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A 

 Ernst Abbe (1841 - 1905)
 Charles Greeley Abbot (1872 - 1973)
 George Ogden Abell (1927 - 1983)
 Antonio Abetti (1846 - 1928)
 Giorgio Abetti (1882 - 1982)
 John Couch Adams (1819 - 1892)
 Walter Sydney Adams (1876 - 1956) 
 Paul Ahnert (1897 - 1989)
 Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (1912 - 1954)
 Pierre d'Ailly (1350 - 1420)
 George Biddell Airy (1801 - 1892)
 Robert Grant Aitken (1864 - 1951)
 Alkmaion 
 Lawrence Aller (1913 - 2003)
 Thomas David Anderson (1853 - 1932)
 Leif Erland Andersson (1944 - 1979)
 Anders Jonas Ångström (1814 - 1874)
 Peter Anich (1723 - 1766)
 Eugène Michel Antoniadi (1870 - 1944)
 Gale Bruno van Albada (1912 - 1972)
 James Van Allen (1914 - 2006)
 Alhazen (965 - 1039)
 Peter Apian (1495 - 1552)
 François Arago (1786 - 1853)
 Sylvain Julien Victor Arend (1902 - 1992)
 Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (1799 - 1875)
 Aristarchos vu Samos (310 v. Chr. - 230 v. Chr.)
 Aristyllos vu Samos (ëm 300 v. Chr.)
 Christoph Arnold (1650 - 1695)
 Halton Arp (1927 - 2013)
 Heinrich Louis d'Arrest (1822 - 1875)
 Abd ar-Rahman as-Sufi (903 - 986)
 Arthur Auwers (1838 - 1915)

B 

 Walter Baade (1893 - 1960)
 Harold D. Babcock (1882 - 1968)
 Ulrika Babiaková (1976 - 2002)
 Johann Oskar Backlund (1846 - 1916)
 Solon Irving Bailey (1854 - 1931)
 Francis Baily (1774 - 1844)
 M. K. Vainu Bappu (1927 - 1982)
 Carlyle Smith Beals (1899 - 1979)
 Pierre Joseph de Beauchamp (1752 - 1801)
 Ulugh Beg (1394 - 1449)
 Benjamin Baillaud (1848 - 1934)
 Robert Stawell Ball (1840 - 1913)
 Al Battani (ëm 850 - 929)
 Edward Emerson Barnard (1857 - 1923)
 Jacob Bartsch (1600 - 1633)
 Johannes Bayer (1572 - 1625)
 Wilhelm Beer (1797 - 1850)
 Sergei Iwanowitsch Beljawski (1883 - 1953)
 Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943 -)
 Azeglio Bemporad (1875 - 1945)
 Fabrizio Bernardi (1972 - )
 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784 - 1846)
 Nur Ed-Din Al Betrugi ? - 1204
 Francesco Bianchini (1662 - 1729)
 Giovanni Bianchini (1410 - 1469)
 Wilhelm von Biela (1782 - 1853)
 George Van Biesbroeck (1880 - 1974)
 Guillaume Bigourdan (1851 - 1932)
 Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774 - 1862)
 John Bird (1709 - 1776)
 Robert Blair (1748 - 1828)
 Nathaniel Bliss (1700 - 1764)
 Adriaan Blaauw (1914 - 2010)
 Roger Blandford (1949 -)
 Willem Blaeu (1571 - 1638)
 Andrea Boattini (1969 -
 Johann Elert Bode (1747 - 1826)
 Alfred Bohrmann (1904 - 2000)
 Bart J. Bok (1906 - 1983)
 Georg Phillips Bond (1825 - 1865)
 William Cranch Bond (1789 - 1859)
 Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly (1842 - 1926)
 Benjamin Boss (1880 - 1970)
 Lewis Boss (1846 - 1912)
 Ismael Boulliau (1605 - 1694)
 Alexis Bouvard (1767 - 1843)
 Ira Sprague Bowen (1898 - 1973)
 Edward Bowell (1943 -)
 James Bradley (1693 - 1762)
 Sophie Brahe (1556 - 1643)
 Tycho Brahe (1546 - 1601)
 Brahmagupta (598 - 668)
 Carl Bremiker (1804 - 1877)
 Thomas Brisbane (1773 - 1860)
 William Robert Brooks (1844 - 1922)
 Theodor Brorsen (1819 - 1895)
 Michael E. Brown (1965 - 
 Karl Christian Bruhns (1830 - 1881)
 Franz Friedrich Ernst Brünnow (1821 - 1891)
 Albert von Brunn (1880 - 1942)
 Bruno H. Bürgel (1875 - 1948)
 Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838 - 1921)
 Schelte John Bus (1956 -)

