Trending Astronomers — all time
The 100 most-viewed astronomers on Wikipedia, all time. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Leonardo da Vinci. Data as of 28 October 2026.
- Source
- Wikipedia pageviews — complete hourly data from Wikimedia (CC0)
- Window
- all time · Data as of 28 October 2026
- Showing
- 100 astronomers — drawn from 12,313,916 articles Wikipedia recorded views for in this window
This counts a Wikipedia language edition, not a country's residents. Nothing here is capped or sampled: it is every view Wikipedia published for these articles in the window. Rows carrying a 📰 badge add news coverage from GDELT; entity names and types come from Wikidata. Looking for what one country read? That is what the world reads — a different, capped measurement.
Where this data comes from ›100
Ranked
3,492,939
Total Views (all time)
Country
🌍 Global
1
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
291,986
views
views
2
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
225,327
views
views
3
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
224,924
views
views
4
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
170,723
views
views
5
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
150,508
views
views
6
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
115,499
views
views
7
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
104,983
views
views
8
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
99,723
views
views
9
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
87,523
views
views
10
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
81,255
views
views
11
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
73,646
views
views
12
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
70,823
views
views
13
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)
61,672
views
views
14
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
60,305
views
views
15
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548–1600)
56,653
views
views
16
Tabata Amaral
Brazilian political scientist, astrophysicist, activist, politician and Federal Representative and former First Lady of Recife, Brazil
56,364
views
views
17
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
53,520
views
views
18
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
53,514
views
views
19
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
42,867
views
views
20
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
42,305
views
views
21
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
41,520
views
views
22
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
41,392
views
views
23
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
40,912
views
views
24
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
39,855
views
views
25
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
38,609
views
views
26
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
37,896
views
views
27
Imhotep
Egyptian architect, physician, astronomer, and god of medicine in ancient Egyptian mythology.
37,274
views
views
28
Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
35,361
views
views
29
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
33,186
views
views
30
Moshe ben Maimon
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135–1204)
32,131
views
views
31
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
29,932
views
views
32
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
29,520
views
views
33
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546–1601
26,010
views
views
34
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
25,568
views
views
35
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)
25,491
views
views
36
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
23,956
views
views
37
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
23,789
views
views
38
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
23,175
views
views
39
Georges Lemaître
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894–1966)
22,404
views
views
40
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
21,976
views
views
41
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
21,316
views
views
42
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
20,561
views
views
43
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)
18,781
views
views
44
Alfonso X of Castile and Leon
King of Castile from 1252 to 1284
18,134
views
views
45
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
17,928
views
views
46
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
17,920
views
views
47
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
17,397
views
views
48
John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
17,334
views
views
49
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
16,553
views
views
50
Maggie Aderin
British space scientist
16,247
views
views
51
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889–1953)
15,942
views
views
52
Sima Qian
Chinese historian (c. 145 – c. 86 BCE)
15,067
views
views
53
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
14,882
views
views
54
Harald Lesch
German physicist
14,767
views
views
55
Abe no Seimei
Japanese onmyōji
14,762
views
views
56
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081–1124)
14,373
views
views
57
Pytheas
ancient Greek explorer
14,245
views
views
58
Ibn al-Haytham
Arab physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)
14,047
views
views
59
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629–1695)
13,711
views
views
60
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738–1822)
13,358
views
views
61
Johann Georg Faust
German Renaissance alchemist, astrologer, and magician
12,987
views
views
62
Toghon Temür
Yuan and Northern Yuan emperor from 1333 to 1370
12,880
views
views
63
Margherita Hack
Italian astrophysicist and popular science writer (1922-2013)
12,647
views
views
64
Aryabhata
Pioneer astronomer who formulated zero, quadratic rules, and earth's rotation.
12,623
views
views
65
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736–1813)
12,441
views
views
66
Luis Walter Alvarez
American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor (1911–1988)
12,441
views
views
67
Farabi
10th century Persian philosopher and jurist
12,243
views
views
68
Aya Ishihara
Japanese astrophysicist
12,088
views
views
69
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astrophysicist (born 1943)
11,849
views
views
70
Christopher Wren
English architect (1632–1723)
11,721
views
views
71
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486–1535)
11,512
views
views
72
Ulugh Beg
Timurid sultan, astronomer and mathematician (1394–1449)
11,500
views
views
73
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
11,318
views
views
74
Michael Servetus
Spanish physician and theologian
11,213
views
views
75
John of Damascus
Christian monk, priest, hymnographer and apologist (675/6-749)
11,159
views
views
76
Robert H. Goddard
American physicist
10,925
views
views
77
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
10,680
views
views
78
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
10,356
views
views
79
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)
10,196
views
views
80
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
10,191
views
views
81
Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
10,115
views
views
82
Ronald Fisher
British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890–1962)
10,073
views
views
83
John Harrison
British clockworker
9,912
views
views
84
Philipp Melanchthon
German reformer (1497-1560)
9,621
views
views
85
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
9,458
views
views
86
Tim Russ
American actor
9,358
views
views
87
Idris
prophet
9,301
views
views
88
John Archibald Wheeler
American physicist (1911-2008)
9,283
views
views
89
Nicholas of Cusa
German philosopher (1401 – 1464)
9,139
views
views
90
Aristarchus of Samos
Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.310–c.230 BC)
9,029
views
views
91
Jacques Vallée
Computer Scientist, UFO researcher
8,908
views
views
92
Alastair Reynolds
British science fiction author (born 1966)
8,804
views
views
93
Svante August Arrhenius
Swedish astronomer, chemist and physicist (1859–1927)
8,761
views
views
94
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
8,593
views
views
95
Avi Loeb
Israeli astrophysicist (1962-)
8,554
views
views
96
Amalia Ercoli-Finzi
Italian engineer
8,394
views
views
97
Fred Hoyle
British astronomer (1915–2001)
7,912
views
views
98
Francisco Gabilondo Soler
Mexican musician (1907-1990)
7,862
views
views
99
William Rowan Hamilton
Irish mathematician and astronomer (1805-1865)
7,791
views
views
100
Thomas Young
English polymath (1773-1829)
7,699
views
views