List of craters on Venus
Encyclopedia
This is a list of named craters on Venus
Venus
Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty. After the Moon, it is the brightest natural object in the night sky, reaching an apparent magnitude of −4.6, bright enough to cast shadows...

. All cytherean
Cytherean
Cytherean is an adjective meaning pertaining to Cythera , a small island now part of Greece, southeast of the Peloponnesus. It is also an adjective meaning pertaining to the planet Venus.When planetary scientists began to have a need to discuss Venus in detail, an adjective was needed...

 craters are named after famous women or female first names.

Direction of Increasing Longitude: east

A

Name Latitude Longitude Diameter (km) Named after
Abigail  -52.2 111.2 18.4 Hebrew first name
Abika  -52.5 104.4 14.5 Mari
Mari language
The Mari language , spoken by more than 600,000 people, belongs to the Uralic language family. It is spoken primarily in the Mari Republic of the Russian Federation as well as in the area along the Vyatka river basin and eastwards to the Urals...

 first name
Abington  -47.8 277.7 21.7 Frances Abington
Frances Abington
Frances "Fanny" Abington was a British Actress.-Biography:She was born Frances Barton, the daughter of a private soldier, and began her career as a flower girl and a street singer. As a servant to a French milliner, she learned about costume and acquired a knowledge of French which afterwards...

, British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 actress
Abra  6.2 97.4 7.2 Ewe
Ewe language
Ewe is a Niger–Congo language spoken in Ghana, Togo and Benin by approximately six million people. Ewe is part of a cluster of related languages commonly called Gbe, spoken in southeastern Ghana, Togo, and parts of Benin. Other Gbe languages include Fon, Gen, Phla Phera, and Aja...

 first name
Adaiah  -47.3 253.4 18 Hebrew first name
Adamson  -14.8 29.6 27.2 Joy Adamson
Joy Adamson
Joy Adamson was a naturalist, artist, and author best known for her book, Born Free, which describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa...

, 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 naturalist
Addams
Addams (crater)
Addams is a crater on Venus. It was named after Jane Addams....

 
-56.2 98.9 87 Jane Addams
Jane Addams
Jane Addams was a pioneer settlement worker, founder of Hull House in Chicago, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in woman suffrage and world peace...

, American social reformer
Adivar
Adivar (crater)
Adivar is an impact crater on Venus, named in honor of writer Halide Edip Adıvar. The crater is located just north of the western Aphrodite highland . Surrounding the crater rim is ejected material which appears bright in the radar image due to the presence of rough fractured rock...

 
8.9 76.2 30.3 Halide Edip Adivar
Halide Edip Adivar
Halide Edip Adıvar or Halide Edib Adivar was a Turkish novelist and feminist political leader...

, Turkish
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 author
Adzoba  12.8 117 10 Ewe
Ewe language
Ewe is a Niger–Congo language spoken in Ghana, Togo and Benin by approximately six million people. Ewe is part of a cluster of related languages commonly called Gbe, spoken in southeastern Ghana, Togo, and parts of Benin. Other Gbe languages include Fon, Gen, Phla Phera, and Aja...

 first name
Aethelflaed  -18.2 196.6 20 Ethelfleda
Ethelfleda
Æthelflæd , was the eldest daughter of King Alfred the Great of Wessex and Ealhswith, wife of Æthelred, ealdorman of Mercia, and after his death, ruler of Mercia...

, Mercia
Mercia
Mercia was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy. It was centred on the valley of the River Trent and its tributaries in the region now known as the English Midlands...

n queen
Afiba  -47.1 102.7 9.5 Ewe
Ewe language
Ewe is a Niger–Congo language spoken in Ghana, Togo and Benin by approximately six million people. Ewe is part of a cluster of related languages commonly called Gbe, spoken in southeastern Ghana, Togo, and parts of Benin. Other Gbe languages include Fon, Gen, Phla Phera, and Aja...

 first name
Afiruwa  4.3 3.8 5.2 Hausa
Hausa language
Hausa is the Chadic language with the largest number of speakers, spoken as a first language by about 25 million people, and as a second language by about 18 million more, an approximate total of 43 million people...

 first name
Aftenia  50 324 7 Moldavia
Moldavia
Moldavia is a geographic and historical region and former principality in Eastern Europe, corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester river...

n first name
Afua  15.5 124 10 Akan
Akan languages
The Central Tano or Akan languages are languages of the Kwa language family spoken in Ghana and Ivory Coast by the Akan people*Akan language *Bia**North Bia***Anyin***Baoulé***Chakosi ***Sefwi **South Bia***Nzema...

