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List of people with craters of the Moon named after them

The following is a list of people whose names were given to craters of the Moon. The list of approved names in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature maintained by the International Astronomical Union includes the person the crater is named for.

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A

  • Ernst Karl Abbe
  • Charles Greeley Abbot
  • Niels Henrik Abel
  • Antonio Abetti
  • Giorgio Abetti
  • Abu Abdullah al-Bakri
  • Abū al-Wafā' al-Būzjānī
  • Charles Hitchcock Adams
  • John Couch Adams
  • Walter Sydney Adams
  • Agatharchides
  • Agrippa
  • Pierre d'Ailly
  • George Biddell Airy
  • Robert Grant Aitken
  • Ajima Naonobu
  • Harold Alden
  • Kurt Alder
  • Buzz Aldrin
  • Nikolai Alekhin
  • Alexander the Great
  • Alfonso X of Castile
  • Dinsmore Alter
  • Florentino Ameghino
  • Giovanni Battista Amici
  • Ammonius Saccas
  • Guillaume Amontons
  • Roald Amundsen
  • Anaxagoras
  • Anaximander
  • Anaximenes of Miletus
  • Karel Anděl
  • William Anders
  • John August Anderson
  • Leif Erland Andersson
  • Aleksandr Andronov
  • Anders Jonas Ångström
  • Ansgar
  • Eugène Michel Antoniadi
  • Dmitry Nikolayevich Anuchin
  • Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
  • Petrus Apianus
  • Apollonius of Perga
  • Edward Victor Appleton
  • François Arago
  • Aratus
  • Archimedes
  • Archytas
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander
  • Aristarchus of Samos
  • Aristillus
  • Aristotle
  • Franciszek Armiński
  • Neil Armstrong
  • Christoph Arnold
  • Svante Arrhenius
  • Lev Artsimovich
  • Aryabhata
  • Arzachel
  • Goryu Asada
  • Giuseppe Asclepi
  • Joseph Ashbrook
  • Francis William Aston
  • George Atwood
  • Autolycus of Pitane
  • Arthur Auwers
  • Adrien Auzout
  • Oswald Avery
  • Avicenna
  • B

  • Walter Baade
  • Georgi Babakin
  • Charles Babbage
  • Harold D. Babcock
  • Ernst Emil Alexander Back
  • Oskar Backlund
  • Roger Bacon
  • Benjamin Baillaud
  • Jean Sylvain Bailly
  • Francis Baily
  • Ibn Bajjah
  • Aleksei Balandin
  • Vasco Núñez de Balboa
  • Fernand Baldet
  • Johann Jakob Balmer
  • Tadeusz Banachiewicz
  • Wilder Dwight Bancroft
  • Frederick Banting
  • Charles Glover Barkla
  • Edward Emerson Barnard
  • Francesco Barozzi
  • Daniel Barringer
  • Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Harrānī al-Battānī
  • Ibn Battuta
  • Johann Bayer
  • Antonín Bečvář
  • Friedrich Bessel
  • Nur Ed-Din Al Betrugi
  • Giuseppe Biancani
  • Giovanni Bianchini
  • Jacques de Billy
  • Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī
  • Mary Adela Blagg
  • Étienne Bobillier
  • Priscilla Fairfield Bok
  • János Bolyai
  • George Phillips Bond
  • Émile Borel
  • Ira S. Bowen
  • Tycho Brahe
  • Edward William Brayley
  • Sir David Brewster
  • Catherine Wolfe Bruce
  • Giordano Bruno
  • Johann Tobias Bürg
  • Joost Bürgi
  • Sherburne Wesley Burnham
  • Richard Evelyn Byrd
  • C

  • Santiago Ramón y Cajal
  • Calippus
  • Campanus of Novara
  • Annie Jump Cannon
  • Francesco Carlini
  • Paolo Casati
  • Miguel A. Catalán
  • Saint Catherine of Alexandria
  • Bonaventura Cavalieri
  • Henry Cavendish
  • Arthur Cayley
  • Jean Chacornac
  • James Challis
  • Temple Chevallier
  • Rudolf Clausius
  • Christopher Clavius
  • Cleostratus
  • Agnes Mary Clerke
  • Conon of Samos
  • Gerty Theresa Cori
  • Cristóbal Acosta
  • Peter Crüger
  • D

  • John Frederick Daniell
  • Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
  • Gabriel Auguste Daubrée
  • William Rutter Dawes
  • Rene Descartes
  • Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
  • Hugh Latimer Dryden
  • Henry Draper
  • E

  • Amelia Earhart (provisional)
  • Thomas Edison
  • Albert Einstein
  • Mervyn A. Ellison
  • T. H. E. C. Espin
  • Euclid
  • Euctemon
  • Leonhard Euler
  • Abraham ibn Ezra
  • F

  • Michael Faraday
  • Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī
  • Abbas Ibn Firnas
  • Lucius Taruntius Firmanus
  • Camille Flammarion
  • Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming
  • Girolamo Fracastoro
  • James Franck
  • G

  • Galileo Galilei
  • Évariste Galois
  • Luigi Galvani
  • Annibale de Gasparis
  • Casimir Marie Gaudibert
  • Luca Gaurico
  • Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
  • Hans Geiger
  • Gersonides
  • Josiah Willard Gibbs
  • Flavio Gioja
  • Rudolf Goclenius, Jr.
  • Camillo Golgi
  • Ivan Grave
  • George Green
  • James Gregory
  • William Robert Grove
  • Charles Édouard Guillaume
  • Colin Stanley Gum
  • H

