Lëscht vun Astronomen

Dës **Lëscht vun Astronomen** ass en Deel vun de .

## A

* Ernst Abbe (1841 - 1905)
* Charles Greeley Abbot (1872 - 1973)
* George Ogden Abell (1927 - 1983)
* Antonio Abetti (1846 - 1928)
* Giorgio Abetti (1882 - 1982)
* John Couch Adams (1819 - 1892)
* Walter Sydney Adams (1876 - 1956) 
* Paul Ahnert (1897 - 1989)
* Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (1912 - 1954)
* Pierre d'Ailly (1350 - 1420)
* George Biddell Airy (1801 - 1892)
* Robert Grant Aitken (1864 - 1951)
* Alkmaion 
* Lawrence Aller (1913 - 2003)
* Thomas David Anderson (1853 - 1932)
* Leif Erland Andersson (1944 - 1979)
* Anders Jonas Ångström (1814 - 1874)
* Peter Anich (1723 - 1766)
* Eugène Michel Antoniadi (1870 - 1944)
* Gale Bruno van Albada (1912 - 1972)
* James Van Allen (1914 - 2006)
* Alhazen (965 - 1039)
* Peter Apian (1495 - 1552)
* François Arago (1786 - 1853)
* Sylvain Julien Victor Arend (1902 - 1992)
* Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (1799 - 1875)
* Aristarchos vu Samos (310 v. Chr. - 230 v. Chr.)
* Aristyllos vu Samos (ëm 300 v. Chr.)
* Christoph Arnold (1650 - 1695)
* Halton Arp (1927 - 2013)
* Heinrich Louis d'Arrest (1822 - 1875)
* Abd ar-Rahman as-Sufi (903 - 986)
* Arthur Auwers (1838 - 1915)

## B

* Walter Baade (1893 - 1960)
* Harold D. Babcock (1882 - 1968)
* Ulrika Babiaková (1976 - 2002)
* Johann Oskar Backlund (1846 - 1916)
* Solon Irving Bailey (1854 - 1931)
* Francis Baily (1774 - 1844)
* M. K. Vainu Bappu (1927 - 1982)
* Carlyle Smith Beals (1899 - 1979)
* Pierre Joseph de Beauchamp (1752 - 1801)
* Ulugh Beg (1394 - 1449)
* Benjamin Baillaud (1848 - 1934)
* Robert Stawell Ball (1840 - 1913)
* Al Battani (ëm 850 - 929)
* Edward Emerson Barnard (1857 - 1923)
* Jacob Bartsch (1600 - 1633)
* Johannes Bayer (1572 - 1625)
* Wilhelm Beer (1797 - 1850)
* Sergei Iwanowitsch Beljawski (1883 - 1953)
* Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943 -)
* Azeglio Bemporad (1875 - 1945)
* Fabrizio Bernardi (1972 - )
* Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784 - 1846)
* Nur Ed-Din Al Betrugi ? - 1204
* Francesco Bianchini (1662 - 1729)
* Giovanni Bianchini (1410 - 1469)
* Wilhelm von Biela (1782 - 1853)
* George Van Biesbroeck (1880 - 1974)
* Guillaume Bigourdan (1851 - 1932)
* Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774 - 1862)
* John Bird (1709 - 1776)
* Robert Blair (1748 - 1828)
* Nathaniel Bliss (1700 - 1764)
* Adriaan Blaauw (1914 - 2010)
* Roger Blandford (1949 -)
* Willem Blaeu (1571 - 1638)
* Andrea Boattini (1969 -
* Johann Elert Bode (1747 - 1826)
* Alfred Bohrmann (1904 - 2000)
* Bart J. Bok (1906 - 1983)
* Georg Phillips Bond (1825 - 1865)
* William Cranch Bond (1789 - 1859)
* Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly (1842 - 1926)
* Benjamin Boss (1880 - 1970)
* Lewis Boss (1846 - 1912)
* Ismael Boulliau (1605 - 1694)
* Alexis Bouvard (1767 - 1843)
* Ira Sprague Bowen (1898 - 1973)
* Edward Bowell (1943 -)
* James Bradley (1693 - 1762)
* Sophie Brahe (1556 - 1643)
* Tycho Brahe (1546 - 1601)
* Brahmagupta (598 - 668)
* Carl Bremiker (1804 - 1877)
* Thomas Brisbane (1773 - 1860)
* William Robert Brooks (1844 - 1922)
* Theodor Brorsen (1819 - 1895)
* Michael E. Brown (1965 - 
* Karl Christian Bruhns (1830 - 1881)
* Franz Friedrich Ernst Brünnow (1821 - 1891)
* Albert von Brunn (1880 - 1942)
* Bruno H. Bürgel (1875 - 1948)
* Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838 - 1921)
* Schelte John Bus (1956 -)

