Trending Astronomers in USA — the 7 days to 26 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed astronomers on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 26 October 2026 (English-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Stephen Hawking. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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Ranked
572,952
Total Views (the 7 days to 26 October 2026)
1
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
40,103
views
views
2
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
39,621
views
views
3
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
37,880
views
views
4
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
22,665
views
views
5
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
22,574
views
views
6
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
22,482
views
views
7
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
18,119
views
views
8
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
18,105
views
views
9
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
16,925
views
views
10
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
14,027
views
views
11
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
12,597
views
views
12
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
11,930
views
views
13
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546–1601
10,528
views
views
14
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)
10,309
views
views
15
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
10,199
views
views
16
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
9,392
views
views
17
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
8,006
views
views
18
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
7,619
views
views
19
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
7,411
views
views
20
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
6,678
views
views
21
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
6,495
views
views
22
Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
6,455
views
views
23
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
6,324
views
views
24
Moshe ben Maimon
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135–1204)
6,176
views
views
25
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548–1600)
5,770
views
views
26
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
5,622
views
views
27
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
5,484
views
views
28
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
5,384
views
views
29
Aryabhata
Pioneer astronomer who formulated zero, quadratic rules, and earth's rotation.
5,296
views
views
30
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
5,259
views
views
31
Imhotep
Egyptian architect, physician, astronomer, and god of medicine in ancient Egyptian mythology.
4,916
views
views
32
Benjamin Apthorp Gould
American astronomer (1824–1896)
4,385
views
views
33
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
4,372
views
views
34
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
4,139
views
views
35
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889–1953)
4,133
views
views
36
John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
4,035
views
views
37
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
3,951
views
views
38
Georges Lemaître
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894–1966)
3,628
views
views
39
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
3,565
views
views
40
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
3,528
views
views
41
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
3,473
views
views
42
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
3,467
views
views
43
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
3,370
views
views
44
Laura Overdeck
American maths education entrepreneur
3,256
views
views
45
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)
3,098
views
views
46
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
3,089
views
views
47
Christopher Wren
English architect (1632–1723)
3,071
views
views
48
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
2,962
views
views
49
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
2,789
views
views
50
Toghon Temür
Yuan and Northern Yuan emperor from 1333 to 1370
2,780
views
views
51
Ibn al-Haytham
Arab physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)
2,712
views
views
52
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)
2,641
views
views
53
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
2,602
views
views
54
Vasiṣṭha
ancient Indian sage
2,361
views
views
55
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738–1822)
2,344
views
views
56
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629–1695)
2,342
views
views
57
John Harrison
British clockworker
2,339
views
views
58
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astrophysicist (born 1943)
2,296
views
views
59
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)
2,268
views
views
60
Ronald Fisher
British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890–1962)
2,217
views
views
61
Jacques Vallée
Computer Scientist, UFO researcher
2,207
views
views
62
Mazlan Othman
Malaysian physicist
2,196
views
views
63
Johann Georg Faust
German Renaissance alchemist, astrologer, and magician
2,185
views
views
64
Luis Walter Alvarez
American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor (1911–1988)
2,176
views
views
65
Brahmagupta
Indian mathematician and astronomer (c. 598 – c. 668 CE)
2,088
views
views
66
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
2,082
views
views
67
Robert H. Goddard
American physicist
2,078
views
views
68
Tim Russ
American actor
2,070
views
views
69
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736–1813)
2,015
views
views
70
John of Damascus
Christian monk, priest, hymnographer and apologist (675/6-749)
2,013
views
views
71
Sima Qian
Chinese historian (c. 145 – c. 86 BCE)
1,992
views
views
72
Benjamin Banneker
free African American scientist, surveyor, almanac author and farmer (1731–1806)
1,983
views
views
73
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486–1535)
1,983
views
views
74
Carl Grillmair
American astronomer
1,968
views
views
75
Maggie Aderin
British space scientist
1,962
views
views
76
Alastair Reynolds
British science fiction author (born 1966)
1,952
views
views
77
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081–1124)
1,938
views
views
78
Idris
prophet
1,868
views
views
79
Fred Hoyle
British astronomer (1915–2001)
1,812
views
views
80
Farabi
10th century Persian philosopher and jurist
1,799
views
views
81
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
1,798
views
views
82
John Archibald Wheeler
American physicist (1911-2008)
1,797
views
views
83
Nancy Roman
American astronomer and principal in the Hubble Space Telescope project (1925-2018)
1,719
views
views
84
Sara Seager
Canadian astronomer and planetary scientist
1,689
views
views
85
Ulugh Beg
Timurid sultan, astronomer and mathematician (1394–1449)
1,679
views
views
86
Lawrence M. Krauss
American particle physicist and cosmologist
1,633
views
views
87
al-Jazari
mathematician and engineer from Jazira, Artuqid State (1164–1206)
1,605
views
views
88
August Ferdinand Möbius
German mathematician and astronomer (1790–1868)
1,599
views
views
89
Max Tegmark
Swedish-American physicist and cosmologist
1,564
views
views
90
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
1,535
views
views
91
Matthew Fontaine Maury
United States Navy officer
1,485
views
views
92
Avi Loeb
Israeli astrophysicist (1962-)
1,483
views
views
93
Sean M. Carroll
American theoretical cosmologist
1,479
views
views
94
Aristarchus of Samos
Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.310–c.230 BC)
1,474
views
views
95
Steven Weinberg
American theoretical physicist (1933-2021)
1,457
views
views
96
Michael Servetus
Spanish physician and theologian
1,423
views
views
97
Jabir ibn Hayyan
8th-century Islamic alchemist and author
1,418
views
views
98
Jane Foster
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
1,411
views
views
99
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
1,410
views
views
100
Zhang Heng
Chinese scientist and statesman (78–139)
1,363
views
views