Astronomlar listesi

Ünlü astronom ve astrofizikçiler listesi

 A 
 Marc Aaronson (ABD, 1950 - 1987)
 George Ogden Abell (ABD, 1927 - 1983)
 Antonio Abetti (İtalya, 1846 - 1928)
 Ahmed-i Hani (Osmanlı, 1650 - 1707)
 Giorgio Abetti (İtalya, 1882 - 1982)
 Charles Greeley Abbot (ABD, 1872 - 1973)
 Charles Hitchcock Adams (ABD, 1868 - 1951)
 John Couch Adams (Birleşik Krallık, 1819 - 1892)
 Walter Sydney Adams (ABD, 1876 - 1956)
 Saul Adelman (ABD, (1944 -)
 Agrippa (Yunanistan, bilinmiyor – 92)
 Paul Oswald Ahnert (Almanya, 1897 - 1989) 
 Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (Almanya, 1912 - 1954) 
 George Biddell Airy, (İngiltere, 1801 - 1892)
 Robert Aitken, (ABD, 1864 - 1951)
 Battani (Irak, 850 - 929)
 Vladimir Aleksandrovich Albitzky (Rusya)
 Albumasar (İran 787 - 886)
 George Alcock (Birleşik Krallık, 1913 - 2000)
 Harold Alden (ABD, 1890 - 1964) 
 Hannes Alfvén (İsveç, 1908 - 1995)
 Ali Kuşçu (Osmanlı, 1403 - 1474)
 Lawrence H. Aller (ABD, 1913 - 2003)
 Abdurrahman es-Sufî, (İran, 903 - 986) 
 Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian, (Ermenistan, 1912 - 1996)
 John August Anderson, (ABD, 1876 - 1959)
 Andronicus of Cyrrhus
 Anders Jonas Ångström (İsveç, 1814 - 1874)
 Eugène Michel Antoniadi (Yunanistan, Fransa, 1870 - 1944)
 Petrus Apianus (Almanya, 1495 - 1557)
 François Arago (Fransa, 1786 - 1853)
 Sylvain Arend (Belçika, 1902 - 1992)
 Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander (Almanya, 1799 - 1875)
 Sisamlı Aristarkus, yaklaşık MÖ 310 – yaklaşık MÖ 230)
 Christoph Arnold (Almanya, 1650 - 1695)
 Svante Arrhenius (İsveç, 1859 - 1927)
 Arzachel (Endülüs, 1028 - 1087)
 Goryu Asada (Japonya, 1734 –1799)
 Giuseppe Asclepi (İtalya, 1706 - 1776)
 Joseph Ashbrook (ABD, 4 Nisan 1918 - 4 Ağustos 1980)
 Zeki Aslan (Türkiye, 25 Haziran 1940 –)
 Arthur Auwers (Almanya, 1838 - 1915)
 Adrien Auzout (Fransa, 1622 - 1691)

 B 
 Bîrûnî (İran, 973 - 1048)
 Walter Baade (Almanya, 1893 - 1960)
 Harold D. Babcock (ABD, 1882 - 1968)
 Horace W. Babcock (ABD, 1912 - 2003)
 Oskar Backlund (İsveç, 1846 - 1916)
 John N. Bahcall (ABD, 1934 - 2005)
 John E. Baldwin (Birleşik Krallık, 1934 –)
 Benjamin Baillaud (Fransa, 1848 - 1934)
 Jean Sylvain Bailly (Fransa, 1736 - 1793)
 Francis Baily (Birleşik Krallık, 1774 - 1844)
 John Bainbridge (Birleşik Krallık, 1582 - 1643)
 Sallie Baliunas (ABD, 1953 –)
 Benjamin Banneker (ABD, 1731 - 1806)
 Edward Emerson Barnard (ABD, 1857 - 1923)
 Klaudyos Batlamyus İskenderiyeli (Roma Mısır, yaklaşık 85 - 165)
 Johann Bayer (Almanya, 1572 - 1625)
 Antonín Bečvář (Slovakya, 1901 - 1965)
 Wilhelm Beer (Almanya, 1797 - 1850)
 Sergey İvanoviç Belyavski (Rusya, 1883 - 1953)
 Jocelyn Bell Burnell (İrlanda, 1943 –)
 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (Almanya, 1784 - 1846)
 Wilhelm Freiherr von Biela (Avusturya, 1782 - 1856)
 Ludwig Biermann (Almanya, 1907 - 1986)
 Guillaume Bigourdan (Fransa, 1851 - 1932)
 Biruni (İran 973 - 1048) 
 Adriaan Blaauw (Hollanda, 1914 –)
 Nathaniel Bliss (Birleşik Krallık, 1700 - 1764)
 Johann Elert Bode (Almanya, 1747 - 1826)
 Alfred Bohrmann (Almanya, 1904 - 2000)
 Bart Bok (Hollanda, 1906 - 1983)
 Charles Thomas Bolton (ABD, 1943 –)
 John Gatenby Bolton (Birleşik Krallık, Avustralya, 1922 - 1993)
 William Cranch Bond (ABD, 1789 - 1859)
 Alphonse Borrelly (Fransa, 1842 - 1926)
 Rudjer Boscovich (Dalmaçya, 1711 - 1787)
 Lewis Boss (ABD, 1846 - 1912) 
 Rychard Bouwens (ABD, 1972 –)
 Alexis Bouvard (Fransa, 1767 - 1843)
 Edward (Ted) L. G. Bowell (ABD)
 Ira Sprague Bowen (ABD, 1898 - 1973)
 Louis Boyer (Fransa)
 Ronald N. Bracewell (Avustralya, ABD, 1921 –)
 James Bradley (İngiltere, 1693 - 1762)
 Tycho Brahe (Danimarka, 1546 - 1601)
 John Alfred Brashear (ABD, 1840 - 1920)
 William Robert Brooks (ABD, 1844 - 1922)
 Theodor Brorsen (Danimarka, 1819 - 1895)
 Dirk Brouwer (Hollanda–ABD, 1902 - 1966)
 Ernest William Brown (Birleşik Krallık, 1866 - 1938)
 Michael (Mike) E. Brown (ABD)
 Ismael Bullialdus (Fransa, 1605 - 1694)
 James Steven Bullock (ABD, 1971 –)
 Margaret Burbidge (Birleşik Krallık, 1919 –)
 Robert Burnham, Jr. (ABD, 1931 - 1993)
 Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838 - 1921)
 Bursalı Kadızade Rumi (Osmanlı, 1364 - 1436)
 Schelte J. Bus (ABD)