C 

 Antonio Cagnoli (1743 - 1816)
 William Wallace Campbell (1862 - 1938)
 Annie Jump Cannon (1863 - 1941)
 Francesco Carlini (1783 - 1862)
 Luigi Carnera (1875 - 1962)
 Richard Christopher Carrington (1826 - 1875)
 Edouard Caspari (1840 - 1918)
 César-François Cassini de Thury (1714 - 1784)
 Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625 - 1712)
 Jacques Cassini (1677 - 1756) 
 Jean-Dominique Cassini (1748 - 1845)
 Vincenzo Silvano Casulli (1944 -)
 Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598 - 1647) 
 Anders Celsius (1701 - 1744)
 Vincenzo Cerulli (1859 - 1927) 
 Carlos Ulrrico Cesco (1910 - 1987)
 Jean Chacornac (1823 - 1873)
 Seth Carlo Chandler (1846 - 1913)
 Jean Chappe
 Carl Charlier 1862 - 1934)
 Auguste Charlois (1846 - 1910)
 Jean-Philippe de Chéseaux (1718 - 1751)
 James W. Christy (1938 -)
 Alvan Clark (1804 - 1887)
 Alvan Graham Clark (1832 - 1897)
 George Bassett Clark (1827 - 1891)
 Christophorus Clavius (1537/38 - 1612)
 Agnes Mary Clerke (1842 - 1907)
 William Coblentz (1873 - 1962)
 Jérôme-Eugène Coggia (1849 - 1919)
 Edwin Foster Coddington (1870 - 1950)
 Fritz Cohn (1866 - 1922)
 Per Collinder (1890 - 1931)
 Josep Comas i Solà (1868 - 1937)
 Edward Joshua Cooper (1798 - 1863)
 Ralph Copeland (1837 - 1905)
 André Couder (1897 - 1979)
 William Crabtree (1610 - 1644)
 Heber Doust Curtis (1872 - 1942)
 Johann Baptist Cysat (1585 - 1657)

D 

 André Danjon (1890 - 1967)
 Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix (1718 - 1802)
 Henri Debehogne (1928 - 2007)
 Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749 - 1822)
 Charles Eugène Delaunay (1816 - 1872)
 Joseph Nicolas Delisle (1688 - 1768)
 Eugène Delporte (1882 - 1955)
 Eugène Joseph Delporte (1882 - 1955)
 William Frederick Denning (1848 - 1931)
 Henri-Alexandre Deslandres, (1853 - 1948)
 Audouin Dollfus, (1924 - 2010)
 Giambattista Donati (1826 - 1873)
 Frank Drake (1930 -)
 Henry Draper (1837 - 1882)
 Johan Ludvig Emil Dreyer (1852 - 1926)
 Raymond Smith Dugan (1878 - 1940)
 James Dunlop (1793 - 1848)
 Frank Dyson (1868 - 1939)

E 

 Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882 - 1944)
 Kenneth Essex Edgeworth (1880 - 1972)
 Bengt Edlén (1906 - 1993)
 Frank K. Edmondson (1912 - 2008)
 Richard Salisbury Ellis (1950 - 
 Hans Elsässer (1929 - 2003)
 Eric Walter Elst 
 Johann Franz Encke (1791 - 1865)
 Ernest Esclangon (1876 - 1954)

