Arthur Alcock Rambaut (21 September 1859 – 14 October 1923) was an Irish astronomer.
Rambaut was born in County Waterford, Ireland, the third son of Rev.
Edmund F. Rambaut, vicar of Christ Church, Blackrock, County Dublin.
He was educated at Arlington House, Portarlington,[1] The Royal School, Armagh and Trinity College, Dublin, where he won a scholarship in Natural Science in 1880.
[2] When Ball moved to Cambridge, Rambaut took over as Andrews Professor of Astronomy and Royal Astronomer of Ireland.