Trending Astronomers — the 7 days to 1 November 2026
The 100 most-viewed astronomers on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 1 November 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Leonardo da Vinci. Data as of 1 November 2026.
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1,023,777
Total Views (the 7 days to 1 November 2026)
1
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
79,194
views
views
2
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
69,412
views
views
3
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
61,726
views
views
4
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
48,084
views
views
5
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
44,538
views
views
6
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
29,746
views
views
7
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
28,593
views
views
8
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
27,881
views
views
9
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
27,133
views
views
10
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
21,704
views
views
11
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
21,431
views
views
12
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
20,281
views
views
13
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)
19,288
views
views
14
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
18,749
views
views
15
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
18,522
views
views
16
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
17,503
views
views
17
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
16,840
views
views
18
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548–1600)
14,797
views
views
19
Tabata Amaral
Brazilian political scientist, astrophysicist, activist, politician and Federal Representative and former First Lady of Recife, Brazil
14,014
views
views
20
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
12,469
views
views
21
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
12,448
views
views
22
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
12,234
views
views
23
Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
12,134
views
views
24
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
11,729
views
views
25
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
10,984
views
views
26
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
10,776
views
views
27
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
10,637
views
views
28
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
10,306
views
views
29
Moshe ben Maimon
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135–1204)
10,122
views
views
30
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
9,280
views
views
31
Imhotep
Egyptian architect, physician, astronomer, and god of medicine in ancient Egyptian mythology.
9,217
views
views
32
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)
9,052
views
views
33
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546–1601
8,871
views
views
34
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
8,802
views
views
35
Michael Servetus
Spanish physician and theologian
7,945
views
views
36
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
7,858
views
views
37
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
7,674
views
views
38
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
7,523
views
views
39
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
6,754
views
views
40
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
6,562
views
views
41
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
6,309
views
views
42
John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
6,167
views
views
43
Georges Lemaître
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894–1966)
5,752
views
views
44
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
5,599
views
views
45
Aryabhata
Pioneer astronomer who formulated zero, quadratic rules, and earth's rotation.
5,402
views
views
46
Harald Lesch
German physicist
5,153
views
views
47
Alfonso X of Castile and Leon
King of Castile from 1252 to 1284
5,133
views
views
48
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
5,088
views
views
49
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)
4,959
views
views
50
Tim Russ
American actor
4,935
views
views
51
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
4,562
views
views
52
Ibn al-Haytham
Arab physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)
4,560
views
views
53
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
4,531
views
views
54
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
4,426
views
views
55
Abe no Seimei
Japanese onmyōji
4,400
views
views
56
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736–1813)
4,304
views
views
57
Philipp Melanchthon
German reformer (1497-1560)
4,287
views
views
58
Johann Georg Faust
German Renaissance alchemist, astrologer, and magician
4,284
views
views
59
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738–1822)
4,258
views
views
60
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081–1124)
4,172
views
views
61
Sima Qian
Chinese historian (c. 145 – c. 86 BCE)
4,154
views
views
62
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
4,106
views
views
63
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629–1695)
4,064
views
views
64
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
4,046
views
views
65
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889–1953)
4,027
views
views
66
Christopher Wren
English architect (1632–1723)
3,881
views
views
67
A. G. Doroshkevich
Russian astronomer
3,745
views
views
68
Willebrord Snellius
Dutch astronomer and mathematician
3,739
views
views
69
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486–1535)
3,656
views
views
70
Michael Maestlin
German astronomer and mathematician (1550–1631)
3,577
views
views
71
Max Tegmark
Swedish-American physicist and cosmologist
3,397
views
views
72
Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
3,380
views
views
73
John of Damascus
Christian monk, priest, hymnographer and apologist (675/6-749)
3,328
views
views
74
Farabi
10th century Persian philosopher and jurist
3,292
views
views
75
Ulugh Beg
Timurid sultan, astronomer and mathematician (1394–1449)
3,225
views
views
76
Nicholas of Cusa
German philosopher (1401 – 1464)
3,212
views
views
77
Satoru Ikeuchi
Japanese astronomer
3,157
views
views
78
Aristarchus of Samos
Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.310–c.230 BC)
3,067
views
views
79
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
3,009
views
views
80
Toghon Temür
Yuan and Northern Yuan emperor from 1333 to 1370
3,002
views
views
81
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
2,987
views
views
82
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astrophysicist (born 1943)
2,867
views
views
83
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)
2,800
views
views
84
Amalia Ercoli-Finzi
Italian engineer
2,781
views
views
85
Ronald Fisher
British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890–1962)
2,735
views
views
86
Robert H. Goddard
American physicist
2,710
views
views
87
John Harrison
British clockworker
2,648
views
views
88
Shen Kuo
Chinese scientist and statesman (1031-1095)
2,631
views
views
89
Ray Jayawardhana
American-Canadian-Sri Lankan astronomer
2,609
views
views
90
Idris
prophet
2,533
views
views
91
Margherita Hack
Italian astrophysicist and popular science writer (1922-2013)
2,523
views
views
92
Arthur B. McDonald
Canadian physicist (born 1943)
2,481
views
views
93
John Archibald Wheeler
American physicist (1911-2008)
2,458
views
views
94
John Napier
Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (1550–1617)
2,453
views
views
95
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
2,447
views
views
96
Alastair Reynolds
British science fiction author (born 1966)
2,426
views
views
97
Luis Walter Alvarez
American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor (1911–1988)
2,412
views
views
98
Brahmagupta
Indian mathematician and astronomer (c. 598 – c. 668 CE)
2,407
views
views
99
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
2,363
views
views
100
Vasiṣṭha
ancient Indian sage
2,348
views
views