F 

 Sandra Moore Faber (1944 -)
 Andrew Fabian (1948 -)
 David Fabricius (1564 - 1617)
 Hervé Faye (1814 - 1902)
 Charles Fehrenbach (1914 - 2008)
 James Ferguson (1797 - 1867)
 Gaspare Stanislao Ferrari (1834 - 1903)
 William Henry Finlay (1849 - 1924)
 James Richard Fisher (1943 -
 John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719)
 Camille Flammarion (1842 - 1925)
 Williamina Fleming (1857 - 1911)
 Wilhelm Foerster (1832 - 1921)
 Giuseppe Forti (1939 - 2007)
 William Alfred Fowler (1911 - 1995)
 Alfred Fowler (1868 - 1940)
 Girolamo Fracastoro (1478 - 1553)
 Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787 - 1826)
 Royal Harwood Frost (1879 - 1950)

G 

 Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642) 
 Walter Frederick Gale (1865 - 1945)
 Johann Gottfried Galle (1812 - 1910)
 Jean-Félix Adolphe Gambart (1800 - 1836)
 Gordon J. Garradd (1959 -
 Annibale de Gasparis (1819 - 1892) 
 Carl Friedrich Gauß (1777 - 1855) 
 Tom Gehrels (1925 -
 Margaret Geller (1947 -
 Hendrik van Gent (1900 - 1947)
 Michel Giacobini (1873 - 1938)
 David Gill (1843 - 1914)
 Brett James Gladman (1966 -)
 Wilhelm Gliese (1915 - 1993)
 Peter Goldreich (1939 -)
 Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt (1802 - 1866)
 François Gonnessiat (1856 - 1934)
 John Goodricke (1764 - 1786)
 Benjamin Apthorp Gould: (1824 - 1896)
 Andrew Graham (1815 - 1908)
 James Gregory (Mathematiker) (1638 - 1675)
 Michael Griffin (1949 - 
 Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618 - 1663)
 Paul Guthnick (1879 - 1947)
 Johannes vu Gmunden (ëm1380 - 1442)
 Alan C. Gilmore (onbekannt -
 James E. Gunn (1938 -
 Hugo Gyldén (1841 - 1896)

H 

 John Hadley (1682 - 1744)
 George Ellery Hale
 Asaph Hall (1829 - 1907)
 Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742)
 Viktor Hambarzumjan (1908 - 1996)
 Christopher Hansteen (1784 - 1873)
 Julie Marie Vinter Hansen (1890 - 1960)
 Karl Ludwig Harding (1765 - 1834)
 Guillermo Haro (1913 - 1988)
 Malcolm Hartley (1947 -)
 Joseph Helffrich (1890 - 1971)
 Eleanor Helin
 Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793 - 1866)
 Karl Gordon Henize (1926 - 1993)
 Paul-Pierre Henry (1848 - 1905)
 Prosper-Mathieu Henry (1849 - 1903) 
 Robert Henseling (1883 - 1964)
 George Howard Herbig (1920 - 2013)
 Paul Herget (1908 - 1981)
 Caroline Herschel (1750 - 1848)
 John Herschel (1782 - 1871)
 Wilhelm Herschel (1738 - 1822)
 Ejnar Hertzsprung (1873 - 1967)
 Elisabetha Hevelius (1647 - 1693)
 Johannes Hevelius (1611 - 1687)
 Antony Hewish (1924 -)
 George William Hill (1838 - 1914)
 John Russell Hind (1823 - 1895)
 Hipparchos vun Nicäa (~190 - 120)
 Kiyotsugu Hirayama (1874 - 1943)
 Philippe de La Hire (1640 - 1718)
 Adolf Hnatek: (1876 - 1960)
 Giovanni Battista Hodierna (1597 - 1660)
 Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit (1907 - 2007)
 Cuno Hoffmeister (1892 - 1968)
 Helen Sawyer Hogg (1905 - 1993)
 Edward Singleton Holden (1846 - 1914)
 Erik Bertil Holmberg (1908 - 2000)
 Henry E. Holt ()
 Johann Ph. Holwarda (1618 - 1651
 Jodocus Hondius (1563 - 1612)
 Josef Hopmann (1890 - 1975)
 Jeremia Horrocks (1619 - 1641)
 Sydney Samuel Hough (1870 - 1923)
 Frederik de Houtman (1571 - 1627)
 Cornelis Johannes van Houten (1920 - 2002)
 Edwin Hubble (1889 - 1953)
 John Huchra (1948 - 2010)
 Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst (1918 - 2000)
 Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 1695)
 Yūji Hyakutake (1950 - 2002)