 C 
 William Wallace Campbell (ABD, 1862 - 1938)
 Annie Jump Cannon (ABD, 1863 - 1941)
 Luigi Carnera (İtalya, 1875 - 1962)
 Edwin Francis Carpenter (ABD, 1898 - 1963)
 James Carpenter (Birleşik Krallık, 1840 - 1899)
 Richard Christopher Carrington (Birleşik Krallık, 1826 - 1875)
 César-François Cassini de Thury (Fransa, 1714 - 1784)
 Dominique, comte de Cassini (Fransa, 1748 - 1845) 
 Giovanni Domenico Cassini a.k.a. Jean-Dominique Cassini (Fransa, 1625 - 1712)
 Jacques Cassini (Fransa, 1677 - 1756)
 Bonaventura Cavalieri (İtalya, 1598 - 1647)
 Anders Celsius, (1701 - 1744)
 Vincenzo Cerulli, (İtalya, 1859 - 1927)
 Jean Chacornac (Fransa, 1823 - 1873)
 James Challis (Birleşik Krallık, 1803 - 1882) 
 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (Hindistan, ABD, 1910 - 1995)
 Carl Charlier (İsveç, 1862 - 1934)
 Auguste Charlois (Fransa, 1864 - 1910)
 Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh (Rusya?, Ukrayna)
 Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh (Rusya, Ukrayna, 1931 –)
 James Christy (ABD, 1938 –)
 Edwin Foster Coddington (ABD, 1870 - 1950) 
 Jérôme Eugène Coggia (Fransa, 1849 - 1919)
 Josep Comas Solá (İspanya)
 Andrew Ainslie Common (Birleşik Krallık, 1841 - 1903) 
 E. J. Cooper (İrlanda, 1798 - 1863)
 Pablo Cottenot (Fransa)
 Heather Couper (Birleşik Krallık)
 Arthur Edwin Covington (Kanada, 1914 - 2001)
 Philip Herbert Cowell (Birleşik Krallık, 1870 - 1949)
 Thomas George Cowling (Birleşik Krallık, 1906 - 1990)
 Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin (Birleşik Krallık, 1865 - 1939)
 Heber Doust Curtis (ABD, 1872 - 1942)

 D 
 Jacques Eugène d'Allonville (Fransa, 1671 - 1732)
 Andre Louis Danjon (Fransa, 1890 - 1967)
 Heinrich d'Arrest (Almanya, 1822 - 1875)
 George Howard Darwin (Birleşik Krallık, 1845 - 1912)
 William Rutter Dawes (Birleşik Krallık, 1799 - 1868) 
 Bernard Dawson (Arjantin, 1890 - 1960)
 Leo de Ball (Almanya, Avusturya, 1853 - 1916)
 Henri Debehogne (Belçika)
 Annibale de Gasparis (İtalya, 1819 - 1892)
 Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (Fransa, 1749 - 1822)
 Charles-Eugène Delaunay (Fransa, 1816 - 1872)
 Eugène Joseph Delporte (Belçika, 1882 - 1955)
 Audrey Delsanti
 William Frederick Denning (Birleşik Krallık, 1848 - 1931)
 Alíz Derekas (Macaristan, 1977 –)
 Willem de Sitter (Hollanda, 1872 - 1934)
 Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (Fransa, 1853 - 1948)
 Alexander Nikolaevich Deutsch (Rusya)
 Gérard de Vaucouleurs (Fransa, ABD, 1918 - 1995)
 Robert Dicke (ABD, 1916 - 1997)
 Terence Dickinson, (Kanada), astronom ve yazar
 Thomas Digges (İngiltere, 1546 - 1595)
 Dineverî (İran, 820 - 896)
 Herbert Dingle (ABD, 1890 - 1978)
 Andrea Di Paola (İtalya)
 John Dobson (1915 –)
 Franjo Dominko, (Slovenya, 1903 - 1987)
 Giovanni Battista Donati, (İtalya, 1826 - 1873)
 Frank Drake (ABD, 1930 –)
 Henry Draper (ABD, 1837 - 1882)
 John Dreyer (İrlanda, 1852 - 1926)
 Yuriy Drohobych (Ukrayna, 1450-1494)
 Alexander D. Dubyago (Rusya), 1903 - 1959)
 Dmitrij I. Dubyago (Rusya), 1850 - 1918)
 Jean C. B. Dufay (Fransa, 1896 - 1967)
 Raymond Smith Dugan (ABD, 1878 - 1940) 
 Frank Watson Dyson (Birleşik Krallık, 1868 - 1939)

