This page contains a list of the greatest Turkmen Astronomers. The pantheon dataset contains 531 Astronomers, 1 of which were born in Turkmenistan. This makes Turkmenistan the birth place of the 41st most number of Astronomers behind Slovenia and Tajikistan.
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Turkmen Astronomers of all time. This list of famous Turkmen Astronomers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
With an HPI of 54.05, Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi is the most famous Turkmen Astronomer. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi (766 – d. after 869 in Samarra, modern Iraq) was a Persian astronomer, geographer, and mathematician from Merv in Khorasan, who was the first to describe the trigonometric ratios tangent, and cotangent. Habash flourished in Baghdad, and died a centenarian some time after 869. He worked under two Abbasid caliphs, al-Ma'mun and al-Mu'tasim.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as astronomers born between 770 and 770. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased astronomers include Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi.