Astronomer

This page lists 5,423 biographies of astronomers, covering lives from 2800 BC to 2000. Featuring Adolphe Quetelet, Adriaan Blaauw and Aikitu Tanakadate. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Dennis di Cicco

b. 1950

John August Anderson

1876 – 1959

John Westwyk

1350 – 1400

William Radcliffe Birt

1804 – 1881

Maurice Darney

1882 – 1958

Jean-Dominique, comte de Cassini

1748 – 1845

Ramón María Aller Ulloa

1878 – 1966

Christine Floss

1961 – 2018

Ivan R. King

1927 – 2021

Roderick Oliver Redman

1905 – 1975

Gerard F. Gilmore

b. 1951

Robert Kennicutt

b. 1951

Jeremiah Horrocks

1618 – 1641

Sudines

b. 250 BC

Alvan Clark

1804 – 1887

Isabel Hawkins

b. 1958

Jens Fredrik Schroeter

1857 – 1927

Sarah Milkovich

Edwin Forrest Sawyer

1849 – 1937

Henry Augustus Smyth

1825 – 1906

Duncan Liddel

1561 – 1613

Gabriele Cattani

b. 1950

Jean Baptiste François Joseph de Warren

1769 – 1830

Jan Świerkowski

b. 1984

Jaan Einasto

b. 1929

Susan McKenna-Lawlor

b. 1935

Vladimír Porubčan

b. 1940

Milán Nedelkovic

1857 – 1950

Luis Arístides Fiallo Cabral

1876 – 1931

Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills

1864 – 1922

Charles-Eugène Delaunay

1816 – 1872

Simon Newcomb

1835 – 1909

Paul Guthnick

1879 – 1947

Violeta G. Ivanova

b. 2000

John Rand Capron

1829 – 1888

Ruth J. Northcott

1913 – 1969

John A. Eddy

1931 – 2009

Sheila Kanani

Christiaan Huygens

1629 – 1695

Sarah Salmond

1864 – 1956

Robert Daublebsky von Sterneck

1839 – 1910

Schelte J. Bus

b. 1956

John Somer

1340 – 1409

Arthur Robert Hinks

1873 – 1945

Arthur Matthew Weld Downing

1850 – 1917

Alexander MacFarlane

1702 – 1755

Yevgeny Krinov

1906 – 1984

William Crabtree

1610 – 1644

Hermann Kobold

1858 – 1942

Ralph Elmer Wilson

1886 – 1960

C. Renée James

Fritz Zwicky

1898 – 1974

Nidia Morrell

b. 1953

David Cromwell

b. 1962

Andrew Ingersoll

b. 1940

Dirk Klinkenberg

1709 – 1799

Chen Biao

1923 – 1993

Otto Schmidt

1891 – 1956

Hiroki Kosai

1933 – 2026

Michèle Moons

b. 1951

John S. Lewis

b. 1941

Edward Payson

1783 – 1827

Masaru Mukai

b. 1949

James Houck

1940 – 2015

David J. Darling

b. 1953

Abu al-Salt

1068 – 1134

Théophile Moreux

1867 – 1954

David ben Yom Tov

Sidney van den Bergh

b. 1929

William Michael Herbert Greaves

1897 – 1955

Joel Stebbins

1878 – 1966

Annette Ferguson

b. 1950

Leo Anton Karl de Ball

1853 – 1916

Claudio Casacci

b. 1958

Henry Kandrup

1955 – 2003

Ali ibn Isa al-Asturlabi

William Ball

1627 – 1690

Lisa Harvey-Smith

b. 1979

Giovanni Inghirami

1779 – 1851

Walter Pope

1627 – 1714

Klavdia Barkhatova

1917 – 1990

Edward Tyer

1830 – 1912

Charles W. Juels

1944 – 2009

Agnes Giberne

1845 – 1939

Marc Kuchner

b. 1972

Keith Tritton

b. 1944

Edward Walter Maunder

1851 – 1928

Walter Orr Roberts

1915 – 1990

Maria Teohari

1885 – 1975

Ann Merchant Boesgaard

Angela Speck

James Whitney Young

b. 1941

Daryl Haggard

Lucien Rudaux

1874 – 1947

John Smith

1711 – 1795

Peter Quinn

b. 1955

Mayly Sánchez

b. 1975

Oskar Backlund

1846 – 1916

Al-Kum al-Rishi

1381 – 1432

Piotr Sławiński

1795 – 1856