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.
Harold Spencer Jones
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish astronomer
William Herschel
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish astronomer of German origin.
Regiomontan
Germany
Germany(Johann Müller) German astronomer and mathematician, invited to Rome in 1475 by Pope Sixtus IV to reform the calendar.
Bernard Yarnton Mills
Australia
AustraliaAustralian astronomer.
George Bishop
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish winemaker and patron of astronomy.
James Edward Keeler
USA
USAAmerican astronomer.
Frederik Kaiser
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch astronomer
Lawrence Hugh Aller
USA
USAAmerican astronomer.
Johann Franz Encke
Germany
GermanyGerman astronomer
Johann Johann Bayer
Germany
GermanyGerman astronomer and lawyer.
Philip Cowell
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish astronomer
Christian Ludwig Ideler
Germany
GermanyGerman astronomer
Aaronson Marc
USA
USAAmerican astronomer
Harry Edwin Wood
South Africa
South AfricaSouth African astronomer
Eugene Joseph Delporte
Belgium
BelgiumBelgian astronomer.
Cornelis De Jager
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch astronomer
Gerard Henri Vaucouleurs
France
FranceFrench-American astronomer.
Vsevolod Sharonov
Russia
RussiaSoviet astronomer.
Giovanni Battista Hodierna
Italy
ItalyItalian astronomer
Willem Hendrik van den Bos
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch-South African astronomer.
Baldassarre Capra
Italy
Italy17th century astronomer
Jean Sylvain Bailly
France
FranceAstronomer and figure of the Great French Revolution
Wilbur Norman Christiansen
Australia
AustraliaAustralian astronomer, pioneer of Australian radio astronomy.
Seth Nicholson
USA
USAAmerican astronomer who discovered several of Jupiter's moons and asteroids
Ire Brunt
Finland
FinlandFinnish astronomer, optician and geodesist, professor, academician
Nostradamus
France
FranceFrench physician, soothsayer, astrologer, physician-in-ordinary to Charles IX
David Gill
Great Britain
Great BritainScottish astronomer and surveyor
Bogdan Shveytser
Russia
RussiaRussian astronomer and astrometrist.
Iohann Bode
Germany
GermanyGerman astronomer, member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, founder of the Berlin Astronomical Yearbook. (53)
Percy Lowell
USA
USAAmerican astronomer
Geoffrey Burbidge
Great Britain
Great BritainAnglo-American astronomer
Michael A'Hearn
USA
USAAmerican astrophysicist
Giuseppe Piazzi
Italy
ItalyItalian astronomer, monk of the Theatines
Carlyle Beals
Canada
CanadaCanadian astronomer
Tobias Mayer
Germany
GermanyGerman astronomer and cartographer
Hermann Joseph Klein
Germany
GermanyGerman astronomer and meteorologist.
Clyd Tombaugh
USA
USAAmerican astronomer who discovered the ninth major planet of the solar system, Pluto, in 1930
Antonio Cagnoli
Italy
ItalyItalian astronomer.
Walter Sydney Adams
USA
USAAmerican astronomer
Cleostratus Tenedosskiy
Greece
GreeceAncient Greek astronomer.
Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf
Germany
GermanyGerman astronomer, pioneer in astrophotography.
Thomas Gold
USA
USAAmerican astronomer
Adalbert Krueger
Germany
GermanyGerman astronomer
John Bolton
Australia
AustraliaBritish-born Australian astronomer.
Ervest-Ogust Fay
France
FranceFrench astronomer.
John Jackson
Great Britain
Great BritainScottish astronomer
Marcin Odlanicki Poczobutt
Lithuania
LithuaniaBelarusian and Lithuanian educator, astronomer, mathematician.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
USA
USAAnglo-American astronomer and astrophysicist
Pierre Simon Laplace
France
FranceAstronomer, physicist, mathematician
Andrew Douglas
USA
USAAmerican astronomer and archaeologist, founder of dendrochronology