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 Astronomy: Biographies- Abbot, Charles Greeley
- Adams, John Couch
- Airy, Sir George Biddell
- Al-Battani
- Al-Biruni, Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad
- Albumazar
- Al-Farghani
- Alfraganus
- Aryabhata
- Asada Goryu
- Argelander, Friedrich Wilhelm August
- Aristarchus of Samos
- Autolycus
- Barnard, Edward Emerson
- Baade, Walter
- Bailly, Jean Sylvain
- Belopolsky, Aristarkh Apollonovich
- Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm
- Bode, Johann Elert
- Bond, George Phillips
- Bond, William Cranch
- Bradley, James
- Brahe, Tycho
- Brahmagupta
- Burbidge, Margaret
- Burnham, Sherburne Wesley
- Cannon, Annie Jump
- Cassini
- Celsius, Anders
- Clark, Alvan
- Cleomedes
- Copernicus, Nicholas
- Darwin, Sir George Howard
- Davis, Raymond, Jr.
- Delambre, Jean Baptiste Joseph
- De la Rue, Warren
- De Sitter, Willem
- 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
- Giacconi, Riccardo
- Gill, Sir David
- Hagen, Johannes Georg
- Hale, George Ellery
- Halley, Edmond
- Herschel
- Hertzsprung, Ejnar
- Hevelius, Johannes
- Hipparchus
- 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
- Laplace, Pierre Simon, marquis de
- Lacaille, Nicolas Louis de
- Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Lefrançais de
- Langley, Samuel Pierpont
- Lemaître, Georges, Abbé
- Lemonnier, Pierre Charles
- Leverrier, Urbain Jean Joseph
- Lockyer, Sir Joseph Norman
- Lovell, Sir Bernard
- Low, Frank James
- Lowell, Percival
- Maskelyne, Nevil
- Mayer, Johann Tobias
- Menzel, Donald Howard
- Mitchell, Maria
- Müller, Johannes
- Newcomb, Simon
- Olbers, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus
- Oort, Jan Hendrik
- Parsons, William
- Perlmutter, Saul
- Perrine, Charles Dillon
- Piazzi, Giuseppe
- Picard, Jean
- Pickering, Edward Charles
- Pickering, William Henry
- Ptolemy
- Reber, Gröte
- Rheticus
- Riess, Adam Guy
- Ritchey, George Willis
- Rittenhouse, David
- Roemer, Olaus
- Rømer, Olaus
- Rosse, William Parsons,
- Russell, Henry Norris
- Sandage, Allan Rex
- Sagan, Carl Edward
- Scheiner, Christoph
- Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio
- Schmidt, Brian Paul
- Schwabe, Samuel Heinrich
- Shapley, Harlow
- Secchi, Pietro Angelo
- 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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