views
views
79
Pytheas
ancient Greek explorer
1,866
views
views
80
John of Damascus
Christian monk, priest, hymnographer and apologist (675/6-749)
1,776
views
views
81
Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
1,773
views
views
82
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486โ1535)
1,763
views
views
83
Sima Qian
2nd-century BCE Chinese historian and writer
1,757
views
views
84
Bernard Lovell
English physicist and radio astronomer
1,749
views
views
85
Aristarchus of Samos
Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.310โc.230 BC)
1,738
views
views
86
Erik Selvig
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
1,719
views
views
87
Arthur Eddington
British astrophysicist (1882-1944)
1,687
views
views
88
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
1,668
views
views
89
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
1,651
views
views
90
Bhฤskara II
Indian mathematician and astronomer Mathematical genius who discovered early principles of calculus and solved indeterminate equations.
1,623
views
views
91
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880โ1930)
1,604
views
views
92
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656โ1742)
1,573
views
views
93
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
1,569
views
views
94
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736โ1813)
1,564
views
views
95
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astrophysicist (born 1943)
1,560
views
views
96
Farabi
10th century Persian philosopher and jurist
1,519
views
views
97
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
1,507
views
views
98
Jabir ibn Hayyan
8th-century Islamic alchemist and author
1,473
views
views
99
Ulugh Beg
Timurid sultan, astronomer and mathematician (1394โ1449)
1,470
views
views
100
Theodore von Kรกrmรกn
Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist (1881โ1963)
1,463
views
views
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