 first name
Aglaonice  -26.4 339.9 63.7 Aglaonice, Ancient Greek
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece is a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity. Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era. Included in Ancient Greece is the...

 astronomer
Agnesi  -39.4 37.7 42.4 Maria Agnesi, 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...

 mathematician
Agoe  13.1 4.3 6.3 Ewe
Ewe language
Ewe is a Niger–Congo language spoken in Ghana, Togo and Benin by approximately six million people. Ewe is part of a cluster of related languages commonly called Gbe, spoken in southeastern Ghana, Togo, and parts of Benin. Other Gbe languages include Fon, Gen, Phla Phera, and Aja...

 first name
Agrippina  -33.2 65.7 38.6 Agrippina the Elder
Agrippina the elder
Vipsania Agrippina or most commonly known as Agrippina Major or Agrippina the Elder was a distinguished and prominent granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus. Agrippina was the wife of the general, statesman Germanicus and a relative to the first Roman Emperors...

, 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....

 empress
Ahava  53.6 187.3 10.4 Hebrew first name
Aigul  38.2 280.4 6 Kalmyk
Kalmyk people
Kalmyk people is the name given to the Oirats, western Mongols in Russia, whose descendants migrated from Dzhungaria in 1607. Today they form a majority in the autonomous Republic of Kalmykia on the western shore of the Caspian Sea. Kalmykia is Europe's only Buddhist government...

ia first name
Ailar  -15.8 68.4 8.2 Turkish
Turkish language
Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...

 first name
Aimee  16.1 127.2 17 French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 first name
Aisha  39.3 53.3 10.6 Arabic first name
Aita  8.9 270.7 14 Estonia
Estonia
Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

n first name
Akeley  8 244.5 23.4 Delia Akeley
Delia Akeley
Delia Julia Akeley , commonly known by her nickname, Mickie, was an American explorer. She was born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, a daughter of Patrick and Margaret Denning, Irish immigrants....

, American explorer
Akhmatova  61.3 307.9 41.4 Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova
Anna Andreyevna Gorenko , better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova , was a Russian and Soviet modernist poet, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Russian canon.Harrington p11...

, 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 poet
Akiko  30.6 187.3 17.4 Yosano Akiko
Yosano Akiko
was the pen-name of a Japanese author, poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist, and social reformer, active in the late Meiji period as well as the Taishō and early Showa periods of Japan. Her name at birth was Otori Shô. She is one of the most famous, and most controversial, post-classical woman poets...

, 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
Akosua  -58.6 18.1 6.2 Akan
Akan languages
The Central Tano or Akan languages are languages of the Kwa language family spoken in Ghana and Ivory Coast by the Akan people*Akan language *Bia**North Bia***Anyin***Baoulé***Chakosi ***Sefwi **South Bia***Nzema...

 first name
Aksentyeva  -42 271.9 42.5 Zinaida Aksentyeva, 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 astronomer
Akuba  9.6 23 5.5 Ewe
Ewe language
Ewe is a Niger–Congo language spoken in Ghana, Togo and Benin by approximately six million people. Ewe is part of a cluster of related languages commonly called Gbe, spoken in southeastern Ghana, Togo, and parts of Benin. Other Gbe languages include Fon, Gen, Phla Phera, and Aja...

 first name
Al-Taymuriyya  32.9 336.1 19 Ayesha Al-Taymuriyya
Ayesha Al-Taymuriyya
Aisha 'Esmat al-Taymuriyya was an Egyptian author and feminist. She is commemorated by having one of the newly discovered craters on the planet Venus named after her.al-Taymuriyya was the daughter of Isma'il Taymur, a Turkish official....

, Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

ian author
Alcott
Alcott (crater)
Alcott is an impact crater on Venus....

 
-59.5 354.4 66 Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. Little Women was set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts, and published in 1868...

