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Top people for #Astronomy

Everyone the internet links to Astronomy, ordered by the spotlight they hold. 172 tracked, sorted by the attention they pull across search, Wikipedia, the news cycle, and social platforms, recalculated every day.

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The people the world most associates with Astronomy right now, concentrated in France, Germany, United Kingdom — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

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172 tracked

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Galileo Galilei	Italy	Scientists	94.1	0.0
#2	—	Nicolaus Copernicus	—	Scientists	89.1	0.0
#3	—	Giordano Bruno	Italy	Scientists	77.3	0.0
#4	—	Tycho Brahe	Sweden	Scientists	74.4	4.5
#5	—	Mikhail Lomonosov	—	Scientists	72.2	10.0
#6	—	Paracelsus	Switzerland	Scientists	71.7	10.1
#7	—	Svante Arrhenius	Sweden	Scientists	70.1	14.2
#8	—	Christiaan Huygens	Netherlands	Scientists	69.9	0.0
#9	—	Aryabhata	India	Scientists	68.8	6.7
#10	—	William Herschel	Germany	Scientists	68.7	0.0
#11	—	Anders Celsius	Sweden	Scientists	68.5	7.9
#12	—	Jabir ibn Hayyan	—	Scientists	68.4	24.8
#13	—	Edwin Hubble	United States	Scientists	66.7	0.0
#14	—	John Herschel	United Kingdom	Scientists	65.0	4.1
#15	—	Pope Sylvester II	France	Scientists	64.6	13.5
#16	—	Ulugh Beg	—	Scientists	64.3	8.0
#17	—	Philip Melanchthon	Germany	Scientists	64.1	15.0
#18	—	Thomas Young	United Kingdom	Scientists	63.6	0.7
#19	—	AO Aristarchus of Samos	—	Scientists	63.3	15.0
#20	—	Robert Woodrow Wilson	United States	Scientists	61.7	2.3
#21	—	Ja'far al-Sadiq	—	Scientists	61.5	2.5
#22	—	Hipparchus	Turkey	Scientists	61.3	0.0
#23	—	Urbain Le Verrier	France	Scientists	61.0	15.0
#24	—	Charles Messier	France	Scientists	60.5	2.2
#25	—	Michel Mayor	Switzerland	Academics	59.9	28.1
#26	—	Arno Allan Penzias	Germany	Scientists	59.8	0.0
#27	—	Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille	France	Scientists	59.5	39.8
#28	—	Arthur Eddington	United Kingdom	Scientists	59.4	0.0
#29	—	Jocelyn Bell Burnell	United Kingdom	Scientists	59.2	6.1
#30	—	Harold Urey	United States	Scientists	58.9	0.8
#31	—	Riccardo Giacconi	Italy	Scientists	58.7	0.0
#32	—	François Arago	France	Scientists	58.6	0.3
#33	—	George Smoot	United States	Scientists	58.4	0.0
#34	—	Giuseppe Piazzi	Italy	Scientists	58.2	0.3
#35	—	Martin Ryle	United Kingdom	Scientists	57.9	0.0
#36	—	Clyde Tombaugh	United States	Scientists	57.9	0.0
#37	—	Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin	United Kingdom	Scientists	57.9	15.0
#38	—	Friedrich Bessel	Germany	Scientists	57.6	0.5
#39	—	Johann Gottfried Galle	Germany	Scientists	57.0	4.4
#40	—	Jérôme Lalande	France	Scientists	56.6	10.0
#41	—	Caroline Herschel	Germany	Scientists	56.6	0.0
#42	—	Toghon Temür	—	Scientists	56.6	0.7
#43	—	Johannes Hevelius	—	Scientists	55.8	0.2
#44	—	Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.	United States	Scientists	55.8	0.7