I 

 Johann Abraham Ihle (1627 - 1699)
 Kaoru Ikeya (1943 -)
 Robert Innes (1861 - 1933)

J 
 Cyril V. Jackson (1903 - 1988)
 Robert Earl Jackson (1949 -
 Hartmut Jahreiß (1942 -
 Karl Guthe Jansky (1905 - 1950)
 Pierre Jules César Janssen (1824 - 1907)
 Stéphane Javelle (1864 - 1917)
 Jaume Nomen (1960 -
 Harold Lester Johnson (1921 - 1980)
 Harold Spencer Jones (1890 - 1960)
 Charles W. Juels (1944 - 2009)

K 

 Frederik Kaiser (1808 - 1872)
 Lisa Kaltenegger (1977 -)
 Peter van de Kamp (1901 - 1995)
 Jens Kandler (1973-)
 Jacobus Kapteyn (1851 - 1922)
 Philip Keenan (1908 - 2000)
 Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630)
 Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser (1540 - 1596)
 Hans Kienle (1895 - 1975)
 Johann Kies (1713 - 1781)
 Pamela M. Kilmartin 
 Gottfried Kirch (1639 - 1710)
 Maria Margaretha Kirch (1670 - 1720
 Daniel Kirkwood (1814 - 1895)
 Arnold R. Klemola (1931 -)
 Viktor Knorre (1840 - 1919) 
 Takao Kobayashi (1961 -)
 Johann Gottfried Köhler (1745 - 1800)
 Rudolf König (1865 - 1927)
 Lubos Kohoutek (1935 -)
 Nikolaus Kopernikus (1473 - 1543) 
 August Kopff (1882 - 1960)
 Kazimierz Kordylewski (1903 - 1981)
 Hiroki Kōsai (1933 -)
 Charles Thomas Kowal (1940 -)
 Robert Paul Kraft (1927 - 2015)
 Heinrich Kreutz (1854 - 1907)
 Adalbert Krüger (1832 - 1896)
 Karl Friedrich Küstner (1856 - 1036)
 Gerard Peter Kuiper (1905 - 1973)

L 

 Antoine Émile Henry Labeyrie (1943 -)
 Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (1713 - 1762)
 Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist (1944 -)
 Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736 - 1813)
 Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande (1732 - 1807)
 Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728 - 1777) 
 Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749 - 1827)
 William Lassell (1799 - 1880)
 Kurt Laves (1866 - 1944)
 Kenneth Lawrence
 Francis Preserved Leavenworth (1858 - 1928)
 Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868 - 1921)
 Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723 - 1788)
 Otto Leberecht Lesser (1830 - 1887)
 David Levy (*1948)
 Guillaume Le Gentil (1725 - 1792)
 Urbain Le Verrier (1811 - 1877)
 Bertil Lindblad (1895 - 1965)
 Donald Lynden-Bell (1935 -
 Joseph Johann von Littrow (1781 - 1840)
 Karl Ludwig von Littrow (1811 - 1877)
 Maurice Loewy (1833 - 1907)
 Karl Wilhelm Lorenz (1886 - 1918)
 Bernard Lovell (1913 - 2012)
 Percival Lowell (1855 - 1916)
 Karl Theodor Robert Luther (1822 - 1900)
 Bernard Ferdinand Lyot (1897 - 1952)

