List of astronomers

Famous astronomers include:
List
A
Marc Aaronson (USA, 1950 - 1987)
George Ogden Abell (USA, 1927 - 1983)
Charles Greeley Abbot (USA, 1872 - 1973)
John Couch Adams (Britain, 1819 - 1892)
Walter Sydney Adams (USA, 1876 - 1956)
Paul Oswald Ahnert (Germany, 1897 - 1989)
Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (Germany, 1912 - 1954)
George Biddell Airy, (England, 1801 - 1892)
Robert Aitken, (USA, 1864 - 1951)
Al-Batani (Iraq, 850 - 929)
Albategnius (see Al-Batani)
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Al'bitskij (Russia)
George Alcock (Britain, 1913 - 2000)
Hannes Alfven (Sweden, 1908 - 1995)
Al-Khwarizmi, (Kheva, Abbasid caliphate, 780 - 850)
Lawrence Aller
'Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi, (Persia, 903 - 986)
Viktor Ambartsumian, (Armenia, 1912 - 1996)
Andronicus of Cyrrhus
Anders Angstrom (Sweden, 1814 - 1874)
Eugene M. Antoniadi (Greece, France, 1870 - 1944)
Petrus Apianus (Germany, 1495 - 1557)
Francois Arago (France, 1786 - 1853)
Sylvain Arend (Belgium, 1902 - 1992)
Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (Germany, 1799 - 1875)
Aristarchus (Samos, circa 310 BC - circa 230 BC)
Svante Arrhenius (Sweden, 1859 - 1927)
Arzachel (Al-Zarqali) (Muslim Spain, 1028 - 1087)
Joseph Ashbrook (USA, April 4 1918 - August 4 1980)
Arthur Auwers (Germany, 1838 - 1915)
B
Walter Baade (Germany, 1893 - 1960)
Harold D. Babcock (USA, 1882 - 1968)
Horace W. Babcock (USA, 1912 - 2003)
Oskar Backlund (Sweden, 1846 - 1916)
John Bahcall (USA, 1934 - )
Benjamin Baillaud (France, 1848 - 1934)
Jean Sylvain Bailly (France, 1736 - 1793)
Francis Baily (Britain, 1774 - 1844)
John Bainbridge (Britain, 1582 - 1643)
Sallie L. Baliunas (USA)
Benjamin Banneker (USA, 1731 - 1806)
Edward Emerson Barnard (USA, 1857 - 1923)
Johann Bayer (Germany, 1572 - 1625)
Antonin Becvar (Slovakia, 1901 - 1965)
Wilhelm Beer (Germany, 1797 - 1850)
S. I. Beljavskij (see S. I. Beljawsky)
S. I. Beljawsky (Russia, 1883 - 1953)
Jocelyn Bell (Ireland, 1943 - )
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (Germany, 1784 - 1846)
Wilhelm von Biela (Austria, 1782 - 1856)
Ludwig Biermann (Germany, 1907 - 1986)
Guillaume Bigourdan (France, 1851 - 1932)
Adriaan Blaauw (Netherlands, 1914 - )
Nathaniel Bliss (Britain, 1700 - 1764)
Johann Elert Bode (Germany, 1747 - 1826)
Alfred Bohrmann (Germany, 1904 - 2000)
Bart Bok (Netherlands, 1906 - 1983)
Charles Thomas Bolton (USA, 1943 - )
John Gatenby Bolton (England, Australia, 1922 - 1993)
William Cranch Bond (USA, 1789 - 1859)
Alphonse Borrelly (France, 1842 - 1926)
Ruder Josip Boskovic (Dalmatia, 1711 - 1787)
Alexis Bouvard (France, 1767 - 1843)
Edward (Ted) L. G. Bowell (USA)
Ira S. Bowen
Louis Boyer (France)
Ronald N. Bracewell (Australia, USA, 1921 - )
James Bradley (England, 1693 - 1762)
Tycho Brahe (Denmark, 1546 - 1601)
William Robert Brooks (USA, 1844 - 1922)
Theodor Brorsen (Denmark, 1819 - 1895)
Dirk Brouwer