## C

* Antonio Cagnoli (1743 - 1816)
* William Wallace Campbell (1862 - 1938)
* Annie Jump Cannon (1863 - 1941)
* Francesco Carlini (1783 - 1862)
* Luigi Carnera (1875 - 1962)
* Richard Christopher Carrington (1826 - 1875)
* Edouard Caspari (1840 - 1918)
* César-François Cassini de Thury (1714 - 1784)
* Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625 - 1712)
* Jacques Cassini (1677 - 1756) 
* Jean-Dominique Cassini (1748 - 1845)
* Vincenzo Silvano Casulli (1944 -)
* Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598 - 1647) 
* Anders Celsius (1701 - 1744)
* Vincenzo Cerulli (1859 - 1927) 
* Carlos Ulrrico Cesco (1910 - 1987)
* Jean Chacornac (1823 - 1873)
* Seth Carlo Chandler (1846 - 1913)
* Jean Chappe
* Carl Charlier 1862 - 1934)
* Auguste Charlois (1846 - 1910)
* Jean-Philippe de Chéseaux (1718 - 1751)
* James W. Christy (1938 -)
* Alvan Clark (1804 - 1887)
* Alvan Graham Clark (1832 - 1897)
* George Bassett Clark (1827 - 1891)
* Christophorus Clavius (1537/38 - 1612)
* Agnes Mary Clerke (1842 - 1907)
* William Coblentz (1873 - 1962)
* Jérôme-Eugène Coggia (1849 - 1919)
* Edwin Foster Coddington (1870 - 1950)
* Fritz Cohn (1866 - 1922)
* Per Collinder (1890 - 1931)
* Josep Comas i Solà (1868 - 1937)
* Edward Joshua Cooper (1798 - 1863)
* Ralph Copeland (1837 - 1905)
* André Couder (1897 - 1979)
* William Crabtree (1610 - 1644)
* Heber Doust Curtis (1872 - 1942)
* Johann Baptist Cysat (1585 - 1657)

### D

* André Danjon (1890 - 1967)
* Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix (1718 - 1802)
* Henri Debehogne (1928 - 2007)
* Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749 - 1822)
* Charles Eugène Delaunay (1816 - 1872)
* Joseph Nicolas Delisle (1688 - 1768)
* Eugène Delporte (1882 - 1955)
* Eugène Joseph Delporte (1882 - 1955)
* William Frederick Denning (1848 - 1931)
* Henri-Alexandre Deslandres, (1853 - 1948)
* Audouin Dollfus, (1924 - 2010)
* Giambattista Donati (1826 - 1873)
* Frank Drake (1930 -)
* Henry Draper (1837 - 1882)
* Johan Ludvig Emil Dreyer (1852 - 1926)
* Raymond Smith Dugan (1878 - 1940)
* James Dunlop (1793 - 1848)
* Frank Dyson (1868 - 1939)

