Trending Astronomers — the 7 days to 29 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed astronomers on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 29 October 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Leonardo da Vinci. Data as of 29 October 2026.
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1,038,324
Total Views (the 7 days to 29 October 2026)
1
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
81,286
views
views
2
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
71,219
views
views
3
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
62,227
views
views
4
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
48,493
views
views
5
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
47,840
views
views
6
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
29,699
views
views
7
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
28,149
views
views
8
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
26,290
views
views
9
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
25,808
views
views
10
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
22,208
views
views
11
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
22,157
views
views
12
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
19,891
views
views
13
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)
19,620
views
views
14
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
19,384
views
views
15
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
18,848
views
views
16
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
15,738
views
views
17
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548–1600)
15,251
views
views
18
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546–1601
14,715
views
views
19
Tabata Amaral
Brazilian political scientist, astrophysicist, activist, politician and Federal Representative and former First Lady of Recife, Brazil
13,889
views
views
20
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
13,312
views
views
21
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
13,140
views
views
22
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
12,837
views
views
23
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
12,701
views
views
24
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
12,265
views
views
25
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
11,769
views
views
26
Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
11,768
views
views
27
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
11,277
views
views
28
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
11,249
views
views
29
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
11,042
views
views
30
Moshe ben Maimon
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135–1204)
9,981
views
views
31
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
9,792
views
views
32
Imhotep
Egyptian architect, physician, astronomer, and god of medicine in ancient Egyptian mythology.
8,899
views
views
33
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)
8,558
views
views
34
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
8,175
views
views
35
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
8,113
views
views
36
Harald Lesch
German physicist
8,025
views
views
37
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
7,820
views
views
38
Michael Servetus
Spanish physician and theologian
7,736
views
views
39
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
7,412
views
views
40
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
7,308
views
views
41
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
6,732
views
views
42
Georges Lemaître
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894–1966)
6,087
views
views
43
John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
6,053
views
views
44
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
5,792
views
views
45
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889–1953)
5,722
views
views
46
Aryabhata
Pioneer astronomer who formulated zero, quadratic rules, and earth's rotation.
5,601
views
views
47
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
5,504
views
views
48
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)
5,281
views
views
49
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
5,256
views
views
50
Alfonso X of Castile and Leon
King of Castile from 1252 to 1284
5,207
views
views
51
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
4,883
views
views
52
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
4,631
views
views
53
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
4,446
views
views
54
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
4,336
views
views
55
Ibn al-Haytham
Arab physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)
4,257
views
views
56
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736–1813)
4,219
views
views
57
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629–1695)
4,215
views
views
58
Abe no Seimei
Japanese onmyōji
4,177
views
views
59
Sima Qian
Chinese historian (c. 145 – c. 86 BCE)
4,126
views
views
60
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081–1124)
4,093
views
views
61
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738–1822)
4,054
views
views
62
Johann Georg Faust
German Renaissance alchemist, astrologer, and magician
3,913
views
views
63
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
3,861
views
views
64
Farabi
10th century Persian philosopher and jurist
3,734
views
views
65
Michael Maestlin
German astronomer and mathematician (1550–1631)
3,565
views
views
66
John of Damascus
Christian monk, priest, hymnographer and apologist (675/6-749)
3,545
views
views
67
Christopher Wren
English architect (1632–1723)
3,545
views
views
68
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486–1535)
3,534
views
views
69
Satoru Ikeuchi
Japanese astronomer
3,480
views
views
70
Tim Russ
American actor
3,431
views
views
71
Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
3,400
views
views
72
Nicholas of Cusa
German philosopher (1401 – 1464)
3,371
views
views
73
Philipp Melanchthon
German reformer (1497-1560)
3,234
views
views
74
Ulugh Beg
Timurid sultan, astronomer and mathematician (1394–1449)
3,224
views
views
75
Toghon Temür
Yuan and Northern Yuan emperor from 1333 to 1370
3,206
views
views
76
Amalia Ercoli-Finzi
Italian engineer
3,171
views
views
77
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
3,141
views
views
78
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)
3,097
views
views
79
Aristarchus of Samos
Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.310–c.230 BC)
3,087
views
views
80
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astrophysicist (born 1943)
3,073
views
views
81
John Harrison
British clockworker
3,058
views
views
82
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
2,901
views
views
83
Ronald Fisher
British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890–1962)
2,879
views
views
84
Margherita Hack
Italian astrophysicist and popular science writer (1922-2013)
2,806
views
views
85
A. G. Doroshkevich
Russian astronomer
2,772
views
views
86
Max Tegmark
Swedish-American physicist and cosmologist
2,772
views
views
87
Robert H. Goddard
American physicist
2,717
views
views
88
Luis Walter Alvarez
American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor (1911–1988)
2,713
views
views
89
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
2,643
views
views
90
Amina Helmi
Argentinian-Dutch astronomer
2,623
views
views
91
Idris
prophet
2,605
views
views
92
Jacques Vallée
Computer Scientist, UFO researcher
2,594
views
views
93
Alastair Reynolds
British science fiction author (born 1966)
2,567
views
views
94
August Ferdinand Möbius
German mathematician and astronomer (1790–1868)
2,562
views
views
95
John Napier
Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (1550–1617)
2,533
views
views
96
Mazlan Othman
Malaysian physicist
2,514
views
views
97
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
2,492
views
views
98
Benjamin Apthorp Gould
American astronomer (1824–1896)
2,490
views
views
99
Brahmagupta
Indian mathematician and astronomer (c. 598 – c. 668 CE)
2,477
views
views
100
John Archibald Wheeler
American physicist (1911-2008)
2,431
views
views