Trending Astronomers of all time
The 100 most-viewed astronomers of all time on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Leonardo da Vinci.
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193,565
Total Views (of all time)
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1
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
47,174
views
views
2
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
24,544
views
views
3
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
16,662
views
views
4
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
8,779
views
views
5
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
7,160
views
views
6
Imhotep
Egyptian polymath, later revered as a god
6,696
views
views
7
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
6,392
views
views
8
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934β1996)
4,508
views
views
9
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
4,223
views
views
10
Thomas Bopp
American astronomer (1949β2018)
2,611
views
views
11
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980β1037)
2,372
views
views
12
Moshe ben Maimon
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135β1204)
2,235
views
views
13
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951β2012)
2,164
views
views
14
Gaius Julius Hyginus
Roman freedman and writer (c. 64 BC β AD 17)
2,101
views
views
15
Ulugh Beg
Timurid sultan, astronomer and mathematician (1394β1449)
1,912
views
views
16
Hillary Diane Andales
Filipino astronomer and astrophysicist
1,895
views
views
17
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
1,887
views
views
18
MuαΈ₯ammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
1,826
views
views
19
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081β1124)
1,774
views
views
20
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
1,694
views
views
21
Steven Hawley
American astronaut
1,488
views
views
22
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
1,299
views
views
23
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
1,253
views
views
24
Charles Mason
English astronomer and surveyor
1,172
views
views
25
Kate Adamala
Synthetic biologist
1,164
views
views
26
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
12th-century Sunni Muslim theologian and philosopher
1,052
views
views
27
Andrea M. Ghez
American astronomer
1,034
views
views
28
Martin Rees
British cosmologist and astrophysicist (1942-)
963
views
views
29
Charles Messier
18th- and 19th-century French astronomer
961
views
views
30
Will Hay
English comedian, actor, film director & astronomer (1888-1949)
941
views
views
31
Venkatraman Radhakrishnan
Indian space scientist (1929-2011)
913
views
views
32
Erik Selvig
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
856
views
views
33
Anousheh Ansari
Iranian-American engineer and entrepreneur
838
views
views
34
Tim Russ
American actor
811
views
views
35
Zhang Heng
Chinese scientist and statesman (78β139)
805
views
views
36
Rodney Marks
Australian astrophysicist who died of poisoning in Antarctica
769
views
views
37
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824β1907)
705
views
views
38
Sean M. Carroll
American theoretical cosmologist
701
views
views
39
Robert Grosseteste
English bishop and philosopher
672
views
views
40
Marin Mersenne
French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, often referred to as the "father of acoustics" (1588-1648)
672
views
views
41
David Brewster
Scottish astronomer and mathematician (1781β1868)
657
views
views
42
Jean Sylvain Bailly
French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader (1736-1793)
657
views
views
43
Alastair Reynolds
British science fiction author (born 1966)
656
views
views
44
Hermann of Reichenau
German 11th-century Benedictine monk
654
views
views
45
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889β1953)
651
views
views
46
Samuel Langley
American physicist, pioneer of aviation, and 3rd Secretary of the Smithsonian (1834-1906)
650
views
views
47
Toghon TemΓΌr
Yuan and Northern Yuan emperor from 1333 to 1370
625
views
views
48
John Harrison
British clockworker
617
views
views
49
Robert B. Leighton
American astronomer (1919β1997)
598
views
views
50
Sylvester James Gates
American physicist
588
views
views
51
Theodore von KΓ‘rmΓ‘n
Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist (1881β1963)
585
views
views
52
Carolyn Porco
American planetary scientist
579
views
views
53
Idris
prophet
577
views
views
54
Johann Georg Faust
German Renaissance alchemist, astrologer, and magician
575
views
views
55
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738β1822)
562
views
views
56
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
551
views
views
57
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880β1930)
545
views
views
58
VasiαΉ£αΉha
ancient Indian sage
540
views
views
59
Simplicius of Cilicia
6th-century Greek pagan philosopher
522
views
views
60
Michelle Thaller
American astronomer
495
views
views
61
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656β1742)
489
views
views
62
Barry C. Barish
American physicist
481
views
views
63
Eric W. Weisstein
American mathematician
478
views
views
64
Karl Schwarzschild
German physicist, astronomer and mathematician (1873β1916)
461
views
views
65
Percival Lowell
American astronomer (1855-1916)
459
views
views
66
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486β1535)
456
views
views
67
al-Jazari
mathematician and engineer from Jazira, Artuqid State (1164β1206)
455
views
views
68
Steven Weinberg
American theoretical physicist (1933-2021)
449
views
views
69
Aomawa Shields
astronomer
436
views
views
70
Alfonso X of Castile and Leon
King of Castile from 1252 to 1284
434
views
views
71
Jabir ibn Hayyan
8th-century Islamic alchemist and author
411
views
views
72
John Frederick William Herschel
English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and photographer (1792β1871)
406
views
views
73
Kathleen Ollerenshaw
English mathematician (1912-2014)
404
views
views
74
Harlow Shapley
American astronomer (1885-1972)
391
views
views
75
Thomas Gold
Austrian astrophysicist (1920-2004)
384
views
views
76
Queen Seondeok of Silla
queen-regnant of Silla
371
views
views
77
Charles Liu
astrophysicist
370
views
views
78
Donald J. Kessler
American astrophysicist
368
views
views
79
Otto Schmidt
Russian geophysicist and polar explorer of Baltic German origin (1891-1956)
354
views
views
80
Brian Schmidt
American-born Australian astrophysicist
350
views
views
81
William Rowan Hamilton
Irish mathematician and astronomer (1805-1865)
336
views
views
82
Carl StΓΈrmer
Norwegian geophysicist and mathematician (1874-1957)
328
views
views
83
Clyde Tombaugh
American astronomer (1906β1997)
322
views
views
84
Thomas Young
English polymath (1773-1829)
319
views
views
85
BhΔskara II
Indian mathematician and astronomer Mathematical genius who discovered early principles of calculus and solved indeterminate equations.
311
views
views
86
Robert M. Wald
American physicist
298
views
views
87
Alan Lightman
American physicist, science writer, essayist, novelist
289
views
views
88
Peter Naur
Danish computer scientist (1928β2016) and Turing Award winner (2005); author of 'Programming as Theory Building' (1985); co-editor of the 19
278
views
views
89
Jill Tarter
American astronomer
277
views
views
90
Jack Horkheimer
American astronomer
276
views
views
91
Al-Kindi
Muslim Arab philosopher, mathematician and physician (c.801β873)
274
views
views
92
Yajnavalkya
One of the Great Sages of Vedic India
272
views
views
93
LΓ©on Foucault
French physicist (1819β1868)
269
views
views
94
Hipparchus
2nd century Greek astronomer, geographer and mathematician
264
views
views
95
Chadwick Trujillo
American astronomer
257
views
views
96
Karl Gordon Henize
American astronomer (1926-1993)
257
views
views
97
David Brin
American scientist and science fiction author (born 1950)
253
views
views
98
Bonaventura Cavalieri
Italian mathematician and astronomer (1598β1647)
243
views
views
99
SimΓ©on Denis Poisson
French mathematician, mechanician and physicist (1781β1840)
238
views
views
100
Donald Howard Menzel
American astronomer (1901β1976)
235
views
views
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