The award is named after Robert Julius Trumpler, a notable Swiss-American astronomer (1886-1956).

A native of Kentucky, Ormsby Mitchel grew up in Lebanon, Ohio, and was also an attorney and notable astronomer.

It is named after James W. Christy, an American astronomer most notable for his discovery of Pluto's satellite Charon.

Educated in Latin and Aristotelian physics at the University of Oxford, Wren was a notable astronomer, geometer, and mathematician-physicist, as well as an architect.

Other notable astronomers to use the observatory included Eduard Vogel, Charles George Talmage, and Norman Robert Pogson.

A notable Babylonian astronomer from this time was Seleucus of Seleucia, who was a supporter of the heliocentric model.

One day H'ambizan, who was a notable astronomer, was drifting among the clouds in the birthplace of stars, and he came upon an amazing sight.

Karl Ludwig Harding (September 29, 1765 - August 31, 1834) was a German astronomer notable for having discovered the asteroid 3 Juno.

His son Karl Friedrich Knorre and grandson Viktor Knorre were also notable astronomers.

Both Karl and his son, Viktor Knorre, would go on to become notable astronomers in Russia and Germany respectively.