Remarkable Astronomers

I am compiling a list of about 60 interesting / remarkable astronomers for a biography writing project. I am only including deceased astronomers. What do you think of this list?

The project will lead to the writing of capsule biographies of about 1500 - 3000 words. An important feature of each biography is to find lesser known interesting facts. For example "Halley's father was murdered as a conspirator" "Newton executed coinage counterfeiters" "Zwicky was rude, cantankerous and belligerent but tolerated as a kind of crank"

Candidate ‘remarkable’ astronomers

Airy, George Biddell (British) Astronomer Royal
Alcock, George (British) Distinguished amateur comet hunter
Ambartsumian, Viktor (Armenian) Theoretical astrophysics, President IAU
Arago, Dominique François (French) Paris meridian, mathematician,
Aristotle (Greek Antiquity) Natural philosophy
Baade, Walter (German / US) Stellar populations, supernovae
Barnard, Edward E. (US) Comet discoverer, Barnard’s star
Bessel, Freidrich (Prussian) parallax 61 Cygni
Bond, William Cranch (US) 1st director Harvard College Observatory
Bond, George Philip (US) Stellar photography
Bradley, James (British) Aberration of starlight
Brahe, Tycho (Danish) Observer
Cannon, Annie Jump (US) Cepheid variables
Cassini, Jean-Dominique (Italian) Solar system astronomy
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan (Indian) Theorist
Chappe d’Auteroche, Jean-Baptiste (Fr) Transits Venus 1761, 1769
Copernicus, Nicolaus (Polish) Heliocentric system
Curtis, Heber (US) Galaxies and nebulae
de Sitter, Willem (Dutch) Relativistic cosmology
Eddington, Arthur (British) Stars and stellar systems
Flammarion, Camille (French) Author, popular astronomy
Flamsteed, John (British) 1st Astronomer Royal, star catalogues
Galilei, Galileo (Italian) Astronomical telescope
Gassendi, Pierre (French) Transit of Mercury
Gill, David (British) Astrophotography, Cape Observatory
Gold, Thomas (US) Radio astronomy, pulsars
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp (US) Discovered Gould’s Belt
Grosseteste, Robert (British) Medieval natural philosophy
Hale, George Ellery (US) Solar astronomy,
Halley, Edmund (British) 2nd Astronomer Royal, Comet
Herschel, Caroline (Hanoverian) Assisted William Herschel
Herschel, John (British) First survey of southern sky
Herschel, William (Hanoverian) Observational cosmology
Hertzsprung, Ejnar (Danish) Stellar parallax, classification
Hevelius, Elisabetha (Polish) Observational astronomy, first female astronomer
Hevelius, Johannes (Polish) Observational astronomy
Hipparchus (Greek Antiquity) Star catalogue
Hoffleit, Dorrit (US) Bright Star Catalogue
Horrocks, Jeremiah (British) Transit of Venus 1639
Hoyle, Fred (British) Astrophysics and cosmology
Hubble, Edwin (British) Expanding universe
Huggins, Margaret (Irish) astronomical spectroscopy
Huggins, William (British) astronomical spectroscopy
Huygens, Christian (Dutch) Saturn’s rings, Titan
Kepler, Johannes (German) celestial mechanics, Astronomia Nova
Kuiper, Gerard (Dutch) planetary science
Lacaille, Nicholas-L. de (French) catalogue southern stars
Laplace, Pierre-Simon (French) celestial mechanics
Le Verrier, Urbain J. J. (French) celestial mechanics
Leavitt, Henrietta (US) Cepheid variables
Lemaître, Georges H. J. E. (Belgian) Big Bang cosmology
Lockyer, Joseph Norman (British) Founder Nature, solar astronomy
Lowell, Percival (US) observer Mars, nebulae
Lyot, Bernard (French) solar astronomy, coronagraph
Mattei, Janet (US) variable stars
Maunder, Annie (Irish) assistant to Walter Maunder
Maunder, Walter (British) sunspots, Maunder Minimum
Maury, Antonia (US) catalogue stellar spectra
Messier, Charles (French) nebulae
Mitchell, Maria (US) 1st female professional astronomer in USA
Newcomb, Simon (Canadian) standards and astronomical constants
Newton, Isaac (British) universal gravitation
Olbers, Heinrich (German) Olbers’ paradox, asterroids
Oort, Jan (Dutch) radio astronomy, Oort Cloud
Öpik, Ernst (Estonian) origin of the Moon
Payne Gaposchkin, Cecilia (British) variable stars
Pickering, Edward Charles (US) spectroscopic binaryu stars
Ptolemy (Greek Antiquity) Almagest
Roberts, Dorothea Klumpke (US) astronomical photography
Roberts, Isaac (British) pioneer astrophotography
Rosse, Lord (British) spiral structure of nebulae
Russell, Henry Norris (US) Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
Ryle, Martin (British) radio interferometry
Sagan, Carl (US) planetary science
Sandage, Allan (US) extragalactic observational astronomy
Schmidt, Maarten (Dutch) quasars
Schwarzschild, Karl (German) solution Einstein field equations
Shapley, Harlow (US) galactic structure
Shoemaker, Eugene (US) planetary science
Slipher, Vesto (US) recession of the nebulae
Somerville, Mary (British) noted populariser, translated Laplace
Spitzer, Lyman (US) telescopes in space
Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm (1793-1864) Director Pulkova Observatory
Struve, Otto Wilhelm (Russian) (1819-1905) Director Pulkova Observatory
Struve, Karl Hermann (Russian) (1854-1920) astrometry
Struve, Otto (Russian) (1897-1963) prolific mid-20th century astronomer
Tinsley, Beatrice (British) evolution of galaxies
Whipple, Fred (US) comets
Wolf, Johann Rudolf (Swiss) sunspots
Zwicky, Fritz (Swiss) dark matter