  • Paul Hainzel
  • Tadeáš Hájek
  • George Ellery Hale
  • Spiru Haret
  • Frederick James Hargreaves
  • Harkhebi
  • Oliver Heaviside
  • Hermann von Helmholtz
  • Joseph Henry
  • Paul Henry and Prosper Henry
  • Charles Hermite
  • William Herschel
  • Caroline Herschel
  • Heinrich Hertz
  • Jaroslav Heyrovský
  • David Hilbert
  • George W. Hill
  • Hipparchus
  • Robert Hooke
  • Edwin Hubble
  • Ibn al-Haytham
  • Hypatia
  • I

  • Christian Ludwig Ideler
  • Naum Ilyich Idelson
  • Nikolai Yakovlevich Ilin
  • Albert Graham Ingalls
  • Giovanni Inghirami
  • Robert Thorburn Ayton Innes
  • Abram Fedorovich Ioffe
  • Aleksei Mihailovich Isaev
  • Imre Izsak
  • J

  • Jabir ibn Aflah (Geber)
  • Jackson, Michael Joseph
  • Louise Freeland Jenkins
  • K

  • Mstislav Keldysh
  • Johannes Kepler
  • Omar Khayyám
  • Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
  • Gottfried Kirch
  • Gustav Kirchhoff
  • Sofia Kovalevskaya
  • L

  • Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
  • William Lassell
  • Henrietta Swan Leavitt
  • Leó Szilárd
  • Nicole-Reine Lepaute
  • Aloysius Lilius
  • Joseph Johann Littrow
  • Charles Lyell
  • M

  • Sir Thomas Maclear
  • William Duncan MacMillan
  • Giovanni Antonio Magini
  • Charles Malapert
  • Al-Ma'mun
  • Marcus Manilius
  • Al-Marrakushi
  • Julius Firmicus Maternus
  • Annie Russell Maunder
  • Francesco Maurolico
  • Antonia Maury
  • James Clerk Maxwell
  • Sharon Christa McAuliffe
  • Lise Meitner
  • Gregor Mendel
  • Menelaus of Alexandria
  • Marin Mersenne
  • Maria Mitchell
  • Gaspard Monge
  • Pierre Charles Lemonnier
  • Abrahão de Moraes
  • Henry Moseley
  • N

  • John Napier
  • Michael Neander
  • Isaac Newton
  • Emmy Noether
  • Frances "Poppy" Northcutt
  • František Nušl
  • O

  • Hermann Oberth
  • Marcus O'Day
  • J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • P

  • Johann Palisa
  • Paracelsus
  • John Stefanos Paraskevopoulos
  • John Whiteside Parsons
  • Robert Peary
  • Francis G. Pease
  • Bertrand Meigh Peek
  • Joseph Barclay Pentland
  • Joseph von Petzval
  • Philip III of Macedon
  • John Phillips
  • Philolaus of Croton
  • Johannes Phocylides Holwarda (Jan Fokker)
  • Giuseppe Piazzi
  • Jean-Felix Picard
  • Alessandro Piccolomini
  • Edward Charles Pickering
  • William Henry Pickering
  • Bartholomaeus Pitiscus
  • Max Planck
  • Pliny the Elder (Gaius Secundus)
  • Marco Polo
  • Posidonius
  • Mary Proctor
  • Protagoras
  • Ptolemy
  • Jan Evangelista Purkyne
  • R

  • Vincentio Reinieri
  • Judith Arlene Resnik
  • Klaus Riedel
  • George Willis Ritchey
  • Ole Rømer
  • James C. Ross
  • Frank E. Ross
  • Lord Rosse
  • S

  • Alberto Santos Dumont (Santos-Dumont (crater))
  • Paul Sabatier
  • Johannes de Sacrobosco
  • Vojtěch Šafařík
  • Daniel Santbech
  • Johann Hieronymus Schröter
  • Schomberger
  • Anton Maria Schyrleus of Rheita
  • Ján Andrej Segner
  • Hugh Sempill
  • Gerolamo Sersale
  • Anne Sheepshanks
  • Shi Shen
  • Wacław Sierpiński
  • Marie Sklodowska Curie
  • Willebrord Snellius
  • Mary Fairfax Somerville
  • Sosigenes of Alexandria
  • Johannes Stadius
  • Johannes Stöffler
  • Eugen Sänger
  • Shah Rukh Khan
  • T

  • Pietro Tacchini
  • Tacitus
  • André Tacquet
  • Tarutius
  • Nikola Tesla
  • Valentina Tereshkova
  • Thales
  • Theaetetus
  • Theophrastus
  • U

  • Ulugh Beg
  • V

  • Frank W. Very
  • Mikhail Anatolevich Vilev
  • Rudolf Virchow
  • Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
  • Marcus P. Vitruvius
  • Vincenzo Viviani
  • Adriaan Vlacq
  • Hermann Carl Vogel
  • Vladislav Volkov
  • Alessandro Volta
  • Vito Volterra
  • Leonid Alexandrovich Voskresenskiy
  • W

  • Joseph Albert Walker
  • Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Otto Wallach
  • Bernhard Walther
  • Bernard Wapowski
  • Pehr Vilhelm Wargentin
  • Worcester Reed Warner
  • Alan Tower Waterman
  • Uco van Wijk
  • X

  • Xenophanes
  • Xenophon
  • Y

  • Charles T. Yerkes
  • Ibn Yunus
  • Z

  • Zeno of Citium
  • References

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