1857 - 1911
Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming (15 May 1857 – 21 May 1911) was a Scottish astronomer. She was a single mother hired by the director of the Harvard College Observatory to help in the photographic classification of stellar spectra. She helped develop a common designation system for stars and cataloged more than ten thousand stars, 59 gaseous nebulae, over 310 variable stars, and 10 novae and other astronomical phenomena. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Williamina Fleming has received more than 535,787 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Williamina Fleming is the 138th most popular astronomer (up from 290th in 2019), the 1,293rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,425th in 2019) and the 20th most popular British Astronomer.
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Among astronomers, Williamina Fleming ranks 138 out of 531. Before her are Walter Sydney Adams, Maria Margaretha Kirch, Seleucus of Seleucia, Johann Franz Encke, John Louis Emil Dreyer, and Alphonse Borrelly. After her are Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Antonie Pannekoek, Pierre Janssen, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, Luigi Ferdinando Marsili, and Maria Mitchell.
1876 - 1956
HPI: 57.23
Rank: 132
1670 - 1720
HPI: 57.19
Rank: 133
190 BC - 150 BC
HPI: 57.10
Rank: 134
1791 - 1865
HPI: 57.01
Rank: 135
1852 - 1926
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 136
1842 - 1926
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 137
1857 - 1911
HPI: 56.91
Rank: 138
1920 - 2002
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 139
1873 - 1960
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 140
1824 - 1907
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 141
1688 - 1768
HPI: 56.71
Rank: 142
1658 - 1730
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 143
1818 - 1889
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 144
Among people born in 1857, Williamina Fleming ranks 50. Before her are Theodor Kittelsen, Ida Tarbell, Mikhail Alekseyev, Émile Coué, Christian Michelsen, and Cyril Genik. After her are Le Pétomane, Fergus Suter, Alfred Loisy, Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Jacques de Morgan, and Juan Vicente Gómez. Among people deceased in 1911, Williamina Fleming ranks 25. Before her are Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy, Joseph Bell, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Johan Svendsen, Jack Daniel, and Jules Brunet. After her are Sam Loyd, George Johnstone Stoney, Jozef Israëls, Sister Nivedita, Alexandre Guilmant, and Joseph Dalton Hooker.
1857 - 1914
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 44
1857 - 1944
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 45
1857 - 1918
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 46
1857 - 1926
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 47
1857 - 1925
HPI: 57.10
Rank: 48
1857 - 1925
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 49
1857 - 1911
HPI: 56.91
Rank: 50
1857 - 1945
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 51
1857 - 1916
HPI: 55.75
Rank: 52
1857 - 1940
HPI: 55.46
Rank: 53
1857 - 1882
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 54
1857 - 1924
HPI: 55.15
Rank: 55
1857 - 1935
HPI: 55.13
Rank: 56
1843 - 1911
HPI: 58.74
Rank: 19
1837 - 1911
HPI: 58.20
Rank: 20
1836 - 1911
HPI: 58.20
Rank: 21
1840 - 1911
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 22
1850 - 1911
HPI: 57.61
Rank: 23
1838 - 1911
HPI: 57.33
Rank: 24
1857 - 1911
HPI: 56.91
Rank: 25
1841 - 1911
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 26
1826 - 1911
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 27
1824 - 1911
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 28
1867 - 1911
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 29
1837 - 1911
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 30
1817 - 1911
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 31
Among people born in United Kingdom, Williamina Fleming ranks 1,293 out of 7,765. Before her are Colin Wilson (1931), William George Horner (1786), Charles Algernon Parsons (1854), Pattie Boyd (1944), Mark Phillips (1948), and John Boyd Orr (1880). After her are David Ogilvy (1911), Barbara Cartland (1901), Tom Hiddleston (1981), Alexander of Hales (1175), Michael Redgrave (1908), and Jacquetta of Luxembourg (1415).
1931 - 2013
HPI: 56.97
Rank: 1,287
1786 - 1837
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 1,288
1854 - 1931
HPI: 56.95
Rank: 1,289
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.95
Rank: 1,290
1948 - Present
HPI: 56.94
Rank: 1,291
1880 - 1971
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 1,292
1857 - 1911
HPI: 56.91
Rank: 1,293
1911 - 1999
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 1,294
1901 - 2000
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 1,295
1981 - Present
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 1,296
1175 - 1245
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 1,297
1908 - 1985
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 1,298
1415 - 1472
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 1,299
Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Williamina Fleming ranks 20. Before her are George Biddell Airy (1801), Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900), Jeremiah Horrocks (1618), Adelard of Bath (1075), William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800), and John Russell Hind (1823). After her are N. R. Pogson (1829), Margaret Burbidge (1919), John Bevis (1695), Francis Baily (1774), Edward Walter Maunder (1851), and James Dunlop (1793).
1801 - 1892
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 14
1900 - 1979
HPI: 58.59
Rank: 15
1618 - 1641
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 16
1075 - 1160
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 17
1800 - 1867
HPI: 57.71
Rank: 18
1823 - 1895
HPI: 57.44
Rank: 19
1857 - 1911
HPI: 56.91
Rank: 20
1829 - 1891
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 21
1919 - 2020
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 22
1695 - 1771
HPI: 54.54
Rank: 23
1774 - 1844
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 24
1851 - 1928
HPI: 53.87
Rank: 25
1793 - 1848
HPI: 53.77
Rank: 26