People in Astronomy
This table includes astronomers and other scientists and philosophers who have had an impact on how astronomy has taken shape. It does not include the many astronauts who have made contributions to the field. If you would like to see someone added to this list, please submit your suggestion to our comments system.
| Person |
Region where they lived and worked... |
Lifetime |
|---|---|---|
| 'Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi | Persia | 10th century A.D. |
| Aristotle | Greece | 384-322 B.C. |
| Tycho Brahe | Denmark | 1546-1601 A.D. |
| Jocelyn Bell Burnell | England | 1943-- A.D. |
| Giovanni Cassini | Italy | 1625-1712 A.D. |
| Nicolas Copernicus | Poland | 1473-1543 A.D. |
| Leonardo Da Vinci | Italian | 1452-1519 A.D. |
| Democritus | Greece | 470-380 B.C. |
| Christian Doppler | Austria | 1803-1853 A.D. |
| Albert Einstein | Germany | 1879-1955 A.D. |
| En Hedu' Anna | Babylonia | ~2354 B.C. |
| Eratosthenes | Cyrene (now Shahhat, Libya) | 276-197 B.C. |
| Williamina Fleming | U.S.A. | 1857-1911 A.D. |
| Galileo Galilei | Italy | 1564-1642 A.D. |
| Robert Goddard | U.S.A. | 1882-1945 A.D. |
| Evelyn Granville | U.S.A. | 1924-- A.D. |
| George Hale | U.S.A. | 1868-1938 A.D. |
| Edmond Halley | England | 1656-1742 |
| Stephen Hawking | England | 1942-- A.D. |
| Caroline Herschel | Germany, England | 1750-1848 A.D. |
| William Herschel | Germany, England | 1738-1822 A.D. |
| Hipparchus | Greece | 190-120 B.C. |
| Edwin Hubble | U.S.A. | 1889-1953 A.D. |
| Christian Huygens | Netherlands | 1629-1695 A.D. |
| Hypatia | Egypt | 370-415 A.D. |
| Johan Kepler | Germany | 1571-1630 A.D. |
| Maria Kirch | Germany | 1670-1720 A.D. |
| Gerard Kuiper | U.S.A. | 1905-1973 A.D. |
| Henrietta Swan Leavitt | U.S.A. | 1868-1921 A.D. |
| Nicole-Reine Lepaute | France | 1723-1788 A.D. |
| Simon Marius | Germany | 1573-1624 A.D. |
| James Clerk Maxwell | Scotland | 1831-1879 A.D. |
| Maria Mitchell | U.S.A. | 1818-1889 A.D. |
| Isaac Newton | England | 1642-1727 A.D. |
| Hermann Oberth | Germany | 1894-1989 A.D. |
| Max Planck | Germany | 1858-1947 A.D. |
| Plato | Greece | 427-327 B.C. |
| Ptolemy | Greece | 85-165 A.D. |
| Pythagoras | Greece | 580-520 B.C. |
| Carl Sagan | U.S.A. | 1934-1996 A.D. |
| Giovanni Schiaparelli | Italy | 1835-1910 A.D. |
| Abe Silverstein | U.S.A. | 1908-- A.D. |
| Socrates | Greece | 470-399 B.C. |
| Thales | Greece | 624-546 B.C. |
| Immanuel Velikovsky | Russia, U.S.A. | 1895-1979 A.D. |
| Wernher von Braun | Germany, U.S.A. | 1912-1977 A.D. |
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