List of people with craters of the Moon named after them

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.
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
Alfraganus
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
Michael P. 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
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 - Bianchini crater north of Sinus Iridum
Giovanni Bianchini - Blanchinus crater - Southern Hemisphere
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 - named for G. Bond crater
Aimé Bonpland
George Boole
Émile Borel
Roger Joseph Boscovich (or Rudjer Bošković)
Jagdish Chandra Bose
Ira S. Bowen
Frederick Sumner Brackett
Tycho Brahe
Edward William Brayley
Sir David Brewster
David McDowell Brown
Catherine Wolfe Bruce
Giordano Bruno
Henri Buisson
Johann Tobias Bürg
Joost Bürgi
Sherburne Wesley Burnham
Richard Evelyn Byrd
C
Cai Lun
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Calippus
Robert Curry Cameron
Campanus of 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
Kalpana Chawla
Pafnuty Chebyshev
Temple Chevallier
Franceso degli Stabili Cichus
Laurel Clark
Rudolf Clausius
Christopher Clavius
Cleostratus
Agnes Mary Clerke
William Coblentz
Michael Collins (astronaut)
Edward Uhler Condon
Marquis de Condorcet
Conon of Samos
Nicolaus Copernicus
Gerty Theresa Cori
Cristóbal Acosta
Andrew Crommelin
Peter Crüger
Ctesibius
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
Denis Diderot
Saint Dionysius
Diophantus
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
Audouin Dollfus
John Dollond
Giovanni Battista Donati
Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr
Henry Draper
John Louis Emil Dreyer
Hugh Latimer Dryden
Dmitrij I. Dubyago
Alexander D. Dubyago
Richard Dunthorne
Wladyslaw Dziewulski
E
Amelia Earhart (provisional)
Thomas Edison
Hans Egede
Albert Einstein
Thomas Gwyn Elger
Mervyn A. Ellison
Johann Franz Encke
Epigenes
Eratosthenes
Joseph Erlanger
Luis Enrique Erro
Ernest Esclangon
T. H. E. C. Espin
Euclid
Euctemon
Eudoxus of Cnidus
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
Yuri 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
Gersonides
Josiah Willard Gibbs
Grove Karl Gilbert
William Gilbert
Friedrich Karl Ginzel
Flavio Gioja
Rudolf Goclenius, Jr.
Louis Godin
Camillo Golgi
Benjamin A. Gould
Ivan Grave
George Green
James Gregory
Francesco Maria Grimaldi
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
Bernard Ray Hawke
Ibn al-Haytham
Hecataeus
Oliver Heaviside
Gottfried Heinsius
Hermann von Helmholtz
Joseph Henry
Paul Henry and Prosper Henry
Pierre Hérigone
Charles Hermite
Hero of Alexandria, or Hero
Caroline Herschel - named for C. Herschel crater
John Herschel - named for J. Herschel crater
William Herschel - named for Herschel crater
Heinrich Hertz
Hesiod
Jaroslav Heyrovský
David Hilbert
George William Hill
John Russell Hind
Hippalus
Hipparchus
Edward Singleton Holden
Robert Hooke
Peder Horrebow
Jeremiah Horrocks
Martin van den Hove
Edwin Hubble
Sir William Huggins
Rick Husband
Thomas Henry Huxley
Gaius Julius Hyginus
Hypatia
I
Christian Ludwig Ideler
Naum Ilyich Idelson
Nikolai Yakovlevich Il'in — Il'in (crater)
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 Keldysh
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 (astronomer)
Pierre Charles Lemonnier
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
Mikhail Lomonosov
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-Ma'mun
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 C. McCool
William Frederick Meggers
Lise Meitner
Gregor Mendel
Dmitri Mendeleev
Menelaus of Alexandria
Donald Howard Menzel
Gerardus Mercator
Marin Mersenne
Milutin Milanković
Jacob Milich
William Allen Miller
Marcel Minnaert
Maria Mitchell
Sisir Kumar Mitra
August Ferdinand Möbius
Nikolay Moiseyev
Gaspard Monge
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 - Necho crater
Simon Newcomb
Isaac Newton
Friedrich Bernhard Gottfried Nicolai
Jean Nicholas Nicollet
Alfred Nobel
Emmy Noether
Robert Norman
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 of 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
Pliny the Elder (Gaius Secundus)
Plutarch
Siméon Denis Poisson
Marco Polo
Ivan Ivanovich Polzunov
Jean-Louis Pons
Johannes (Iovianus) Pontanus, or Giovanni Pontani
Alexander Stepanovich Popov
Cyril Popov
Posidonius
Proclus Lycius
Mary Proctor
Protagoras
Ptolemy
Pierre Puiseux
Jan Evangelist
R
Ilan Ramon
Rachel Rampage
Albert William Recht
Erasmus Reinhold
Vincentio Reinieri
Judith Arlene Resnik
Matteo Ricci
Giovanni Battista Riccioli
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
Shah Rukh Khan
Vojtěch Šafařík
Eugen Sänger
Daniel Santbech
Alberto Santos Dumont (Santos-Dumont (crater))
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
Georg Schomberger
Johann Hieronymus Schröter
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
Abraham Sharp
Anne Sheepshanks
Shi Shen
Wacław Sierpiński
Johann Esaias Silberschlag
Simon Sinas
Marie Sklodowska Curie
Earl Slipher
Vesto Slipher
Marian Smoluchowski
Willebrord Snellius
Frederick Soddy
Mary Fairfax Somerville
Samuel Thomas Sömmering
Sosigenes of Alexandria
Sir James South
Lazzaro Spallanzani
Gustav Spörer
Johannes Stadius
Nicholas Steno
Andreas Stöberl
Johannes Stöffler
George Johnstone Stoney
Thomas Street
Strabo
Lewis A. Swift
Leó Szilárd
T
Pietro Tacchini
Tacitus
André Tacquet
Taruntius
Brook Taylor
Léon Teisserenc de Bort
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel
Nikola Tesla
Valentina Tereshkova
Thales
Theaetetus
Theon of Alexandria
Theon of Smyrna
Theophrastus
Timaeus
Timocharis
Félix Tisserand
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovskiy
Samuel Tolansky
Alexey Tolstoy
Craig R. Tooley
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
Vesalius
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
Fred Lawrence Whipple
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
Xenophanes
Xenophon
Y
Charles T. Yerkes
Ibn Yunus
Z
Franz Xaver von Zach
Abraham Zacuto (or Zagut)
Herman Zanstra
Alexander Dmitrievich Zasyadko
Zeno of Citium
Zhang Heng
Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner
See also
Lunar craters named for space explorers
Stars named after people
List of minor planets named after people
List of craters on Mars named after people
Notes
References
Moon in culture
Moon craters
Moon-related lists