List of medieval Hebrew astronomers

The following is a list of prominent Jewish astronomers of the Middle Ages, with the approximate periods of their activity, arranged in alphabetical order of first names.

Name	Date	Known for
Abraham de Balmes	died 1523	Translator
Abraham ibn Ezra	1093-1168
Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi	1130
Abraham of Toledo	1278
Abraham Zacuto ben Samuel	16th century
Andruzagar ben Zadi Faruch	9th century
Augustinius Ricius	1521
Baruch Sklow	c. 1777
Baruch ben Solomon ben Joab	1457
Bianchino	15th century
Bonet de Lattes	1506
Caleb Afendopolo	15th century
David Gans	died 1613
David Kalonymus ben Jacob	1464
David ibn Nahmias
David Nieto	died 1728
Dayyan Ḥasan	972
Elijah Mizrachi	died 1526
Emanuel ben Jacob	1346-65
Ephraim Mizraḥi
Farissol Moses Botarel	1465
Hananeel ben Ḥushiel	died 1020?
Ḥayyim Lisker	1612-36
Ḥayyim Vital Calabrese	died 1620
Isaac ben Aaron	1368
Isaac Abu al-Khair ben Samuel	1340
Isaac Albalia ben Baruch	1035-94
Isaac ibn al-Ḥadib	1370
Isaac Israeli ben Joseph	1310-30
Isaac ben Meir Spira
Isaac ben Moses Efodaeus, Proflat Duran	1392-1403
Isaac ibn Sid	1252
Israel Lyons	died 1775
Israel Samose	died 1772
Jacob Anatoli	1232
Jacob Carsi (Jacob al-Corsono ben Abi Abraham Isaac)	1376
Jacob ben David ben Yom-Ṭob Poel	1361
Jacob ben Elia
Jacob ben Judah Cabret	1382
Jacob ben Makir, Proflat Tibbon	1289-1303
Jacob ben Samson	1123-42
Jacob ben Tarik or Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq	777	Said to have founded a school of astrology and astronomy in Baghdad
Jeremiah Cohen of Palermo	1486
Joseph ben Eleazar	14th century
Joseph ben Isaac ben Moses ibn Wakkar	c. 1357
Joseph ben Israeli ben Isaac	died 1331
Joseph ibn Nahmias	1300-30
Joseph Parsi
Joseph Taytazak	c. 1520
Judah Farissol	1499
Judah ha-Levi	1140
Judah ben Israeli	1339
Judah ben Moses Cohen	1256
Judah ben Rakufial	before 1130
Judah ben Samuel Shalom	15th century
Judah ben Solomon Cohen	1247
Judah ibn Verga	1457
Kalonymus ben David of Naples	1528
Kalonymus ben Kalonymus	1286-1328
Levi ben Abraham ben Ḥayyim	1299-1316
Levi ben Gershon (Gersonides)	1327-44
Maimon of Montpellier.
Manoah ben Shemariyah	died 1612
Mashallah	754-813
Mattathia Delacrut	c. 1530-50
Meier Neumark	1703
Meir Spira	14th century?
Menahem (Emanuel) Zion Porto	1636-40
Meshullam Kalonymus
Mordecai Comtino	1460-85
Mordecai Finzi	1440-46
Moses ben Abraham of Nîmes
Moses Almosnino	died c. 1580
Moses Galeno ben Elia	16th century
Moses Goli ben Judah
Moses Ḥandali
Moses Isserles	died 1573
Moses ibn Tibbon	1244-74
Nathan Hamati ben Eliezer	1279-83
Raphael Leki Hannover	1734
Sahl (Rabban) al-Ṭabari	800
Samuel ibn Abbas ben Judah	1163
Samuel Abulafia	1278
Samuel Ha-Levi	1280-84
Samuel ben Judah of Marseilles	1331
Shalom ben Joseph	1450-60
Shalom ben Solomon Yerushalmi	1482-87
Shabbethai Donnolo	913-982
Sheshet ben Isaac ben Gerundi	1320
Sind ben Ali	829-833
Solomon Abigdor ben Abraham	1399
Solomon Davin of Rodez	14th century
Solomon ben Elijah	1344-86
Solomon Esobi (Azubius)	1633
Solomon ben Moses Melgueil	1250
Solomon ibn Pater Cohen of Burgos	1322
Solomon Shalom ben Moses	1441-86
Tobias Cohen	1708

Source

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Astronomy". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.