, American author
Alima  -46 229.2 10.3 Arabic first name
Alimat  -29.5 205.9 13.5 Osset
Ossetia
Ossetia Ossetic: Ир, Ирыстон Ir, Iryston; Russian: Осетия, Osetiya; Georgian: ოსეთი, Oset'i) is an ethnolinguistic region located on both sides of the Greater Caucasus Mountains, largely inhabited by the Ossetians. The Ossetian language is part of the Eastern Iranian branch of the Indo-European...

 first name
Alina  8.3 267.78 3.7 Short form of French first name Adeline/Adelaide
Alison  -4 165.6 14.4 Irish
Irish language
Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...

 first name
Alma  -2.4 228.8 16.8 Kazakh
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

 first name
Almeida  46.6 123.3 15.5 Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

 first name
Altana  1.4 69.9 6 Kalmyk
Kalmykia
The Republic of Kalmykia is a federal subject of Russia . Population: It is the only Buddhist region in Europe. It has also become well-known as an international chess mecca because its former President, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, is the head of the International Chess Federation .-Geography:*Area:...

 first name
Amalasuntha  -11.5 342.4 15.4 Amalasuntha
Amalasuntha
Amalasuntha was a queen of the Ostrogoths from 526 to 534....

, Ostrogoth queen
Amanda  -29.2 94.5 12.5 Latin
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...

 first name
Amaya  11.3 89.4 34.5 Carmen Amaya
Carmen Amaya
Carmen Amaya was a flamenco dancer and singer, of gypsy origin, born in the Somorrostro slum of Barcelona, Spain, nowadays....

, Spanish
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

 dancer
Amelia  8.57 280.45 3.3 Latin first name
Amenardes  15 54.3 27.9 Amenardes, Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

ian princess
Aminata  6.6 25.2 9.7 Mandinka
Mandinka language
The Mandinka language is a Mandé language spoken by millions of Mandinka people in Mali, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea-Bissau and Chad; it is the main language of The Gambia. It belongs to the Manding branch of Mandé, and is thus fairly...

 first name
Anaxandra  44.2 162.3 20.4 Anaxandra
Anaxandra
Anaxandra was an ancient Greek female artist and painter from Sicyon, Greece. She was the daughter and student of Nealkes, a painter of mythological and genre scenes. She is mentioned by Clement of Alexandria, the 2nd century AD Christian theologian, in a section of his Stromateis entitled "Women...

, Ancient Greek
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece is a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity. Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era. Included in Ancient Greece is the...

 artist
Andami  -17.5 26.5 28.9 Azar Andami, Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

ian physician and researcher
Andreianova  -3 68.8 66.1 Elena Andreianova, 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 ballerina
Anicia  -26.3 31.3 38.2 Anicia, Ancient Greek
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece is a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity. Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era. Included in Ancient Greece is the...

 physician and poet
Annia Faustina  22.1 4.7 23.4 Faustina the Younger
Faustina the Younger
Annia Galeria Faustina Minor , Faustina Minor or Faustina the Younger was a daughter of Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius and Roman Empress Faustina the Elder. She was a Roman Empress and wife to her maternal cousin Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius...

, 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....

 empress
Antonina  28.1 106.8 13.8 Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

 first name
Anush  14.9 86.5 12.7 Armenian
Armenian language
The Armenian language is an Indo-European language spoken by the Armenian people. It is the official language of the Republic of Armenia as well as in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The language is also widely spoken by Armenian communities in the Armenian diaspora...

 and Persian
Persian language
Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...

 first name
Anya  39.5 297.8 18.1 Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

 first name
Ariadne  43.9 360 23.6 Greek
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

 first name
Asmik  3.9 166.4 19.5 Armenian
Armenian language
The Armenian language is an Indo-European language spoken by the Armenian people. It is the official language of the Republic of Armenia as well as in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The language is also widely spoken by Armenian communities in the Armenian diaspora...

 first name
Astrid  -21.4 335.2 10.5 Scandinavian first name
Audrey  23.8 348.1 15.2 English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 first name
Aurelia
Aurelia (crater)
Aurelia is a crater on Venus. It has a large dark surface up range from the crater; lobate flows emanating from crater ejecta, and very radar-bright ejecta and floor....

 
20.3 331.8 31.1 Aurelia
Aurelia Cotta
Aurelia Cotta or Aurelia was the mother of Roman dictator Gaius Julius Caesar .-Family:...

, mother of Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman and a distinguished writer of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the gradual transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....

Austen  -25 168.4 45.1 Jane Austen
Jane Austen
Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics.Austen lived...