M 
 Paolo Maffei (1926 - 2009)
 Giovanni Antonio Magini (1555 - 1617)
 Al-Marrakushi (1256 - 1321)
 John C. Mather (1946 -)
 Dean Benjamin McLaughlin - (1901 - 1965)
 Robert Mc.Naught (1956 -)
 Johann Heinrich Mädler (1794 - 1874)
 Michael Maestlin (1550 - 1631)
 Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Maksutow (1896 - 1964)
 Giovanni Domenico Maraldi (1709 - 1788)
 Jacopo Filippo Maraldi (1665 - 1729)
 Geoffrey Marcy (1954 -)
 Simon Marius (1573 - 1624)
 Benjamin Markarjan (1913 - 1985)
 William Markowitz (1907 - 1998)
 Brian Marsden (1937 - 2010)
 Albert Marth (1828 - 1897)
 Claude-Louis Mathieu (1783 - 1875)
 Annie Maunder (1868 - 1947)
 Edward Walter Maunder (1851 - 1928)
 Antonia Maury (1866 - 1952)
 Gustav Niessl von Mayendorff (1839 - 1919)
 Michel Mayor (1942 -)
 Pierre Méchain (1744 - 1804)
 Philibert Jacques Melotte (1889 - 1961)
 Donald Howard Menzel (1901 - 1976)
 Jean-Claude Merlin (1954 -)
 Paul Willard Merrill (1887 - 1961)
 Charles Messier (1730 - 1817)
 Joel Hastings Metcalf (1866 - 1925)
 Max Wilhelm Meyer (1853 - 1910)
 Elia Millosevich (1848 - 1919)
 Rudolf Minkowski (1895 - 1976)
 Maria Mitchell (1818 - 1889)
 August Ferdinand Möbius (1790 - 1868)
 Geminiano Montanari (1633 - 1687)
 Patrick Moore (*1923)
 Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898 - 1990)
 William Wilson Morgan (1906 - 1994)
 Antonín Mrkos (1918 - 1996)
 Frank Muller (Astronom) (1862 - 1917)
 Bruce C. Murray (1931 - 2013)

N 

 Bill Napier (1940 - 
 Gerald Neugebauer (1932 -
 Seth Barnes Nicholson (1891 - 1963)
 Grigoriy Nikolaevich Neujmin (1886 - 1946) 
 Simon Newcomb (1835 - 1909)
 Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727) 
 Peter Nilson (1937 - 1998)

O 
 Okuro Oikawa (1886 - 1970)
 Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers (1758 - 1840)
 Jan Hendrik Oort (1900 - 1992)
 Ernst Öpik (1893 - 1985)
 Theodor von Oppolzer (1841 - 1886)
 Barnaba Oriani (1752 - 1832)
 Jeremiah P. Ostriker (1937 -)
 Liisi Oterma (1915 - 2001)