 E 
 Arthur Eddington (İngiltere, 1882 - 1944)
 Frank K. Edmondson, (ABD), (doğumu 1912)
 Olin J. Eggen (ABD, 1919 - 1998)
 Eise Eisinga (Hollanda, 1744 - 1828)
 Eric Elst (Belçika)
 Johann Franz Encke (Almanya, 1791 - 1865)
 Eratosthenes (İskenderiye, MÖ 276 – MÖ 194)
 Emil Ernst (Ph.D. Almanya)
 Ernest Esclangon, (Fransa, 1876 - 1954)
 Larry W. Esposito (ABD)
 Eudoxus (Knidos, yaklaşık MÖ 408 – yaklaşık MÖ 347)

 F 
 David Fabricius (Hollanda, 1564 - 1617)
 Sandra M. Faber (ABD, 1945-)
 Johannes Fabricius (Hollanda, 1587 - 1615)
 Hervé Faye (1814 - 1902)
 Charles Fehrenbach (Fransa, 1914 –)
 Fergani (İran, d. 861)
 James Ferguson (ABD, 1797 - 1867)
 Erwin Finlay-Freundlich (1885 - 1964)
 Axel Firsoff (Birleşik Krallık, 1910 - 1981)
 J. Richard Fisher
 Camille Flammarion (Fransa, 1842 - 1925)
 Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion (Fransa, 1867 - 1962)
 John Flamsteed, (İngiltere, 1646 - 1719)
 Honoré Flaugergues (Fransa, 1755 - 1835)
 Williamina Fleming (ABD, 1857 - 1911)
 Wilhelm Julius Foerster (Almanya, 1832 - 1921) 
 Alfred Fowler (Birleşik Krallık, 1868 - 1940)
 William Alfred Fowler (ABD, 1911 - 1995)
 Philip Fox (ABD, 1878 - 1944)
 Herbert Friedman (ABD, 1916 –) 
 Dirk D. Frimout, (Belçika, 1941 –), mühendis ve kozmonot
 Edwin Brant Frost (ABD, 1866 - 1935)

 G 
 Galileo Galilei (İtalya, 1564 - 1642)
 Julio Garavito Armero
 Johann Gottfried Galle (Almanya, 1812 - 1910)
 George Gamow (Rusya, ABD, 1904 - 1968)
 Carl Friedrich Gauss (Almanya, 1777 - 1855)
 Tom Gehrels (Hollanda, ABD, 1925 –)
 Andrea Ghez (ABD)
 Riccardo Giacconi (İtalya, 1931 –)
 Michel Giacobini (Fransa, 1873 - 1938)
 Henry Lee Giclas (ABD)
 David Gill (Birleşik Krallık, 1843 - 1914)
 Gıyaseddin Cemşid al-Kaşi İran, 1380 - 1437
 Thomas Gold (ABD, 1920 - 2004)
 Leo Goldberg (ABD, 1913 - 1987)
 Peter Goldreich (ABD, 1939 –)
 Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt (Almanya, 1802 - 1866)
 Paul Goldsmith (ABD, 1948 –)
 François Gonnessiat (Fransa, 1856 - 1934)
 John Goodricke (Birleşik Krallık, 1764 - 1786)
 Ebu Said Gürgani (İran, 9. yüzyıl)
 Benjamin Apthorp Gould (ABD, 1824 - 1896)
 Hatice Nüzhet Gökdoğan (Türkiye, 1910 - 2003)
 Paul Götz (Almanya)
 Andrew Graham (İrlanda, 1815 - 1907)
 Charles Green (İngiltere, 1735 - 1771)
 Jesse Greenstein (ABD, 1909 - 2002)
 Bengt Gustafsson, (İsveç)
 Alan Harvey Guth (ABD, 1947 –)

