List of craters on Mercury

This is a list of named craters on Mercury

Mercury (planet)

Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the Solar System, orbiting the Sun once every 87.969 Earth days. The orbit of Mercury has the highest eccentricity of all the Solar System planets, and it has the smallest axial tilt. It completes three rotations about its axis for every two orbits...

. Most Mercurian craters

Impact crater

In the broadest sense, the term impact crater can be applied to any depression, natural or manmade, resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with a larger body...

 are named after famous writer

Writer

A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

s and artist

Artist

An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

s. Craters larger than 250 km in diameter are referred to as "basins".

Terminology

As on the Moon and Mars, sequences of craters and basins of differing relative ages provide the best means of establishing stratigraphic order on Mercury. Overlap relations among many large mercurian craters and basins are clearer than those on the Moon. Therefore, as this map shows, we can build up many local stratigraphic columns involving both crater or basin materials and nearby plains materials.

Over all of Mercury, the crispness of crater rims and the morphology of their walls, central peaks, ejecta deposits, and secondary-crater fields have undergone systematic changes with time. The youngest craters or basins in a local stratigraphic sequence have the sharpest, crispest appearance. The oldest craters consist only of shallow depressions with slightly raised, rounded rims, some incomplete. On this basis, five age categories of craters and basins have been mapped; the characteristics of each are listed in the explanation. In addition, secondary crater

Secondary crater

Secondary craters are impact craters formed by the ejecta that was thrown out of a larger crater. They sometimes form radial crater chains.-External links:*...

 fields are preserved around proportionally far more craters and basins on Mercury than on the Moon or Mars, and are particularly useful in determining overlap relations and degree of modification.

Since only limited photographic evidence was available from Mariner 10

Mariner 10

Mariner 10 was an American robotic space probe launched by NASA on November 3, 1973, to fly by the planets Mercury and Venus. It was launched approximately two years after Mariner 9 and was the last spacecraft in the Mariner program...

's three flybys of the planet, these divisions are often tentative. The five crater groups, from youngest to oldest, are:

• c5: Fresh-appearing, sharp-rimmed, rayed craters. Highest albedo in map area; haloes and rays may extend many crater diameters from rim crests. Superposed on all other map units. Generally smaller and fewer than older craters.
• c4: Fresh but slightly modified craters—Similar in morphology to c5 craters but without bright haloes or rays; sharp rim crests; continuous ejecta blankets; very few superposed secondary crater
  Secondary crater
  Secondary craters are impact craters formed by the ejecta that was thrown out of a larger crater. They sometimes form radial crater chains.-External links:*...
  
  s. Floors consist of crater or smooth plains materials.
• c3: Modified craters—Rim crest continuous but slightly rounded and subdued. Ejecta blanket generally less extensive than those of younger craters of similar size. Superposed craters and rays common; smooth plains and intermediate plains materials cover floors of many craters. Central peaks more common than in c4 craters, probably because of larger average size of c3 craters.
• c2: Subdued craters—Low-rimmed, relatively shallow craters, many with discontinuous rim crests. Floors covered by smooth plains and intermediate plains materials. Crater density of ejecta blankets similar to that of intermediate plains material.
• c1 Degraded craters—Similar to c2 crater material but more deteriorated; many superposed craters.

Direction of Increasing Longitude: west

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Crater	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter (km)	Named after
Abedin Abedin (crater) Abedin is a crater on Mercury. It exhibits a complex crater structure with a smooth floor, wall terraces, and a central peak complex. The chains of smaller craters surrounding Abedin are secondary craters formed by ejecta from the initial impact...	61.7 N	10.2 W	110	Zainul Abedin Zainul Abedin Zainul Abedin was nitially a painter of India and became famous in 1944 with his Famine Series paintings of 1943; and after partition he moved to Pakistan; and finally when Bangladesh was created in 1971, he was rightly considered the founding father of Bangladeshi Art... , Bangladeshi painter
Abu Nuwas Abu Nuwas (crater) Abu Nuwas is an impact crater on the planet Mercury, 116 kilometers in diameter. It is located at 17.4°N, 20.4°W. It is named after the Arab poet Abu Nuwas, and its name was approved by the International Astronomical Union in 1976...	17.4 N	20.4 W	116	Abu Nuwas Abu Nuwas Abu-Nuwas al-Hasan ben Hani Al-Hakami ,a known as Abū-Nuwās , was one of the greatest of classical Arabic poets, who also composed in Persian on occasion. Born in the city of Ahvaz in Persia, of an Arab father and a Persian mother, he became a master of all the contemporary genres of Arabic poetry... , Arabic Arabic language Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...  poet
Africanus Horton Africanus Horton (crater) Africanus Horton is a crater on Mercury....	51.5 S	41.2 W	135	Africanus Horton Africanus Horton Africanus Horton , also known as James Beale, was a Creole African nationalist writer and an esteemed Medical Surgeon in the British Army from Freetown, Sierra Leone.... , Sierra Leone Sierra Leone Sierra Leone , officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea to the north and east, Liberia to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and southwest. Sierra Leone covers a total area of and has an estimated population between 5.4 and 6.4... an writer
Ahmad Baba	58.5 N	126.8 W	127	Ahmad Baba al Massufi Ahmad Baba al Massufi Ahmad Baba al-Massufi al-Tinbukti, full name Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Ahmad al-Takruri Al-Massufi al-Timbukti , was a medieval West African writer, scholar, and political provocateur in the area then known as the Western Sudan... , West Africa West Africa West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the UN definition of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries and an area of approximately 5 million square km:-Flags of West Africa:... n writer
Al-Akhtal	59.2 N	97.0 W	102	Akhtal Akhtal Akhtal was one of the most famous Arab poets of the Umayyad period. He belonged to the tribe of Taghlib in Mesopotamia, and was, like his fellow-tribesmen, a Christian, enjoying the freedom of his religion.Of his private life few details are known, save that he was married and divorced, and that... , Arab poet
Al-Hamadhani	38.8 N	89.7 W	186	Badi' az-Zaman al-Hamadhani, Arab writer
Al-Jāhiz	1.2 N	21.5 W	91	Al-Jahiz Al-Jahiz Al-Jāḥiẓ was an Arabic prose writer and author of works of literature, Mu'tazili theology, and politico-religious polemics.In biology, Al-Jahiz introduced the concept of food chains and also proposed a scheme of animal evolution that entailed... , Arab author
Alencar	63.5 S	103.5 W	120	José de Alencar José de Alencar José Martiniano de Alencar was a Brazilian lawyer, politician, orator, novelist and dramatist. He is one of the most famous writers of the first generation of Brazilian Romanticism, writing historical, regionalist and Indianist romances — being the most famous The Guarani... , Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people... ian novelist
Amaral Amaral (crater) Amaral is a crater on the planet Mercury. With its smooth floor, surrounding ejecta, and small secondary craters, it appears noticeably younger than the heavily cratered surface around it. Along with a smooth crater floor, Amaral also has a central peak. Bright material on this peak is of...	26.4 S	242.3 W	106	Tarsila do Amaral Tarsila do Amaral Tarsila do Amaral, , known simply as Tarsila, is considered to be one of the leading Latin American modernist artists, described as "the Brazilian painter who best achieved Brazilian aspirations for nationalistic expression in a modern style." She was a member of the Grupo dos Cinco , which... , Brazilian artist
Amru Al-Qays	12.3 N	175.6 W	50	Imru Al-Qays Ibn Hujr, Arabic poet
Andal	47.7 S	37.7 W	108	Aandaal, Tamil Tamil people Tamil people , also called Tamils or Tamilians, are an ethnic group native to Tamil Nadu, India and the north-eastern region of Sri Lanka. Historic and post 15th century emigrant communities are also found across the world, notably Malaysia, Singapore, Mauritius, South Africa, Australia, Canada,...  writer
Apollodorus Apollodorus (crater) Apollodorus is an impact crater on Mercury. It is located near the center of Pantheon Fossae, which is a system of radial grabens situated in the inner part of the Caloris basin...	30.58 N	197.01 W	41	Apollodorus of Damascus Apollodorus of Damascus Apollodorus of Damascus was a Greek engineer, architect, designer and sculptor who flourished during the 2nd century AD, from Damascus, Roman Syria. He was a favourite of Trajan, for whom he constructed Trajan's Bridge over the Danube for the 105-106 campaign in Dacia. He also designed the Forum... , Ancient Greek Ancient Greek Ancient Greek is the stage of the Greek language in the periods spanning the times c. 9th–6th centuries BC, , c. 5th–4th centuries BC , and the c. 3rd century BC – 6th century AD of ancient Greece and the ancient world; being predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek...  architect
Aristoxenes Aristoxenes (crater) Aristoxenes is a crater at latitude 82, longitude 11 on Mercury. It is 65 km in diameter and was named after Aristoxenus....	82.0 N	11.4 W	69	Aristoxenus Aristoxenus Aristoxenus of Tarentum was a Greek Peripatetic philosopher, and a pupil of Aristotle. Most of his writings, which dealt with philosophy, ethics and music, have been lost, but one musical treatise, Elements of Harmony, survives incomplete, as well as some fragments concerning rhythm and... , Ancient Greek writer
Aśvaghosa Asvaghosa (crater) Aśvaghosa is an impact crater on Mercury, 90 kilometers in diameter. It is located at 10.4°, 21°W, south of the crater Abu Nuwas and southwest of the crater Molière. It is a nearly circular formation, and its rim remains intact, except where it is broken at its southern side, and at its northern...	10.4 N	21.0 W	90	Asvaghosa Asvaghosa ' was an Indian philosopher-poet, born in Saketa in northern India to a Brahmin family. He is believed to have been the first Sanskrit dramatist, and is considered the greatest Indian poet prior to Kālidāsa. He was the most famous in a group of Buddhist court writers, whose epics rivaled the... , Sanskrit Sanskrit Sanskrit , is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.Buddhism: besides Pali, see Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand... , poet
Atget Atget (crater) Atget crater is distinctive on Mercury's surface due to its dark color. Atget crater is located within Caloris basin, near Apollodorus crater and Pantheon Fossae. The dark color of the floor of Atget is in contrast to other craters within Caloris basin that exhibit bright materials on their floors,...	25.65 N	193.93 W	100	Eugène Atget Eugène Atget Eugène Atget was a French photographer noted for his photographs documenting the architecture and street scenes of Paris.... , French France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...  photographer

