# Llista de persones amb cràters de la Lluna anomenats en el seu honor

A continuació es mostra una llista de persones que es van donar els seus noms a cràters de la Lluna. La llista de noms aprovats al Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature mantingut per la Unió Astronòmica Internacional inclou la persona a qui es fa referència al cràter.
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* 0–9
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

## 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
* Alexandre el Gran
* Alfons X de Castella
* Alfraganus
* Dinsmore Alter
* Florentino Ameghino
* Giovanni Battista Amici
* Ammonius Saccas
* Guillaume Amontons
* Roald Amundsen
* Anaxàgores de Clazòmenes
* Anaximandre de Milet
* Anaxímenes de Milet
* Karel Anděl
* William Anders
* John August Anderson
* Leif Erland Andersson
* Aleksandr Andrónov
* Anders Jonas Ångström
* Ansgar
* Eugène Michel Antoniadi
* Dmitry Nikolayevich Anuchin
* Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
* Petrus Apianus
* Apol·loni de Perge
* Edward Victor Appleton
* François Arago
* Arat
* Arquimedes de Siracusa
* Arquites de Tàrent
* Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander
* Aristarc de Samos
* Arístil·los
* Aristòtil
* Franciszek Armiński
* Neil Armstrong
* Christoph Arnold
* Svante Arrhenius
* Lev Artsimovich
* Aryabhata
* Arzachel
* Goryu Asada
* Giuseppe Asclepi
* Joseph Ashbrook
* Francis William Aston
* George Atwood
* Autòlic de Pítana
* 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
* William Ball
* 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
* Wilhelm Beer
* Torbern Bergman
* Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
* Nur Ed-Din Al Betrugi
* Giuseppe Biancani
* Francesco Bianchini - Cràter Bianchini al nord de Sinus Iridium
* Giovanni Bianchini - Cràter de Blanchinus - Hemisferi sud
* Wilhelm von Biela
* Jacques de Billy
* Hiram Bingham III
* Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī
* Mary Adela Blagg
* Étienne Bobillier
* Johann Elert Bode
* Niels Bohr
* Priscilla Fairfield Bok
* János Bolyai
* George Phillips Bond - nomenat pel cràter G. Bond
* Aimé Bonpland
* Émile Borel
* Roger Joseph Boscovich (o Rudjer Bošković)
* Ira S. Bowen
* Frederick Sumner Brackett
* Tycho Brahe
* Edward William Brayley
* Sir David Brewster
* Catherine Wolfe Bruce
* Giordano Bruno
* Henri Buisson
* Johann Tobias Bürg
* Joost Bürgi
* Sherburne Wesley Burnham
* Richard Evelyn Byrd

## C

* Santiago Ramón y Cajal
* Calippus
* Robert Curry Cameron
* Campanus de Novara
* Annie Jump Cannon
* Francesco Capuano di Manfredonia
* Francesco Carlini
* Paolo Casati
* Miguel A. Catalán
* Saint Catherine of Alexandria
* Augustin Louis Cauchy
* Bonaventura Cavalieri
* Henry Cavendish
* Arthur Cayley
* Anders Celsius
* Jean Chacornac
* James Challis
* Sergei Chaplygin
* Pafnuty Chebyshev
* Temple Chevallier
* Franceso degli Stabili Cichus
* Rudolf Clausius
* Christopher Clavius
* Cleostratus
* Agnes Mary Clerke
* William Coblentz
* Edward Uhler Condon
* Marquis de Condorcet
* Conon of Samos
* Nicolau Copèrnic
* Gerty Theresa Cori
* Cristóbal Acosta
* Andrew Crommelin
* Peter Crüger
* Ctesibi d'Alexandria
* Pierre Curie

## D

* Louis Daguerre
* Reginald A. Daly
* John Frederick Daniell
* Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
* Maurice Darney
* Charles Darwin
* Gabriel Auguste Daubrée
* Humphry Davy
* William Rutter Dawes
* Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre
* Charles-Eugène Delaunay
* Joseph-Nicolas Delisle
* William Frederick Denning
* Rene Descartes
* Jules Alfred Pierrot Deseilligny
* Henri-Alexandre Deslandres
* Dénis Diderot
* Dionís l'Areopagita
* Diofant d'Alexandria
* Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
* John Dollond
* Giovanni Battista Donati
* Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr
* Henry Draper
* John Louis Emil Dreyer
* Hugh Latimer Dryden
* Dmitri I. Dubiago
* Aleksandr D. Dubiago
* Richard Dunthorne
* Wladyslaw Dziewulski

