Category
page 1Astronomers Royal
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)
Martin Ryle
English radio astronomer (1918–1984)
John Flamsteed
English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal
George Biddell Airy
English mathematician and astronomer (*1801 – †1892)

James Bradley
English astronomer; Astronomer Royal

Martin Rees
British cosmologist and astrophysicist (1942-)
Nevil Maskelyne
fifth Astronomer Royal (*1765 – †1811)
Astronomer Royal
position in the Royal Households of the United Kingdom
Harold Spencer Jones
British astronomer (1890–1960)
Nathaniel Bliss
English astronomer (1700-1764)
Frank Watson Dyson
English astronomer and Astronomer Royal (1868–1939)
John Pond
British astronomer
William Christie
British astronomer (1845–1922)
Astronomer Royal for Scotland
position
Richard van der Riet Woolley
British astronomer royal (1906–1986)
Michele Dougherty
Space physicist at Imperial College London
Francis Graham-Smith
British astronomer
Arnold Wolfendale
British physicist (1927–2020)
Ralph Allen Sampson
Irish-British astronomer (1866-1939)
John Campbell Brown
British astronomer (1947-2019)
Royal Astronomer of Ireland
scientist