, British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 novelist
Avene  40.4 149.4 10 Akan
Akan language
Akan, also known as Twi and Fante, is an Akan language that is the principal native language of Ghana, spoken over much of the southern half of that country, by about 52% of the population, and to a lesser extent across the border in eastern Côte d'Ivoire...

 first name
Avviyar  -18 353.7 20.6 Avviyar, 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,...

 novelist
Ayana  -29.2 175.5 13.8 Altay
Altay language
Altay is a language of the Turkic group of languages. It is an official language of Altai Republic, Russia. The language was called Oyrot prior to 1948. There were ca...

 first name
Ayashe  22.7 31.4 6.7 Hausa
Hausa language
Hausa is the Chadic language with the largest number of speakers, spoken as a first language by about 25 million people, and as a second language by about 18 million more, an approximate total of 43 million people...

 first name
Ayisatu  34.6 5.5 7 Fula
Fula language
The Fula or Fulani language is a language of West Africa. It is spoken as a first language by the and related groups from Senegambia and Guinea to Cameroon and Sudan...

 first name

B

Name Latitude Longitude Diameter (km) Named after
Bachira  26.5 10 7.3 Algeria
Algeria
Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

n first name
Bądarzewska  -22.6 137.2 29.6 Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska
Tekla Badarzewska-Baranowska
Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska was a Polish composer.Bądarzewska was born in 1834 in Warsaw. She married Jan Baranowski and they had five children in their nine years of marriage. Bądarzewska-Baranowska died on 29 September 1861 at the age of 27. Her grave in the Powązki Cemetery features a young...

, 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
Bahriyat  50.3 357.5 5 Kumyk
Kumyks
Kumyks are a Turkic people occupying the Kumyk plateau in north Dagestan and south Terek, and the lands bordering the Caspian Sea. They comprise 14% of the population of the Russian republic of Dagestan. They speak the Kumyk language...

 first name
Baker  62.5 40.3 109 Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker was an American dancer, singer, and actress who found fame in her adopted homeland of France. She was given such nicknames as the "Bronze Venus", the "Black Pearl", and the "Créole Goddess"....

, American dancer
Bakisat  26 356.8 7.4 Chechen
Chechen language
The Chechen language is spoken by more than 1.5 million people, mostly in Chechnya and by Chechen people elsewhere. It is a member of the Northeast Caucasian languages.-Classification:...

 first name
Balch
Balch (crater)
Balch is a crater on Venus at latitude 29.9, longitude 282.9 in Devana Chasma, Central Beta Regio. It is 40 km in diameter and named after Emily Balch, though it was originally designated Somerville crater. This crater is one of the few examples of tectonically modified craters seen on Venus...

 
29.9 282.9 40 Emily Balch, American economist
Ban Zhao  17.1 147 39 Ban Zhao
Ban Zhao
Bān Zhāo , courtesy name Huiban , was the first known female Chinese historian. She completed her brother Ban Gu's work as he was imprisoned and executed in the year 92 BCE. because of his association with the family of Empress Dowager Dou. It was said her works could have filled eight volumes...

, 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...

 historian
Baranamtarra  17.9 267.8 25.5 Baranamtarra, Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is a toponym for the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system, largely corresponding to modern-day Iraq, northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey and southwestern Iran.Widely considered to be the cradle of civilization, Bronze Age Mesopotamia included Sumer and the...

n queen
Barauka  10.6 346.3 12.9 Hausa
Hausa language
Hausa is the Chadic language with the largest number of speakers, spoken as a first language by about 25 million people, and as a second language by about 18 million more, an approximate total of 43 million people...

 first name
Barrera  16.6 109.4 27 Olivia Barrera, Spanish
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

 medical writer
Barrymore  -52.3 195.7 56.6 Ethel Barrymore
Ethel Barrymore
Ethel Barrymore was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors.-Early life:Ethel Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second child of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew...

, American actress
Barsova  61.3 223 76 Valeria Barsova, Soviet
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 singer
Barto  45.3 146.3 48 Agniya Barto
Agniya Barto
Agniya Lvovna Barto, , was a Soviet Jewish poet and children's writer.-Biography:Agniya was born Getel Leybovna Volova to the jewish family of a Moscow veterinarian named Lev Nikolaevich Volov. She studied at a ballet school. She liked poetry very much and soon started to write her own, trying to...

, Soviet
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 poet
Barton
Barton (crater)
Barton crater is a 54-km diameter crater on Venus. It is the size at which craters on Venus begin to possess peak-rings instead of a single central peak. The floor of Barton crater is flat and radar-dark, indicating possible infilling by lava flows sometime following the impact...

 
27.4 337.5 52.2 Clara Barton
Clara Barton
Clarissa Harlowe "Clara" Barton was a pioneer American teacher, patent clerk, nurse, and humanitarian. She is best remembered for organizing the American Red Cross.-Youth, education, and family nursing:...