## E

* Amelia Earhart (provisional)
* Thomas Edison
* Hans Egede
* Albert Einstein
* Thomas Gwyn Elger
* Mervyn A. Ellison
* Johann Franz Encke
* Epigenes
* Eratòstenes
* Joseph Erlanger
* Luis Enrique Erro
* Ernest Esclangon
* T. H. E. C. Espin
* Euclides
* Euctemon
* Èudox de Cnidos
* Leonhard Euler
* Abraham ibn Ezra

## F

* Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
* Michael Faraday
* Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī
* Hervé Faye
* Enrico Fermi
* Jean Fernel
* Abbas Ibn Firnas
* Lucius Taruntius Firmanus
* Camille Flammarion
* John Flamsteed
* Alexander Fleming
* Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming
* Philip Fox
* Girolamo Fracastoro
* Fra Mauro
* James Franck

## G

* Vasco da Gama
* Iuri Gagarin
* Claudius Galen
* Galileo Galilei
* Johann Gottfried Galle
* Évariste Galois
* Luigi Galvani
* Irvine Clifton Gardner
* Annibale de Gasparis
* Pierre Gassendi
* Casimir Marie Gaudibert
* Luca Gaurico
* Carl Friedrich Gauss
* Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
* Hans Geiger
* Guersònides
* Josiah Willard Gibbs
* Friedrich Karl Ginzel
* Flavio Gioja
* Rudolf Goclenius, Jr.
* Louis Godin
* Camillo Golgi
* Benjamin A. Gould
* Ivan Grave
* George Green
* James Gregory
* William Robert Grove
* Otto von Guericke
* John Guest
* Charles Édouard Guillaume
* Colin Stanley Gum
* Arnold Henry Guyot
* Hugo Gyldén

## H

* Wilhelm Karl von Haidinger
* Paul Hainzel
* Tadeáš Hájek
* J.B.S. Haldane
* George Ellery Hale
* Asaph Hall
* Edmond Halley
* Peter Andreas Hansen
* Spiru Haret
* Frederick James Hargreaves
* Harkhebi
* Ernst Hartwig
* Ibn al-Haytham
* Hecataeus
* Oliver Heaviside
* Gottfried Heinsius
* Hermann von Helmholtz
* Joseph Henry
* Paul Henry and Prosper Henry
* Pierre Hérigone
* Charles Hermite
* Heró d'Alexandria, o Hero
* Caroline Herschel - nomenat per al cràter C. Herschel
* John Herschel - nomenat per al cràter J. Herschel
* William Herschel - nomenat per al cràter Herschel
* Heinrich Hertz
* Hesiod
* Jaroslav Heyrovský
* David Hilbert
* George William Hill
* John Russell Hind
* Hippalus
* Hiparc de Nicea
* Edward Singleton Holden
* Robert Hooke
* Peder Horrebow
* Jeremiah Horrocks
* Martin van den Hove
* Edwin Hubble
* Sir William Huggins
* Thomas Henry Huxley
* Gaius Julius Hyginus
* Hipàcia

## I

* Christian Ludwig Ideler
* Naum Ilyich Idelson
* Nikolai Yakovlevich Il'in — Il'in (cràter)
* Albert Graham Ingalls
* Giovanni Inghirami
* Robert Thorburn Ayton Innes
* Abram Fedorovich Ioffe
* Aleksei Mihailovich Isaev
* Imre Izsak

## J

* Jabir ibn Aflah (Geber)
* Michael Jackson
* Zacharias Jansen
* Karl Jansky
* Pierre Jules César Janssen
* Louise Freeland Jenkins

## K

* Frederick Kaiser
* Theodore von Kármán
* Mstislav Kéldix
* Johannes Kepler
* Omar Khayyám
* Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
* Johann Kies
* Arthur Scott King
* Edward Skinner King
* Gottfried Kirch
* Gustav Kirchhoff
* Harold Knox-Shaw
* Rudolf König
* Sofia Kovalevskaya
* M.A. Koval'sky
* Adam Johann Krusenstern
* Gerard Peter Kuiper
* August Kundt
* George K. Kunowsky