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Crater	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter (km)	Named after
Bach Bach (crater) Bach is a double-ringed impact basin centered in the Bach quadrangle of Mercury, which is named after this crater....	68.5 S	103.4 W	214	Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity... , German Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...  composer
Balagtas	22.6 S	13.7 W	98	Francisco Balagtas Francisco Balagtas Francisco Baltazar y dela Cruz , known much more widely through his nom-de-plume Francisco Balagtas, was a prominent Filipino poet, and is widely considered as the Tagalog equivalent of William Shakespeare for his impact on Filipino literature... , Filipino Filipino people The Filipino people or Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines ....  poet
Balzac	10.3 N	144.1 W	80	Honoré de Balzac Honoré de Balzac Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon.... , French writer
Bartok	41.3 S	162.8 W	128	Béla Bartók Béla Bartók Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer... , Hungarian Hungary Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...  composer
Barma	29.6 S	134.6 W	112	Postnik "Barma" Yakovlev Postnik Yakovlev Postnik Yakovlev , is most famous as the architect and builder of Saint Basil's Cathedral on Red Square in Moscow... , Russian architect
Basho Basho (crater) Basho is a crater on Mercury. Though Basho crater is only about in diameter, its bright rays make it an easily identified feature on Mercury's surface. In addition to the long bright rays, photographs from Mariner 10 showed an intriguing dark halo of material around the crater....	32.7 S	169.7 W	80	Matsuo Bashō Matsuo Basho , born , then , was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. During his lifetime, Bashō was recognized for his works in the collaborative haikai no renga form; today, after centuries of commentary, he is recognized as a master of brief and clear haiku... , Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... ese poet
Beckett Beckett (crater) Beckett is a pit-floored crater on Mercury, which was discovered in January 2008 during the first flyby of the planet by MESSENGER spacecraft. Its floor is not smooth and displays a telephone or arc-shaped collapse feature, which is also called a central pit. The size of the pit is...	40.1 S	248.8 W	57	Clarice Beckett Clarice Beckett Clarice Majoribanks Beckett was an Australian painter born in Casterton, Victoria. Her works are featured in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of South Australia.... , Australian painter
Beethoven Beethoven (crater) Beethoven is a crater at latitude –20, longitude 124 on Mercury. It is 643 km in diameter and was named after Ludwig van Beethoven. It is the eleventh largest named impact crater in the Solar System and the third largest on Mercury....	20.8 S	123.6 W	643	Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of... , German composer
Bek	21.1 N	50.3 W	30	Bek Bek (sculptor) Bek was chief royal sculptor during the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten. His father Men held the same position under Akhenaten's father Amenhotep III; his mother Roi was a woman from Heliopolis.... , Egyptian sculptor
Belinskij	76.0 S	103.4 W	70	Vissarion Belinsky Vissarion Belinsky Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky was a Russian literary critic of Westernizing tendency. He was an associate of Alexander Herzen, Mikhail Bakunin , and other critical intellectuals... , Russian literary critic
Bello	18.9 S	120.0 W	129	Andrés Bello Andrés Bello Andrés de Jesús María y José Bello López was a Venezuelan humanist, poet, lawmaker, philosopher, educator and philologist, whose political and literary works constitute an important part of Spanish American culture... , South America South America South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east... n writer
Benoit Benoit (crater) Benoit is a crater on Mercury. Its floor is quite unusual, with two mounds that have been suggested to be evidence of intrusive volcanic activity on Mercury....	7.6 N	256.2 W	43	Rigaud Benoit Rigaud Benoit Rigaud Benoit had become, well before his death, one of the three or four most highly prized Haitian artists.A native of Port-au-Prince, Benoit had been a shoemaker, musician, and taxi driver before making his living as a painter... , Haitian artist
Berkel Berkel (crater) Berkel is a crater on Mercury. The crater contains dark material in its center and in a ring immediately surrounding it. Moreover, Berkel is surrounded by a blanket of bright ejecta and a system of bright rays. Other craters on Mercury’s surface, such as Basho, also exhibit both bright rays and...	13.6 S	333.5 W	21	Sabri Berkel, Turkish painter
Bernini	79.2 S	136.5 W	146	Gianlorenzo Bernini, Italian Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and... , sculptor
Bjornson	73.1 N	109.2 W	88	Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson was a Norwegian writer and the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. Bjørnson is considered as one of The Four Greats Norwegian writers; the others being Henrik Ibsen, Jonas Lie, and Alexander Kielland... , Norwegian poet
Boccaccio	80.7 S	29.8 W	142	Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian author and poet, a friend, student, and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist and the author of a number of notable works including the Decameron, On Famous Women, and his poetry in the Italian vernacular... , Italian writer
Boethius Boethius (crater on Mercury) Boethius is a crater on Mercury....	0.9 S	73.3 W	129	Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius, commonly called Boethius was a philosopher of the early 6th century. He was born in Rome to an ancient and important family which included emperors Petronius Maximus and Olybrius and many consuls. His father, Flavius Manlius Boethius, was consul in 487 after... , Roman Roman Empire The Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....  philosopher
Botticelli	63.7 N	109.6 W	143	Sandro Botticelli Sandro Botticelli Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance... , Italian artist
Brahms	58.5 N	176.2 W	96	Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene... , German composer
Bramante	47.5 S	61.8 W	159	Donato Bramante Donato Bramante Donato Bramante was an Italian architect, who introduced the Early Renaissance style to Milan and the High Renaissance style to Rome, where his most famous design was St... , Italian architect
Bronte	38.7 N	125.9 W	60	The Brontë Brontë The Brontës were a nineteenth-century literary family associated with Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte , Emily , and Anne , are well-known as poets and novelists...  family, English writers and artists
Bruegel	49.8 N	107.5 W	75	Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter
Brunelleschi	9.1 S	22.2 W	134	Filippo Brunelleschi Filippo Brunelleschi Filippo Brunelleschi was one of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance. He is perhaps most famous for inventing linear perspective and designing the dome of the Florence Cathedral, but his accomplishments also included bronze artwork, architecture , mathematics,... , Italian architect
Burns	54.4 N	115.7 W	45	Robert Burns Robert Burns Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide... , Scottish poet
Byron	8.5 S	32.7 W	105	Lord Byron, English poet

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Crater	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter (km)	Named after
Callicrates	66.3 S	32.6 W	70	Kallicrates, Ancient Greek architect
Camoes	70.6 S	69.6 W	70	Luís de Camões Luís de Camões Luís Vaz de Camões is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare, Vondel, Homer, Virgil and Dante. He wrote a considerable amount of lyrical poetry and drama but is best remembered for his epic work Os Lusíadas... , Portuguese Portugal Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...  writer
Carducci	36.6 S	89.9 W	117	Giosuè Carducci Giosuè Carducci Giosuè Alessandro Michele Carducci was an Italian poet and teacher. He was very influential and was regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy. In 1906 he became the first Italian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.-Biography:... , Italian poet
Calvino Calvino (crater) Calvino is a crater on Mercury....	3.9 S	56.0 W	68	Italo Calvino Italo Calvino Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy , the Cosmicomics collection of short stories , and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a winter's night a traveler .Lionised in Britain and the United States,... , Italian writer
Cervantes	74.6 S	122.0 W	181	Miguel de Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus, Don Quixote, considered the first modern novel, is a classic of Western literature, and is regarded amongst the best works of fiction ever written... , Spanish writer
Cézanne	8.5 S	123.4 W	75	Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th... , French painter
Chaikovskij	7.4 N	50.4 W	165	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"... , Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects... n composer
Chao Meng-Fu Chao Meng-Fu (crater) Chao Meng-Fu is a 167 kilometer-diameter crater on Mercury named after the Chinese painter and calligrapher Zhao Mengfu . Due to its location near Mercury's south pole and the planet's small axial tilt, an estimated 40% of the crater lies in permanent shadow...	87.3 S	134.2 W	167	Zhao Mengfu Zhao Mengfu Zhao Mengfu courtesy name Ziang , pseudonyms Songxue , Oubo , and Shuijing-gong Dao-ren , was a prince and descendant of the Song Dynasty, and a Chinese scholar, painter and calligrapher during the Yuan Dynasty.He was recommended by the Censor-in-chief Cheng Jufu to pay an audience... , Chinese China Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...  artist
Chekov	36.2 S	61.5 W	199	Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics... , Russian writer
Chiang K'ui	13.8 N	102.7 W	35	Jiang Kui Jiang Kui Jiāng Kuí was a famous Chinese poet, composer and calligrapher of the Song Dynasty. He composed numerous poems, including the famous "He Bei Lai" and the more well known "San Wan Yue."... , Chinese poet
Chong Ch'ol	46.4 N	116.2 W	162	Jeong Cheol Jeong Cheol Jeong Cheol was a Korean statesman and poet. He used the pen-names Gyeham and Songgang, and studied under Kim Yunjae at Hwanbyeokdang.-Literary works:... , Korea Korea Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the... n poet
Chopin	65.1 S	123.1 W	129	Frédéric Chopin Frédéric Chopin Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano".... , Polish Poland Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...  composer
Chu Ta	2.2 N	105.1 W	110	Zhu Da Zhu Da Bada Shanren , born as Zhu Da , was a Chinese painter of shuimohua and a calligrapher. He was of noble lineage, being a descendant of the Ming dynasty prince Zhu Quan. Art historians have named him as a leading painter of the period.... , Chinese painter
Coleridge	55.9 S	66.7 W	110	Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla... , English poet
Copland Copland (crater) Copland is a crater on Mercury.Copland crater is flooded with volcanic smooth plains material that could be related to the activity that formed the nearby bright vent.- Naming :...	37.5 N	286.7 W	208	Aaron Copland Aaron Copland Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"... , American composer
Copley	38.4 S	85.2 W	30	John Singleton Copley John Singleton Copley John Singleton Copley was an American painter, born presumably in Boston, Massachusetts, and a son of Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Irish. He is famous for his portrait paintings of important figures in colonial New England, depicting in particular middle-class subjects... , American United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...  painter
Couperin	29.8 N	151.4 W	80	The Couperin Couperin The Couperin family were a musical dynasty of professional composers and performers. They were the most prolific family in French musical history, active during the Baroque era...  family of French musicians
Cunningham Cunningham (crater) Cunningham is a young crater on the floor of Caloris Basin, on Mercury. It is surrounded by a bright ray system....	30.48 N	203.07 W	37	Imogen Cunningham Imogen Cunningham Imogen Cunningham was an American photographer known for her photography of botanicals, nudes and industry.-Life and career:... , American photographer