### E

* Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882 - 1944)
* Kenneth Essex Edgeworth (1880 - 1972)
* Bengt Edlén (1906 - 1993)
* Frank K. Edmondson (1912 - 2008)
* Richard Salisbury Ellis (1950 - 
* Hans Elsässer (1929 - 2003)
* Eric Walter Elst 
* Johann Franz Encke (1791 - 1865)
* Ernest Esclangon (1876 - 1954)

### F

* Sandra Moore Faber (1944 -)
* Andrew Fabian (1948 -)
* David Fabricius (1564 - 1617)
* Hervé Faye (1814 - 1902)
* Charles Fehrenbach (1914 - 2008)
* James Ferguson (1797 - 1867)
* Gaspare Stanislao Ferrari (1834 - 1903)
* William Henry Finlay (1849 - 1924)
* James Richard Fisher (1943 -
* John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719)
* Camille Flammarion (1842 - 1925)
* Williamina Fleming (1857 - 1911)
* Wilhelm Foerster (1832 - 1921)
* Giuseppe Forti (1939 - 2007)
* William Alfred Fowler (1911 - 1995)
* Alfred Fowler (1868 - 1940)
* Girolamo Fracastoro (1478 - 1553)
* Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787 - 1826)
* Royal Harwood Frost (1879 - 1950)

### G

* Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642) 
* Walter Frederick Gale (1865 - 1945)
* Johann Gottfried Galle (1812 - 1910)
* Jean-Félix Adolphe Gambart (1800 - 1836)
* Gordon J. Garradd (1959 -
* Annibale de Gasparis (1819 - 1892) 
* Carl Friedrich Gauß (1777 - 1855) 
* Tom Gehrels (1925 -
* Margaret Geller (1947 -
* Hendrik van Gent (1900 - 1947)
* Michel Giacobini (1873 - 1938)
* David Gill (1843 - 1914)
* Brett James Gladman (1966 -)
* Wilhelm Gliese (1915 - 1993)
* Peter Goldreich (1939 -)
* Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt (1802 - 1866)
* François Gonnessiat (1856 - 1934)
* John Goodricke (1764 - 1786)
* Benjamin Apthorp Gould: (1824 - 1896)
* Andrew Graham (1815 - 1908)
* James Gregory (Mathematiker) (1638 - 1675)
* Michael Griffin (1949 - 
* Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618 - 1663)
* Paul Guthnick (1879 - 1947)
* Johannes vu Gmunden (ëm1380 - 1442)
* Alan C. Gilmore (onbekannt -
* James E. Gunn (1938 -
* Hugo Gyldén (1841 - 1896)

### H

* John Hadley (1682 - 1744)
* George Ellery Hale
* Asaph Hall (1829 - 1907)
* Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742)
* Viktor Hambarzumjan (1908 - 1996)
* Christopher Hansteen (1784 - 1873)
* Julie Marie Vinter Hansen (1890 - 1960)
* Karl Ludwig Harding (1765 - 1834)
* Guillermo Haro (1913 - 1988)
* Malcolm Hartley (1947 -)
* Joseph Helffrich (1890 - 1971)
* Eleanor Helin
* Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793 - 1866)
* Karl Gordon Henize (1926 - 1993)
* Paul-Pierre Henry (1848 - 1905)
* Prosper-Mathieu Henry (1849 - 1903) 
* Robert Henseling (1883 - 1964)
* George Howard Herbig (1920 - 2013)
* Paul Herget (1908 - 1981)
* Caroline Herschel (1750 - 1848)
* John Herschel (1782 - 1871)
* Wilhelm Herschel (1738 - 1822)
* Ejnar Hertzsprung (1873 - 1967)
* Elisabetha Hevelius (1647 - 1693)
* Johannes Hevelius (1611 - 1687)
* Antony Hewish (1924 -)
* George William Hill (1838 - 1914)
* John Russell Hind (1823 - 1895)
* Hipparchos vun Nicäa (~190 - 120)
* Kiyotsugu Hirayama (1874 - 1943)
* Philippe de La Hire (1640 - 1718)
* Adolf Hnatek: (1876 - 1960)
* Giovanni Battista Hodierna (1597 - 1660)
* Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit (1907 - 2007)
* Cuno Hoffmeister (1892 - 1968)
* Helen Sawyer Hogg (1905 - 1993)
* Edward Singleton Holden (1846 - 1914)
* Erik Bertil Holmberg (1908 - 2000)
* Henry E. Holt ()
* Johann Ph. Holwarda (1618 - 1651
* Jodocus Hondius (1563 - 1612)
* Josef Hopmann (1890 - 1975)
* Jeremia Horrocks (1619 - 1641)
* Sydney Samuel Hough (1870 - 1923)
* Frederik de Houtman (1571 - 1627)
* Cornelis Johannes van Houten (1920 - 2002)
* Edwin Hubble (1889 - 1953)
* John Huchra (1948 - 2010)
* Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst (1918 - 2000)
* Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 1695)
* Yūji Hyakutake (1950 - 2002)