Ernest William Brown (England, 1866 - 1938)
Michael (Mike) E. Brown (USA)
Ismael Bullialdus (France, 1605 - 1694)
Margaret Burbidge (Britain, 1919 - )
Robert Burnham, Jr. (USA, 1931 - 1993)
S. W. Burnham (1838 - 1921)
Schelte J. Bus (USA)
C
William Wallace Campbell (USA, 1862 - 1938)
Annie Jump Cannon (USA, 1863 - 1941)
Luigi Carnera (Italy, 1875 - 1962)
Richard Christopher Carrington (Britain, 1826 - 1875)
Cesar-Francois Cassini de Thury (France, 1714 - 1784)
Dominique, comte de Cassini (France, 1748 - 1845)
Giovanni Domenico Cassini a.k.a. Jean-Dominique Cassini (France, 1625 - 1712)
Jacques Cassini (France, 1677 - 1756)
Bonaventura Cavalieri (Italy, 1598 - 1647)
Anders Celsius, (1701 - 1744)
Vincenzo Cerulli, (Italy, 1859 - 1927)
Jean Chacornac (France, 1823 - 1873)
James Challis (Britain, 1803 - 1882)
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (India, USA, 1910 - 1995)
Carl Charlier (Sweden, 1862 - 1934)
Auguste Charlois (France, 1864 - 1910)
L. I. Chernykh (Russia?, Ukraine)
N. S. Chernykh (Russia, Ukraine, 1931 - )
James Christy (USA, 1938 - )
Edwin Foster Coddington (USA, 1870 - 1950)
Jerome Eugene Coggia (France, 1849 - 1919)
Josep Comas Sola (Spain)
Andrew Ainslie Common (Britain, 1841 - 1903)
Nicolaus Copernicus (Royal Prussia, 1473 - 1543)
P. Cottenot (France)
Heather Couper (Britain)
Philip Herbert Cowell (Britain, 1870 - 1949)
Thomas George Cowling (England, 1906 - 1990)
Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin (Britain, 1865 - 1939)
Heber D. Curtis (USA, 1872 - 1942)
D
Andre Louis Danjon (France, 1890 - 1967)
Heinrich d'Arrest (Germany, 1822 - 1875)
George Howard Darwin (Britain, 1845 - 1912)
William Rutter Dawes (Britain, 1799 - 1868)
Leo de Ball (Germany, Austria, 1853 - 1916)
Henri Debehogne (Belgium)
Annibale de Gasparis (Italy, 1819 - 1892)
Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (France, 1749 - 1822)
Charles-Eugene Delaunay (France, 1816 - 1872)
Eugene Joseph Delporte (Belgium, 1882 - 1955)
William Frederick Denning (Britain, 1848 - 1931)
Willem de Sitter (Netherlands, 1872 - 1934)
Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (France, 1853 - 1948)
Gerard de Vaucouleurs (France, USA, 1918 - 1995)
Robert Dicke (USA, 1916 - 1997)
Thomas Digges (England, 1546 - 1595)
Herbert Dingle (USA, 1890 - 1978)
John Dobson (1915 - 2014)
Franjo Dominko, (Slovenia, 1903 - 1987)
Giovanni Battista Donati, (Italy, 1826 - 1873)
Frank Drake (USA, 1930 - )
Henry Draper (USA, 1837 - 1882)
John Dreyer (Ireland, 1852 - 1926)
Jean C. B. Dufay (France, 1896 - 1967)
Raymond Smith Dugan (USA, 1878 - 1940)
Frank Watson Dyson (Britain, 1868 - 1939)
E
Arthur Eddington (England, 1882 - 1944)
Olin J. Eggen
Eise Eisinga (Netherlands, 1744 - 1828)
Eric Elst (Belgium)
Johann Franz Encke (Germany, 1791 - 1865)
Eratosthenes (Alexandria, 276 BC - 194 BC)
Emil Ernst (Ph.D. Germany)
Ernest Esclangon, (France, 1876 - 1954)
Larry W. Esposito (USA)
