Cláudio Ptolomeu (90 dC – 168 dc)
Eratóstenes (276 aC -195 aC)
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903 dc – 986 dc), ou Azophi
NICOLAU COPÉRNICO (1473 – 1543)
TYCHO BRAHE (1546 -1601)
Galileu Galilei (1564 – 1642)
Johannes Kepler (1571 – 1630)
Giovanni Cassini (1625 – 1712)
Christiaan Huygens (1629 – 1695)
Sir Isaac Newton (1643 – 1727)
Edmond Halley (1656 – 1742)
Charles Messier (1730 – 1817)
William Herschel (1738 – 1822)
Henrietta Leavitt Swann (1868 – 1921)
Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)
Harlow Shapley (1885 – 1972)
Edwin Hubble (1899 – 1953)
Frank Drake (nascido em 1930)
Carl Sagan (1934 – 1996)
William K. Hartmann (nascido em 1939)
Stephen Hawking (nascido em 1942)