### I

* Johann Abraham Ihle (1627 - 1699)
* Kaoru Ikeya (1943 -)
* Robert Innes (1861 - 1933)

### J
* Cyril V. Jackson (1903 - 1988)
* Robert Earl Jackson (1949 -
* Hartmut Jahreiß (1942 -
* Karl Guthe Jansky (1905 - 1950)
* Pierre Jules César Janssen (1824 - 1907)
* Stéphane Javelle (1864 - 1917)
* Jaume Nomen (1960 -
* Harold Lester Johnson (1921 - 1980)
* Harold Spencer Jones (1890 - 1960)
* Charles W. Juels (1944 - 2009)

### K

* Frederik Kaiser (1808 - 1872)
* Lisa Kaltenegger (1977 -)
* Peter van de Kamp (1901 - 1995)
* Jens Kandler (1973-)
* Jacobus Kapteyn (1851 - 1922)
* Philip Keenan (1908 - 2000)
* Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630)
* Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser (1540 - 1596)
* Hans Kienle (1895 - 1975)
* Johann Kies (1713 - 1781)
* Pamela M. Kilmartin 
* Gottfried Kirch (1639 - 1710)
* Maria Margaretha Kirch (1670 - 1720
* Daniel Kirkwood (1814 - 1895)
* Arnold R. Klemola (1931 -)
* Viktor Knorre (1840 - 1919) 
* Takao Kobayashi (1961 -)
* Johann Gottfried Köhler (1745 - 1800)
* Rudolf König (1865 - 1927)
* Lubos Kohoutek (1935 -)
* Nikolaus Kopernikus (1473 - 1543) 
* August Kopff (1882 - 1960)
* Kazimierz Kordylewski (1903 - 1981)
* Hiroki Kōsai (1933 -)
* Charles Thomas Kowal (1940 -)
* Robert Paul Kraft (1927 - 2015)
* Heinrich Kreutz (1854 - 1907)
* Adalbert Krüger (1832 - 1896)
* Karl Friedrich Küstner (1856 - 1036)
* Gerard Peter Kuiper (1905 - 1973)

### L

* Antoine Émile Henry Labeyrie (1943 -)
* Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (1713 - 1762)
* Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist (1944 -)
* Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736 - 1813)
* Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande (1732 - 1807)
* Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728 - 1777) 
* Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749 - 1827)
* William Lassell (1799 - 1880)
* Kurt Laves (1866 - 1944)
* Kenneth Lawrence
* Francis Preserved Leavenworth (1858 - 1928)
* Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868 - 1921)
* Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723 - 1788)
* Otto Leberecht Lesser (1830 - 1887)
* David Levy (*1948)
* Guillaume Le Gentil (1725 - 1792)
* Urbain Le Verrier (1811 - 1877)
* Bertil Lindblad (1895 - 1965)
* Donald Lynden-Bell (1935 -
* Joseph Johann von Littrow (1781 - 1840)
* Karl Ludwig von Littrow (1811 - 1877)
* Maurice Loewy (1833 - 1907)
* Karl Wilhelm Lorenz (1886 - 1918)
* Bernard Lovell (1913 - 2012)
* Percival Lowell (1855 - 1916)
* Karl Theodor Robert Luther (1822 - 1900)
* Bernard Ferdinand Lyot (1897 - 1952)

