List of astronomers

**Famous astronomers** include:

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## 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 Alfvén (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 Ångström (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)
*Ruđer Josip Bošković (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)
*César-François 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) 
*Jérôme Eugène Coggia (France, 1849 – 1919)
*Josep Comas Solá (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-Eugène Delaunay (France, 1816 – 1872)
*Eugène Joseph Delporte (Belgium, 1882 – 1955)
*William Frederick Denning (Britain, 1848 – 1931)
*Willem de Sitter (Netherlands, 1872 – 1934)
*Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (France, 1853 – 1948)
*Gérard 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)
*Hervé 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)
*Honoré Flaugergues (France, 1755 – 1835)
*Williamina Fleming (USA, 1857 – 1911)
*Wilhelm Julius Förster (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 – )
*François Gonnessiat (France, 1856 – 1934)
*John Goodricke (Britain, 1764 – 1786)
*Paul Götz (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.
*Kaoru Ikeya (Japan)
*Robert Innes (Scotland, South Africa, 1861 – 1933)

### J 
*Cyril V. Jackson (South Africa)
*Kees de Jager (Netherlands, 1921 – 2021)
*Karl Guthe Jansky (USA, 1905 – 1950)
*Pierre Jules César Janssen (France, 1824 – 1907)
*Benjamin Jekhowsky (Russia, France, Algeria, 1881 – ?)
*David Jewitt
*Alfred H. Joy

### K 
*Franz Kaiser (Germany, 1891 – 1962) 
*Jacobus Kapteyn (Netherlands, 1851 – 1922)
*L. G. Karachkina (Ukraine)
*James E. Keeler (USA, 1857 – 1900) 
*Johannes Kepler (Germany, 1571 – 1630)
*Omar Khayyám (Persia, 1048 – 1131)
*Kidinnu (Babylon, circa 400 BC – 310 BC)
*Daniel Kirkwood (1814 – 1895)
*Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Klinkerfues (Germany, 1827 – 1884)
*Viktor Knorre (Russia, 1840 – 1919)
*Takao Kobayashi (Japan)
*Lubos Kohoutek (1935 – )
*Zdenek Kopal (Czech Republic, Britain, USA, 1914 – 1993)
*August Kopff (Germany, 1882 – 1960)
*Charles Kowal (USA, 1940 – )
*Robert Kraft
*Lubor Kresak (Slovakia, 1927 – 1994)
*Gerard Kuiper (Netherlands, USA, 1905 – 1973)

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

### M 
*Adriaan van Maanen (USA, 1884 – 1946)
*George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield (Britain, c. 1697 – 1764)
*Simon Marius (Germany, 1573 – 1624)
*Brian Marsden (USA)
*Albert Marth (Germany, 1828 – 1897)
*Nevil Maskelyne (Britain, 1732 – 1811)
*Charles Mason (Britain, USA, 1730 – 1787)
*Janet Akyüz Mattei (Turkey/USA, 1943 – 2004)
*Edward Walter Maunder (Britain, 1851 – 1928)
*Pierre Louis Maupertuis (France, 1698 – 1759)
*Alain Maury (France)
*Tobias Mayer (Germany, 1723 – 1762) 
*Christopher McKee (USA, 1942 – )
*Robert S. McMillan (USA)
*William H. McCrea (Britain, 1904 – 1999)
*Pierre Méchain (France, 1744 – 1804)
*Karen Jean Meech (USA)
*Aden Meinel (USA)
*Philibert Jacques Melotte (Britain, 1880 – 1961)
*Paul Merrill (USA, 1887 – 1961)
*Charles Messier (France, 1730 – 1817)
*Joel Hastings Metcalf (USA, 1866 – 1925)
*John Michell (Britain, 1724 – 1793)
*Elia Millosevich (Italy, 1848 – 1919)
*E. Arthur Milne
*Rudolph Minkowski (Germany, 1895 – 1976)
*Marcel Minnaert
*Maria Mitchell (USA, 1818 – 1889)
*August Ferdinand Möbius (Germany, 1790 – 1868)
*Samuel Molyneux (Britain)
*Geminiano Montanari (Italy, 1633 – 1687)
*Patrick Moore (Britain, 1923 – )
*William W. Morgan
*Amédée Mouchez (France, 1821 – 1892)
*Antonín Mrkos (Czech Republic, 1918 – 1996)
*Jean Mueller (USA)
*Johannes Müller (Germany, 1436 – 1476)
*Nils Mustelin

