Astronomy: Biographies
- Abbot, Charles Greeley
- Adams, John Couch
- Airy, Sir George Biddell
- Al-Battani
- Al-Biruni, Abu Rayhan Muhammad Ibn Ahmad
- Al-Farghani
- Albumazar
- Alfraganus
- Argelander, Friedrich Wilhelm August
- Aristarchus Of Samos
- Aryabhata
- Asada Goryu
- Autolycus, Greek Astronomer And Mathematician
- Baade, Walter
- Bailly, Jean Sylvain
- Barnard, Edward Emerson
- Belopolsky, Aristarkh Apollonovich
- Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm
- Bode, Johann Elert
- Bond, George Phillips
- Bond, William Cranch
- Bradley, James
- Brahe, Tycho
- Brahmagupta
- Brashear, John Alfred
- Burbidge, Margaret
- Burnham, Sherburne Wesley
- Cannon, Annie Jump
- Cassini
- Celsius, Anders
- Clark, Alvan
- Cleomedes
- Copernicus, Nicholas
- Darwin, Sir George Howard
- Davis, Raymond, Jr.
- De La Rue, Warren
- De Sitter, Willem
- Delambre, Jean Baptiste Joseph
- Donati, Giovanni Battista
- Dreyer, Johan Ludwig Emil
- Dyson, Sir Frank Watson
- Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley
- Encke, Johann Franz
- Eudoxus Of Cnidus
- Flammarion, Camille
- Flamsteed, John
- Fleming, Sir Sandford
- Freundlich, Erwin Finlay
- Galileo
- Galle, Johann Gottfried
- Ganesa
- Genzel, Reinhard
- Ghez, Andrea Mia
- Giacconi, Riccardo
- Gill, Sir David
- Hagen, Johannes Georg
- Hale, George Ellery
- Halley, Edmond
- Herschel
- Hertzsprung, Ejnar
- Hevelius, Johannes
- Hipparchus, Greek Astronomer
- Horrocks, Jeremiah
- Hough, George Washington
- Hoyle, Sir Fred
- Hubble, Edwin Powell
- Huggins, Sir William
- Hypsicles Of Alexandria
- Jansky, Karl Guthe
- Janssen, Pierre Jules César
- Jeans, Sir James Hopwood
- Kapteyn, Jacobus Cornelius
- Keeler, James Edward
- Kepler, Johannes
- Kuiper, Gerard Peter
- Lacaille, Nicolas Louis De
- Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Lefrançais De
- Langley, Samuel Pierpont
- Laplace, Pierre Simon, Marquis De
- Le Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph
- Lemaître, Georges, Abbé
- Lemonnier, Pierre Charles
- Lockyer, Sir Joseph Norman
- Lovell, Sir Bernard
- Low, Frank James
- Lowell, Percival
- Maskelyne, Nevil
- Mayer, Johann Tobias
- Mayor, Michel Gustave Edward
- Menzel, Donald Howard
- Mitchell, Maria
- Müller, Johannes
- Newcomb, Simon
- Olbers, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus
- Oort, Jan Hendrik
- Parsons, William
- Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia
- Peebles, Phillip James Edwin
- Perlmutter, Saul
- Perrine, Charles Dillon
- Peter Nightingale
- Peter Philomena Of Dacia
- Philomena Of Dacia, Peter
- Piazzi, Giuseppe
- Picard, Jean
- Pickering, Edward Charles
- Pickering, William Henry
- Ptolemy
- Queloz, Didier Patrick
- Reber, Gröte
- Rheticus
- Riess, Adam Guy
- Ritchey, George Willis
- Rittenhouse, David
- Roemer, Olaus
- Rosse, William Parsons, 3D Earl Of
- Rubin, Vera
- Russell, Henry Norris
- Rømer, Olaus
- Sagan, Carl Edward
- Sandage, Allan Rex
- Scheiner, Christoph
- Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio
- Schmidt, Brian Paul
- Schwabe, Samuel Heinrich
- Secchi, Pietro Angelo
- Shapley, Harlow
- Shklovsky, Iosif Samuilovich
- Sitter, Willem De
- Slipher, Vesto Melvin
- Struve
- Tombaugh, Clyde William
- Tycho Brahe
- Ulugh-Beg
- Whipple, Fred Lawrence
- Wilson, Robert Woodrow
- Young, Charles Augustus
- Zwicky, Fritz
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