Lisa Kaltenegger - Austrian/American astronomer Dorothea Klumpke (1861–1942), American-born astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, (1868–1921), American astronomer (periodicity of variable stars) Evelyn Leland (c.1870–c.1930), American astronomer working at the Harvard College Observatory Priyamvada Natarajan, Indian/American astrophysicist Carolyn Porco (1953–), American planetary scientist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900–1978), British-American astronomer