, American Red Cross founder
Bascom  -10.4 302.2 34.6 Florence Bascom
Florence Bascom
Florence Bascom was the first woman hired by the United States Geological Survey. She was of Huguenot and Basque ancestry....

, American geologist
Bashkirtseff  14.7 194 36.2 Marie Bashkirtseff
Marie Bashkirtseff
Marie Bashkirtseff was a Ukrainian-born diarist, painter and sculptor....

, 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 painter and diarist
Bassi  -19 64.6 31 Laura Bassi
Laura Bassi
Laura Maria Caterina Bassi was an Italian scientist, the first woman to officially teach at a university in Europe.-Biography:Born in Bologna into a wealthy family with a lawyer as a father, she was privately educated and tutored for seven years in her teens by Gaetano Tacconi...

, 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...

 physicist
Bathsheba  -15.1 49.5 32.3 Bathsheba
Bathsheba
According to the Hebrew Bible, Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David, king of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah. She is most known for the Bible story in which King David seduced her....

, Hebrew
Hebrews
Hebrews is an ethnonym used in the Hebrew Bible...

 queen
Batten  15.2 217.4 65 Jean Batten
Jean Batten
Jean Gardner Batten CBE OSC was a New Zealand aviatrix. Born in Rotorua, she became the best-known New Zealander of the 1930s, internationally, by taking a number of record-breaking solo flights across the world....

, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 aviator
Batya  72.7 235.4 9.3 Hebrew first name
Beecher  13 253.4 40.4 Catharine Beecher
Catharine Beecher
Catharine Esther Beecher was an American educator known for her forthright opinions on women's education as well as her vehement support of the many benefits of the incorporation of kindergarten into children's education....

, American author
Behn  -32.4 142 25.4 Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn was a prolific dramatist of the English Restoration and was one of the first English professional female writers. Her writing contributed to the amatory fiction genre of British literature.-Early life:...

, British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 writer
Bender  -13 327.4 39.8 Heidi Julia Bender, American child author and artist
Berggolts  -63.5 53 29.5 Olga Berggolts
Olga Berggolts
Olga Fyodorovna Bergholz was a Soviet poet. She is most famous for her work on the Leningrad radio during the city's blockade, when she became the symbol of city's strength and determination.-Early life:...

, 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 poet
Bernadette  -46.6 285.6 12.8 French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 first name
Bernhardt  31.6 84.4 25.3 Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardt was a French stage and early film actress, and has been referred to as "the most famous actress the world has ever known". Bernhardt made her fame on the stages of France in the 1870s, and was soon in demand in Europe and the Americas...

, 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...

 actress
Bernice  -40.7 14.8 12.6 Greek
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

 first name
Berta  62 322 20 Finnish
Finnish language
Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland Primarily for use by restaurant menus and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a...

 first name
Bette  -24.6 347.9 7.2 German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 first name
Bickerdyke  -82 171.3 36.3 Mary Bickerdyke, American nurse
Bineta  57.3 144.1 10.7 Mandinka
Mandinka language
The Mandinka language is a Mandé language spoken by millions of Mandinka people in Mali, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea-Bissau and Chad; it is the main language of The Gambia. It belongs to the Manding branch of Mandé, and is thus fairly...

 first name
Birute  36.1 32 22.3 Lithuanian
Lithuanian language
Lithuanian is the official state language of Lithuania and is recognized as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 2.96 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 170,000 abroad. Lithuanian is a Baltic language, closely related to Latvian, although they...

 first name
Blackburne  11 183.9 30.5 Anna Blackburne
Anna Blackburne
Anna Blackburne was an English naturalist.Anna Blackburne was born at Orford Hall, Orford, Warrington, the daughter of Jane and John Blackburne. Her father was a wealthy Cheshire salt dealer, who studied natural history and had famous greenhouses admired by Thomas Pennant...

, British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 biologist
Blanche  -9.3 157 12.3 French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 first name
Blixen  -60.1 145.7 20.8 Karen Blixen, 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
Bly  37.7 305.5 18.7 Nellie Bly
Nellie Bly
Nellie Bly was the pen name of American pioneer female journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochran. She remains notable for two feats: a record-breaking trip around the world in emulation of Jules Verne's character Phileas Fogg, and an exposé in which she faked insanity to study a mental institution from...

, American journalist
Boivin  4.3 299.5 20.4 Marie Boivin
Marie Boivin
Marie Boivin was a French midwife and obstetrics writer.Marie Anne Victoire Gillain was born in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, and educated in a nunnery in Étampes, where her talents attracted the attention of Madame Elisabeth, sister of King Louis XVI...

