Trending Astronomers this week
The 100 most-viewed astronomers this week on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Stephen Hawking.
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Ranked
347,431
Total Views (this week)
Country
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๐ฏ๐ต Japan
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๐ง๐ท Brazil
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๐จ๐ณ China
1
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942โ2018)
24,889
views
views
2
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452โ1519)
20,627
views
views
3
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642โ1727)
19,474
views
views
4
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
16,316
views
views
5
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
12,789
views
views
6
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
11,848
views
views
7
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
10,233
views
views
8
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564โ1642)
9,553
views
views
9
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934โ1996)
9,506
views
views
10
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503โ1566)
8,963
views
views
11
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 โ c. 212 BC)
7,760
views
views
12
Renรฉ Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596โ1650)
7,178
views
views
13
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
6,504
views
views
14
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
5,716
views
views
15
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707โ1783)
5,449
views
views
16
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
4,906
views
views
17
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791โ1871)
4,709
views
views
18
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980โ1037)
4,498
views
views
19
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951โ2012)
4,380
views
views
20
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
4,233
views
views
21
Moshe ben Maimon
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135โ1204)
4,066
views
views
22
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
3,992
views
views
23
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777โ1855)
3,755
views
views
24
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
3,738
views
views
25
Muแธฅammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
3,499
views
views
26
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548โ1600)
3,408
views
views
27
Alan Guth
American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
3,378
views
views
28
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493โ1541)
3,347
views
views
29
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
3,229
views
views
30
Helen Sawyer Hogg
astronomer (1905-1993)
3,206
views
views
31
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
3,173
views
views
32
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
3,146
views
views
33
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546โ1601
3,062
views
views
34
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571โ1630)
2,930
views
views
35
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
2,870
views
views
36
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081โ1124)
2,850
views
views
37
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
2,849
views
views
38
John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
2,816
views
views
39
Imhotep
Egyptian polymath, later revered as a god
2,693
views
views
40
Hillary Diane Andales
Filipino astronomer and astrophysicist
2,560
views
views
41
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
2,549
views
views
42
Aryabhata
Pioneer astronomer who formulated zero, quadratic rules, and earth's rotation.
2,515
views
views
43
Jane Foster
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
2,451
views
views
44
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743โ1794)
2,439
views
views
45
Georges Lemaรฎtre
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894โ1966)
2,128
views
views
46
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 โ 1703)
2,100
views
views
47
Omar Khayyรกm
Persian mathematician and poet (1048โ1131)
2,056
views
views
48
Nancy Roman
American astronomer and principal in the Hubble Space Telescope project (1925-2018)
2,001
views
views
49
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126โ1198)
1,878
views
views
50
Jacques Vallรฉe
Computer Scientist, UFO researcher
1,824
views
views
51
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973โ1048)
1,701
views
views
52
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Persian astronomer (1201โ1274)
1,667
views
views
53
Fritz Zwicky
Swiss astronomer who posited dark matter (1898โ1974)
1,639
views
views
54
Tim Russ
American actor
1,609
views
views
55
Christopher Wren
English architect (1632โ1723)
1,564
views
views
56
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824โ1907)
1,554
views
views
57
Max Tegmark
Swedish-American physicist and cosmologist
1,547
views
views
58
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749โ1827)
1,523
views
views
59
John Harrison
British clockworker
1,479
views
views
60
Ibn al-Haytham
Persian physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 โ c. 1040)
1,474
views
views
61
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629โ1695)
1,469
views
views
62
Lawrence M. Krauss
American particle physicist and cosmologist
1,459
views
views
63
Henri Poincarรฉ
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854โ1912)
1,431
views
views
64
Sean M. Carroll
American theoretical cosmologist
1,416
views
views
65
Robert H. Goddard
American physicist
1,396
views
views
66
Erik Selvig
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
1,374
views
views
67
Alastair Reynolds
British science fiction author (born 1966)
1,341
views
views
68
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889โ1953)
1,327
views
views
69
Shrinivas Kulkarni
American astronomer
1,271
views
views
70
Avi Loeb
Israeli astrophysicist (1962-)
1,258
views
views
71
Idris
prophet
1,250
views
views
72
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738โ1822)
1,250
views
views
73
Michelle Thaller
American astronomer
1,245
views
views
74
Toghon Temรผr
Yuan and Northern Yuan emperor from 1333 to 1370
1,214
views
views
75
Johann Georg Faust
German Renaissance alchemist, astrologer, and magician
1,186
views
views
76
Leopold Bloom
fictional protagonist of James Joyce's novel Ulysses
1,181
views
views
77
Aristarchus of Samos
Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.310โc.230 BC)
1,137
views
views
78
Vasiแนฃแนญha
ancient Indian sage
1,136
views
views
79
John of Damascus
Christian monk, priest, hymnographer and apologist (675/6-749)
1,100
views
views
80
Ronald Fisher
British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890โ1962)
1,093
views
views
81
Percival Lowell
American astronomer (1855-1916)
1,091
views
views
82
Brahmagupta
Indian mathematician and astronomer (c. 598 โ c. 668 CE)
1,089
views
views
83
Sima Qian
2nd-century BCE Chinese historian and writer
1,089
views
views
84
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
1,079
views
views
85
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880โ1930)
1,068
views
views
86
Basil Brown
British archaeologist
1,052
views
views
87
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656โ1742)
1,031
views
views
88
Nocturna
DC Comics character
1,024
views
views
89
Theodore von Kรกrmรกn
Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist (1881โ1963)
1,011
views
views
90
Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
1,003
views
views
91
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astrophysicist (born 1943)
994
views
views
92
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
987
views
views
93
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
986
views
views
94
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486โ1535)
975
views
views
95
Pytheas
ancient Greek explorer
966
views
views
96
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736โ1813)
951
views
views
97
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
940
views
views
98
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
932
views
views
99
Michael Servetus
Spanish physician and theologian
927
views
views
100
Farabi
10th century Persian philosopher and jurist
906
views
views
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