### M
* Paolo Maffei (1926 - 2009)
* Giovanni Antonio Magini (1555 - 1617)
* Al-Marrakushi (1256 - 1321)
* John C. Mather (1946 -)
* Dean Benjamin McLaughlin - (1901 - 1965)
* Robert Mc.Naught (1956 -)
* Johann Heinrich Mädler (1794 - 1874)
* Michael Maestlin (1550 - 1631)
* Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Maksutow (1896 - 1964)
* Giovanni Domenico Maraldi (1709 - 1788)
* Jacopo Filippo Maraldi (1665 - 1729)
* Geoffrey Marcy (1954 -)
* Simon Marius (1573 - 1624)
* Benjamin Markarjan (1913 - 1985)
* William Markowitz (1907 - 1998)
* Brian Marsden (1937 - 2010)
* Albert Marth (1828 - 1897)
* Claude-Louis Mathieu (1783 - 1875)
* Annie Maunder (1868 - 1947)
* Edward Walter Maunder (1851 - 1928)
* Antonia Maury (1866 - 1952)
* Gustav Niessl von Mayendorff (1839 - 1919)
* Michel Mayor (1942 -)
* Pierre Méchain (1744 - 1804)
* Philibert Jacques Melotte (1889 - 1961)
* Donald Howard Menzel (1901 - 1976)
* Jean-Claude Merlin (1954 -)
* Paul Willard Merrill (1887 - 1961)
* Charles Messier (1730 - 1817)
* Joel Hastings Metcalf (1866 - 1925)
* Max Wilhelm Meyer (1853 - 1910)
* Elia Millosevich (1848 - 1919)
* Rudolf Minkowski (1895 - 1976)
* Maria Mitchell (1818 - 1889)
* August Ferdinand Möbius (1790 - 1868)
* Geminiano Montanari (1633 - 1687)
* Patrick Moore (*1923)
* Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898 - 1990)
* William Wilson Morgan (1906 - 1994)
* Antonín Mrkos (1918 - 1996)
* Frank Muller (Astronom) (1862 - 1917)
* Bruce C. Murray (1931 - 2013)

### N

* Bill Napier (1940 - 
* Gerald Neugebauer (1932 -
* Seth Barnes Nicholson (1891 - 1963)
* Grigoriy Nikolaevich Neujmin (1886 - 1946) 
* Simon Newcomb (1835 - 1909)
* Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727) 
* Peter Nilson (1937 - 1998)

### O
* Okuro Oikawa (1886 - 1970)
* Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers (1758 - 1840)
* Jan Hendrik Oort (1900 - 1992)
* Ernst Öpik (1893 - 1985)
* Theodor von Oppolzer (1841 - 1886)
* Barnaba Oriani (1752 - 1832)
* Jeremiah P. Ostriker (1937 -)
* Liisi Oterma (1915 - 2001)