, 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...

 medical researcher
Boleyn  24.4 220.1 70.4 Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn ;c.1501/1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of Henry VIII of England and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right. Henry's marriage to Anne, and her subsequent execution, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that was the...

, English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 queen
Bonnevie  -36.1 127 92.2 Kristine Bonnevie, 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...

 biologist
Bonnin  -6.3 117.6 28.5 Gertrude Bonnin, aka Zitkala-Sa
Zitkala-Sa
Gertrude Simmons Bonnin , better known by her pen name, Zitkala-Sa , was a Yankton Dakota writer, editor, musician, teacher and political activist. She published in national magazines. With William F...

, Lakota social reformer
Boulanger  -26.6 99.2 71.5 Nadia Boulanger
Nadia Boulanger
Nadia Boulanger was a French composer, conductor and teacher who taught many composers and performers of the 20th century.From a musical family, she achieved early honours as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, but believing that her talent as a composer was inferior to that of her younger...

, 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...

 pianist
Bourke-White  21.2 147.9 33.6 Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-White was an American photographer and documentary photographer. She is best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet Industry, the first female war correspondent and the first female photographer for Henry Luce's Life magazine, where her...

, American photo-journalist
Boyd  -39.4 221.4 22 Louise Boyd
Louise Boyd
Louise Arner Boyd was an American explorer of Greenland and the Arctic, who wrote extensively of her explorations, and in 1955 became the first woman to fly over the North Pole privately chartering a DC-4 and crew that included aviation pioneer Thor Solberg.-Biography:Born in San Rafael,...

, American explorer
Boye  -9.6 292.3 28 Karin Boye
Karin Boye
was a Swedish poet and novelist.- Career :Boye was born in Gothenburg , Sweden and moved with her family to Stockholm in 1909. She studied at Uppsala University from 1921 to 1926 and debuted in 1922 with a collection of poems, "Clouds"...

, Swedish
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 writer
Bradstreet  16.5 47.7 36 Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet
Anne Dudley Bradstreet was New England's first published poet. Her work met with a positive reception in both the Old World and the New World.-Biography:...

, American poet
Bridgit  -45.3 348.9 10 Irish
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 first name
Brooke  48.4 296.6 22.9 Frances Brooke
Frances Brooke
Frances Moore Brooke was an English novelist, essayist, playwright and translator.-Biography:Brooke was born in, Claypole, Lincolnshire, the daughter of a clergyman. By the late 1740s, she had moved to London, where she embarked on her career as a poet and playwright...

; English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 novelist
Browning  28.3 4.9 23.4 Elizabeth Browning; British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 poet
Bryce  -62.5 197 23.9 Lucy Bryce; Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n medical pioneer
Buck
Buck (crater)
Buck is a crater in the Navka region of Venus. It has the terraced walls, flat radar-dark floor, and central peak that are characteristic of craters classified as 'complex'. The central peak on its floor is unusually large. Flow-like deposits extend beyond the limits of the coarser rim deposits on...

 
-5.7 349.6 21.8 Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu , was an American writer who spent most of her time until 1934 in China. Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the U.S. in 1931 and 1932, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932...

; American writer
Budevska  0.5 143.2 18 Adriana Budevska
Adriana Budevska
Adriana Budevska , was a Bulgarian actress, one of the founders of the professional theater in Bulgaria. She is considered one of the biggest Bulgarian interpretators of tragic roles....

; Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

n actress
Bugoslavskaya  -23 300.4 29.9 Yevgenia Bugoslavskaya; Soviet
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 astronomer

C

Name Latitude Longitude Diameter (km) Named after
Caccini  17.4 170.4 38.1 Francesca Caccini
Francesca Caccini
Francesca Caccini was an Italian composer, singer, lutenist, poet, and music teacher of the early Baroque era. She was the daughter of Giulio Caccini, and was one of the best-known and most influential female European composers between Hildegard of Bingen in the 12th century and the 19th century...

, 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...

 composer
Caitlin  -65.3 12 14.7 Irish
Irish language
Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...

 first name
Caiwenji  -12.4 287.6 22.6 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
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...

 poet
Caldwell  23.6 112.4 51 Taylor Caldwell
Taylor Caldwell
Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell was an Anglo-American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction, also known by the pen names Marcus Holland and Max Reiner, and by her married name of J. Miriam Reback....

, American author
Callas  2.4 27 33.8 Maria Callas
Maria Callas
Maria Callas was an American-born Greek soprano and one of the most renowned opera singers of the 20th century. She combined an impressive bel canto technique, a wide-ranging voice and great dramatic gifts...