P 
 Franco Pacini (1939 - 2012)
 Johann Palisa (1848 - 1925)
 John Stefanos Paraskevopoulos (1889 - 1951)
 Lawrence Parsons, 4. Earl of Rosse (1840 - 1908)
 William Parsons (1800 - 1867)
 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900 - 1979)
 Carl Frederik Pechüle (1843 - 1914)
 Philip James Edwin Peebles (1935 -)
 Manuel Peimbert (1941 -)
 Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580 - 1637)
 Arno Penzias (1933 -
 Charles Dillon Perrine (1867 - 1951)
 Henri Joseph Perrotin (1845 - 1904)
 Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813 - 1890)
 Edison Pettit (1889 - 1962)
 Georg von Peuerbach (1423 - 1461)
 Giuseppe Piazzi (1746 - 1826)
 Jean Picard (1620 - 1682)
 Alessandro Piccolomini (1508 - 1578)
 Edward Charles Pickering (1846 - 1919)
 William Henry Pickering (1858 - 1938)
 Edward Pigott (1753 - 1825)
 Paris Pismis (1911 - 1999)
 Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana (1781 - 1864)
 Petrus Plancius (1552 - 1622)
 Harry Hemley Plaskett (1893 - 1980)
 John Stanley Plaskett (1865 - 1941)
 Norman Robert Pogson (1829 - 1891)
 Christian Pollas (1947 -)
 John Pond (1767 - 1836)
 Jean-Louis Pons (1761 - 1831)
 Petr Pravec (1967 -)
 Mary Proctor: (1862 - 1957)
 Richard Anthony Proctor (1837 - 1888)
 Claudius Ptolemäus (~100 - ~175)
 Pierre Puiseux (1855 - 1928

Q 
 Didier Queloz (1966 -)
 Adolphe Quetelet (1796 - 1874)

R 
 David Lincoln Rabinowitz: (1960 -
 Georges Rayet: (1839 - 1906)
 Regiomontanus: (1436 - 1476)
 Grote Reber: (1911 - 2002)
 Martin John Rees: (1942 - 
 Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth: (1892 - 1979)
 Giovanni Riccioli: (1598 - 1671)
 Johann Richter (Astronom): (1537 - 1616)
 George Willis Ritchey: (1864 - 1945) 
 Isaac Roberts: (1829 - 1904)
 Elizabeth Roemer: (1929 -)
 Olaf Römer: (1644 - 1710)
 Édouard Albert Roche: (1820 - 1883)
 Bruno Rossi: (1905 - 1993)
 Vera Rubin: (1928 -)
 Warren de la Rue: (1815 - 1889)
 Karl Rümker: (1788 - 1862)
 Henry Norris Russell: (1877 - 1957)
 Lewis Morris Rutherfurd: (1816 - 1892)
 Martin Ryle: (1918 - 1984)

S 

 Truman Henry Safford (1836 - 1901)
 Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
 Edwin Salpeter (1924 - 2008)
 Allan Rex Sandage (1926 -)
 Karl Schaifers (1921 - 2009)
 Alexandre Schaumasse (1882 - 1958)
 Christoph Scheiner (1575 - 1650)
 Julius Scheiner (1858 - 1913)
 Beniamin Pawlowitsch Schechowski (1881 - 1953)
 Giovanni Schiaparelli (1835 - 1910)
 Julius Schiller (? - 1627)
 Bernhard Schmidt (Optiker) (1879 - 1935)
 Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825 - 1884)
 Erich Schoenberg (1882 - 1965)
 Eduard Schönfeld (1828 - 1891)
 David Schramm (1945 - 1997)
 Johann Hieronymus Schröter (1745 - 1816)
 Lipót Schulhof (1847 - 1921)
 Herman Schultz (1823 - 1890)
 Erwin Schwab (1964 -)
 Heinrich Schwabe (1789 - 1875)
 Karl Schwarzschild (1873 - 1916)
 Martin Schwarzschild (1912 - 1997)
 Arnold Schwassmann (1870 - 1964)
 George Mary Searle (1838 - 1918)
 Angelo Secchi (1818 - 1878)
 Carl Keenan Seyfert (1911 - 1960)
 Tsutomu Seki (1930 -)
 Seleukos vu Seleukia ëm 190 v. Chr.
 Stewart Sharpless (1926 - 2013)
 Harlow Shapley (1885 - 1972)
 Carolyn Shoemaker (1929
 Eugene Shoemaker (1928 - 1997)
 Frank Shu (1943 - 
 Aaron Nichols Skinner (1845 - 1918)
 Vesto Melvin Slipher (1875 - 1969)
 Tamara Michailowna Smirnowa (1918 - 2001)
 Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819 - 1900)
 William Henry Smyth (1788 - 1865)
 Lyman Spitzer (1914 - 1997) 
 Joel Stebbins (1878 - 1966)
 Kārlis Šteins (1911 - 1983)]]
 Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan (1837 - 1923)
 DeLisle Stewart (1870 - 1941)
 John Quincy Stewart (1894 - 1972)
 Bernhard Sticker (1906 - 1977)
 Johannes Stöffler (1452 - 1531)
 Edward C. Stone (1936 -
 Ormond Stone (1847 - 1933)
 Bengt Strömgren (1908 - 1987)
 Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve (1793 - 1864)
 Otto Wilhelm von Struve (1819 - 1905)
 Otto von Struve (1897 - 1963)
 Lewis A. Swift (1820 - 1913)
 Edward D. Swift (1871 -)