### P
* Franco Pacini (1939 - 2012)
* Johann Palisa (1848 - 1925)
* John Stefanos Paraskevopoulos (1889 - 1951)
* Lawrence Parsons, 4. Earl of Rosse (1840 - 1908)
* William Parsons (1800 - 1867)
* Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900 - 1979)
* Carl Frederik Pechüle (1843 - 1914)
* Philip James Edwin Peebles (1935 -)
* Manuel Peimbert (1941 -)
* Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580 - 1637)
* Arno Penzias (1933 -
* Charles Dillon Perrine (1867 - 1951)
* Henri Joseph Perrotin (1845 - 1904)
* Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813 - 1890)
* Edison Pettit (1889 - 1962)
* Georg von Peuerbach (1423 - 1461)
* Giuseppe Piazzi (1746 - 1826)
* Jean Picard (1620 - 1682)
* Alessandro Piccolomini (1508 - 1578)
* Edward Charles Pickering (1846 - 1919)
* William Henry Pickering (1858 - 1938)
* Edward Pigott (1753 - 1825)
* Paris Pismis (1911 - 1999)
* Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana (1781 - 1864)
* Petrus Plancius (1552 - 1622)
* Harry Hemley Plaskett (1893 - 1980)
* John Stanley Plaskett (1865 - 1941)
* Norman Robert Pogson (1829 - 1891)
* Christian Pollas (1947 -)
* John Pond (1767 - 1836)
* Jean-Louis Pons (1761 - 1831)
* Petr Pravec (1967 -)
* Mary Proctor: (1862 - 1957)
* Richard Anthony Proctor (1837 - 1888)
* Claudius Ptolemäus (~100 - ~175)
* Pierre Puiseux (1855 - 1928

### Q
* Didier Queloz (1966 -)
* Adolphe Quetelet (1796 - 1874)

### R
* David Lincoln Rabinowitz: (1960 -
* Georges Rayet: (1839 - 1906)
* Regiomontanus: (1436 - 1476)
* Grote Reber: (1911 - 2002)
* Martin John Rees: (1942 - 
* Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth: (1892 - 1979)
* Giovanni Riccioli: (1598 - 1671)
* Johann Richter (Astronom): (1537 - 1616)
* George Willis Ritchey: (1864 - 1945) 
* Isaac Roberts: (1829 - 1904)
* Elizabeth Roemer: (1929 -)
* Olaf Römer: (1644 - 1710)
* Édouard Albert Roche: (1820 - 1883)
* Bruno Rossi: (1905 - 1993)
* Vera Rubin: (1928 -)
* Warren de la Rue: (1815 - 1889)
* Karl Rümker: (1788 - 1862)
* Henry Norris Russell: (1877 - 1957)
* Lewis Morris Rutherfurd: (1816 - 1892)
* Martin Ryle: (1918 - 1984)

### S

* Truman Henry Safford (1836 - 1901)
* Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
* Edwin Salpeter (1924 - 2008)
* Allan Rex Sandage (1926 -)
* Karl Schaifers (1921 - 2009)
* Alexandre Schaumasse (1882 - 1958)
* Christoph Scheiner (1575 - 1650)
* Julius Scheiner (1858 - 1913)
* Beniamin Pawlowitsch Schechowski (1881 - 1953)
* Giovanni Schiaparelli (1835 - 1910)
* Julius Schiller (? - 1627)
* Bernhard Schmidt (Optiker) (1879 - 1935)
* Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825 - 1884)
* Erich Schoenberg (1882 - 1965)
* Eduard Schönfeld (1828 - 1891)
* David Schramm (1945 - 1997)
* Johann Hieronymus Schröter (1745 - 1816)
* Lipót Schulhof (1847 - 1921)
* Herman Schultz (1823 - 1890)
* Erwin Schwab (1964 -)
* Heinrich Schwabe (1789 - 1875)
* Karl Schwarzschild (1873 - 1916)
* Martin Schwarzschild (1912 - 1997)
* Arnold Schwassmann (1870 - 1964)
* George Mary Searle (1838 - 1918)
* Angelo Secchi (1818 - 1878)
* Carl Keenan Seyfert (1911 - 1960)
* Tsutomu Seki (1930 -)
* Seleukos vu Seleukia ëm 190 v. Chr.
* Stewart Sharpless (1926 - 2013)
* Harlow Shapley (1885 - 1972)
* Carolyn Shoemaker (1929
* Eugene Shoemaker (1928 - 1997)
* Frank Shu (1943 - 
* Aaron Nichols Skinner (1845 - 1918)
* Vesto Melvin Slipher (1875 - 1969)
* Tamara Michailowna Smirnowa (1918 - 2001)
* Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819 - 1900)
* William Henry Smyth (1788 - 1865)
* Lyman Spitzer (1914 - 1997) 
* Joel Stebbins (1878 - 1966)
* Kārlis Šteins (1911 - 1983)]]
* Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan (1837 - 1923)
* DeLisle Stewart (1870 - 1941)
* John Quincy Stewart (1894 - 1972)
* Bernhard Sticker (1906 - 1977)
* Johannes Stöffler (1452 - 1531)
* Edward C. Stone (1936 -
* Ormond Stone (1847 - 1933)
* Bengt Strömgren (1908 - 1987)
* Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve (1793 - 1864)
* Otto Wilhelm von Struve (1819 - 1905)
* Otto von Struve (1897 - 1963)
* Lewis A. Swift (1820 - 1913)
* Edward D. Swift (1871 -)