 H 
 Yusuke Hagihara (Japonya, 1897 –1979)
 George Ellery Hale (ABD, 1868 - 1938)
 Asaph Hall (ABD, 1829 - 1907)
 Edmond Halley (İngiltere, 1656 - 1742)
 Peter Andreas Hansen (8 Aralık 1795 - 28 Mart 1874)
 Abulfazl Harawi (İran, 10. yüzyıl)
 Karl Ludwig Harding (Almanya, 1765 - 1834)
 Thomas Hariot (Birleşik Krallık, 1560 - 1621) 
 Guillermo Haro (Meksika, 1913 - 1988)
 Robert G. Harrington (ABD)
 Robert Sutton Harrington (ABD, 1942 - 1993)
 William Kenneth Hartmann (ABD, 1939 –)
 Stephen Hawking (Birleşik Krallık, 1942 - 2018)
 Will Hay (Birleşik Krallık, 1888 - 1949)
 Otto Hermann Leopold Heckmann (Almanya, 1901 - 1983)
 Joseph Helffrich (Almanya)
 Eleanor Helin (ABD)
 Maximilian Hell (Avusturya-Macaristan İmparatorluğu, 1720 - 1792)
 Karl Ludwig Hencke (Almanya, 1793 - 1866)
 Thomas Henderson (İskoçya, 1798 - 1844)
 Paul Henry (Fransa, 1848 - 1905)
 Prosper Henry (Fransa, 1849 - 1903)
 George Howard Herbig (ABD, 1920 –)
 Caroline Herschel (Birleşik Krallık, 1750 - 1848)
 John Herschel (Birleşik Krallık, 1792 - 1871)
 William Herschel (Birleşik Krallık, 1738 - 1822)
 Ejnar Hertzsprung (Danimarka, 1873 - 1967)
 Johannes Hevelius (Polonya, 1611 - 1687)
 Antony Hewish (Birleşik Krallık, 1924 –)
 George William Hill (ABD, 1838 - 1914)
 John Russell Hind (Birleşik Krallık, 1823 - 1895)
 Frederick Hinkle (Birleşik Krallık, –)
 Hipparchus (İznik, yaklaşık MÖ 190 – MÖ 120)
 Kiyotsugu Hirayama (Japonya, 1874 - 1943)
 Shin Hirayama (Japonya, 1868 - 1945)
 Gustave-Adolphe Hirn (Fransa, 1815 - 1890)
 Cuno Hoffmeister (Almanya, 1892 - 1968)
 Dorrit Hoffleit (ABD, 1907 –)
 Helen Sawyer Hogg (Kanada, 1905 - 1993)
 Minoru Honda (Japonya, 1917 –1990)
 Jeremiah Horrocks (Birleşik Krallık, c1619 - 1641) 
 Fred Hoyle (Birleşik Krallık, 1915 - 2001)
 Edwin Powell Hubble (ABD, 1889 - 1953)
 William Huggins (Birleşik Krallık, 1824 - 1910)
 Russell Alan Hulse (ABD, 1950 –)
 Christiaan Huygens (Hollanda, 1629 - 1695)
 Josef Allen Hynek (ABD, 1910 - 1986)

 I 
 I Sin (Çin, 683 - 727)
 Icko Iben, Jr. (1931 –)
 Kaoru Ikeya (Japonya)
 Robert Thorburn Ayton Innes (İskoçya, Güney Afrika, 1861 - 1933)
 İbn Rüşd 1126 - 1198
 İbrahim el-Fezari (Irak ? - 777)

 J 
 Cyril V. Jackson (Güney Afrika)
 Karl Guthe Jansky (ABD, 1905 - 1950)
 Pierre Jules César Janssen (Fransa, 1824 - 1907)
 James Hopwood Jeans (Birleşik Krallık,1877 - 1946)
 Benjamin Jekhowsky (Rusya, Fransa, Cezayir, 1881 - 1975)
 Louise Freeland Jenkins (ABD, 1888 - 1970)
 David Jewitt
 Alfred Harrison Joy (ABD, 1882 - 1973)

 K 
 Franz Kaiser (Almanya, 1891 - 1962) 
 Jacobus Kapteyn (Hollanda, 1851 - 1922)
 Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina (Ukrayna)
 Gıyaseddin Cemşid (İran, 1380 - 1429)
 James Edward Keeler (ABD, 1857 - 1900) 
 Muraoka Kenji, (Japonya, 1955 –)
 Johannes Kepler (Almanya, 1571 - 1630)
 Ömer Hayyam (İran, 1048 - 1131)
 Al-Khujandi (İran, 10th yüzyıl)
 Hârizmî, (İran, 780 - 850)
 Abdullah Kızılırmak, (Türkiye, 1925 - 1983)
 Kidinnu (Babil, yaklaşık MÖ 400 – MÖ 310)
 Hisashi Kimura (Japonya, 1870 –1943)
 Daniel Kirkwood (1814 - 1895)
 Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Klinkerfues (Almanya, 1827 - 1884)
 Viktor Knorre (Rusya, 1840 - 1919)
 Takao Kobayashi (Japonya)
 Luboš Kohoutek (1935 –)
 Zdeněk Kopal (Çekya, Birleşik Krallık, ABD, 1914 - 1993)
 Mikolaj Kopernik (Polonya, 1473 - 1543)
 August Kopff (Almanya, 1882 - 1960)
 Korado Korlević (Hırvatistan)
 Savvas Michael Koushiappas (Kıbrıs, 1972 –)
 Charles T. Kowal (ABD, 1940 –)
 Robert Kraft (ABD, 1927 - 2015) 
 Ľubor Kresák (Slovakya, 1927 - 1994)
 Gerard Kuiper (Hollanda, ABD, 1905 - 1973)
 Yoshio Kushida (Japonya, 1957 –)
 Ali Kuşçu (Osmanlı, 1403 - 1474)

