Astronomy
Discover a comprehensive list of notable individuals who have made significant contributions to astronomy. From renowned scientists and astronauts to influential astronomers and astrophysicists, this category showcases the brilliance behind astronomical discoveries and advancements.

Johann Tobias Burg
Austria
AustriaAustrian astronomer.

Andrew Douglas
USA
USAAmerican astronomer and archaeologist, founder of dendrochronology

Kirill Ogorodnikov
Russia
RussiaSoviet astronomer.

Sethus Calvisius
Germany
GermanyGerman astronomer, chronologist, historian, music theorist and composer.

Ejnar Hertzsprung
Denmark
DenmarkDanish astronomer.

Harold Delos Babcock
USA
USAAmerican astronomer

John Brashear
USA
USAAmerican astronomer and instrument maker

Vasiliy Struve
Russia
RussiaAstronomer, surveyor, academician

Jean-Felix Picard
France
FranceFrench astronomer

Johan August Hugo Gylden
Sweden
SwedenFinnish-Swedish astronomer

Yusuke Hichihara
Japan
JapanJapanese astronomer

Hugo von Seeliger
Germany
GermanyGerman astronomer

George Howard Darwin
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish astronomer and mathematician

Wendy Freedman
USA
USACanadian-American astronomer

Vladimir Shkodrov
Bulgaria
BulgariaBulgarian astronomer

Vasilij Dellen
Russia
RussiaRussian astronomer

Gennadiy Pinigin
Russia
RussiaSoviet and Ukrainian astronomer.

James Bradley
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish astronomer

Gerard Peter Kuiper
USA
USADutch-American astronomer

Samuel Pierpont Langley
USA
USAAmerican astronomer, physicist, and pioneer of aeronautics.

Edward Pickering
USA
USAAmerican astronomer and physicist.

Mikhail Grachev
Russian astronomer and surveyor

Nikola Flammarion
France
FranceFrench astronomer, author of 'Popular Astronomy'

Andre-Louis Danjon
France
FranceFrench astronomer.

Genry Dreper
USA
USAAmerican astronomer, member of the US National Academy of Sciences. Pioneer of the widespread use of astronomy in the United States

Charles-Eugene Delaunay
France
FranceFrench astronomer and mathematician

Thomas Makdougall Brisbane
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish military officer, colonial leader in Australia and astronomer.

Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish astronomer

Marc Kuchner
USA
USAAmerican astrophysicist, employee of the Goddard Space Flight Center

Horace Welcom Babcock
USA
USAAmerican astronomer

Leo Goldberg
USA
USAAmerican astronomer.

Laszlo Detre
Hungary
HungaryHungarian astronomer

Guo Shoujing
China
ChinaChinese astronomer and mathematician

Robert Hanbury Brown
India
IndiaAnglo-Australian astronomer and physicist.

Gottfried Kirch
Germany
GermanyGerman astronomer, member of the Royal Prussian Scientific Society.

Jan Heweliusz
Poland
PolandPolish astronomer, telescope designer

Henri Andoyer
France
FranceFrench astronomer and mathematician.

Anders Celsius
Sweden
SwedenSwedish astronomer and meteorologist after whom the temperature scale is named

Stephen Groombridge
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish astronomer, star cataloguer

Heinrich Kreutz
Germany
GermanyGerman astronomer

Paulius Slavenas
Russia
RussiaSoviet and Lithuanian astronomer, mathematician, historian and philosopher of science

Thomas Digges
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish astronomer

Jacques Vallee
France
FranceFrench-American scientist of various profiles: astronomer, astrophysicist, mathematician-programmer, businessman

Antonin Becvar
Czechoslovakian astronomer

Eugeniya Bugoslavskaya
Soviet astronomer.

Sergey Kazakov
Russian and Soviet astronomer, professor at Moscow State University

William Robert Brooks
USA
USAAmerican astronomer

Nikola Bonev
Bulgaria
BulgariaBulgarian astronomer.

Heber Curtis
USA
USAAmerican astronomer

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
USA
USAAnglo-American astronomer and astrophysicist