#45	—	Regiomontanus	Germany	Scientists	55.7	17.0
#46	—	Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi	—	Scientists	55.1	2.6
#47	—	Vasishtha	—	Scientists	55.0	2.0
#48	—	Camille Flammarion	France	Scientists	55.0	0.0
#49	—	Giovanni Schiaparelli	Italy	Scientists	54.6	0.0
#50	—	Johann Palisa	Austria	Scientists	54.3	15.0
#51	—	Vesto Slipher	United States	Scientists	53.9	3.0
#52	—	Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve	—	Scientists	53.8	2.4
#53	—	Asaph Hall	United States	Scientists	53.7	0.5
#54	—	Samuel Pierpont Langley	United States	Scientists	53.6	0.4
#55	—	Heinrich Louis d'Arrest	—	Scientists	53.6	4.9
#56	—	JM John Michell	—	Scientists	53.0	0.0
#57	—	William Lassell	—	Scientists	53.0	0.0
#58	—	Johann Bayer	Germany	Scientists	52.2	0.0
#59	—	SO Sosigenes of Alexandria	—	Scientists	52.0	0.0
#60	—	Charles Greeley Abbot	United States	Scientists	51.9	1.2
#61	—	Leonardo da Vinci Renaissance polymath	Italy	Artists	94.4	0.0
#62	—	Carl Friedrich Gauss	Germany	Academics	86.9	0.0
#63	—	Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi	—	Academics	84.5	5.2
#64	—	Johannes Kepler	Germany	Academics	83.6	0.0
#65	—	Omar Khayyam	—	Academics	83.2	3.0
#66	—	Carl Sagan	United States	Scientists	82.1	0.0
#67	—	Ptolemy	—	Academics	76.2	0.0
#68	—	Pierre-Simon Laplace	France	Academics	76.1	25.0
#69	—	Maimonides	Spain	Academics	72.7	10.0
#70	—	B Brahmagupta	India	Academics	71.8	1.6
#71	—	William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin	—	Scientists	69.4	15.0
#72	—	Edmond Halley	United Kingdom	Academics	68.9	15.4
#73	—	Eratosthenes	—	Academics	68.6	0.5
#74	—	Robert Hooke	United Kingdom	Architects	68.2	2.1
#75	—	Anaximander	Turkey	Academics	68.0	0.0
#76	—	Anaximenes of Miletus	Turkey	Academics	67.1	15.0
#77	—	Joseph-Louis Lagrange	France	Academics	66.4	0.0
#78	—	Nicholas of Cusa	Germany	Academics	65.0	15.0
#79	—	Luis Walter Alvarez	United States	Scientists	64.8	17.4
#80	—	Imhotep	Egypt	Architects	63.6	10.0
#81	—	Léon Foucault	France	Scientists	63.3	15.2
#82	—	Apollonius of Perga	Turkey	Academics	62.5	16.2
#83	—	Georg Christoph Lichtenberg	Germany	Scientists	61.8	2.1
#84	—	Edward Victor Appleton	United Kingdom	Scientists	61.7	2.1
#85	—	Joseph von Fraunhofer	Germany	Scientists	61.6	25.0
#86	—	Hannes Alfvén	Sweden	Scientists	60.2	0.0
#87	—	Alfonso X of Castile	Spain	Writers	60.1	0.4
#88	—	John Couch Adams	United Kingdom	Academics	59.7	9.2
#89	—	Ernst Abbe	Germany	Scientists	59.0	4.8
#90	—	Athanasius Kircher	Germany	Writers	58.7	10.0
#91	—	Pytheas	France	Scientists	57.9	6.8
#92	—	August Ferdinand Möbius	Germany	Academics	57.7	7.6
#93	—	Abraham de Moivre	France	Academics	57.4	17.3
#94	—	Al-Battani	Turkey	Academics	56.6	16.5
#95	—	Bhāskara II	India	Academics	56.5	1.2
#96	—	Zhang Heng	China	Scientists	56.4	0.4
#97	—	Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani	—	Academics	56.3	8.3
#98	—	Roger Joseph Boscovich	—	Scientists	56.3	3.5
#99	—	Hans Lippershey	Germany	Scientists	56.2	15.1
#100	—	Franz Mesmer	Germany	Doctors	55.5	0.0