### T
* Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (1941 -)
* Timocharis vun Alexandria (320 v. Chr. - 260 v. Chr.)
* Sir John Tebbutt (1834 - 1916)
* Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel (1821 - 1889)
* Terzan Agop (1927 -
* Luciano Tesi (1931 -
* David J. Tholen (1955 -
* Norman G. Thomas (1930 -
* Jana Tichá (1965 -
* Miloš Tichý (1960 -
* Friedrich Tietjen (1834 - 1895)
* Beatrice Tinsley (1941 - 1981)
* Félix Tisserand (1845 - 1896)
* Johann Daniel Titius (1729 - 1796)
* Clyde William Tombaugh (1906 - 1997)
* Silvia Torres-Peimbert (1940 -
* Chad Trujillo (1973 -)
* Robert Julius Trumpler (1886 - 1956)
* Ludmila Iwanowna Tschernychowa (1935 -)
* Nikolai Stepanowitsch Tschernych (1931 - 2004)
* Roy Tucker (1951 -
* Richard Brent Tully (1943 -
* Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837 - 1923)

### U
* Stéphane Udry (1961 -)

### V
* Karl Wilhelm Valentiner (1845 - 1931)
* Jean Elias Benjamin Valz (1787 - 1867)
* Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1918 - 1995)
* Hans Vehrenberg (1910 - 1991)
* Francesco de Vico (1805 - 1848)
* Hermann Karl Vogel (1841 - 1907
* Alexander N. Vyssotsky (1888 - 1973)

### W
* Arno Arthur Wachmann (1902 - 1990)
* Max Waldmeier (1912 - 2000)
* Åke Wallenquist (1904 - 1994)
* Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin (1717 - 1783)
* James Craig Watson (1838 - 1880)
* Edmund Weiss (1837 - 1917)
* Bengt Westerlund (1921 - 2008)
* Justus Georg Westphal (1824 - 1859)
* Fred Whipple (1906 - 2004
* John Adams Whipple (1822 - 1891)
* John Paul Wild (1923 - 2008)
* Paul Wild (1921 - 2014)
* Alexander Wilkens (1881 - 1968)
* David Todd Wilkinson (1935 - 2002)
* Albert George Wilson (1918 - ?)
* Olin C. Wilson (1909 - 1994)
* Robert Woodrow Wilson (1936 - 2012)
* Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke (1835 - 1897)
* Carl Alvar Wirtanen (1910 - 1990)
* Walter Wislicenus (1859 - 1905)
* Carl Gustav Witt (1866 - 1946)
* Max Wolf (1863 - 1932)
* Harry Edwin Wood (1881 - 1946)
* Boris Alexandrowitsch Woronzow-Weljaminow (1904 - 1994)
* Johann Friedrich Wurm (1760 - 1833)

### Y
* Yi Xing (683 - 727)

## Z
* Al-Zarqali (1029 - 1087)
* Zdeňka Vávrová (1945 -)
* Ernst Zinner (1886 - 1970)
* Fritz Zwicky (1898 - 1974)