List of people with craters of the Moon named after them

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The following is a list of people whose names were given to craters of the Moon.

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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
• 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
• Johann Bayer
• Antonín Bečvář
• Friedrich Bessel
• Nur Ed-Din Al Betrugi
• Giuseppe Biancani
• Giovanni Bianchini
• Jacques de Billy
• Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī
• János Bolyai
• Tycho Brahe
• Edward William Brayley
• Giordano Bruno
• Johann Tobias Bürg
• Sherburne Wesley Burnham
• Richard Bennett Burns
• Richard Evelyn Byrd

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C

• Campanus of Novara
• Francesco Carlini
• Paolo Casati
• Miguel A. Catalán
• Bonaventura Cavalieri
• Arthur Cayley
• James Challis
• Temple Chevallier
• Rudolf Clausius
• Christopher Clavius
• Cleostratus
• Cristóbal Acosta
• Peter Crüger

D

• Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
• Rene Descartes
• Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
• Hugh Latimer Dryden
• Henry Draper

E

• Thomas Edison
• Albert Einstein
• Mervyn A. Ellison
• Luis Enrique Erro Soler
• 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
• Elizabeth Fry

G

• Galileo Galilei
• Évariste Galois
• Luigi Galvani
• 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
• Charles Hermite
• William Herschel
• Heinrich Hertz
• Jaroslav Heyrovský
• David Hilbert
• Hipparchus
• Robert Hooke
• Edwin Hubble
• Ibn al-Haytham

I

Ina Balin

J

Jackson, Michael Joseph

K

• Mstislav Keldysh
• Johannes Kepler
• Omar Khayyám
• Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
• Gottfried Kirch
• Lea Kendall

L

• William Lassell
• Leó Szilárd
• Aloysius Lilius
• Joseph Johann Littrow

M

• Giovanni Antonio Magini
• Charles Malapert
• Al-Ma'mun
• Al-Marrakushi
• Julius Firmicus Maternus
• Francesco Maurolico
• James Clerk Maxwell
• Gregor Mendel
• Gaspard Monge
• Abrahão de Moraes
• Henry Moseley

N

• John Napier
• Michael Neander
• Isaac Newton
• František Nušl

O

• Hermann Oberth
• Marcus O'Day

P

• Johann Palisa
• Robert Peary
• John Whiteside Parsons
• Francis G. Pease
• Bertrand Meigh Peek
• Joseph Barclay Pentland
• Philip III of Macedon
• Bartholomaeus Pitiscus
• Max Planck
• Protagoras
• Ptolemy
• Jan Evangelista Purkyne

Q

• William John Macquorn Rankine

R

• Vincentio Reinieri
• Klaus Riedel
• George Willis Ritchey

S

• Paul Sabatier
• Johannes de Sacrobosco
• Vojtěch Šafařík
• Daniel Santbech
• Johann Hieronymus Schröter
• Anton Maria Schyrleus of Rheita
• Ján Andrej Segner
• Hugh Sempill
• Gerolamo Sersale
• Shi Shen
• Willebrord Snellius
• Johannes Stadius
• Johannes Stöffler
• Eugen Sänger
• Robin Strook

T

• Thales
• Theaetetus

U

• Ulugh Beg

V

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W

• Uco van Wijk
• Alfred Russel Wallace

X

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Y

• Ibn Yunus

Z

• Zeno of Citium

See also

• List of craters on the Moon
• Lunar craters named for space explorers
• Stars named after people
• List of minor planets named after people

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