Trending Astronomers this year
The 100 most-viewed astronomers this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Stephen Hawking.
100
Ranked
1,158,135
Total Views (this year)
Country
๐ Global
๐บ๐ธ USA
๐ฉ๐ช Germany
๐ซ๐ท France
๐ฏ๐ต Japan
๐ช๐ธ Spain
๐ง๐ท Brazil
๐ท๐บ Russia
๐จ๐ณ China
1
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942โ2018)
93,471
views
views
2
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452โ1519)
75,458
views
views
3
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642โ1727)
68,316
views
views
4
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
52,742
views
views
5
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
40,174
views
views
6
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
39,891
views
views
7
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564โ1642)
35,849
views
views
8
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934โ1996)
33,210
views
views
9
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
32,426
views
views
10
Renรฉ Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596โ1650)
26,187
views
views
11
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 โ c. 212 BC)
25,096
views
views
12
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503โ1566)
24,960
views
views
13
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
24,069
views
views
14
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707โ1783)
23,392
views
views
15
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980โ1037)
18,702
views
views
16
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951โ2012)
17,661
views
views
17
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
15,182
views
views
18
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
14,395
views
views
19
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777โ1855)
14,225
views
views
20
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791โ1871)
14,087
views
views
21
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
13,872
views
views
22
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548โ1600)
13,235
views
views
23
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
13,101
views
views
24
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571โ1630)
12,514
views
views
25
Moshe ben Maimon
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135โ1204)
12,288
views
views
26
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
11,723
views
views
27
Muแธฅammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
11,326
views
views
28
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493โ1541)
11,299
views
views
29
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
10,799
views
views
30
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 โ 1703)
9,648
views
views
31
Alan Guth
American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
9,571
views
views
32
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
9,548
views
views
33
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546โ1601
9,483
views
views
34
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
9,404
views
views
35
Imhotep
Egyptian polymath, later revered as a god
9,336
views
views
36
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743โ1794)
8,953
views
views
37
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
8,916
views
views
38
John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
8,728
views
views
39
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
8,647
views
views
40
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
8,606
views
views
41
Aryabhata
Pioneer astronomer who formulated zero, quadratic rules, and earth's rotation.
8,272
views
views
42
Omar Khayyรกm
Persian mathematician and poet (1048โ1131)
7,465
views
views
43
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126โ1198)
6,741
views
views
44
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081โ1124)
6,155
views
views
45
Henri Poincarรฉ
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854โ1912)
6,102
views
views
46
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749โ1827)
5,982
views
views
47
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824โ1907)
5,613
views
views
48
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
5,575
views
views
49
Michelle Thaller
American astronomer
5,434
views
views
50
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973โ1048)
5,287
views
views
51
Robert H. Goddard
American physicist
5,242
views
views
52
Georges Lemaรฎtre
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894โ1966)
5,208
views
views
53
Ibn al-Haytham
Persian physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 โ c. 1040)
5,208
views
views
54
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889โ1953)
5,103
views
views
55
Tim Russ
American actor
5,087
views
views
56
Christopher Wren
English architect (1632โ1723)
5,079
views
views
57
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629โ1695)
5,024
views
views
58
John Harrison
British clockworker
4,781
views
views
59
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738โ1822)
4,696
views
views
60
Fritz Zwicky
Swiss astronomer who posited dark matter (1898โ1974)
4,612
views
views
61
Toghon Temรผr
Yuan and Northern Yuan emperor from 1333 to 1370
4,580
views
views
62
Jane Foster
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
4,435
views
views
63
Lawrence M. Krauss
American particle physicist and cosmologist
4,377
views
views
64
Idris
prophet
4,236
views
views
65
Sima Qian
2nd-century BCE Chinese historian and writer
4,223
views
views
66
Alastair Reynolds
British science fiction author (born 1966)
4,222
views
views
67
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
4,135
views
views
68
Avi Loeb
Israeli astrophysicist (1962-)
4,073
views
views
69
Jacques Vallรฉe
Computer Scientist, UFO researcher
4,062
views
views
70
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Persian astronomer (1201โ1274)
4,048
views
views
71
Max Tegmark
Swedish-American physicist and cosmologist
4,025
views
views
72
Sean M. Carroll
American theoretical cosmologist
3,996
views
views
73
John of Damascus
Christian monk, priest, hymnographer and apologist (675/6-749)
3,959
views
views
74
Ronald Fisher
British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890โ1962)
3,949
views
views
75
Johann Georg Faust
German Renaissance alchemist, astrologer, and magician
3,881
views
views
76
Nancy Roman
American astronomer and principal in the Hubble Space Telescope project (1925-2018)
3,845
views
views
77
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880โ1930)
3,815
views
views
78
Walter Lewin
Dutch-born American physicist (born 1936)
3,673
views
views
79
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736โ1813)
3,670
views
views
80
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
3,668
views
views
81
Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
3,602
views
views
82
Alfonso X of Castile and Leon
King of Castile from 1252 to 1284
3,577
views
views
83
Brahmagupta
Indian mathematician and astronomer (c. 598 โ c. 668 CE)
3,570
views
views
84
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486โ1535)
3,502
views
views
85
Aristarchus of Samos
Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.310โc.230 BC)
3,431
views
views
86
Farabi
10th century Persian philosopher and jurist
3,305
views
views
87
Abe no Seimei
Japanese onmyลji
3,288
views
views
88
Pytheas
ancient Greek explorer
3,284
views
views
89
Vasiแนฃแนญha
ancient Indian sage
3,274
views
views
90
Ulugh Beg
Timurid sultan, astronomer and mathematician (1394โ1449)
3,224
views
views
91
Arthur Eddington
British astrophysicist (1882-1944)
3,176
views
views
92
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astrophysicist (born 1943)
3,138
views
views
93
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
3,048
views
views
94
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656โ1742)
3,041
views
views
95
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
3,026
views
views
96
Leopold Bloom
fictional protagonist of James Joyce's novel Ulysses
2,971
views
views
97
Michael Servetus
Spanish physician and theologian
2,951
views
views
98
Theodore von Kรกrmรกn
Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist (1881โ1963)
2,936
views
views
99
John Napier
Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (1550โ1617)
2,910
views
views
100
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
2,853
views
views
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