# List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Astronomy)

This list is a subsection of the List of members of the National Academy of Sciences, which includes approximately 2,000 members and 350 foreign associates of the United States National Academy of Sciences, each of whom is affiliated with one of 31 disciplinary sections. Each person's name, primary institution, and election year are given.
| Name | Institution | Year |
| Charles R. Alcock | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian | 2001 |
| J. Roger P. Angel | University of Arizona | 2000 |
| David Arnett | University of Arizona | 1985 |
| Fran Bagenal | University of Colorado, Boulder | 2021 |
| Neta Bahcall | Princeton University | 1997 |
| Thomas Banks | Rutgers University | 2023 |
| Steven Balbus | Oxford University | 2015 |
| Lars Bildsten | University of California, Santa Barbara | 2018 |
| Roger Blandford | Stanford University | 2005 |
| J. Richard Bond | University of Toronto | 2011 |
| Michael E. Brown | California Institute of Technology | 2013 |
| Margaret Burbidge | University of California, San Diego | 1978 |
| Jocelyn Bell Burnell | University of Oxford | 2005 |
| Adam Burrows | Princeton University | 2015 |
| Claude Canizares | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1993 |
| John Carlstrom | University of Chicago | 2002 |
| Carlton Caves | University of New Mexico | 2020 |
| Catherine Cesarsky | European Southern Observatory | 2004 |
| David Charbonneau | Harvard University | 2017 |
| Roger Chevalier | University of Virginia | 1996 |
| George W. Clark | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1980 |
| Judith Cohen | California Institute of Technology | 2017 |
| Marshall Cohen | California Institute of Technology | 1984 |
| Marc Davis | University of California, Berkeley | 1991 |
| Bruce T. Draine | Princeton University | 2007 |
| Frank Drake | SETI Institute | 1972 |
| Alan Dressler | Carnegie Institution of Washington | 1996 |
| Daniel Eisenstein | Harvard University | 2014 |
| Ronald Ekers | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization | 2018 |
| Sandra M. Faber | University of California, Santa Cruz | 1985 |
| Andrew Fabian | University of Cambridge | 2016 |
| George Field | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian | 1989 |
| Alexei V. Filippenko | University of California, Berkeley | 2009 |
| Debra Fischer | Yale University | 2021 |
| Christine Jones Forman | Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | 2023 |
| Wendy Freedman | University of Chicago | 2003 |
| Joshua Frieman | University of Chicago | 2022 |
| Kenneth C. Freeman | Australian National University | 2017 |
| Stephen Fuselier | Southwest Research Institute | 2021 |
| Reinhard Genzel | Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics | 2000 |
| Andrea Ghez | University of California, Los Angeles | 2004 |
| James E. Gunn | Princeton University | 1977 |
| Fiona Harrison | California Institute of Technology | 2014 |
| Chūshirō Hayashi | Kyoto University | 1989 |
| Martha Haynes | Cornell University | 2000 |
| Timothy Heckman | Johns Hopkins University | 2016 |
| D. S. Heeschen | National Radio Astronomy Observatory | 1971 |
| Carl Heiles | University of California, Berkeley | 1990 |
| Lars Hernquist | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian | 2008 |
| Icko Iben | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | 1985 |
| Barbara Jacak | State University of New York, Stony Brook | 2009 |
| Catherine L. Johnson | University of British Columbia | 2023 |
| Marc Kamionkowski | Johns Hopkins University | 2019 |
| Victoria Kaspi | McGill University | 2010 |
| Guinevere Kauffmann | Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany | 2012 |
| K. I. Kellermann | National Radio Astronomy Observatory | 1975 |
| Robert Kennicutt | University of Cambridge | 2006 |
| Ivan King | University of Washington | 1982 |
| Robert Kirshner | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian | 1998 |
| John Kormendy | University of Texas, Austin | 2020 |
| Gabriel Kotliar | Rutgers University | 2019 |
| Chryssa Kouveliotou | George Washington University | 2013 |
| Shrinivas Kulkarni | California Institute of Technology | 2003 |
| Roger Lynds | National Optical Astronomy Observatory | 1974 |
| Geoffrey Marcy | Unaffiliated | 2002 |
| Claire Max | University of California, Santa Cruz | 2008 |
| Michel Mayor | University of Geneva | 2010 |
| Richard McCray | University of Colorado at Boulder | 1989 |
| Christopher McKee | University of California, Berkeley | 1992 |
| William B. McKinnon | Washington University in St. Louis | 2023 |
| Peter Mészáros | Pennsylvania State University | 2021 |
| James Moran | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian | 1998 |
| Guido Munch | California Institute of Technology | 1967 |
| Ramesh Narayan | Harvard University | 2013 |
| Angela Olinto | University of Chicago | 2021 |
| Eve Ostriker | Princeton University | 2022 |
| Jeremiah P. Ostriker | Princeton University | 1974 |
| Eugene Parker | University of Chicago | 1967 |
| P. James E. Peebles | Princeton University | 1988 |
| Manuel Peimbert | National Autonomous University of Mexico | 1987 |
| Arno Allan Penzias | New Enterprise Associates | 1975 |
| George Preston | Carnegie Institution of Washington | 1977 |
| Eliot Quataert | University of California, Berkeley | 2020 |
| Venkatraman Radhakrishnan | Raman Research Institute | 1996 |
| Anthony Readhead | California Institute of Technology | 1995 |
| Martin Rees | University of Cambridge | 1982 |
| Mark J. Reid | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | 2019 |
| George Rieke | University of Arizona | 2011 |
| Marcia Rieke | University of Arizona | 2012 |
| Adam Riess | Johns Hopkins University | 2009 |
| Morton Roberts | National Radio Astronomy Observatory | 1983 |
| Luis Rodriguez | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | 2008 |
| Anneila Sargent | California Institute of Technology | 2021 |
| Paul L. Schechter | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2003 |
| Brian P. Schmidt | Australian National University | 2008 |
| Maarten Schmidt | California Institute of Technology | 1978 |
| Sara Seager | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2015 |
| Uroš Seljak | University of California, Berkeley | 2019 |
| Michael Seaton | University of London | 1986 |
| Irwin Shapiro | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian | 1974 |
| Stephen Shectman | Carnegie Institution of Washington | 2014 |
| Frank Shu | National Tsinghua University | 1987 |
| David Spergel | Princeton University | 2007 |
| Charles Steidel | California Institute of Technology | 2006 |
| Rashid Sunyaev | Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics | 1991 |
| Yasuo Tanaka | Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics | 1998 |
| Harvey Tananbaum | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | 2005 |
| Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. | Princeton University | 1981 |
| Patrick Thaddeus | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian | 1987 |
| Alan Title | Lockheed Martin Corporation | 2004 |
| Alar Toomre | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1983 |
| John Tonry | University of Hawaii at Manoa | 2018 |
| Scott Tremaine | Princeton University | 2002 |
| J. Anthony Tyson | University of California, Davis | 1997 |
| Andrzej Udalski | Warsaw University | 2012 |
| C. Megan Urry | Yale University | 2016 |
| Ewine van Dishoeck | Leiden University | 2001 |
| Alexander Vilenkin | Tufts University | 2020 |
| William J. Welch | University of California, Berkeley | 1999 |
| David H. Weinberg | Ohio State University | 2023 |
| Ray Weymann | Carnegie Institution of Washington | 1984 |
| Simon White | Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics | 2007 |
| Robert Wilson | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian | 1979 |
| Edward Wright | University of California, Los Angeles | 2011 |
| Ellen Zweibel | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2021 |