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Crater	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter (km)	Named after
Dali	45.3 N	240.6 W	175	Salvador Dalí Salvador Dalí Salvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, Marquis de Púbol , commonly known as Salvador Dalí , was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres,Spain.... , Spanish painter
Dario	26.5 S	10.0 W	151	Rubén Darío Rubén Darío Félix Rubén García Sarmiento , known as Rubén Darío, was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo that flourished at the end of the 19th century... , Nicaragua Nicaragua Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean... n writer
de Graft De Graft (crater) De Graft is an impact crater on Mercury....	22.1 N	358.0 W	65	Joe de Graft, Ghanaian playwright
Debussy Debussy (crater) Debussy is a rayed impact crater on Mercury, which was discovered in 1969 by low resolution ground based radar observations obtained by the Goldstone Observatory. Later in 1990–2005 it was imaged in more detail by the Arecibo Observatory. The crater was initially known as the feature A...	33.9 S	347.5 W	85	Claude Debussy Claude Debussy Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions... , French composer
Degas Degas (crater) Degas is a rayed crater on Mercury at latitude 37.5, longitude 127. It is 45 km wide and was named after Edgar Degas. The rays consist of light colored material blasted out during the crater's formation. Craters older than Degas are covered by the ray material, while younger craters are seen...	37.4 N	126.4 W	60	Edgar Degas Edgar Degas Edgar Degas[p] , born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist... , French artist
Delacroix	44.7 S	129.0 W	146	Eugène Delacroix Eugène Delacroix Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school... , French artist
Derain Derain (crater) Derain is a crater on Mercury. It has uncommonly dark material within and surrounding the crater. The material is darker than the neighboring terrain such that this crater is easily identified even in a distant global image of Mercury. The dark halo may be material with a mineralogical composition...	8.7 S	340.3 W	190	André Derain André Derain André Derain was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse.-Early years:... , French artist
Derzhavin	44.9 N	35.3 W	159	Gavril Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet
Desprez	80.8 N	90.7 W	50	Josquin des Prez Josquin Des Prez Josquin des Prez [Josquin Lebloitte dit Desprez] , often referred to simply as Josquin, was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance... , Franco-Flemish composer
Dickens	72.9 S	153.3 W	78	Charles Dickens Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic... , English novelist
Dominici Dominici (crater) Dominici is a crater on Mercury. Dominici’s bright rays indicate that it is relatively young, and the young rays appear light blue in enhanced-color images. Dominici also has bright material on its floor and is surrounded by crater ejecta and material that appears orange in enhanced color...	1.4 N	36.5 W	20	Maria de Dominici, Maltese painter
Donne	2.8 N	13.8 W	88	John Donne John Donne John Donne 31 March 1631), English poet, satirist, lawyer, and priest, is now considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are notable for their strong and sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs,... , English poet
Dostoevskij	45.1 S	176.4 W	411	Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist
Dowland	53.5 S	179.5 W	100	John Dowland John Dowland John Dowland was an English Renaissance composer, singer, and lutenist. He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as "Come, heavy sleep" , "Come again", "Flow my tears", "I saw my Lady weepe" and "In darkness let me dwell", but his instrumental music has undergone a major revival, and has... , English composer
Durer	21.9 N	119.0 W	180	Albrecht Dürer Albrecht Dürer Albrecht Dürer was a German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever since... , German artist
Dvorak	9.6 S	11.9 W	82	Antonín Dvořák Antonín Dvorák Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many... , Czech Czech people Czechs, or Czech people are a western Slavic people of Central Europe, living predominantly in the Czech Republic. Small populations of Czechs also live in Slovakia, Austria, the United States, the United Kingdom, Chile, Argentina, Canada, Germany, Russia and other countries...  composer

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Crater	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter (km)	Named after
Eastman Eastman (crater) Eastman is a crater on Mercury first seen by MESSENGER during the mission's first Mercury flyby. Eastman exhibits some features characteristic of a fresh, relatively young crater. The walls of Eastman have clearly visible terraces, and the central peak structure is well preserved. Eastman is...	9.6 N	234.3 W	80	Charles Eastman Charles Eastman Charles Alexander Eastman was a Native American physician, writer, national lecturer, and reformer. He was of Santee Sioux and Anglo-American ancestry... , Sioux author
Eitoku	42.7 N	19.2 W	75	Kano Eitoku Kano Eitoku was a Japanese painter who lived during the Azuchi–Momoyama period of Japanese history and one of the most prominent patriarchs of the Kanō school of Japanese painting... , Japanese artist
Equiano	22.1 S	156.9 W	100	Olaudah Equiano Olaudah Equiano Olaudah Equiano also known as Gustavus Vassa, was a prominent African involved in the British movement towards the abolition of the slave trade. His autobiography depicted the horrors of slavery and helped influence British lawmakers to abolish the slave trade through the Slave Trade Act of 1807... , West Africa West Africa West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the UN definition of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries and an area of approximately 5 million square km:-Flags of West Africa:... n writer
Eminescu Eminescu (crater) Eminescu is a peak ring crater on Mercury in diameter. Since there are very few later craters superposed on it, Eminescu appears to be a young crater formed around one billion years ago...	10.79 N	245.87 W	125	Mihail Eminescu, Romania Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea... n poet
Enwonwu Enwonwu (crater) Enwonwu is a crater on the planet Mercury. It displays a central peak and a set of bright rays emanating from the crater rim. The rays cross the surrounding surface and neighboring craters, indicating that Enwonwu crater was formed comparatively recently in Mercury’s history...	9.9 S	238.4 W	38	Ben Enwonwu Ben Enwonwu Benedict Chuka Enwonwu , better known as Ben Enwonwu was an Igbo Nigerian painter and sculptor.-Early Life and Studies:Ben Enwonwu was born a twin on July 14, 1921 into the noble family of Umueze-Aroli in Onitsha, Nigeria. His father, Omenka Odigwe Emeka Enwonwu was a technician who worked with... , Nigerian painter
Equiano	40.2 S	30.7 W	99	Olaudah Equiano Olaudah Equiano Olaudah Equiano also known as Gustavus Vassa, was a prominent African involved in the British movement towards the abolition of the slave trade. His autobiography depicted the horrors of slavery and helped influence British lawmakers to abolish the slave trade through the Slave Trade Act of 1807... , Benin writer

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Crater	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter (km)	Named after
Fet	4.9 S	179.9 W	24	Afanasy Fet Afanasy Fet Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet , was a Russian poet regarded as one of the finest lyricists in Russian literature.-Origins:... , Russian poet
Firdousi	3.5 N	294.6 W	96	Hakim Ferdowsi Ferdowsi Ferdowsi was a highly revered Persian poet. He was the author of the Shahnameh, the national epic of Iran and related societies.The Shahnameh was originally composed by Ferdowsi for the princes of the Samanid dynasty, who were responsible for a revival of Persian cultural traditions after the... , Persian poet
Flaubert	13.7 S	72.2 W	95	Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert was a French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary , and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style.-Early life and education:Flaubert was born on December 12, 1821, in Rouen,... , French author
Futabatei	16.2 S	83.0 W	66	Futabatei Shimei Futabatei Shimei was a Japanese author, translator, and literary critic. Born Hasegawa Tatsunosuke in Edo , Futabatei's works are in the realist style popular in the mid- to late-19th century... , Japanese author

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Crater	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter (km)	Named after
Gainsborough	36.1 S	183.3 W	100	Thomas Gainsborough Thomas Gainsborough Thomas Gainsborough was an English portrait and landscape painter.-Suffolk:Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury, Suffolk. He was the youngest son of John Gainsborough, a weaver and maker of woolen goods. At the age of thirteen he impressed his father with his penciling skills so that he let... , English painter
Gauguin	66.3 N	96.3 W	72	Paul Gauguin Paul Gauguin Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist. He was an important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter, sculptor, print-maker, ceramist, and writer... , French artist
Geddes	27.3 N	29.7 W	80	Wilhelmina Geddes Wilhelmina Geddes Wilhelmina Geddes was an Irish stained glass artist. She had a workshop at the An Túr Gloine and was a member of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Important achievements included windows at St. Bartholomew’s in Ottawa, Canada.... , Irish stained glass artist
Ghiberti	48.4 S	80.2 W	123	Lorenzo Ghiberti Lorenzo Ghiberti Lorenzo Ghiberti , born Lorenzo di Bartolo, was an Italian artist of the early Renaissance best known for works in sculpture and metalworking.-Early life:... , Italian sculptor
Gibran Gibran (crater) Gibran is a crater on Mercury, which was discovered in January 2008 during the first flyby of the planet by MESSENGER spacecraft. It contains a large , nearly circular pit crater. Multiple examples of pit craters have been observed on Mercury on the floors of impact craters, leading to the name...	35.5 N	110.4 W	102	Khalil Gibran Khalil Gibran Khalil Gibran Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān,Jibrān Khalīl Jibrān, or Jibrān Xalīl Jibrān; Arabic , January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) also known as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer... , Lebanese American poet and artist
Giotto	12.0 N	55.8 W	150	Giotto di Bondone Giotto di Bondone Giotto di Bondone , better known simply as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages... , Italian painter
Glinka Glinka (crater) Glinka is a pit-floored crater on Mercury, which was discovered in 1974 by Mariner 10 spacecraft. Its floor is covered by the smooth plain material and displays a kidney-shaped collapse feature, which is also called a central pit. The size of the pit, which was first noticed in MESSENGER images...	14.8 N	111.7 W	86	Mikhail Glinka Mikhail Glinka Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka , was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country, and is often regarded as the father of Russian classical music... , Russian composer
Gluck	37.3 N	18.1 W	105	Christoph Willibald Gluck Christoph Willibald Gluck Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck was an opera composer of the early classical period. After many years at the Habsburg court at Vienna, Gluck brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices that many intellectuals had been campaigning for over the years... , Austria Austria Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the... n composer
Goethe	78.5 N	44.5 W	383	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath. He is considered the supreme genius of modern German literature. His works span the fields of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, and science. His Faust has been called the greatest long... , German writer
Gogol	28.1 S	146.4 W	87	Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist.Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism... , Russian playwright
Goya	7.2 S	152.0 W	135	Francisco Goya Francisco Goya Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown, and through his works was both a commentator on and chronicler of his era... , Spanish artist
Grieg	51.1 N	14.0 W	65	Edvard Grieg Edvard Grieg Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces.-Biography:Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in... , Norwegian composer
Guido d'Arezzo	38.7 S	18.3 W	66	Guido of Arezzo Guido of Arezzo Guido of Arezzo or Guido Aretinus or Guido da Arezzo or Guido Monaco or Guido d'Arezzo was a music theorist of the Medieval era... , Italian music theorist

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Crater	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter (km)	Named after
Hals	54.8 S	115.0 W	100	Frans Hals Frans Hals Frans Hals was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He is notable for his loose painterly brushwork, and helped introduce this lively style of painting into Dutch art. Hals was also instrumental in the evolution of 17th century group portraiture.-Biography:Hals was born in 1580 or 1581, in Antwerp... , Dutch painter
Han Kan	71.6 S	143.8 W	50	Han Gan Han Gan Han Gan was a Tang Dynasty painter.He came from a poor family in either Chang'an, modern day Xi'an, Shaanxi; Lantian, modern day Shaanxi; or Daliang, modern day Kaifeng, Henan. As a young man, Han Gan was recognized by Wang Wei, a prominent poet, who sponsored Han in learning arts... , Chinese painter
Handel	3.4 N	33.8 W	166	George Frideric Handel George Frideric Handel George Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music... , German composer
Harunobu	15.0 N	140.7 W	110	Suzuki Harunobu Suzuki Harunobu was a Japanese woodblock print artist, one of the most famous in the Ukiyo-e style. He was an innovator, the first to produce full-color prints in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu used many special techniques, and depicted a wide variety of... , Japanese artist
Hauptmann	23.7 S	179.9 W	120	Gerhart Hauptmann Gerhart Hauptmann Gerhart Hauptmann was a German dramatist and novelist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.-Life and work:... , German playwright
Hawthorne	51.3 S	115.1 W	107	Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer.Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors include John Hathorne, a judge during the Salem Witch Trials... , American novelist
Haydn	27.3 S	71.6 W	270	Joseph Haydn Joseph Haydn Franz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms... , Austrian composer
Heine	32.6 N	124.1 W	75	Heinrich Heine Heinrich Heine Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was one of the most significant German poets of the 19th century. He was also a journalist, essayist, and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder by composers such as Robert Schumann... , German poet
Hemingway Hemingway (crater) Hemingway is a crater on Mercury. It has a patch of very dark material located near its center. The dark color is likely due to rocks that have a different mineralogical composition from that of the surrounding surface....	17.5 N	2.9 W	130	Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the... , American writer
Hesiod	58.5 S	35.0 W	107	Hesiod Hesiod Hesiod was a Greek oral poet generally thought by scholars to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer. His is the first European poetry in which the poet regards himself as a topic, an individual with a distinctive role to play. Ancient authors credited him and... , Ancient Greek poet
Hiroshige Hiroshige (crater) Hiroshige is a crater on Mercury located at 13 S, 27 W. It is 140 km in diameter and was named after Ando Hiroshige....	13.4 S	26.7 W	138	Ando Hiroshige, Japanese artist
Hitomaro	16.2 S	15.8 W	107	Kakinomoto no Hitomaro Kakinomoto no Hitomaro Kakinomoto no Hitomaro was a Japanese poet and aristocrat of the late Asuka period. He was the most prominent of the poets included in the Man'yōshū, and was particularly represented in volumes 1 and 2. In Japan, he is considered one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals... , Japanese poet
Hodgkins	29.2 N	341.9 W	20	Frances Hodgkins Frances Hodgkins Frances Mary Hodgkins was a painter chiefly of landscape and still life, and for a short period was a designer of textiles. She was born in New Zealand, but spent most of her working life in Britain... , New Zealand painter
Hokusai Hokusai (crater) Hokusai is a rayed impact crater on Mercury, which was discovered in 1991 by ground based radar observations conducted in the Goldstone Observatory. The crater was initially known as the feature B. Its appearance was so dissimilar to other impact craters that it once was thought to be a shield...	58.3 N	342.3 W	95	Katsushika Hokusai Hokusai was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. He was influenced by such painters as Sesshu, and other styles of Chinese painting... , Japanese painter
Holbein	35.6 N	28.9 W	113	Hans Holbein the Younger Hans Holbein the Younger Hans Holbein the Younger was a German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style. He is best known as one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. He also produced religious art, satire and Reformation propaganda, and made a significant contribution to the history... , German artist
Holberg	67.0 S	61.1 W	61	Ludvig Holberg Ludvig Holberg Ludvig Holberg, Baron of Holberg was a writer, essayist, philosopher, historian and playwright born in Bergen, Norway, during the time of the Dano-Norwegian double monarchy, who spent most of his adult life in Denmark. He was influenced by Humanism, the Enlightenment and the Baroque... , Danish Denmark Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...  writer
Homer Homer (crater) Homer is a crater on Mercury.Deposits of material in and around this crater suggest the possibility of explosive volcanic eruptions at some point in the planet's history.The naming of a Moon crater Homer at 24.3S, 133.6E was not approved by the IAU....	1.2 S	36.2 W	314	Homer Homer In the Western classical tradition Homer , is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.When he lived is... , Ancient Greek poet
Horace	68.9 S	52.0 W	58	Horace Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus , known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.-Life:... , Roman poet
Hovnatanian Hovnatanian (crater) Hovnatanian is a crater on Mercury. Its “butterfly” pattern of ejecta rays were created by an impact at an even lower angle than that which formed neighboring Qi Baishi crater. From the "butterfly" pattern of rays, the Hovnatanian impactor was travelling either north-to-south or south-to-north...	7.6 S	187.5 W	34	Hakop Hovnatanian, Armenian painter
Hugo	38.9 N	47.0 W	198	Victor Hugo Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo was a Frenchpoet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France.... , French writer
Hun Kal Hun Kal (crater) Hun Kal is a small crater on Mercury that serves as the reference point for the planet's system of longitude. The longitude of Hun Kal's center is defined as being 20° W, thus establishing the planet's prime meridian....	0.5 S	20.0 W	1.5	'20' in the language of the Maya Mayan languages The Mayan languages form a language family spoken in Mesoamerica and northern Central America. Mayan languages are spoken by at least 6 million indigenous Maya, primarily in Guatemala, Mexico, Belize and Honduras...  (serves as Mercury's a meridian reference point)

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Crater	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter (km)	Named after
Ibsen Ibsen (crater) Ibsen is a crater on Mercury. It is located near the antipode of Caloris Basin....	24.1 S	35.6 W	159	Henrik Ibsen Henrik Ibsen Henrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre... , Norwegian Norway Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...  playwright
lctinus	79.1 S	165.2 W	119	Iktinos Iktinos Ictinus was an architect active in the mid 5th century BC. Ancient sources identify Ictinus and Callicrates as co-architects of the Parthenon.... , Ancient Greek architect
Imhotep	18.1 S	37.3 W	159	Imhotep Imhotep Imhotep , fl. 27th century BC was an Egyptian polymath, who served under the Third Dynasty king Djoser as chancellor to the pharaoh and high priest of the sun god Ra at Heliopolis... , Ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh... ian architect
Ives	32.9 S	111.4 W	20	Charles Ives Charles Ives Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives came to be regarded as an "American Original"... , American composer
Izquierdo Izquierdo (crater) Izquierdo is a crater on Mercury located to the east of Beagle Rupes and Sveinsdóttir crater. The floor of Izquierdo is smooth, the result of having been partially filled with volcanic lava. Circular outlines of the rims of “ghost craters” – smaller, older craters that have been largely buried by...	1.6 S	253.1 W	170	María Izquierdo María Izquierdo María Izquierdo was a Mexican painter. She was born in San Juan de los Lagos in the state of Jalisco; her birth name was María Cenobia Izquierdo Gutiérrez. Her father died when she was five years old and she lived with grandparents afterward in small towns of Aguascalientes, Torreón, and Saltillo... , Mexican painter

J

Crater	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter (km)	Named after
Janáček	56.0 N	153.8 W	47	Leoš Janáček Leoš Janácek Leoš Janáček was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and all Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style. Until 1895 he devoted himself mainly to folkloristic research and his early musical output was influenced by... , Czech composer
Jokai	72.4 N	135.3 W	106	Mór Jókai Mór Jókai Mór Jókai , born Móric Jókay de Ásva , outside Hungary also known as Maurus Jokai, was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist.-Early life:... , Hungarian writer
Judah Ha-Levi	10.9 N	107.7 W	80	Yehuda Halevi Yehuda Halevi Judah Halevi was a Spanish Jewish physician, poet and philosopher. He was born in Spain, either in Toledo or Tudela, in 1075 or 1086, and died shortly after arriving in Palestine in 1141... , Spanish-Jewish Spanish and Portuguese Jews Spanish and Portuguese Jews are a distinctive sub-group of Sephardim who have their main ethnic origins within the Jewish communities of the Iberian peninsula and who shaped communities mainly in Western Europe and the Americas from the late 16th century on...  writer

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Crater	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter (km)	Named after
Kalidasa	18.1 S	179.2 W	107	Kālidāsa Kalidasa Kālidāsa was a renowned Classical Sanskrit writer, widely regarded as the greatest poet and dramatist in the Sanskrit language... , Sanskrit writer
Keats	69.9 S	154.5 W	115	John Keats John Keats John Keats was an English Romantic poet. Along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, he was one of the key figures in the second generation of the Romantic movement, despite the fact that his work had been in publication for only four years before his death.Although his poems were not... , English poet
Kenko	21.5 S	16.1 W	99	Yoshida Kenkō Yoshida Kenko was a Japanese author and Buddhist monk. His most famous work is "Tsurezuregusa" , one of the most studied works of medieval Japanese literature. Kenko wrote during the Muromachi and Kamakura periods.-Life and work:... , Japanese writer
Kertész Kertész (crater) Located in the western edge of Mercury's giant Caloris basin, Kertész crater has some unusual, bright material located on its floor. Sander crater, located in the northwestern edge of Caloris basin, also shows bright material on its floor...	27.44 N	214.06 W	33	André Kertész André Kertész André Kertész , born Kertész Andor, was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and the photo essay. In the early years of his career, his then-unorthodox camera angles and style prevented his work from gaining wider recognition... , Hungarian photographer
Khansa	59.7 S	51.9 W	111	Al-Khansa Al-Khansa Tumāḍir bint ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥarth ibn al-Sharīd al-Sulamīyah , usually simply referred to as al-Khansā’ was a 7th century Arabic poet. She was born and raised in the Najd region... , Arabic poet
Kipling	19.4 S	288.0 W	151	Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature... , English author
Kōshō	60.1 N	138.2 W	65	Kōshō, Japanese sculptor
Kuan Han-ch'ing	29.4 N	52.4 W	151	Guan Hanqing Guan Hanqing Guan Hanqing , sobriquet "the Oldman of the Studio" , was a notable Chinese playwright and poet in the Yuan Dynasty.-Biography:... , Chinese playwright
Kuiper Kuiper (crater on Mercury) Kuiper is a moderate-size crater with a central peak cluster located at 11 S, 31.5 W on Mercury. It is 60 km in diameter and was named after Gerard Kuiper. Kuiper crater has the highest recorded albedo of any region on the planet's surface, suggesting that it is one of the youngest craters.Kuiper...	11.3 S	31.1 W	62	Gerard Kuiper Gerard Kuiper Gerard Peter Kuiper , Netherlands – December 24, 1973, Mexico City) was a Dutch-American astronomer after whom the Kuiper belt was named.-Early life:... , American astronomer
Kunisada	1.8 N	247.6 W	280	Utagawa Kunisada, Japanese woodblock printmaker
Kurosawa	53.4 S	21.8 W	159	Kinko Kurosawa Kinko Kurosawa Kinko Kurosawa was an 18th century Komuso of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism. He was commissioned to travel Japan and collect honkyoku, spiritual shakuhachi music pieces of his fellow mendicant monks.... , Japanese musician

