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Adam Riess
American Nobel laureate and astrophysicist
Allan Sandage
American astronomer
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer and physicist
Andrea M. Ghez
American astronomer
Annie Jump Cannon
American astronomer
Annie S. D. Maunder
British astronomer
Antony Hewish
British radio astronomer
Arthur Eddington
British astrophysicist (1882–1944)
Benjamin Banneker
Free African-American scientist, surveyor, almanac author and farmer
Brian Schmidt
American-born Australian astrophysicist
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science educator
Caroline Herschel
German-British astronomer (1750–1848)
Charles Messier
18th- and 19th-century French astronomer
Clyde Tombaugh
American astronomer (1906–1997)
Didier Queloz
Swiss astronomer (born 1966)
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist
Edwin E. Salpeter
Austrian–Australian–American astrophysicist (1924–2008)
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer
Ejnar Hertzsprung
Danish chemist and astronomer
Fred Hoyle
British astronomer (1915–2001)
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
German astronomer and mathematician
Fritz Zwicky
Swiss astronomer
Galileo Galilei
Florentine physicist and astronomer (1564–1642)
George Ellery Hale
American solar astronomer
Georges Lemaître
Belgian scientist and priest (1894-1966)
Gerard Kuiper
Netherlands-born American astronomer
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Italian/French mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers
18th and 19th-century German physician and astronomer
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
American astronomer (1868–1921)
Henry Norris Russell
American astronomer (1877–1957)
Jan Oort
Dutch astronomer
Jim Peebles
Canadian-American astrophysicist and cosmologist
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astrophysicist
Johann Gottfried Galle
German astronomer
Johannes Hevelius
17th-century astronomer and mayor of Gdańsk
Johannes Kepler
17th-century German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer
John Flamsteed
17/18th-century English astronomer
John Tebbutt
19th and 20th-century Australian astronomer
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.
American astronomer
Karl Guthe Jansky
American astronomer
Katherine Johnson
African American mathematician
Lyman Spitzer
American astronomer
Margaret Lindsay Huggins
Astronomer
Maria Mitchell
American astronomer
Martin Ryle
English radio astronomer
Mary Somerville
Scottish scientist, writer, and polymath
Michael E. Brown
American astronomer
Michel Mayor
Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics
Nancy Roman
American astronomer and principal in the Hubble Space Telescope project
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator
Nicolaus Copernicus
15th–16th-century mathematician and astronomer
Reinhard Genzel
German astrophysicist
Robert Woodrow Wilson
American astronomer
Samuel Langley
American astronomer, physicist and inventor (1834–1906)
Sandra Faber
American astrophysicist
Saul Perlmutter
American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate
Simon Marius
16th and 17th-century German astronomer
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American physicist (1910-1995)
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist
Urbain Le Verrier
French astronomer and mathematician
Vera Rubin
American astronomer (1928–2016)
Vesto Slipher
American astronomer
Walter Baade
German astronomer
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738–1822)
William Huggins
English astronomer
Williamina Fleming
Scottish astronomer
Zhang Yuzhe
Chinese astronomer