List of women astronomers
The following is a list of astronomers, astrophysicists and other notable women who have made contributions to the field of astronomy.
A
- Madge Adam
- Maggie Aderin-Pocock
- Conny Aerts
- :es:María Luisa Aguilar|María Luisa Aguilar Hurtado
- Aglaonike
- Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs
- Elizabeth Alexander
- Leah Allen
- Anja Cetti Andersen
- Annapurni Subramaniam
B
- Neta Bahcall
- Odette Bancilhon
- Amy Barger
- Nadine G. Barlow
- Amy Barr
- Maria A. Barucci
- Stefi Baum
- Reta Beebe
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell
- Mary Adela Blagg
- Erika Böhm-Vitense
- Priscilla Fairfield Bok
- Tabetha S. Boyajian
- Sophia Brahe
- Ingeborg Brun
- Margaret Burbidge
- Marta Burgay
- Mary E. Byrd
C
- Annie Jump Cannon
- Robin M. Canup
- Nicole Capitaine
- C. Marcella Carollo
- Catherine Cesarsky
- Merieme Chadid
- Kyongae Chang
- Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen
- Jun Chen
- Lyudmila Chernykh
- Agnes Mary Clerke
- Judith Gamora Cohen
- Françoise Combes
- Janine Connes
- France A. Córdova
- Heather Couper
- Athena Coustenis
- Carolin Crawford
- Lucy D’Escoffier Crespo da Silva
- Maria Cunitz
D
- Rosina Dafter
- Laura Danly
- Doris Daou
- Marie-Jeanne de Lalande
- Audrey C. Delsanti
- Harriet Dinerstein
- Ewine van Dishoeck
- Anlaug Amanda Djupvik
- Megan Donahue
- Vibert Douglas
- Jeanne Dumée
E
- Sara Ellison
- Rebecca Elson
F
- Sandra Faber
- Annette Ferguson
- Laura Ferrarese
- Debra Fischer
- Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion
- Williamina Fleming
- Anna Frebel
- Wendy Freedman
- Katherine Freese
- Caroline Furness
G
- Catharine Garmany
- Pamela L. Gay
- Vera Fedorovna Gaze
- Margaret Geller
- Andrea M. Ghez
- Agnes Giberne
- Andreja Gomboc
- Eva Grebel
- Lucie Green
- Jenny Greene
H
- Erika Hamden, US
- Heidi Hammel
- Fiona A. Harrison
- Marjorie Hall Harrison
- Lisa Harvey-Smith
- Margaret Harwood
- Martha P. Haynes
- E. Ruth Hedeman
- Mary Lea Heger
- Eleanor F. Helin
- Amanda Hendrix
- Caroline Herschel
- Elisabeth Hevelius
- Jacqueline Hewitt
- Catherine Heymans
- Dorrit Hoffleit
- Helen Sawyer Hogg
- Ann Hornschemeier
- Joan Horvath
- Nancy Houk
- Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld
- Margaret Lindsay Huggins
- Hypatia
I
- Violeta G. Ivanova
J
- Louise Freeland Jenkins
- Carole Jordan
K
- Vicky Kalogera
- Lyudmila Karachkina
- Victoria Kaspi
- Lisa Kewley
- Pamela M. Kilmartin
- Maria Margarethe Kirch
- Margaret G. Kivelson
- Dorothea Klumpke
- Gillian R. Knapp
- Heather A. Knutson
- Gloria Koenigsberger
- Bärbel Koribalski
- Lenka Kotková
- Chryssa Kouveliotou
- Reiki Kushida
L
- Elizabeth Lada
- Marguerite Laugier
- Gemma Lavender
- Nicole-Reine Lepaute
- Henrietta Swan Leavitt
- Isabel Martin Lewis
- Helen Lines
- Sarah Lee Lippincott
- Jane Luu
M
- Maeriam al-Ijliya al-Astrulabi
- Amy Mainzer
- Esmeralda Mallada
- Rachel Mandelbaum
- Karen Masters
- Janet Akyüz Mattei
- Annie Russell Maunder
- Antonia Maury
- Claire Ellen Max
- Margaret Mayall
- Jaylee Burley Mead
- Karen Jean Meech
- Maria Mitchell
- Linda A. Morabito
- Jean Mueller
N
- Sultana N. Nahar
- Joan Najita
- Yaël Nazé
- Heidi Jo Newberg
O
- Carolina Ödman-Govender
- Sally Oey
- Kathleen Ollerenshaw
- C. Michelle Olmstead
- Liisi Oterma
- Mazlan Othman
- Feryal Özel
P
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
- Ruby Payne-Scott
- Louise du Pierry
- Carle Pieters
- Paris Pişmiş
- Elena V. Pitjeva
- Carolyn Porco
- Helen Dodson Prince
- Mary Proctor
Q
- Elisa Quintana
R
- Katharine Reeves
- Emily Rice
- Christina Richey
- Julia Riley
- Constance M. Rockosi
- Elizabeth Roemer
- Nancy Roman
- Marta Graciela Rovira
- Vera Rubin
S
- Penny Sackett
- Anneila Sargent
- Caterina Scarpellini
- Sara Seager
- Waltraut Seitter
- Muriel Mussells Seyfert
- Pelageya Shajn
- Aomawa Shields
- Carolyn S. Shoemaker
- Charlotte Moore Sitterly
- Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova
- Alicia M. Soderberg
- Mary Somerville
- Linda Spilker
- Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay
- Karlina Leksono Supelli
- Jean Swank
- Henrietta Hill Swope
- Paula Szkody
T
- Jill Tarter
- Florence Taylor Hildred
- Alenush Terian
- Michelle Thaller
- Jana Tichá
- Beatrice Tinsley
- Maura Tombelli
- Christy A. Tremonti
- Virginia Louise Trimble
- Lidiya Tseraskaya
- Margaret Turnbull
U
- Anne Barbara Underhill
- Meg Urry
V
- Bobbie Vaile
- Zdeňka Vávrová
- Julie Vinter Hansen
- Emma Vyssotsky
W
- Lucianne Walkowicz
- Kim Weaver
- Alycia J. Weinberger
- Mareta West
- Sarah Frances Whiting
- Mary Watson Whitney
- Belinda Wilkes
- Beth Willman
- Lee Anne Willson
- Anna Winlock
- Jennifer Wiseman
- Rosemary Wyse
- Frances Woodworth Wright
- Gillian Wright
Y
- Ye Shuhua
- Anne Sewell Young
- Judith Young
Z
- Wang Zhenyi
- Lyudmila Zhuravlyova
- Maria Zuber