### N 
*Nabu-rimanni (Babylonia, circa 560 BC – 480 BC)
*Syuichi Nakano (Japan)
*Grigoriy Nikolaevich Neujmin (Russia, 1886 – 1946)
*Gerry Neugebauer
*Otto Neugebauer (Germany, USA, 1899 – 1990)
*Simon Newcomb (USA, 1835 – 1909)
*Isaac Newton (Britain, 1643 – 1727)
*Seth Barnes Nicholson (USA, 1891 – 1963)
*Peter Nilson (Sweden, 1937 – 1998)

### O 
*Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers (Germany, 1758 – 1840)
*Jan Hendrik Oort (Netherlands, 1900 – 1992)
*Ernst Öpik (Estonia, Ireland, 1893 – 1985)
*Donald Edward Osterbrock, USA, 1924 – 
*Liisi Oterma, Finland, 1915 – 2001)

### P 
*Bohdan Paczynski, (Poland 1940 – )
*Ľudmila Pajdušáková (Slovakia, 1916 – 1979)
*Johann Palisa, (Austria, 1848 – 1925)
*Johann Palitzsch (1723 – 1788)
*Anton Pannekoek (Netherlands, 1873 – 1960)
*George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield (Britain, c. 1697 – 1764) 
*Eugene N. Parker
*William Parsons, Lord Rosse (Ireland, 1800 – 1867)
*André Patry (France, – c. 1960)
*Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (USA, 1900 – 1979)
*James Peebles
*Leslie Peltier (USA, 1900 – 1980)
*Roger Penrose (Britain, 1931 – )
*Arno Penzias (Germany, 1933 – )
*Luboš Perek (Czech Republic, 1919 – 2020)
*Charles Dillon Perrine (USA, Argentina, 1867 – 1951)
*Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin (France, 1845 – 1904)
*Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (Germany, USA, 1813 – 1890)
*George Henry Peters (USA, 1863 – 1947)
*Giuseppe Piazzi (Italy, 1746 – 1826)
*Edward Charles Pickering (USA, 1846 – 1919)
*William Henry Pickering (USA, 1858 – 1938)
*Phil Plait (USA)
*John Stanley Plaskett (Canada, 1865 – 1941)
*Norman Robert Pogson, (Britain, 1829 – 1891)
*Christian Pollas, (France)
*John Pond (England, 1767 – 1836)
*Jean-Louis Pons (France, 1761 – 1831)
*Charles Pritchard (Britain, 1808 – 1893)
*Richard Proctor (England, 1837 – 1888)
*Ptolemy of Alexandria (Roman Egypt, circa 85 – 165)
*Pierre Puiseux (France, 1855 – 1928)
*Georg Purbach (Germany, 1423 – 1461)

### Q 
*Adolphe Quetelet (Belgium, 1796 – 1874)

### R 
*David Rabinowitz (USA)
*Pavla Ranzinger (Slovenia)
*Grote Reber (USA, 1911 – 2002)
*Martin Rees (England, 1942 – ) 
*Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller) (Germany, 1436 – 1476)
*Erasmus Reinhold (Prussia, Germany, 1511 – 1553)
*Karl Reinmuth (Germany, 1892 – 1979) 
*Giovanni Battista Riccioli (Italy, 1598 – 1671)
*Jean Richer (France, 1630 – 1696)
*Fernand Rigaux (Belgium)
*Elizabeth Roemer (USA, 1929 – ) 
*Ole Christensen Rømer (Denmark, 1644 – 1710)
*Otto A. Rosenberger (Germany, 1800 – 1890)
*Lord Rosse (Ireland, 1800 – 1867)
*Bruno Rossi (Italy, 1905 – 1993)
*Vera Rubin (USA, 1928 – )
*Henry Norris Russell (USA, 1877 – 1957)