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Crater	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter (km)	Named after
Lange Lange (crater) Lange is a crater on Mercury. It appears to have been flooded by lava, with only faint traces remaining of a buried inner ring....	6.4 N	260.0 W	180	Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration... , American photographer
Leopardi	73.0 S	180.1 W	72	Giacomo Leopardi Giacomo Leopardi Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi was an Italian poet, essayist, philosopher, and philologist... , Italian writer
Lermontov Lermontov (crater) Lermontov is an impact crater on the planet Mercury, 152 kilometers in diameter. It is located at 15.2°N, 48.1°W, southwest of the crater Proust and northeast of the crater Giotto. It has a circular rim and a flat crater floor. Lermontov is likely a mature crater, but it remains a bright feature...	15.2 N	48.1 W	152	Mikhail Lermontov Mikhail Lermontov Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov , a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", became the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837. Lermontov is considered the supreme poet of Russian literature alongside Pushkin and the greatest... , Russian writer
Lessing	28.7 S	89.7 W	100	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature... , German dramatist
Li Ch'ing-Chao	77.1 S	73.1 W	61	Li Qingzhao Li Qingzhao Li Qingzhao was a Chinese writer and poet of the Song Dynasty, regarded by many as the premier female poet in the Chinese language.-Biography:She was born Li Qingzhao (Traditional Chinese: 李清照; Simplified Chinese: 李清照, pinyin: Lǐ Qīngzhào; Wade-Giles: Li Ch'ing-chao, pseudonym Yi'an Jushi (易安居士... , Chinese writer
Li Po	16.9 N	35.0 W	120	Li Bai Li Bai Li Bai , also known in the West by various other transliterations, especially Li Po, was a major Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty poetry period. He has been regarded as one of the greatest poets in China's Tang period, which is often called China's "golden age" of poetry. Around a thousand existing... , Chinese poet
Liang K'ai	40.3 S	182.8 W	140	Liang Kai Liang Kai Liáng Kǎi was a Chinese artist, also known as Madman Liang. He was born in Shandong and worked in Lin An... , Chinese artist
Liszt	16.1 S	168.1 W	85	Franz Liszt Franz Liszt Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age... , Hungarian pianist
Lu Hsun	0	23.4 W	98	Lu Xun Lu Xun Lu Xun or Lu Hsün , was the pen name of Zhou Shuren , one of the major Chinese writers of the 20th century. Considered by many to be the leading figure of modern Chinese literature, he wrote in baihua as well as classical Chinese... , Chinese writer
Lysippus	0.8 N	132.5 W	140	Lysippos Lysippos Lysippos was a Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC. Together with Scopas and Praxiteles, he is considered one of the three greatest sculptors of the Classical Greek era, bringing transition into the Hellenistic period. Problems confront the study of Lysippos because of the difficulty of... , Ancient Greek sculptor

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Crater	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter (km)	Named after
Ma Chih-Yuan	60.4 S	78.0 W	179	Ma Zhiyuan Ma Zhiyuan Ma Zhiyuan , courtesy name Dongli , was a Chinese poet and celebrated playwright, a native of Dadu during the Yuan Dynasty.Among his achievements is the development and popularizing of the new sanqu lyric form of poetry... , Chinese writer
Machaut	1.9 S	82.1 W	106	Guillaume de Machaut Guillaume de Machaut Guillaume de Machaut was a Medieval French poet and composer. He is one of the earliest composers on whom significant biographical information is available.... , French poet and composer
Mahler	20.0 S	18.7 W	103	Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic... , Bohemian composer
Mansart	73.2 N	118.7 W	95	Jules Hardouin Mansart Jules Hardouin Mansart Jules Hardouin-Mansart was a French architect whose work is generally considered to be the apex of French Baroque architecture, representing the power and grandeur of Louis XIV... , French architect
Mansur	47.8 N	162.6 W	100	Ustad Mansur Ustad Mansur Ustad Mansur was a seventeenth century Mughal painter and court artist of Jehangir who specialised in depicting plants and animals.-Life and works:... , Mughal Mughal painting Mughal painting is a particular style of South Asian painting, generally confined to miniatures either as book illustrations or as single works to be kept in albums, which emerged from Persian miniature painting, with Indian Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist influences, and developed largely in the court...  artist
March	31.1 N	175.5 W	70	Ausias March Ausiàs March Ausiàs March was a Valencian poet who was born in Gandia towards the end of the 14th century. He was the son of Pere March, nephew of Jaume March II, and cousin of Arnau March.... , Catalan Catalan language Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...  poet
Mark Twain	11.2 S	137.9 W	149	Mark Twain Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist... , American novelist
Marti	75.6 S	164.6 W	68	José Martí José Martí José Julián Martí Pérez was a Cuban national hero and an important figure in Latin American literature. In his short life he was a poet, an essayist, a journalist, a revolutionary philosopher, a translator, a professor, a publisher, and a political theorist. He was also a part of the Cuban... , Cuba Cuba The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city... n writer
Martial	69.1 N	177.1 W	51	Martial Martial Marcus Valerius Martialis , was a Latin poet from Hispania best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan... , Roman poet
Matabei Matabei (crater) Matabei is an impact crater on Mercury. It has a set of dark rays. Dark rays are rare on Mercury, but other occurrences have been identified, such as at Mozart crater . Mozart crater is interpreted to have excavated dark material from depth during the impact event, creating dark streamers...	39.7 S	13.9 W	24	Iwasa Matabei Iwasa Matabei was a Japanese artist who specialized in genre scenes of historical events and illustrations of classical Chinese and Japanese literature, as well as portraits. He was the son of Araki Murashige, a prominent daimyo of the Sengoku period. Matabei's work was noted for its distinctive figures, with... , Japanese painter
Matisse Matisse (crater) Matisse is an impact crater on the Southern hemisphere of Mercury. Matisse takes its name from the French artist Henri Matisse....	24.0 S	89.8 W	210	Henri Matisse Henri Matisse Henri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter... , French painter
Melville	21.5 N	10.1 W	154	Herman Melville Herman Melville Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and the posthumous novella Billy Budd.... , American novelist
Mena	0.2 S	124.4 W	52	Juan de Mena Juan de Mena Juan de Mena was one of the most significant Spanish poets of the fifteenth century. He was highly regarded at the court of Juan II de Castilla, who appointed him veinticuatro of Córdoba, secretario de cartas latinas and cronista real... , Spanish poet
Mendes Pinto	61.3 S	17.8 W	214	Fernão Mendes Pinto Fernão Mendes Pinto Fernão Mendes Pinto was a Portuguese explorer and writer. His exploits are known through the posthumous publication of his memoir Pilgrimage in 1614, an autobiographical work whose truthfulness is nearly impossible to assess... , Portuguese writer
Michelangelo Michelangelo (crater) Michelangelo is a 216 km diameter impact basin in the Michelangelo quadrangle of Mercury, which is named after this crater. The crater itself is named after the artist Michelangelo. It is located at 45.0°S, 109.1°W.-External links:...	45.0 S	109.1 W	216	Michelangelo Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art... , Italian artist
Mickiewicz	23.6 N	103.1 W	100	Adam Mickiewicz Adam Mickiewicz Adam Bernard Mickiewicz ) was a Polish poet, publisher and political writer of the Romantic period. One of the primary representatives of the Polish Romanticism era, a national poet of Poland, he is seen as one of Poland's Three Bards and the greatest poet in all of Polish literature... , Polish writer
Milton	26.2 S	174.8 W	186	John Milton John Milton John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, a scholarly man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell... , English poet
Mistral	4.5 N	54.0 W	110	Gabriela Mistral Gabriela Mistral Gabriela Mistral was the pseudonym of Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1945... , Chile Chile Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far... an poet
Mofolo	37.7 S	28.2 W	114	Thomas Mofolo Thomas Mofolo Thomas Mokopu Mofolo is considered to be the greatest Basotho author. He wrote mostly in the Sesotho language, but his most popular book, Chaka, has been translated into English and other languages.... , Lesotho Lesotho Lesotho , officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country and enclave, surrounded by the Republic of South Africa. It is just over in size with a population of approximately 2,067,000. Its capital and largest city is Maseru. Lesotho is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. The name...  writer
Molière Molière (crater) Molière is an impact crater on the planet Mercury, 132 kilometers in diameter. It is located at 15.6°N, 16.9°W, south of the crater Rodin, southeast of the crater Abu Nuwas, and northeast of the crater Asvaghosa. The nearly circular rim of the crater is cut off into a flat edge on its southern and...	15.6 N	16.9 W	132	Molière Molière Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature... , French playwright
Monet	44.4 N	10.3 W	303	Claude Monet Claude Monet Claude Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. . Retrieved 6 January 2007... , French artist
Monteverdi	63.8 N	77.3 W	138	Claudio Monteverdi Claudio Monteverdi Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, gambist, and singer.Monteverdi's work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the transition from the Renaissance style of music to that of the Baroque period. He developed two individual styles of composition – the... , Italian composer
Moody Moody (crater) Moody is an impact crater on Mercury.Moody features a central peak or peak-ring structure and an annulus of dark material on its outer floor. The area inward of the dark ring appears reddish in enhanced color WAC images, indicating the presence of material different in composition from that of...	13.1 S	215.4 W	80	Ronald Moody Ronald Moody Ronald Moody was a Jamaican born sculptor, specialising in wood carvings.Moody was born Ronald Clive Moody in 1900 in Kingston, Jamaica into a well-off professional family, moving to London in 1923 to study dentistry at King's College London. In London, he was inspired by the British Museum's... , Jamaican painter
Mozart Mozart (crater) Mozart is a crater on Mercury. The arc of dark hills visible on the crater's floor probably represents remnants of a central peak ring. A close inspection of the area around Mozart crater shows many long chains of secondary craters, formed by impact of material thrown out during the formation of...	8.0 N	190.5 W	270	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music... , Austrian composer
Munch Munch (crater) Munch crater is a crater on Mercury....	40.6 N	207.3 W	54	Edvard Munch Edvard Munch Edvard Munch was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionist art. His best-known composition, The Scream, is part of a series The Frieze of Life, in which Munch explored the themes of love, fear, death, melancholia, and anxiety.- Childhood :Edvard Munch... , Norwegian painter
Munkácsy Munkácsy (crater) Munkácsy is a crater on Mercury. Munkácsy originally had a double-ring basin structure, but most of the inner ring was buried when the basin was flooded with volcanic lava. Only a few remnants of the ring poke up through the lava, although low ridges in the lava seem to trace out much of the rest...	21.9 N	259.1 W	180	Mihály Munkácsy Mihály Munkácsy Mihály Munkácsy was a Hungarian painter, who lived in Paris and earned international reputation with his genre pictures and large scale biblical paintings.-Early Years of Munkácsy:... , Hungarian painter
Murasaki Murasaki (crater) Murasaki is a crater on Mercury located at 12 S, 31 W. It is 125 km in diameter and named after Murasaki Shikibu. The bright crater Kuiper overlays the rim of Muraski....	12.6 S	30.2 W	130	Murasaki Shikibu Murasaki Shikibu Murasaki Shikibu was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court during the Heian period. She is best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, written in Japanese between about 1000 and 1012... , Japanese writer
Mussorgskij	32.8 N	96.5 W	125	Modest Mussorgsky Modest Mussorgsky Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period... , Russian composer
Myron	70.9 N	79.3 W	31	Myron Myron Myron of Eleutherae working circa 480-440 BC, was an Athenian sculptor from the mid-5th century BC. He was born in Eleutherae on the borders of Boeotia and Attica. According to Pliny's Natural History, Ageladas of Argos was his teacher.... , Ancient Greek sculptor

