The Most Famous
ASTRONOMERS from Afghanistan
This page contains a list of the greatest Afghan Astronomers. The pantheon dataset contains 531 Astronomers, 1 of which were born in Afghanistan. This makes Afghanistan the birth place of the 38th most number of Astronomers behind Saudi Arabia and Bulgaria.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Afghan Astronomers of all time. This list of famous Afghan Astronomers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Abu Maʿshar (787 - 886)
With an HPI of 60.20, Abu Maʿshar is the most famous Afghan Astronomer. His biography has been translated into 30 different languages on wikipedia.
Abu Ma‘shar al-Balkhi, Latinized as Albumasar (also Albusar, Albuxar; full name Abū Maʿshar Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Balkhī أبو معشر جعفر بن محمد بن عمر البلخي ; 10 August 787 – 9 March 886, AH 171–272), was an early Persian Muslim astrologer, thought to be the greatest astrologer of the Abbasid court in Baghdad. While he was not a major innovator, his practical manuals for training astrologers profoundly influenced Muslim intellectual history and, through translations, that of western Europe and Byzantium.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as astronomers born between 787 and 787. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased astronomers include Abu Maʿshar.