, American singer
Callirhoe  21.2 140.7 33.8 Callirhoe
Callirhoe
Callirrhoe may refer to:* In Greek mythology:** Callirrhoe , a daughter of Oceanus and mother of Geryon, one of the Oceanids...

, Greek
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 sculptor
Caroline  6.9 306.3 18 French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 first name
Carr  -24 295.7 31.9 Emily Carr
Emily Carr
Emily Carr was a Canadian artist and writer heavily inspired by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. One of the first painters in Canada to adopt a post-impressionist painting style, Carr did not receive widespread recognition for her work until later in her life...

, Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 artist
Carreno  -3.9 16.1 57 Teresa Carreno
Teresa Carreño
María Teresa Carreño García de Sena was a Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer, and conductor.Born into a musical family, she was at first taught by her father, then by Mathias, Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Anton Rubinstein and her talent was recognized at an early age...

, Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

n pianist
Carson  -24.2 344.1 38.8 Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson
Rachel Louise Carson was an American marine biologist and conservationist whose writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement....

, American biologist
Carter  5.3 67.3 17.5 Maybelle Carter
Maybelle Carter
"Mother" Maybelle Carter was an American country musician. She is best known as a member of the historic Carter Family act in the 1920s and 1930s and also as a member of Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters.-Biography:...

, American singer
Castro  3.4 233.9 22.9 Rosalia de Castro
Rosalía de Castro
María Rosalía Rita de Castro , was a Galician romanticist writer and poet.Writing in the Galician language, after the Séculos Escuros , she became an important figure of the Galician romantic movement, known today as the Rexurdimento , along with Manuel Curros Enríquez and Eduardo Pondal...

, Galician poet
Cather  47.1 107 24.6 Willa Cather
Willa Cather
Willa Seibert Cather was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours , a novel set during World War I...

, American novelist
Centlivre  19.1 290.4 28.8 Susannah Centlivre, English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 actress
Chapelle  6.4 103.8 22 Georgette Chapelle, American journalist
Chechek  -2.6 272.3 7.2 Tuvan
Tuvan language
Tuvan , also known as Tuvinian, Tyvan or Tuvin, is a Turkic language spoken in the Republic of Tuva in south-central Siberia in Russia. The language has borrowed a great number of roots from the Mongolian language and more recently from the Russian language...

 first name
Chiyojo  -47.8 95.7 40.2 Chiyojo, 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
Chloe  -7.4 98.6 18.6 Greek
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

 first name
Cholpon  40 290 6.3 Kyrgyz
Kyrgyz language
Kyrgyz or Kirgiz, also Kirghiz, Kyrghiz, Qyrghiz is a Turkic language and, together with Russian, an official language of Kyrgyzstan...

 first name
Christie  28.3 72.7 23.3 Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Christie DBE was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections , and her successful West End plays.According to...

, English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 author
Chubado  45.3 5.6 7 Fulbe
Fula people
Fula people or Fulani or Fulbe are an ethnic group spread over many countries, predominantly in West Africa, but found also in Central Africa and Sudanese North Africa...

 first name
Clara  -37.5 235.3 3.2 Latin
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...

 first name
Clementina  35.9 208.6 4 Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

 form of Clementine, French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 first name
Cleopatra
Cleopatra (crater)
Cleopatra is an impact crater on Venus.Cleopatra is a double-ring impact basin about in diameter and deep. A steep-walled, winding channel a few kilometers wide breaks through the rough terrain surrounding the crater rim. A large amount of lava originating in Cleopatra flowed through this channel...

 
65.8 7.1 105 Cleopatra
Cleopatra VII of Egypt
Cleopatra VII Philopator was the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.She was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, a family of Greek origin that ruled Egypt after Alexander the Great's death during the Hellenistic period...

, Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

ian queen
Cline  -21.8 317.1 38 Patsy Cline
Patsy Cline
Patsy Cline , born Virginia Patterson Hensley in Gore, Virginia, was an American country music singer who enjoyed pop music crossover success during the era of the Nashville sound in the early 1960s...

, American singer
Clio  6.3 333.5 11.4 Greek
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

 first name
Cochran  51.9 143.4 100 Jacqueline Cochran
Jacqueline Cochran
Jacqueline Cochran was a pioneer American aviator, considered to be one of the most gifted racing pilots of her generation...