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Crater	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter (km)	Named after
Nampeyo	40.6 S	50.1 W	52	Nampeyo Nampeyo Iris Nampeyo was a Hopi potter who lived on the Hopi Reservation in present-day Arizona. She received the English name Iris as an infant, but was better known by her Tewa name, Num-pa-yu, meaning "snake that does not bite".... , Hopi Hopi The Hopi are a federally recognized tribe of indigenous Native American people, who primarily live on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona. The Hopi area according to the 2000 census has a population of 6,946 people. Their Hopi language is one of the 30 of the Uto-Aztecan language...  potter
Navoi Navoi (crater) Navoi is a crater on Mercury. It contains uncommon reddish material that indicates a different rock composition from its surroundings. Navoi also appears to have an irregularly shaped depression in its center. Such depressions have been seen elsewhere on Mercury, including within Praxiteles crater,...	59.0 N	200.0 W	66	Ali-Shir Nava'i, Uzbek poet
Nawahi Nawahi (crater) Nawahi is a crater on Mercury. Nawahi crater is located within the large Caloris impact basin. The unusual dark material creating a halo around Nawahi makes this crater of special interest, as the dark material likely represents rocks with a different chemical and mineralogical composition than...	36.1 N	214.9 W	34	Joseph Nawahi Joseph Nawahi Joseph Nāwahī also known as Joseph Kahooluhi Nāwahī and as Joseph Kahooluhi Nāwahīokalaniōpuu was a native Hawaiian legislator, lawyer, newspaper publisher, and painter.-Life:... , Hawaiian painter
Neruda	52.47 S	234.55 W	110	Pablo Neruda Pablo Neruda Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet, diplomat and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose his pen name after Czech poet Jan Neruda.... , Chilean poet
Nervo	43.0 N	179.0 W	63	Amado Nervo Amado Nervo Amado Nervo also known as Juan Crisóstomo Ruiz de Nervo was the Mexican Ambassador to Argentina and Uruguay, journalist, poet, and educator. His poetry was known for its use of metaphor and reference to mysticism, presenting both love and religion, as well as Christianity and Hinduism... , Mexican Mexico The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...  poet
Neumann	37.3 S	34.5 W	120	Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect
Nizami	71.5 N	165.0 W	76	Nizami, Persian poet

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Crater	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter (km)	Named after
Okyo	69.1 S	75.8 W	65	Maruyama Ōkyo Maruyama Okyo , born Maruyama Masataka, was a Japanese artist active in the late 18th century. He moved to Kyoto, during which he studied artworks from Chinese, Japanese and Western sources. A personal style of Western naturalism mixed with Eastern decorative design emerged, and Ōkyo founded the Maruyama school... , Japanese painter
Oskison Oskison (crater) The crater Oskison is located in the far northern hemisphere of Mercury, in the plains north of Caloris basin. Oskison is a distinctive crater with a large central peak that exposes material excavated from depth. Many chains of secondary craters are visible radiating from Oskison outward onto the...	60.6 N	215.3 W	120	John Milton Oskison, Cherokee author
Ovid	69.5 S	22.5 W	44	Ovid Ovid Publius Ovidius Naso , known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria... , Roman poet

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Crater	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter (km)	Named after
Petrarch Petrarch (crater) Petrarch is a crater on Mercury at latitude -30, longitude 26.5. It is ~170 km in diameter. This crater is located within the distorted terrain on the opposite side of the planet from the Caloris Basin. It is named after Petrarch, the medieval Italian poet....	30.6 S	26.2 W	171	Petrarch Petrarch Francesco Petrarca , known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar, poet and one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch is often called the "Father of Humanism"... , Italian poet
Phidias	8.7 N	149.3 W	160	Phidias Phidias Phidias or the great Pheidias , was a Greek sculptor, painter and architect, who lived in the 5th century BC, and is commonly regarded as one of the greatest of all sculptors of Classical Greece: Phidias' Statue of Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World... , Ancient Greek artist and architect
Philoxenus	8.7 S	111.5 W	90	Philoxenus of Cythera Philoxenus of Cythera Philoxenus of Cythera was a Greek dithyrambic poet, an exponent of the "new music."On the conquest of the island by the Athenians he was taken as a slave to Athens, where he came into the possession of the dithyrambic poet Melanippides, who educated him and set him free... , Ancient Greek poet
Picasso Picasso (crater) Picasso is a crater on Mercury. It has drawn scientific attention because of the large, arc-shaped pit crater located on the eastern side of its floor. Similar pits have been discovered on the floors of several other Mercury craters, such as Beckett and Gibran...	3.3 N	309.9 W	133	Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the... , Spanish painter
Pigalle	38.5 S	9.5 W	154	Jean-Baptiste Pigalle Jean-Baptiste Pigalle Jean-Baptiste Pigalle was a French sculptor.He was born in Paris, the seventh child of a carpenter. Although he failed to obtain the Grand Prix, after a severe struggle he entered the Académie Royale and became one of the most popular sculptors of his day.His earlier work, such as Child with Cage ... , French sculptor
Po Chu-I	7.2 S	165.1 W	68	Bai Juyi, Chinese poet
Po Ya	46.2 S	20.2 W	103	Bo Ya Bo Ya Bo Ya was a qin player from the Spring and Autumn Period or the Warring States period. He was known by his first name of "Boya", although his surname may have been Yu , thus his complete name is sometimes given as Yu Boya . The Lute Platform in Hanyang, Wuhan, China was where musician Yu Boya is... , Chinese musician
Poe Poe (crater) Poe crater is a crater on Mercury....	44.0 N	201.2 W	75	Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective... , American poet
Polygnotus Polygnotus (crater) Polygnotus is a crater on Mercury.This basin has a central peak ring and is embayed with smooth plains material, which is very different in texture from the surrounding terrain....	0.3 S	68.4 W	133	Polygnotus Polygnotus Polygnotus was an ancient Greek painter from the middle of the 5th century BC, son and pupil of Aglaophon. He was a native of Thasos, but was adopted by the Athenians, and admitted to their citizenship.... , Ancient Greek painter
Praxiteles Praxiteles (crater) Praxiteles is a crater on Mercury.MESSENGER's high-resolution images obtained during the mission's second Mercury flyby have revealed a number of irregularly shaped depressions on the floor of Praxiteles crater, making it a pit-floor crater...	27.3 N	59.2 W	182	Praxiteles Praxiteles Praxiteles of Athens, the son of Cephisodotus the Elder, was the most renowned of the Attic sculptors of the 4th century BC. He was the first to sculpt the nude female form in a life-size statue... , Ancient Greek sculptor
Proust	19.7 N	46.7 W	157	Marcel Proust Marcel Proust Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental À la recherche du temps perdu... , French novelist
Puccini	65.3 S	46.8 W	70	Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire... , Italian composer
Purcell	81.3 N	146.8 W	91	Henry Purcell Henry Purcell Henry Purcell – 21 November 1695), was an English organist and Baroque composer of secular and sacred music. Although Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, his legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music... , English composer
Pushkin	66.3 S	22.4 W	231	Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet

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Crater	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter (km)	Named after
Qi Baishi Qi Baishi (crater) Qi Baishi is a crater on Mercury. It has an asymmetric pattern of ejecta rays, which formed by an object travelling to the east or to the west and impacting Mercury's surface at a very low incidence angle. However, Qi Baishi crater is still roughly circular, which is in contrast to the elongated...	4.2 S	196.0 W	15	Qi Baishi Qi Baishi Qi Baishi was an influential Chinese painter.Born to a peasant family from Xiangtan, Hunan, Qi became a carpenter at 14, and learned to paint by himself. After he turned 40, he traveled, visiting various scenic spots in China... , Chinese painter

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Crater	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter (km)	Named after
Rabelais	61.0 S	62.4 W	141	François Rabelais François Rabelais François Rabelais was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes and songs... , French writer
Rachmaninoff Rachmaninoff (crater) Rachmaninoff is a peak-ring impact crater on Mercury. This basin, first imaged in its entirety during MESSENGER's third Mercury flyby, was quickly identified as a feature of high scientific interest, because of its fresh appearance, its distinctively colored interior plains, and the extensional...	27.6 N	302.4 W	290	Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music... , Russian composer
Raden Saleh Raden Saleh (crater) Raden Saleh is a crater on Mercury....	2.2 N	201.3 W	25	Raden Saleh Raden Saleh Raden Saleh Sjarif Boestaman is one of the best known painters from Indonesia and a pioneer of modern Indonesian art.... , Javanese painter
Raditladi	27.28 N	240.93 W	257	Leetile Disang Raditladi Leetile Disang Raditladi Leetile Disang Raditladi was a Botswanan playwright and poet. He was born in Serowe and got his education in Tiger Kloof, Lovedale and Fort Hare University. He was banished from the Bangwato Reserve in 1937 after Tshekedi Khama, the Bangwato regent accused Raditladi of adultery with his wife and... , Botswana Botswana Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana , is a landlocked country located in Southern Africa. The citizens are referred to as "Batswana" . Formerly the British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Botswana adopted its new name after becoming independent within the Commonwealth on 30 September 1966... n writer
Rajnis	4.5 N	95.8 W	82	Rainis Rainis Rainis was the pseudonym of Jānis Pliekšāns was a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician. Rainis' works include the classic plays Uguns un nakts and Indulis un Ārija , and a highly regarded translation of Goethe's Faust... , Latvia Latvia Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden... n writer
Rameau Rameau (crater) Rameau is a crater on Mercury at latitude -54, longitude 38. It is 50 km in diameter. It was named after Jean Philippe Rameau....	54.9 S	37.5 W	51	Jean Philippe Rameau, French composer
Raphael Raphael (crater) Raphael is a crater on Mercury. Unlike other Mercurian craters of similar size, Raphael is not multi-ringed....	19.9 S	75.9 W	343	Raphael Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino , better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur... , Italian artist
Ravel	12.0 S	38.0 W	75	Maurice Ravel Maurice Ravel Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects... , French composer
Rembrandt Rembrandt (crater) Rembrandt is a large impact crater on Mercury. With a diameter of 715 km it is the second-largest impact basin on the planet, after Caloris, and is one of the larger craters in the Solar System. It was discovered by MESSENGER during its second flyby of Mercury on October 6, 2008. The crater is...	33.2 S	271.8 W	720	Rembrandt, Dutch artist
Renoir	18.6 S	51.5 W	246	Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to... , French artist
Repin	19.2 S	63.0 W	107	Ilya Yefimovich Repin Ilya Yefimovich Repin Ilya Yefimovich Repin |realist]]ic works often expressed great psychological depth and exposed the tensions within the existing social order. Beginning in the late 1920s, detailed works on him were published in the Soviet Union, where a Repin cult developed about a decade later... , Russian artist
Riemenschneider	52.8 S	99.6 W	145	Tilman Riemenschneider Tilman Riemenschneider Tilman Riemenschneider was a German sculptor and woodcarver active in Würzburg from 1483. He was one of the most prolific and versatile sculptors of the transition period between late Gothic and Renaissance, a master in stone and limewood.- Biography :Tilman Riemenschneider was born between 1459... , German sculptor
Rilke	45.2 S	12.3 W	86	Rainer Maria Rilke Rainer Maria Rilke René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke , better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian–Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most significant poets in the German language... , German poet
Rimbaud	62.0 S	148.0 W	85	Arthur Rimbaud Arthur Rimbaud Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet. Born in Charleville, Ardennes, he produced his best known works while still in his late teens—Victor Hugo described him at the time as "an infant Shakespeare"—and he gave up creative writing altogether before the age of 21. As part of the decadent... , French poet
Rodin Rodin (crater) Rodin is an impact crater on the planet Mercury, 229 kilometers in diameter. It is located at 21.1°N, 18.2°W, north of the craters Abu Nuwas and Moliere, and east of the crater Ts'ai Wen-chi. Inside Rodin are two craterlets, one to the east of the center and one to the north. The rim is even and...	21.1 N	18.2 W	229	Auguste Rodin Auguste Rodin François-Auguste-René Rodin , known as Auguste Rodin , was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past... , French sculptor
Rubens	59.8 N	74.1 W	175	Peter Paul Rubens, French artist
Rublev	15.1 S	156.8 W	132	Andrei Rublev Andrei Rublev Andrei Rublev is considered to be the greatest medieval Russian painter of Orthodox icons and frescoes.-Biography:... , Russian icon painter
Rudaki Rudaki (crater) Rudaki is a crater on Mercury. On the floor of Rudaki and also in a broad region surrounding it to the west are smooth plains, which are far less cratered than the neighboring terrain...	4.0 S	51.1 W	120	Rudaki Rudaki Abu Abdollah Jafar ibn Mohammad Rudaki , also written as Rudagi , was a Persian poet, and is regarded as the first great literary genius of the Modern Persian, who composed poems in the "New Persian" alphabet. Rudaki is considered as a founder of Persian classical literature.He was born in 858 in... , Persian poet
Rude	32.8 S	79.6 W	75	François Rude François Rude François Rude was a French sculptor. He was the stepfather of Paul Cabet, a sculptor.Born in Dijon, he worked at his father's trade as a stovemaker till the age of sixteen, but received training in drawing from François Devosges, where he learned that a strong, simple contour was an invaluable... , French sculptor
Rumi	24.1 S	104.7 W	75	Mawlana Rumi, Persian poet