### S 
*Edward Sabine (Britain, 1788 – 1883)
*Carl Sagan (USA, 1934 – 1996)
*Edwin Salpeter (Austria, Australia, USA, 1924 – )
*Allan Sandage (1926 – )
*Wallace Sargent (peepeepoopoo)
*Alexandre Schaumasse (France, 1882 – 1958)
*Giovanni Schiaparelli (Italy, 1835 – 1910)
*Frank Schlesinger (USA, 1871 – 1943)
*Bernhard Schmidt (Estonia, Sweden, Germany, 1879 – 1935)
*Maarten Schmidt (1929 – )
*Johann Hieronymus Schröter (Germany, 1745 – 1816)
*Lipót Schulhof (Hungary, 1847 – 1921)
*Heinrich Christian Schumacher (Germany, 1780 – 1850) 
*Hans-Emil Schuster (Germany, 1934 – )
*Heinrich Schwabe (Germany, 1789 – 1875)
*Karl Schwarzschild (Germany, 1873 – 1916)
*Martin Schwarzschild (Germany, USA, 1912 – 1997)
*Arnold Schwassmann (Germany, 1870 – 1964)
*Ruby Payne Scott (Australia, 1912 – 1981)
*James Scotti (USA, 1960 – )
*Frederick Seares (USA, 1873 – 1964)
*George Mary Searle (USA, 1839 – 1918)
*Tsutomu Seki (Japan, 1930 – )
*Carl Keenan Seyfert (USA, 1911 – 1960)
*G. A. Shajn (Russia, 1892 – 1956)
*P. F. Shajn (Russia, 1894 – 1956)
*Harlow Shapley (USA, 1885 – 1972)
*Richard Sheepshanks (Britain, 1794 – 1855)
*Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky (Russia, 1916 – 1985)
*Carolyn Shoemaker (USA, 1929 – )
*Eugene Shoemaker (USA, 1928 – 1997)
*Charlotte Moore Sitterly (USA, 1898 – 1990)
*Brian A. Skiff (USA)
*John Francis Skjellerup (Australia, South Africa, 1875 – 1952)
*Charles D. Slaughter (USA)
*Vesto Slipher (USA, 1875 – 1969)
*Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova (Russia, 1918 – )
*William Henry Smyth (Britain, 1788 – 1865) 
*Mary Fairfax Somerville (Britain, 1780 – 1872)
*James South (Britain, 1785 – 1867) 
*Harold Spencer Jones
*Lyman Spitzer (USA, 1914 – 1997)
*Gustav Spörer (Germany, 1822 – 1895)
*Anton Staus (Germany, 1872 – 1955)
*Joel Stebbins, (USA, 1878 – 1966)
*Édouard Stephan, (France, 1837 – 1923)
*David J. Stevenson, (New Zealand, 1948 – )
*Edward James Stone, (1831 – 1897)
*Bengt Strömgren, (Denmark, 1908 – 1987)
*Friedrich Georg Wilhelm (von) Struve (Germany, Russia, 1793 – 1864)
*Hermann Struve (Russia, Germany, 1854 – 1920)
*Ludwig Struve (Russia, 1858 – 1920)
*Otto Struve (Russia, USA, 1897 – 1963)
*Otto Wilhelm (von) Struve (Russia, 1819 – 1905)
*Rashid Sunyaev
*Lewis Swift (USA, 1820 – 1913)
*Frédéric Sy (France)

### T 
*Joseph Taylor (USA, 1941 – )
*Ernst Tempel, (Germany, 1821 – 1889)
*Thabit ibn Qurra (Iraq, 826 – 901)
*Thorvald Thiele (Denmark, 1838 – 1910)
*Norman G. Thomas (USA)
*John M. Thome (1843 – 1908)
*Kip Thorne (USA, 1940 – )
*Friedrich Tietjen (Germany, 1834 – 1895)
*Beatrice Tinsley (USA, 1941 – 1981)
*Félix Tisserand (France, 1845 – 1896)
*Johann Daniel Titius (Germany, 1729 – 1796)
*Clyde Tombaugh (USA, 1906 – 1997)
*Richard Tousey
*Virginia Trimble (USA)
*Chad Trujillo (USA)
*Robert Trumpler (USA, 1886 – 1956)
*R. Brent Tully (USA)
*Herbert Hall Turner (England, 1861 – 1930)
*Horace Parnell Tuttle (USA, 1839 – 1923)
*Tycho Brahe (Denmark, 1546 – 1601)

### U 
*Ulugh Beg (Timurid Iran, 1394 – 1449)
*Albrecht Unsöld

### V 
*Yrjö Väisälä (Finland, 1891 – 1971)
*Benjamin Valz (France, 1787 – 1867) 
*James Van Allen (USA, 1914 – )
*George Van Biesbroeck (Belgium, USA, 1880 – 1974)
*Hendrik van de Hulst
*Peter van de Kamp (USA, 1901 – 1995)
*Sidney van den Bergh
*Hendrik Van Gent (Netherlands, South Africa, (1900 – March 29, 1947)
*Cornelis Johannes van Houten (Netherlands, 1920 – August 24 2002)
*Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (Netherlands)
*Zdeňka Vávrová (Czech Republic or Slovakia)
*Julie Vinter Hansen (Denmark), 1890 – 1960)
*Hermann Carl Vogel (Germany, 1841 – 1907)
*Joseph von Fraunhofer (Germany, 1787 – 1826)
*Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (Germany, Russia, 1793 – 1864)
*Otto Wilhelm von Struve (Russia, 1819 – 1905)
*Karl von Weizsäcker (Germany, 1912 – )
*Alexander Vyssotsky
*Emma Vyssotsky (USA)

### W 
*Arno Arthur Wachmann (Germany, 1902 – 1990)
*George Wallerstein
*Qingde Wang (USA, China)
*James Craig Watson (USA, 1838 – 1880)
*Thomas William Webb (Britain, 1807 – 1885)
*Godefroy Wendelin (Belgium, 1580 – 1667)
*Richard M. West (Denmark, 1942 – )
*J. G. Westphal (Germany)
*Johann Heinrich Westphal (Germany, Italy, 1794 – 1831)
*George Wetherill
*John Wheeler (USA, 1911 – )
*Fred Whipple (USA, 1906 – )
*Albert Whitford (USA, 1905 – 2002)
*Paul Wild (Switzerland)
*Olin C. Wilson (USA, 1909 – 1994)
*Robert Wilson (USA, 1936 – )
* John Winthrop (Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1714 – 1779)
*Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke (Germany, 1835 – 1897)
*Carl Wirtanen (USA, 1910 – 1990)
*Jack Wisdom (USA)
*Gustav Witt (Germany, 1866 – 1946)
*Maximilian Wolf (Germany, 1863 – 1932)
*Aleksander Wolszczan (Poland, 1946 – )
*Richard van der Riet Woolley (Britain, 1906 – 1986)
*Thomas Wright (Britain, 1711 – 1786)

### Y 
*Charles Augustus Young (USA, 1834 – 1908)

### Z 
*Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (USSR, 1914 – 1987)
*Zhang Daqing (China, 1969 – )
*Zhang Heng (78 – 139)
*Zhang Yuzhe (China, 1902 – 1986)
*L. V. Zhuravleva (Russia, Ukraine)
*Zu Chongzhi, (425 – 500)
*Fritz Zwicky (Switzerland, USA, 1898 – 1974)

Other scientists whose work had an impact on astronomy and astrophysics:

*Hans Bethe (physicist) (1906 – )
*Niels Bohr (physicist) (1885 – 1962)
*Freeman Dyson (physicist) (1923 – )
*Albert Einstein (physicist) (1879 – 1955)

Instrument makers, illustrators, etc.:

*John Bird
*Chesley Bonestell
*Thomas Cooke
*Alvan Clark
*John Dollond
*Henry Fitz (1808-1863) http://www.europa.com/~telscope/fitz.txt 
*James Gregory
*Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800)
*George Willis Ritchey
*James Short
*William Simms
*Edward Troughton (1756-1835)

## Related pages
* List of astrophysicists

## References 
* The Great Astronomers 
* Astronomical Society of the Pacific: Women in Astronomy