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.
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Annie Jump Cannon 1922 Portrait
- 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
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Caroline Furness (1918)
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Caroline Herschel (1750–1848)
- 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
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Dorothea Klumpke (1861–1942)
- 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
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Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868–1921)
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- 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
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Carolina Ödman-Govender in 2013.
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- 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
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Sarah Frances Whiting (1847–1927)
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- Wang Zhenyi
- Lyudmila Zhuravlyova
- Maria Zuber
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