## L

* Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
* Heinrich Eduard von Lade
* Joseph Jérôme Le François de Lalande
* Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
* Johann Heinrich Lambert
* Johann von Lamont
* Jonathan Homer Lane
* Michel van Langren
* William Lassell
* Ernest Lawrence
* Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr.
* Henrietta Swan Leavitt
* John Lee, astrònom
* Leó Szilárd
* Nicole-Reine Lepaute
* Jean Antoine Letronne
* Tullio Levi-Civita
* Anders Johan Lexell
* Aloysius Lilius
* Eric Mervyn Lindsay
* Hans Lippershey
* Joseph Johann Littrow
* Joseph Norman Lockyer
* Maurice (Moritz) Loewy
* Oswald Lohse
* Lomosonov
* Augustus Edward Hough Love
* Percival Lowell
* Charles Lyell

## M

* Sir Thomas Maclear
* William Duncan MacMillan
* Johann Heinrich Mädler
* Ferdinand Magellan
* Giovanni Antonio Magini
* Charles Malapert
* Al-Mamun
* Marcus Manilius
* Giovanni Domenico Maraldi
* Giacomo Filippo (Jacques Philippe) Maraldi
* Al-Marrakushi
* Albert Marth
* Julius Firmicus Maternus
* Annie Russell Maunder
* Walter Maunder
* Pierre Louis Maupertuis
* Francesco Maurolico
* Antonia Maury
* James Clerk Maxwell
* Tobias Mayer - T. Mayer crater
* Alexander George McAdie
* Sharon Christa McAuliffe
* William Frederick Meggers
* Lise Meitner
* Gregor Mendel
* Dmitri Mendeléiev
* Menelaus of Alexandria
* Donald Howard Menzel
* Gerardus Mercator
* Marin Mersenne
* Milutin Milanković
* Jacob Milich
* William Allen Miller
* Maria Mitchell
* August Ferdinand Möbius
* Nikolay Moiseyev
* Gaspard Monge
* Pierre Charles Lemonnier
* Abrahão de Moraes
* Nikolai Morozov
* Henry Moseley
* Johan Sigismund von Mösting
* Karl Müller
* Sir Roderick Murchison

## N

* Fridtjof Nansen
* John Napier
* Michael Neander
* Necho II - cràter Necho
* Simon Newcomb
* Isaac Newton
* Friedrich Bernhard Gottfried Nicolai
* Jean Nicholas Nicollet
* Alfred Nobel
* Emmy Noether
* Robert Norman
* Frances "Poppy" Northcutt
* Pedro Nuñez Salaciense
* Joseph Nunn
* František Nušl

## O

* Hermann Oberth
* Marcus O'Day
* Heinrich Olbers
* Friedrich Wilhelm Opelt
* Otto Moritz Opelt
* J. Robert Oppenheimer
* Theodor von Oppolzer
* Oronce Fine
* Wilhelm Ostwald

## P

* Johann Palisa
* Peter Simon Pallas
* Paracelsus
* John Stefanos Paraskevopoulos
* Johann Jacob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot
* William Edward Parry
* John Whiteside Parsons
* Louis Pasteur
* Wolfgang Pauli
* Robert Peary
* Francis G. Pease
* Bertrand Meigh Peek
* Joseph Barclay Pentland
* Yevgeny Perepyolkin
* Joseph von Petzval
* Georg von Peuerbach (Purbach)
* Philip III of Macedon
* John Phillips
* Philolaus de Croton
* Johannes Phocylides Holwarda (Jan Fokker)
* Giuseppe Piazzi
* Jean-Felix Picard
* Alessandro Piccolomini
* Marc-Auguste Pictet
* Edward Charles Pickering
* William Henry Pickering
* Pietro Pitati
* Bartholomaeus Pitiscus
* Max Planck
* John Playfair
* Plini el Vell (Gaius Secundus)
* Plutarc de Queronea
* Siméon Denis Poisson
* Marco Polo
* Ivan Ivanovich Polzunov
* Jean-Louis Pons
* Johannes (Iovianus) Pontanus, o Giovanni Pontani
* Alexander Stepanovich Popov
* Cyril Popov
* Posidoni
* Procle
* Mary Proctor
* Protàgores
* Ptolemeu
* Pierre Puiseux
* Jan Evangelista Purkyne