Eudoxus (Cnidus, circa 408 BC - circa 347 BC)
F
David Fabricius (Netherlands, 1564 - 1617)
Johannes Fabricius (Netherlands, 1587 - 1615)
Herve Faye (1814 - 1902)
Charles Fehrenbach (France, 1914 - )
James Ferguson (USA, 1797 - 1867)
Erwin Findlay-Freundlich (1885 - 1964)
Camille Flammarion (France, 1842 - 1925)
Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion (France, 1867 - 1962)
John Flamsteed, (England, 1646 - 1719)
Honore Flaugergues (France, 1755 - 1835)
Williamina Fleming (USA, 1857 - 1911)
Wilhelm Julius Forster (Germany, 1832 - 1921)
Alfred Fowler (Britain, 1868 - 1940)
William Alfred Fowler (USA, 1911 - 1995)
Herbert Friedman
Edwin Brant Frost (USA, 1866 - 1935)
G
Galileo Galilei (Italy, 1564 - 1642)
Julio Garavito Armero
Johann Gottfried Galle (Germany, 1812 - 1910)
George Gamow (Russia, USA, 1904 - 1968)
Carl Friedrich Gauss (Germany, 1777 - 1855)
Tom Gehrels (Netherlands, USA)
Andrea Ghez (USA)
Riccardo Giacconi (Italy, 1931 - )
Michel Giacobini (France, 1873 - 1938)
Henry L. Giclas (USA)
David Gill (Britain, 1843 - 1914)
Thomas Gold (USA, 1920 - )
Leo Goldberg
Peter Goldreich
Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt (Germany, 1802 - 1866)
Paul Goldsmith (USA, 1948 - )
Francois Gonnessiat (France, 1856 - 1934)
John Goodricke (Britain, 1764 - 1786)
Paul Gotz (Ph.D. Germany)
Benjamin A. Gould (USA)
Andrew Graham (Ireland, 1815 - 1907)
Jesse Greenstein (USA, 1909 - 2002)
Alan Harvey Guth (USA, 1947 - )
H
George Ellery Hale (USA, 1868 - 1938)
Asaph Hall (USA, 1829 - 1907)
Edmond Halley (England, 1656 - 1742)
Peter Andreas Hansen (December 8, 1795 - March 28 1874)
Karl Ludwig Harding (Germany, 1765 - 1834)
Thomas Hariot (Britain, 1560 - 1621)
Guillermo Haro (Mexico, 1913 - 1988)
Robert G. Harrington (USA)
Robert Sutton Harrington (USA, 1942 - 1993)
William Hartmann (USA, 1939 - )
Stephen Hawking (Britain, 1942 - )
Will Hay (Britain, 1888 - 1949)
Otto Heckmann
Joseph Helffrich (Ph.D. Germany)
Eleanor Helin (USA)
Maximilian Hell (Austria-Hungary, 1720 - 1792)
Karl Ludwig Hencke (Germany, 1793 - 1866)
Thomas Henderson (Scotland, 1798 - 1844)
Paul Henry (France, 1848 - 1905)
Prosper Henry (France, 1849 - 1903)
George Herbig (USA, 1920 - )
Caroline Herschel (Britain, 1750 - 1848)
John Herschel (Britain, 1792 - 1871)
William Herschel (Britain, 1738 - 1822)
Ejnar Hertzsprung (Denmark, 1873 - 1967)
Johannes Hevelius (Poland, 1611 - 1687)
Antony Hewish (Britain, 1924 - )
George William Hill (USA, 1838 - 1914)
John Russell Hind (Britain, 1823 - 1895)
Hipparchus (Nicaea, circa 190 BC - 120 BC)
Cuno Hoffmeister (Germany, 1892 - 1968)
Dorrit Hoffleit (USA, 1907 - )
Minoru Honda (Japan, 1917 -1990)
Jeremiah Horrocks (Britain, c. 1619 - 1641)
Fred Hoyle (Britain, 1915 - 2001)
Edwin Powell Hubble (USA, 1889 - 1953)
William Huggins (Britain, 1824 - 1910)
Russell Alan Hulse (USA, 1950 - )
Christiaan Huygens (Netherlands, 1629 - 1695)
I
I Sin (China, 683 - 727)
Icko Iben, Jr.