T 
 Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (1941 -)
 Timocharis vun Alexandria (320 v. Chr. - 260 v. Chr.)
 Sir John Tebbutt (1834 - 1916)
 Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel (1821 - 1889)
 Terzan Agop (1927 -
 Luciano Tesi (1931 -
 David J. Tholen (1955 -
 Norman G. Thomas (1930 -
 Jana Tichá (1965 -
 Miloš Tichý (1960 -
 Friedrich Tietjen (1834 - 1895)
 Beatrice Tinsley (1941 - 1981)
 Félix Tisserand (1845 - 1896)
 Johann Daniel Titius (1729 - 1796)
 Clyde William Tombaugh (1906 - 1997)
 Silvia Torres-Peimbert (1940 -
 Chad Trujillo (1973 -)
 Robert Julius Trumpler (1886 - 1956)
 Ludmila Iwanowna Tschernychowa (1935 -)
 Nikolai Stepanowitsch Tschernych (1931 - 2004)
 Roy Tucker (1951 -
 Richard Brent Tully (1943 -
 Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837 - 1923)

U 
 Stéphane Udry (1961 -)

V 
 Karl Wilhelm Valentiner (1845 - 1931)
 Jean Elias Benjamin Valz (1787 - 1867)
 Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1918 - 1995)
 Hans Vehrenberg (1910 - 1991)
 Francesco de Vico (1805 - 1848)
 Hermann Karl Vogel (1841 - 1907
 Alexander N. Vyssotsky (1888 - 1973)

W 
 Arno Arthur Wachmann (1902 - 1990)
 Max Waldmeier (1912 - 2000)
 Åke Wallenquist (1904 - 1994)
 Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin (1717 - 1783)
 James Craig Watson (1838 - 1880)
 Edmund Weiss (1837 - 1917)
 Bengt Westerlund (1921 - 2008)
 Justus Georg Westphal (1824 - 1859)
 Fred Whipple (1906 - 2004
 John Adams Whipple (1822 - 1891)
 John Paul Wild (1923 - 2008)
 Paul Wild (1921 - 2014)
 Alexander Wilkens (1881 - 1968)
 David Todd Wilkinson (1935 - 2002)
 Albert George Wilson (1918 - ?)
 Olin C. Wilson (1909 - 1994)
 Robert Woodrow Wilson (1936 - 2012)
 Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke (1835 - 1897)
 Carl Alvar Wirtanen (1910 - 1990)
 Walter Wislicenus (1859 - 1905)
 Carl Gustav Witt (1866 - 1946)
 Max Wolf (1863 - 1932)
 Harry Edwin Wood (1881 - 1946)
 Boris Alexandrowitsch Woronzow-Weljaminow (1904 - 1994)
 Johann Friedrich Wurm (1760 - 1833)

Y 
 Yi Xing (683 - 727)

Z 
 Al-Zarqali (1029 - 1087)
 Zdeňka Vávrová (1945 -)
 Ernst Zinner (1886 - 1970)
 Fritz Zwicky (1898 - 1974)

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