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Crater	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter (km)	Named after
Sadi	78.6 S	56.0 W	68	Saadi Saadi (poet) Abū-Muḥammad Muṣliḥ al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī better known by his pen-name as Saʿdī or, simply, Saadi, was one of the major Persian poets of the medieval period. He is not only famous in Persian-speaking countries, but he has also been quoted in western sources... , Persian poet
Saikaku	72.9 N	176.3 W	88	Ihara Saikaku Ihara Saikaku was a Japanese poet and creator of the "floating world" genre of Japanese prose .-Biography:Born the son of the wealthy merchant Hirayama Tōgo in Osaka, he first studied haikai poetry under Matsunaga Teitoku, and later studied under Nishiyama Sōin of the Danrin School of poetry, which emphasized... , Japanese poet
Sander Sander (crater) Sander is a crater on Mercury, within Caloris Basin. It has dark walls and bright patches on its floor. Unlike the rays of Basho crater, the bright areas are not believed to be immature but are inherently bright. It is named after the German photographer August Sander ....	42.59 N	205.6 W	50	August Sander August Sander August Sander was a German portrait and documentary photographer. Sander's first book Face of our Time was published in 1929... , German photographer
Sarmiento	29.8 S	187.7 W	145	Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was an Argentine activist, intellectual, writer, statesman and the seventh President of Argentina. His writing spanned a wide range of genres and topics, from journalism to autobiography, to political philosophy and history... , Argentinian writer
Sayat-Nova	28.4 S	122.1 W	158	Sayat-Nova Sayat-Nova Sayat-Nova Sayat-Nova Sayat-Nova (born as Harutyun Sayatyan , was an Armenian poet, musician and ashik who had compositions in a number of languages. His adopted name Sayat Nova meant "Master of Songs" in Persian.- Biography :... , Armenia Armenia Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia... n poet
Scarlatti Scarlatti (crater) Scarlatti is a pit-floored crater on Mercury, which was discovered in 1974 by Mariner 10 spacecraft. It has a prominent peak ring, which floor is covered by the smooth plain material. The crater displays an arcuate collapse feature along the peak ring. The size of the pit, which was first noticed...	40.5 N	100.0 W	129	Domenico Scarlatti Domenico Scarlatti Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style... , Alessandro Scarlatti Alessandro Scarlatti Alessandro Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. He was the father of two other composers, Domenico Scarlatti and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti.-Life:Scarlatti was born in... , Italian composers
Schoenberg	16.0 S	135.7 W	29	Arnold Schoenberg Arnold Schoenberg Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School... , Austrian composer
Schubert Schubert (crater on Mercury) Schubert is a crater on Mercury. It is named after Franz Schubert, a famous Austrian composer....	43.4 S	54.3 W	185	Franz Schubert Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music... , Austrian composer
Scopas	81.1 S	172.9 W	105	Scopas Scopas Scopas or Skopas was an Ancient Greek sculptor and architect, born on the island of Paros. Scopas worked with Praxiteles, and he sculpted parts of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, especially the reliefs. He led the building of the new temple of Athena Alea at Tegea... , Ancient Greek sculptor and architect
Sei	64.3 S	89.1 W	113	Sei Shōnagon Sei Shonagon Sei Shōnagon , was a Japanese author and a court lady who served the Empress Teishi around the year 1000 during the middle Heian period. She is best known as the author of The Pillow Book .-Name:... , Japanese writer
Shakespeare Shakespeare (crater) Shakespeare is a 370 km diameter impact basin in the Shakespeare quadrangle of Mercury, which is named after this crater. It is located at 49.7°N, 150.9°W and is named after playwright William Shakespeare.-External links:...	49.7 N	150.9 W	370	William Shakespeare William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"... , English writer
Shelley	47.8 S	127.8 W	164	Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron... , English poet
Sher-Gil	45.1 S	225.5 W	73	Amrita Sher-Gil Amrita Sher-Gil Amrita Sher-Gil , was an eminent Indian painter, sometimes known as India's Frida Kahlo, and today considered an important woman painter of 20th century India, whose legacy stands at par with that of the Masters of Bengal Renaissance; she is also the 'most expensive' woman painter of India.-Early... , Indian painter
Shevchenko	53.8 S	46.5 W	137	Taras Shevchenko Taras Shevchenko Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko -Life:Born into a serf family of Hryhoriy Ivanovych Shevchenko and Kateryna Yakymivna Shevchenko in the village of Moryntsi, of Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire Shevchenko was orphaned at the age of eleven... , Ukrainian Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...  poet
Sholem Aleichem Sholem Aleichem (crater) Sholem Aleichem is a crater on Mercury, named after the Yiddish writer. The plains deposits filling the crater's interior have been deformed by linear ridges....	50.4 N	87.7 W	200	Sholom Aleichem Sholom Aleichem Sholem Aleichem was the pen name of Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, a leading Yiddish author and playwright... , Yiddish writer
Sibelius	49.6 S	144.7 W	90	Jean Sibelius Jean Sibelius Jean Sibelius was a Finnish composer of the later Romantic period whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity. His mastery of the orchestra has been described as "prodigious."... , Finnish composer
Simonides	29.1 S	45.0 W	95	Simonides of Ceos Simonides of Ceos Simonides of Ceos was a Greek lyric poet, born at Ioulis on Kea. The scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria included him in the canonical list of nine lyric poets, along with Bacchylides and Pindar... , Greek poet
Sinan Sinan (crater) Sinan is an impact crater on the planet Mercury, 147 kilometers in diameter. It is located at 15.5°N, 29.8°W, northeast of the crater Yeats and southeast of the crater Li Po. It has one craterlet on the south-southwestern side of the crater floor, and it has a symmetrical pit slightly west of the...	15.5 N	29.8 W	147	Mimar Sinan, Ottoman Ottoman Empire The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...  architect
Smetana	48.5 S	70.2 W	190	Bedřich Smetana Bedrich Smetana Bedřich Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style which became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood. He is thus widely regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music... , Czech composer
Snorri	9.0 S	82.9 W	19	Snorri Sturluson Snorri Sturluson Snorri Sturluson was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician. He was twice elected lawspeaker at the Icelandic parliament, the Althing... , Iceland Iceland Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population... ic poet
Sophocles	7.0 S	145.7 W	150	Sophocles Sophocles Sophocles is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than or contemporary with those of Euripides... , Ancient Greek dramatist
Sor Juana	49.0 N	23.9 W	93	Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, Mexican writer
Sōseki	38.9 N	37.7 W	90	Natsume Sōseki Natsume Soseki , born ', is widely considered to be the foremost Japanese novelist of the Meiji period . He is best known for his novels Kokoro, Botchan, I Am a Cat and his unfinished work Light and Darkness. He was also a scholar of British literature and composer of haiku, Chinese-style poetry, and fairy tales... , Japanese novelist
Sotatsu	49.1 S	18.1 W	165	Tawaraya Sōtatsu Tawaraya Sotatsu was a Japanese artist and also the co-founder of the Rimpa school of Japanese painting. Sōtatsu began to work as a fan-painter in Kyoto. Later, he rose to work for the court as a producer of fine decorated papers for calligraphy. He was highly influenced by Kyoto’s courtly culture... , Japanese artist
Spitteler	68.6 S	61.8 W	68	Carl Spitteler Carl Spitteler Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler was a Swiss poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919. His work includes both pessimistic and heroic poems.... , Swiss Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....  poet
Steichen	13.14 S	282.73 W	159	Edward Steichen Edward Steichen Edward J. Steichen was an American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator. He was the most frequently featured photographer in Alfred Stieglitz' groundbreaking magazine Camera Work during its run from 1903 to 1917. Steichen also contributed the logo design and a custom typeface... , American photographer
Stravinsky Stravinsky (crater) Stravinsky is a crater on Mercury. It overlays the rim of the much older Vyasa crater....	50.5 N	73.5 W	190	Igor Stravinsky Igor Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor.... , Russian composer
Strindberg	53.7 N	135.3 W	190	August Strindberg August Strindberg Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography,... , Swedish writer
Sullivan Sullivan (crater on Mercury) Sullivan is a crater on Mercury....	16.9 S	86.3 W	145	Louis Sullivan Louis Sullivan Louis Henri Sullivan was an American architect, and has been called the "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism" He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper, was an influential architect and critic of the Chicago School, was a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an... , American architect
Sur Das	47.1 S	93.3 W	132	Surdas Surdas Surdas, the 15th century sightless saint, poet and musician, is known for his devotional songs dedicated to Lord Krishna. Surdas is said to have written and composed a hundred thousand songs in his magnum opus the 'Sur Sagar' , out of which only about 8,000 are extant... , Hindu Hindu Hindu refers to an identity associated with the philosophical, religious and cultural systems that are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. As used in the Constitution of India, the word "Hindu" is also attributed to all persons professing any Indian religion... , poet
Surikov	37.1 S	124.6 W	120	Vasily Surikov Vasily Surikov Vasily Ivanovich Surikov was the foremost Russian painter of large-scale historical subjects... , Russian artist
Sveinsdóttir Sveinsdóttir (crater) Sveinsdóttir is a large impact crater on Mercury. Its dimensions are .Sveinsdóttir crater superimposed by Beagle Rupes is a distinctive feature on Mercury's landscape. Unusually elliptical in shape, the crater was produced by the impact of an object that hit Mercury's surface obliquely...	2.58 S	259.96 W	220	Júlíana Sveinsdóttir Júlíana Sveinsdóttir Júlíana Sveinsdóttir was one of Iceland's first woman painters and textile artists. Taught initially by prominent Icelandic artist Þórarinn B... , Icelandic artist

