1730 - 1817
Charles Messier (French: [ʃaʁl me.sje]; 26 June 1730 – 12 April 1817) was a French astronomer. He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of 110 nebulae and star clusters, which came to be known as the Messier objects, referred to with the letter M and their number between 1 and 110. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Messier has received more than 430,715 page views. His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Charles Messier is the 23rd most popular astronomer (down from 18th in 2019), the 468th most popular biography from France (down from 321st in 2019) and the most popular French Astronomer.
Charles Messier was a French astronomer who is most famous for his catalogue of deep sky objects.
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Among astronomers, Charles Messier ranks 23 out of 531. Before him are Aryabhata, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Edmond Halley, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Robert Woodrow Wilson, and Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi. After him are Giuseppe Piazzi, Johannes Hevelius, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, Jamshīd al-Kāshī, Roger Joseph Boscovich, and Avempace.
476 - 550
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 17
1958 - Present
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 18
1656 - 1742
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 19
1943 - Present
HPI: 68.68
Rank: 20
1936 - Present
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 21
903 - 986
HPI: 68.26
Rank: 22
1730 - 1817
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 23
1746 - 1826
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 24
1611 - 1687
HPI: 67.10
Rank: 25
1758 - 1840
HPI: 66.95
Rank: 26
1380 - 1429
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 27
1711 - 1787
HPI: 66.90
Rank: 28
1080 - 1138
HPI: 66.58
Rank: 29
Among people born in 1730, Charles Messier ranks 2. Before him is Alexander Suvorov. After him are Johann Georg Hamann, Étienne Bézout, Jan Ingenhousz, Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova, Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony, Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Antonio Sacchini, Pieter Boddaert, and Josiah Wedgwood. Among people deceased in 1817, Charles Messier ranks 5. Before him are Jane Austen, Germaine de Staël, Tadeusz Kościuszko, and André Masséna. After him are Karađorđe, Marie Walewska, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Princess Charlotte of Wales, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, and Theroigne de Mericourt.
1730 - 1800
HPI: 70.83
Rank: 1
1730 - 1817
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 2
1730 - 1788
HPI: 61.84
Rank: 3
1730 - 1783
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 4
1730 - 1799
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 5
1730 - 1801
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 6
1730 - 1813
HPI: 57.19
Rank: 7
1730 - 1806
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 8
1730 - 1794
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 9
1730 - 1786
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 10
1730 - 1795
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 11
1730 - 1795
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 12
1775 - 1817
HPI: 81.26
Rank: 1
1766 - 1817
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 2
1746 - 1817
HPI: 70.77
Rank: 3
1758 - 1817
HPI: 68.64
Rank: 4
1730 - 1817
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 5
1768 - 1817
HPI: 67.19
Rank: 6
1786 - 1817
HPI: 66.13
Rank: 7
1743 - 1817
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 8
1784 - 1817
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 9
1796 - 1817
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 10
1727 - 1817
HPI: 60.80
Rank: 11
1762 - 1817
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Charles Messier ranks 468 out of 6,011. Before him are Roger Vadim (1928), François-Noël Babeuf (1760), Jean Dubuffet (1901), Paul Bocuse (1926), Camille Desmoulins (1760), and Gabriel Marcel (1889). After him are Jacques Le Goff (1924), Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928), Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727), Jean-François Lyotard (1924), Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1747), and Karl Brandt (1904).
1928 - 2000
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 462
1760 - 1797
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 463
1901 - 1985
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 464
1926 - 2018
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 465
1760 - 1794
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 466
1889 - 1973
HPI: 68.00
Rank: 467
1730 - 1817
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 468
1924 - 2014
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 469
1928 - Present
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 470
1727 - 1781
HPI: 67.95
Rank: 471
1924 - 1998
HPI: 67.90
Rank: 472
1747 - 1793
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 473
1904 - 1948
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 474
Among astronomers born in France, Charles Messier ranks 1. After him are Jérôme Lalande (1732), Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (1713), Pierre Méchain (1744), Jacques Cassini (1677), Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580), Édouard Stephan (1837), Alphonse Borrelly (1842), Pierre Janssen (1824), Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688), Guillaume Bigourdan (1851), and Bernard Lyot (1897).
1730 - 1817
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 1
1732 - 1807
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 2
1713 - 1762
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 3
1744 - 1804
HPI: 62.83
Rank: 4
1677 - 1756
HPI: 62.28
Rank: 5
1580 - 1637
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 6
1837 - 1923
HPI: 58.20
Rank: 7
1842 - 1926
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 8
1824 - 1907
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 9
1688 - 1768
HPI: 56.71
Rank: 10
1851 - 1932
HPI: 56.19
Rank: 11
1897 - 1952
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 12