 L 
 Nicolas Louis de Lacaille (Fransa, 1713 - 1762)
 Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist (İsveç)
 Joseph-Louis Lagrange (Fransa, 1736 - 1813)
 Jérôme Lalande (Fransa, 1732 - 1807)
 Johann Heinrich Lambert (Fransa, Almanya, 1728 - 1777)
 Samuel Pierpont Langley (ABD, 1834 - 1906)
 Pierre-Simon Laplace (Fransa, 1749 - 1827)
 William Lassell (Birleşik Krallık, 1799 - 1880)
 A. Laurent (Fransa)
 Henrietta Swan Leavitt (ABD, 1868 - 1921)
 Typhoon Lee (ABD and Tayvan)
 Guillaume Le Gentil (Fransa, 1725 - 1792)
 Georges Lemaître (Belçika, 1894 - 1966)
 Pierre Lemonnier (Fransa, 1715 - 1799)
 Armin Leuschner (Almanya, 1868 - 1953)
 Urbain Le Verrier (Fransa, 1811 - 1877)
 David Levy (ABD)
 Bertil Lindblad (İsveç, 1895 - 1965)
 Joseph Johann Littrow (Avusturya, 1781 - 1840)
 Karl L. Littrow (Avusturya, 1811 - 1877)
 Joseph Lockyer (Birleşik Krallık, 1836 - 1920)
 Maurice Loewy (Avusturya/Fransa, 1833 - 1907)
 Christian Sørensen Longomontanus (Danimarka, 1562 - 1647) 
 Lord Rosse (İrlanda, 1800 - 1867)
 Percival Lowell (ABD, 1855 - 1916)
 John William Lubbock (Birleşik Krallık, 1803 - 1865)
 Robert Luther (Almanya, 1822 - 1900)
 Jane Luu (ABD)
 Willem Luyten (1899 - 1994)
 Donald Lynden-Bell
 Bernard Lyot (Fransa, 1897 - 1952)
 Barselonalı Lupitus (İspanya, 10. yüzyıl)

 M 
 Muhammed bin İbrahim el-Fezari (Irak, ? - 796 veya 806)
 Adriaan van Maanen (ABD, 1884 - 1946)
 George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield (Birleşik Krallık, c. 1697 - 1764)
 Geoff Marcy (ABD)
 Simon Marius (Almanya, 1573 - 1624)
 Brian Marsden (ABD)
 Albert Marth (Almanya, 1828 - 1897)
 Nevil Maskelyne (Birleşik Krallık, 1732 - 1811)
 Charles Mason (Birleşik Krallık, ABD, 1730 - 1787)
 Janet Akyüz Mattei (Türkiye/ABD, 1943 - 2004)
 Edward Walter Maunder (Birleşik Krallık, 1851 - 1928)
 Pierre Louis Maupertuis (Fransa, 1698 - 1759)
 Alain Maury (Fransa)
 Cornell Mayer (ABD, 1922-2005)
 Tobias Mayer (Almanya, 1723 - 1762) 
 Christopher McKee (ABD, 1942 –)
 Robert S. McMillan (ABD)
 William H. McCrea (Birleşik Krallık, 1904 - 1999)
 Bruce A. McIntosh (Kanada 1929 –)
 Pierre Méchain (Fransa, 1744 - 1804)
 Thebe Medupe (Güney Afrika)
 Karen Jean Meech (ABD)
 Aden Baker Meinel (ABD, 1922 –)
 Philibert Jacques Melotte (Birleşik Krallık, 1880 - 1961)
 Paul Willard Merrill (ABD, 1887 - 1961)
 Charles Messier (Fransa, 1730 - 1817)
 Joel Hastings Metcalf (ABD, 1866 - 1925)
 John Michell (Birleşik Krallık, 1724 - 1793)
 Elia Millosevich (İtalya, 1848 - 1919)
 Dan Milosavljevic
 Edward Arthur Milne (Birleşik Krallık, 1896 - 1950)
 Rudolph Minkowski (Almanya, 1895 - 1976)
 Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert (Belçika, 1893 - 1970)
 Maria Mitchell (ABD, 1818 - 1889)
 Samuel Molyneux (Birleşik Krallık)
 Geminiano Montanari (İtalya, 1633 - 1687)
 Patrick Moore (Birleşik Krallık, 1923 –)
 William Wilson Morgan (ABD, 1906 - 1994)
 Amédée Mouchez (Fransa, 1821 - 1892)
 August Ferdinand Möbius (Almanya, 1790 - 1868)
 Antonín Mrkos (Çekya, 1918 - 1996)
 Jean Mueller (ABD)
 Ahmed bin Musa, (İran, 805 - 873)
 Nils Mustelin (Finlandiya, 1931 - 2004)
 Johannes Müller (Almanya, 1436 - 1476)
 Zekeriya Müyesseroğlu (Türkiye, 1959 - 2006)

 N 
 Naubakht (İran, d. 776)
 El Fadl ibn Naubaht (İran, 8. yüzyıl)
 Nabu-rimanni (Babylonia, yaklaşık MÖ 560 – MÖ 480)
 Nasîrüddin Tûsî
 Ahmed en-Nihâvendî (İran, 7-8. yüzyıl)
 Syuichi Nakano (Japonya)
 Grigoriy Nikolaevich Neujmin (Rusya, 1886 - 1946)
 Gerry Neugebauer
 Otto Neugebauer (Almanya, ABD, 1899 - 1990)
 Simon Newcomb (ABD, 1835 - 1909)
 Isaac Newton (Birleşik Krallık, 1643 - 1727)
 Seth Barnes Nicholson (ABD, 1891 - 1963)
 Peter Nilson (İsveç, 1937 - 1998)

 O 
 Tarmo Oja (İsveç)
 Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers (Almanya, 1758 - 1840)
 Gerard O'Neill (ABD,1927 - 1992)
 Jan Hendrik Oort (Hollanda, 1900 - 1992)
 Friedrich Wilhelm Opelt (Almanya, 1794 - 1863)
 Ernst Öpik (Estonya, İrlanda, 1893 - 1985)
 Donald Edward Osterbrock, ABD, 1924 –)
 Liisi Oterma (Finlandiya, 1915 - 2001)

 P 

 Bohdan Paczynski, (Polonya 1940 –)
 Ľudmila Pajdušáková (Slovakya, 1916 - 1979)
 Johann Palisa, (Avusturya, 1848 - 1925)
 Johann Palitzsch (1723 - 1788)
 Anton Pannekoek (Hollanda, 1873 - 1960)
 George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield (Birleşik Krallık, c. 1697 - 1764) 
 Eugene Parker (ABD, 1927 –)
 William Parsons, Lord Rosse (İrlanda, 1800 - 1867)
 André Patry (Fransa, 1902 - 1960)
 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (Birleşik Krallık ABD, 1900 - 1979)
 James Peebles (Kanada ABD, 1935 –)
 Leslie Copus Peltier (ABD, 1900 - 1980)
 Roger Penrose (Birleşik Krallık, 1931 –)
 Arno Penzias (Almanya, 1933 –)
 Charles Dillon Perrine (ABD, Arjantin, 1867 - 1951)
 Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin (Fransa, 1845 - 1904)
 Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (Almanya, ABD, 1813 - 1890)
 George Henry Peters (ABD, 1863 - 1947)
 Erik V. Petersen (Danimarka, 1911 –)
 Giuseppe Piazzi (İtalya, 1746 - 1826)
 Edward Charles Pickering (ABD, 1846 - 1919)
 William Henry Pickering (ABD, 1858 - 1938)
 Pisagor
 Philip Plait (ABD)
 Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana (İtalya, 1781 - 1864)
 John Stanley Plaskett (Kanada, 1865 - 1941)
 Norman Robert Pogson, (Birleşik Krallık, 1829 - 1891)
 Christian Pollas, (Fransa)
 John Pond (İngiltere, 1767 - 1836)
 Jean-Louis Pons (Fransa, 1761 - 1831)
 Charles Pritchard (Birleşik Krallık, 1808 - 1893)
 Richard Proctor (İngiltere, 1837 - 1888)
 Ptolemy İskenderiyeli (Romalı Mısır, yaklaşık 85 - 165)
 Pierre Puiseux (Fransa, 1855 - 1928)
 Georg Purbach (Almanya, 1423 - 1461)

 Q 
 Adolphe Quetelet (Belçika, 1796 - 1874)

 R 
 David Lincoln Rabinowitz (ABD, 1960 –)
 Samuel Ramsden (Birleşik Krallık)
 Pavla Ranzinger (Slovenya)
 Grote Reber (ABD, 1911 - 2002)
 Martin Rees (Birleşik Krallık, 1942 –) 
 Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller) (Almanya, 1436 - 1476)
 Erasmus Reinhold (Prusya, Almanya, 1511 - 1553)
 Karl Reinmuth (Almanya, 1892 - 1979) 
 Giovanni Battista Riccioli (İtalya, 1598 - 1671)
 Jean Richer (Fransa, 1630 - 1696)
 Fernand Rigaux (Belçika)
 Elizabeth Roemer (ABD, 1929 –) 
 Jim Rolff (ABD, 1983 &ndashl;)
 Ole Christensen Rømer (Danimarka, 1644 - 1710)
 Otto A. Rosenberger (Almanya, 1800 - 1890)
 Lord Rosse (İrlanda, 1800 - 1867)
 Bruno Rossi (İtalya, 1905 - 1993)
 Vera Rubin (ABD, 1928 –)
 Henry Norris Russell (ABD, 1877 - 1957)
 Martin Ryle (Birleşik Krallık, 1918 - 1984)