## R

* Jesse Ramsden
* Albert William Recht
* Erasmus Reinhold
* Vincentio Reinieri
* Judith Arlene Resnik
* Matteo Ricci
* Klaus Riedel
* George Willis Ritchey
* Carl Ritter
* George August Dietrich Ritter
* Ole Rømer
* James C. Ross
* Frank E. Ross
* Lord Rosse
* Ernest Rutherford
* Graham Ryder

## S

* Paul Sabatier
* Johannes de Sacrobosco
* Vojtěch Šafařík
* Eugen Sänger
* Daniel Santbech
* Alberto Santos Dumont (Santos-Dumont (cràter))
* Vikram Sarabhai
* Gellio Sasceride
* Horace-Bénédict de Saussure
* Samuel Arthur Saunder
* Carl Wilhelm Scheele
* Giovanni Schiaparelli
* Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt
* Bernhard Schmidt
* Otto Yulyevich Schmidt
* Johann Hieronymus Schröter
* Schomberger
* Theodor von Schubert
* Anton Maria Schyrleus of Rheita
* Angelo Secchi
* Hugo Hans Ritter von Seeliger
* Ján Andrej Segner
* Hugh Sempill
* Seneca the Younger
* Gerolamo Sersale
* Carl Keenan Seyfert
* Shahrukh Khan
* Abraham Sharp
* Anne Sheepshanks
* Shi Shen
* Wacław Sierpiński
* Johann Esaias Silberschlag
* Simon Sinas
* Marie Sklodowska Curie
* Earl Slipher
* Vesto Slipher
* Willebrord Snellius
* Frederick Soddy
* Mary Fairfax Somerville
* Samuel Thomas Sömmering
* Sosígenes d'Alexandria
* South
* Lazzaro Spallanzani
* Gustav Spörer
* Johannes Stadius
* Nicholas Steno
* Andreas Stöberl
* Johannes Stöffler
* George Johnstone Stoney
* Estrabó
* Lewis A. Swift

## T

* Pietro Tacchini
* Tàcit
* André Tacquet
* Taruntius
* Brook Taylor
* Léon Teisserenc de Bort
* Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel
* Nikola Tesla
* Valentina Tereshkova
* Tales de Milet
* Teetet d'Atenes
* Teó d'Alexandria
* Teó d'Esmirna
* Teofrast
* Timeu de Locres
* Timocharis
* Félix Tisserand
* Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovskiy
* Samuel Tolansky
* Alexey Tolstoy
* Franz de Paula Triesnecker
* Étienne Léopold Trouvelot
* Herbert Hall Turner

## U

* Friedrich August Ukert
* Ulugh Beg

## V

* Jules Verne
* Urbain Le Verrier
* Frank W. Very
* Andreas Vesal
* Vladimir Petrovich Vetchinkin
* Mikhail Anatolevich Vilev
* Leonardo da Vinci
* 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
* Michael Wargo
* Worcester Reed Warner
* Alan Tower Waterman
* James Watt
* Chester Burleigh Watts
* Thomas William Webb
* Alfred Wegener
* Edmund Weiss
* H. G. Wells
* William Whewell
* Moritz Ludwig George Wichmann
* Uco van Wijk
* Rupert Wildt
* Hugh Percy Wilkins
* Arthur Stanley Williams
* John Winthrop
* Erazmus Ciolek Witelo
* Friedrich Wöhler
* Max Wolf
* Francis Wollaston
* Johann Philipp von Wurzelbauer

## X

* Xenòfanes de Colofó
* Xenofont

## Y

* Charles T. Yerkes
* Ibn Yunus

## Z

* Franz Xaver von Zach
* Abraham Zacuto (o Zagut)
* Herman Zanstra
* Zenó de Cítion
* Zhang Heng
* Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner

## Notes

* ↑ «Moon craters». Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. International Astrophysical Union. [Consulta: 3 febrer 2015].
* ↑ Moon Crater To Be Designated In Memoriam Of Legendary Entertainer Michael Jackson.http://www.lunasociety.org/ Moon crater named after Michael Jackson. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/michael-jackson/5784734/Moon-crater-named-after-Michael-Jackson.html

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