1656 - 1742
Edmond (or Edmund) Halley (; 8 November [O.S. 29 October] 1656 – 25 January 1742 [O.S. 14 January 1741]) was an English astronomer, mathematician and physicist. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, succeeding John Flamsteed in 1720. From an observatory he constructed on Saint Helena in 1676–77, Halley catalogued the southern celestial hemisphere and recorded a transit of Mercury across the Sun. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmond Halley has received more than 1,303,050 page views. His biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 85 in 2019). Edmond Halley is the 19th most popular astronomer (down from 17th in 2019), the 263rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 208th in 2019) and the most popular British Astronomer.
Edmond Halley is most famous for his comet that orbits the sun and reappears every 76 years.
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Among astronomers, Edmond Halley ranks 19 out of 531. Before him are Ole Rømer, Ja'far al-Sadiq, Carl Sagan, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Aryabhata, and Neil deGrasse Tyson. After him are Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Robert Woodrow Wilson, Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Charles Messier, Giuseppe Piazzi, and Johannes Hevelius.
1644 - 1710
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 13
702 - 765
HPI: 73.30
Rank: 14
1934 - 1996
HPI: 71.94
Rank: 15
1625 - 1712
HPI: 70.97
Rank: 16
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
Among people born in 1656, Edmond Halley ranks 1. After him are Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark, Marin Marais, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein, Nicolas de Largillière, Robert de Cotte, Guillaume Dubois, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, Kateri Tekakwitha, and Ferdinand de Marsin. Among people deceased in 1742, Edmond Halley ranks 1. After him are Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine, Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Pylyp Orlyk, Friedrich Hoffmann, Arvid Horn, Jean-Baptiste Dubos, Carlos Seixas, Luigi Guido Grandi, and Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský.
1656 - 1742
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 1
1656 - 1693
HPI: 64.96
Rank: 2
1656 - 1728
HPI: 64.84
Rank: 3
1656 - 1723
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 4
1656 - 1708
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 5
1656 - 1721
HPI: 59.03
Rank: 6
1656 - 1746
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 7
1656 - 1735
HPI: 53.92
Rank: 8
1656 - 1723
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 9
1656 - 1746
HPI: 53.35
Rank: 10
1656 - 1680
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 11
1656 - 1706
HPI: 51.61
Rank: 12
1656 - 1742
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 1
1709 - 1742
HPI: 64.31
Rank: 2
1673 - 1742
HPI: 64.01
Rank: 3
1661 - 1742
HPI: 59.27
Rank: 4
1675 - 1742
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 5
1672 - 1742
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 6
1660 - 1742
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 7
1664 - 1742
HPI: 54.25
Rank: 8
1670 - 1742
HPI: 54.14
Rank: 9
1704 - 1742
HPI: 54.00
Rank: 10
1671 - 1742
HPI: 53.98
Rank: 11
1684 - 1742
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 12
Among people born in United Kingdom, Edmond Halley ranks 263 out of 7,765. Before him are Anthony Giddens (1938), Owen Willans Richardson (1879), Graham Greene (1904), Edmund I (921), Bede (672), and Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545). After him are Jimmy Page (1944), Andrew Carnegie (1835), David Lloyd George (1863), John Constable (1776), Jeremy Irons (1948), and George Everest (1790).
1938 - Present
HPI: 69.25
Rank: 257
1879 - 1959
HPI: 69.23
Rank: 258
1904 - 1991
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 259
921 - 946
HPI: 69.17
Rank: 260
672 - 735
HPI: 69.15
Rank: 261
1545 - 1567
HPI: 69.11
Rank: 262
1656 - 1742
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 263
1944 - Present
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 264
1835 - 1919
HPI: 69.04
Rank: 265
1863 - 1945
HPI: 69.01
Rank: 266
1776 - 1837
HPI: 68.98
Rank: 267
1948 - Present
HPI: 68.98
Rank: 268
1790 - 1866
HPI: 68.88
Rank: 269
Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Edmond Halley ranks 1. After him are Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943), Fred Hoyle (1915), Arthur Eddington (1882), James Bradley (1693), John Flamsteed (1646), Martin Ryle (1918), George Darwin (1845), William Lassell (1799), Stephen Gray (1666), Antony Hewish (1924), and William Huggins (1824).
1656 - 1742
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 1
1943 - Present
HPI: 68.68
Rank: 2
1915 - 2001
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 3
1882 - 1944
HPI: 64.66
Rank: 4
1693 - 1762
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 5
1646 - 1719
HPI: 63.08
Rank: 6
1918 - 1984
HPI: 62.29
Rank: 7
1845 - 1912
HPI: 61.49
Rank: 8
1799 - 1880
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 9
1666 - 1736
HPI: 60.96
Rank: 10
1924 - 2021
HPI: 60.00
Rank: 11
1824 - 1910
HPI: 59.78
Rank: 12