 S 
 Sind bin Ali (? - 864)
 Sir Edward Sabine (Birleşik Krallık, 1788 - 1883)
 Carl Edward Sagan (ABD, 1934 - 1996)
 Edwin Ernest Salpeter (Avusturya, Avustralya, ABD, 1924 –)
 Allan Rex Sandage (1926 –)
 Wallace Leslie William Sargent
 Alexandre Schaumasse (Fransa, 1882 - 1958)
 Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (İtalya, 1835 - 1910)
 Frank Schlesinger (ABD, 1871 - 1943)
 Bernhard Schmidt (Estonya, İsveç, Almanya, 1879 - 1935)
 Maarten Schmidt (1929 –)
 Johann Hieronymus Schröter (Almanya, 1745 - 1816)
 Lipót Schulhof (Macaristan, 1847 - 1921)
 Heinrich Christian Schumacher (Almanya, 1780 - 1850) 
 Hans-Emil Schuster (Almanya, 1934 –)
 Samuel Heinrich Schwabe (Almanya, 1789 - 1875)
 Karl Schwarzschild (Almanya, 1873 - 1916)
 Martin Schwarzschild (Almanya, ABD, 1912 - 1997)
 Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann (Almanya, 1870 - 1964)
 Ruby Payne Scott (Avustralya, 1912 - 1981)
 James Vernon Scotti (ABD, 1960 –)
 Frederick Hanley Seares (ABD, 1873 - 1964)
 George Mary Searle (ABD, 1839 - 1918)
 Tsutomu Seki (Japonya, 1930 –)
 Carl Keenan Seyfert (ABD, 1911 - 1960)
 Grigori Abramoviç Şayn (Rusya, 1892 - 1956)
 Pelageya Fedorovna Şayn (Rusya, 1894 - 1956)
 Harlow Shapley (ABD, 1885 - 1972)
 Richard Sheepshanks (Birleşik Krallık, 1794 - 1855)
 Qutb eddin Shirazi (İran)
 Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky (Rusya, 1916 - 1985)
 Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker (ABD, 1929 –)
 Eugene Merle Shoemaker (ABD, 1928 - 1997)
 Charlotte Moore Sitterly (ABD, 1898 - 1990)
 Brian A. Skiff (ABD)
 John Francis Skjellerup (Avustralya, Güney Afrika, 1875 - 1952)
 Charles D. Slaughter (ABD)
 Vesto Melvin Slipher (ABD, 1875 - 1969)
 Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova (Rusya, 1918 –)
 William Henry Smyth (Birleşik Krallık, 1788 - 1865) 
 Nina A. Solovaya (Rusya, 1940 –)
 Mary Fairfax Somerville (Birleşik Krallık, 1780 - 1872)
 Sir James South (Birleşik Krallık, (1785 - 1867) 
 Sir Harold Spencer Jones (Birleşik Krallık, 1890 - 1960)
 Lyman Spitzer (ABD, 1914 - 1997)
 Friederich Wilhelm Gustav Spörer (Almanya, 1822 - 1895)
 Anton Staus (Almanya, 1872 - 1955)
 Joel Stebbins, (ABD, 1878 - 1966)
 Karl August von Steinheil, (Almanya, 1801 - 1870)
 Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan, (Fransa, 1837 - 1923)
 David J. Stevenson, (Yeni Zelanda, 1948 –)
 Edward James Stone, (1831 - 1897)
 Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren, (Danimarka, 1908 - 1987)
 Friedrich Georg Wilhelm (von) Struve (Almanya, Rusya, 1793 - 1864)
 Karl Hermann Struve (Rusya, Almanya, 1854 - 1920)
 Gustav Wilhelm Ludwig Struve (Rusya, 1858 - 1920)
 Otto Struve (Rusya, ABD, 1897 - 1963)
 Otto Wilhelm (von) Struve (Rusya, 1819 - 1905)
 Rashid Alievich Sunyaev (Özbekistan Rusya Almanya, 1943 –)
 Lewis A. Swift (ABD, 1820 - 1913)
 Frédéric Sy (Fransa)

 T 
 Atsushi Takahashi (Japonya)
 Takiyüddin (Osmanlı, 1526-1580)
 Gonzalo Tancredi (Uruguay, 1963 –)
 Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (ABD, 1941 –)
 Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel, (Almanya, 1821 - 1889)
 Thabit ibn Qurra (Irak, 826 - 901)
 Thorvald Nicolai Thiele (Danimarka, 1838 - 1910)
 Norman G. Thomas (ABD)
 John M. Thome (1843 - 1908)
 Kip Stephen Thorne (ABD, 1940 –)
 Friedrich Tietjen (Almanya, 1834 - 1895)
 Beatrice Muriel Hill Tinsley (ABD, 1941 - 1981)
 François Félix Tisserand (Fransa, 1845 - 1896)
 Johann Daniel Titius (Almanya, 1729 - 1796)
 Clyde W. Tombaugh (ABD, 1906 - 1997)
 Richard Tousey (ABD, 1908 - 1997)
 Virginia Trimble (ABD)
 Chad Trujillo (ABD)
 Robert Julius Trumpler (ABD, 1886 - 1956)
 R. Brent Tully (ABD)
 Herbert Hall Turner (İngiltere, 1861 - 1930)
 Horace Parnell Tuttle (ABD, 1839 - 1923)

 U 
 Uluğ Bey (Özbekistan, 1391 - 1449) 
 Albrecht Unsöld (Almanya, 1905 - 1995)
 Mu’ayyad al-Din al-’Urdi (İran)

 V 
 Yrjö Väisälä (Finlandiya, 1891 - 1971)
 Benjamin Valz (Fransa, 1787 - 1867) 
 James Van Allen (ABD, 1914 –)
 George Van Biesbroeck (Belçika, ABD, 1880 - 1974)
 Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst (Hollanda, 1918 - 2000)
 Peter van de Kamp (ABD, 1901 - 1995)
 Sidney van den Bergh (Kanada, 1929 –)
 Hendrik Van Gent (Hollanda, Güney Afrika, (1900 - 29 Mart 1947)
 Cornelis Johannes van Houten (Hollanda, 1920 – August 24 2002)
 Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (Hollanda)
 Zdeňka Vávrová (Çekya or Slovakya)
 Philippe Véron (Fransa, 1939 –)
 Frank Washington Very (ABD, 1852 - 1927)
 Yvon Villarceau (Fransa, 1813 - 1883)
 Julie Vinter Hansen (Danimarka), 1890 - 1960)
 Hermann Carl Vogel (Almanya, 1841 - 1907)
 Joseph von Fraunhofer (Almanya, 1787 - 1826)
 Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (Almanya, Rusya, 1793 - 1864)
 Otto Wilhelm von Struve (Rusya, 1819 - 1905)
 Karl von Weizsäcker (Almanya, 1912 –)
 Alexander N. Vyssotsky (Rusya ABD, 1888 - 1973)
 Emma Vyssotsky (ABD, 1894 - 1975)

 W 
 Arno Arthur Wachmann (Almanya, 1902 - 1990)
 Ebu'l-Vefâ el-Bûzcânî (İran, 940 - 997-8)
 George Wallerstein (1930 –)
 Qingde Wang (ABD, Çin)
 James Craig Watson (ABD, 1838 - 1880)
 Thomas William Webb (Birleşik Krallık, 1807 - 1885)
 Risa H. Wechsler (ABD 1975 –)
 Alfred Lothar Wegener (Almanya, 1880 - 1930), astronom, geologist, meteorologist
 Godefroy Wendelin (Belçika, 1580 - 1667)
 Richard M. West (Danimarka, 1942 –)
 J. G. Westphal (Almanya)
 Johann Heinrich Westphal (Almanya, İtalya, 1794 - 1831)
 George Wetherill
 John Archibald Wheeler (ABD, 1911 –)
 Fred Lawrence Whipple (ABD, 1906 - 2004)
 Albert Whitford (ABD, 1905 - 2002)
 Chandra Wickramasinghe (Birleşik Krallık, 1939 –)
 Paul Wild (İsviçre)
 Olin C. Wilson (ABD, 1909 - 1994)
 Robert Wilson (ABD, 1936 –)
 John Winthrop (Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1714 - 1779)
 Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke (Almanya, 1835 - 1897)
 Carl Wirtanen (ABD, 1910 - 1990)
 Jack Wisdom (ABD)
 Gustav Witt (Almanya, 1866 - 1946)
 Maximilian Wolf (Almanya, 1863 - 1932)
 Aleksander Wolszczan (Polonya, 1946 –)
 Richard van der Riet Woolley (Birleşik Krallık, 1906 - 1986)
 Thomas Wright (Birleşik Krallık, 1711 - 1786)

 Y 
 Issei Yamamoto (Japonya, 1889 - 1959)
 Charles Augustus Young (ABD, 1834 - 1908)
 James Whitney Young (ABD, 1941 –)

 Z 
 Franz Xaver von Zach (Almanya, 1753 - 1832)
 Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (SSCB, 1914 - 1987)
 Andrew Ronald Zentner (ABD, 1976 –)
 Zhang Daqing (Çin, 1969 –)
 Zhang Heng (78 - 139)
 Zhang Yuzhe (Çin, 1902 - 1986)
 Lyudmila Vasil'evna Zhuravleva (Rusya/Ukrayna, ? –)
 Zu Chongzhi, (425 - 500)
 Fritz Zwicky (İsviçre, ABD, 1898 - 1974)

 Diğer 
 Astronomi ve astrofizik üzerinde etkisi olan işler yapmış biliminsanları 
 Hans Bethe (fizikçi) (1906 - 2005)
 Niels Bohr (fizikçi) (1885 - 1962)
 Freeman Dyson (fizikçi) (1923 –)
 Albert Einstein (fizikçi) (1879 - 1955)
 Savvas M. Koushiappas (fizikçi) (Kıbrıs, 1971 –)
 James Clerk Maxwell (fizikçi) (Birleşik Krallık, 1831 - 1879)
 Louis E. Strigari (fizikçi) (ABD, 1977 –)
 Thomas Young (fizikçi) (Birleşik Krallık, 1773 - 1829)
 Andrew R. Zentner (fizikçi) (ABD, 1976 –)
 Abdus Salam (1926 - 1996), (fizikçi)
 Riazuddin (1936 -2013), (fizikçi)
 Andreas Cellarius (Hollanda, Almanya, 1596 - 1665), (kartograf)
 Karl Guthe Jansky (ABD, 1905 - 1950), (radyo astronom)

 Alet yapımcıları, çizerler vb. 
 John Bird (1709 - 1776)
 Chesley Bonestell (1888 - 1986)
 Thomas Cooke (1807 - 1868)
 Alvan Clark (1804 - 1887)
 John Dollond (1706 - 1761)
 Henry Fitz (1808 - 1863)  
 James Gregory (1638 - 1675)
 Jesse Ramsden (1735 - 1800)
 George Willis Ritchey (1864 - 1945)
 James Short (1710 - 1768)
 William Simms (1793 - 1860)
 William Simms (1817 - 1907)
 Edward Troughton (1756 - 1835)

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