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Crater	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter (km)	Named after
Takanobu	30.8 N	108.2 W	80	Fujiwara Takanobu Fujiwara Takanobu Fujiwara Takanobu was one of the leading Japanese portrait artists of his day.Takanobu was born in Kyoto, and was the half-brother of Fujiwara Sadaie, one of Japan’s greatest poets. Takanobu specialized in nise-e portraits, except instead of painting on small-size paper Takanobu painted on... , Japanese poet
Takayoshi	37.5 S	163.1 W	139	Takayoshi, Japanese painter
Tansen	3.9 N	70.9 W	34	Tansen Tansen Mia Tansen is considered among the greatest composer-musicians in Hindustani classical music. He was an extraordinarily gifted vocalist, known for a large number of compositions, and also an instrumentalist who popularized and improved the rabab .He was among the Navaratnas at the court of the... , Hindustani composer
Thakur	-2.5	64	115	Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature... , India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world... n writer
Theophanes	3.0 S	63.5 W	118	Theophanes the Greek Theophanes the Greek Theophanes the Greek was a Byzantine Greek artist and one of the greatest icon painters, or iconographers, of Muscovite Russia, and was noted as the teacher and mentor of the great Andrei Rublev.-Life and work:Theophanes was born in the capital of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople... , icon painter
Thoreau	5.9 N	132.3 W	80	Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist... , American poet
Tintoretto	48.1 S	22.9 W	92	Tintoretto Tintoretto Tintoretto , real name Jacopo Comin, was a Venetian painter and a notable exponent of the Renaissance school. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed Il Furioso... , Italian artist
Titian Titian (crater) Titian is a crater on Mercury.In an enhanced color image, the smooth floor of Titian is a brighter orange color than the surrounding area, likely due to being filled with volcanic material. Ejecta from Titian appear blue and cover much of the surface surrounding the crater. This material was...	3.6 S	42.1 W	121	Titian Titian Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 – 27 August 1576 better known as Titian was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near... , Italian artist
To Ngoc Van To Ngoc Van (crater) To Ngoc Van is a pit-floored crater on Mercury, which was discovered in January 2008 during the first flyby of the planet by MESSENGER spacecraft. Its floor displays an irregularly shaped collapse feature, which is called a central pit. The size of the pit is . Such a feature may have resulted from...	52.3 N	110.7 W	63	To Ngoc Van, Vietnamese painter
Tolstoj Tolstoj (crater) Tolstoj is a large, ancient impact crater at latitude −15, longitude 165 on Mercury. It was named after Leo Tolstoy. The albedo feature Solitudo Maiae appears to be associated with this crater....	16.3 S	163.5 W	390	Leo Tolstoy Leo Tolstoy Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist... , Russian writer
Ts'ai Wen-chi	22.8 N	22.2 W	119	Cai Wenji Cai Wenji Cai Wenji , also known as Cai Yan, was a Han Dynasty poet and composer. She was the daughter of Cai Yong, also a musician. Her style name was originally Zhaoji, but it was changed to Wenji during the Jin Dynasty to avoid a naming conflict with Sima Zhao.She spent part of her life as a prisoner of... , Chinese poet and composer
Ts'ao Chan	13.4 S	142.0 W	110	Cao Xueqin Cao Xueqin Cao Xueqin was a Qing Dynasty Chinese writer, best known as the author of Dream of the Red Chamber, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature... , Chinese novelist
Tsurayuki	63.0 S	21.3 W	87	Tsurayuki Kino, Japanese writer
Tung Yuan	73.6 N	55.0 W	64	Dong Yuan Dong Yuan Dong Yuan was a Chinese painter.He was born in Zhongling . Dong Yuan was active in the Southern Tang Kingdom of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period... , Chinese artist
Turgenev	65.7 N	135.0 W	116	Ivan Turgenev Ivan Turgenev Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches, is a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century... , Russian writer
Tyagaraja	3.7 N	148.4 W	105	Tyāgarāja Tyagaraja Kakarla Tyagabrahmam , colloquially known as Tyāgarājar and Tyagayya was one of the greatest composers of Carnatic music or classical South Indian music. He, along with his contemporaries Muthuswami Dikshitar and Shyama Shastry, forms the Trinity of Carnatic music... , Indian composer

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Crater	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter (km)	Named after
Unkei	31.9 S	62.7 W	123	Unkei Unkei Unkei was a Japanese sculptor of the Kei school, which flourished in the Kamakura period. He specialized in statues of the Buddha and other important Buddhist figures. Unkei's early works are fairly traditional, similar in style to pieces by his father, Kōkei... , Japanese sculptor
Ustad Isa	32.1 S	165.3 W	136	Ustad Isa Ustad Isa Isa Muhammad Effendi, Ustad Isa ) was a Turkish architect from Istanbul he and his colleague Ismail Effendi entered the service of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan after the Ottoman Sultan Murad IV and the Mughals exchanged ambassadors... , architect

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Crater	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter (km)	Named after
Valmiki	23.5 S	141.0 W	221	Valmiki Valmiki Valmiki is celebrated as the poet harbinger in Sanskrit literature. He is the author of the epic Ramayana, based on the attribution in the text of the epic itself. He is revered as the Adi Kavi, which means First Poet, for he discovered the first śloka i.e... , Indian poet
Van Dijck	76.7 N	163.8 W	105	Anthony van Dyck Anthony van Dyck Sir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England. He is most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for the next... , Flemish artist
Van Eyck	43.2 N	158.8 W	282	Jan van Eyck Jan van Eyck Jan van Eyck was a Flemish painter active in Bruges and considered one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century.... , Flemish artist
Van Gogh	76.5 S	134.9 W	104	Vincent van Gogh Vincent van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh , and used Brabant dialect in his writing; it is therefore likely that he himself pronounced his name with a Brabant accent: , with a voiced V and palatalized G and gh. In France, where much of his work was produced, it is... , Dutch artist
Velázquez	37.5 N	53.7 W	129	Diego Velázquez Diego Velázquez Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was a Spanish painter who was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary Baroque period, important as a portrait artist... , Spanish artist
Verdi Verdi (crater) Verdi is a relatively young crater on Mercury. Its extensive ejecta blanket and secondary crater field are superposed on plains materials and older craters....	64.7 N	168.6 W	163	Giuseppe Verdi Giuseppe Verdi Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century... , Italian composer
Vincente	56.8 S	142.4 W	98	Gil Vicente Gil Vicente Gil Vicente , called the Trobadour, was a Portuguese playwright and poet who acted in and directed his own plays. Considered the chief dramatist of Portugal he is sometimes called the "Portuguese Plautus,"[3] often referred to as the "Father of Portuguese drama" and as one of Western literature's... , Portuguese writer
Vivaldi Vivaldi (crater) Vivaldi is a crater at 14.5°N, 86°W on Mercury. It is 210 km in diameter and was named after Antonio Vivaldi. It has a prominent and nearly continuous inner ring whose diameter measures about half that of the outer ring. Unlike some of the lunar multiringed structures, no vestiges of additional...	13.7 N	85.0 W	213	Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe... , Italian composer
Vlaminck	28.0 N	12.7 W	97	Maurice de Vlaminck Maurice de Vlaminck Maurice de Vlaminck was a French painter. Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse he is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904 to 1908 were united in their use of intense color.-Life:Maurice de Vlaminck was born in Paris to a family... , French painter
Vyasa Vyasa (crater) Vyasa is a crater on Mercury. It is an ancient crater, overlain two much younger craters – Stravinsky and Sholem Aleichem....	48.3 N	81.1 W	290	Vyasa Vyasa Vyasa is a central and revered figure in most Hindu traditions. He is also sometimes called Veda Vyasa , or Krishna Dvaipayana... , Indian poet

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Crater	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter (km)	Named after
Wagner	67.4 S	114.0 W	140	Richard Wagner Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas... , German composer
Wang Meng	8.8 N	103.8 W	165	Wang Meng Wang Meng (artist) Wang Meng was a Chinese painter during the Yuan Dynasty. He was born in Huzhou , now known as Wuxing , Zhejiang.... , Chinese artist
Wergeland	38.0 S	56.5 W	42	Henrik Wergeland Henrik Wergeland Henrik Arnold Thaulow Wergeland was a Norwegian writer, most celebrated for his poetry but also a prolific playwright, polemicist, historian, and linguist... , Norwegian writer
Whitman	41.4 N	110.4 W	70	Walt Whitman Walt Whitman Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse... , American poet
Wren	24.3 N	35.2 W	221	Christopher Wren Christopher Wren Sir Christopher Wren FRS is one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history.He used to be accorded responsibility for rebuilding 51 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including his masterpiece, St. Paul's Cathedral, on Ludgate Hill, completed in 1710... , English architect

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Crater	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter (km)	Named after
Xiao Zhao Xiao Zhao (crater) Xiao Zhao crater is small in comparison with many other craters on Mercury. However, Xiao Zhao's long bright rays make it a readily visible feature. The fresh, bright rays, which were created by material ejected outward during the impact event that formed the crater, indicate that Xiao Zhao is a...	10.64 N	236.21 W	23	Xiao Zhao, Chinese artist

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Crater	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter (km)	Named after
Yeats Yeats (crater) Yeats is an impact crater on the planet Mercury, 100 kilometers in diameter. It is located at 9.2°N, 34.6°W, south of the crater Li Po and southwest of the crater Sinan. Its rim is circular and intact, except where an indentation is made by a craterlet on the north side. It is bordered by a...	9.2 N	34.6 W	100	William Butler Yeats William Butler Yeats William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms... , Irish poet
Yun Son-Do	72.5 S	109.4 W	68	Yun Sondo, Korean poet

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Crater	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter (km)	Named after
Zeami	3.1 S	147.2 W	120	Zeami Motokiyo Zeami Motokiyo Zeami Motokiyo , also called Kanze Motokiyo , was a Japanese aesthetician, actor and playwright.-Acting:... , Japanese playwright
Zola Zola (crater) Zola is a crater on Mercury at latitude 50.5, longitude 178. It is 60km in diameter....	50.1 N	177.3 W	80	Emile Zola Émile Zola Émile François Zola was a French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism... , French novelist

External links

• USGS: Mercury nomenclature
• USGS: Mercury Nomenclature: Craters
• Atlas of Mercury