, American aviator
Cohn  -33.3 208.1 18.3 Carola Cohn, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n artist
Colleen  -60.8 162.2 13.5 Irish
Irish language
Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...

 first name
Comnena  1.2 343.7 19.5 Anna Comnena, Byzantine
Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire during the periods of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, centred on the capital of Constantinople. Known simply as the Roman Empire or Romania to its inhabitants and neighbours, the Empire was the direct continuation of the Ancient Roman State...

 princess and writer
Conway  48.3 39 49.3 Lady Anne Finch Conway, English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 natural scientist
Cori  25.4 72.9 56.1 Gerty Cori
Gerty Cori
Gerty Theresa Cori was an American biochemist who became the third woman—and first American woman—to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.Cori was born in Prague...

, Czech biochemist
Corinna  22.9 40.6 19.2 Corinna
Corinna
Corinna or Korinna was an Ancient Greek poet, traditionally attributed to the 6th century BC. According to ancient sources such as Plutarch and Pausanias, she came from Tanagra in Boeotia, where she was a teacher and rival to the better-known Theban poet Pindar...

, Greek
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 poet
Corpman  0.3 151.8 46 Elizabeth Koopman Hevelius, astronomer
Cortese  -11.4 218.4 27.7 Isabella Cortese
Isabella Cortese
Isabella Cortese , was an Italian alchemist and writer of the Renaissance.In 1561, her book I secreti della signora Isabella Cortese first appeared in print in Venice and it introduced alchemy to a wider readership. In it were medical and cosmetic remedies, advice for how to run a household and...

, 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...

 physician
Cotton  70.8 300.2 48.1 Egenni Cotton, 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...

 physicist
Cunitz
Cunitz (crater)
Cunitz is a crater on Venus at latitude 14.5, longitude 350.9 in western Eistla Regio. It is 48.6 km in diameter and was named for a 17th century Silesian astronomer Maria Cunitz....

 
14.5 350.9 48.6 Maria Cunitz
Maria Cunitz
Maria Cunitz or Maria Cunitia was an accomplished Silesian astronomer, and one of the most notable female astronomers of the modern era...

, Silesian astronomer
Cynthia  -16.7 347.5 15.9 Greek
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

 first name

D

Name Latitude Longitude Diameter (km) Named after
d'Este  -34.3 238.9 21.6 Isabella d'Este
Isabella d'Este
Isabella d'Este was Marchesa of Mantua and one of the leading women of the Italian Renaissance as a major cultural and political figure. She was a patron of the arts as well as a leader of fashion, whose innovative style of dressing was copied by women throughout Italy and at the French court...

, 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...

 noblewoman
Dado  -13.9 87.6 11.2 Fulbe
Fula people
Fula people or Fulani or Fulbe are an ethnic group spread over many countries, predominantly in West Africa, but found also in Central Africa and Sudanese North Africa...

 first name
Dafina  28.6 244.1 5.5 Albania
Albania
Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...

n first name
Danilova
Danilova (crater)
Alexandra Danilova is honoured by the impact crater Danilova on Venus....

 
-26.4 337.2 48.8 Alexandra Danilova
Alexandra Danilova
Aleksandra Dionisyevna Danilova was a Russian-born prima ballerina who became an American citizen....

, 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 ballet
Ballet
Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...

 dancer
Danute  -63.5 56.5 12.3 Lithuania
Lithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

n first name
Daphne  41.3 280.4 15.5 Greek
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 first name
Darline  -19.3 232.6 13 Anglo-Saxon
Anglo-Saxons
Anglo-Saxon is a term used by historians to designate the Germanic tribes who invaded and settled the south and east of Great Britain beginning in the early 5th century AD, and the period from their creation of the English nation to the Norman conquest. The Anglo-Saxon Era denotes the period of...

 first name
Dashkova  78.2 306.5 45.1 Yekatrina Dashkova, 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 philologist
Philology
Philology is the study of language in written historical sources; it is a combination of literary studies, history and linguistics.Classical philology is the philology of Greek and Classical Latin...

Datsolalee  38.3 171.8 17.5 Datsolalee, Washoe artist
de Ayala  12.4 31.9 19 Josefa de Ayala, Spanish
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

 painter
de Beausoleil  -5 102.8 28.2 Martine de Beausoleil, 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...

 earth science researcher
de Beauvoir  2 96.1 52.5 Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir, often shortened to Simone de Beauvoir , was a French existentialist philosopher, public intellectual, and social theorist. She wrote novels, essays, biographies, an autobiography in several volumes, and monographs on philosophy, politics, and...

, 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...

 writer
de Lalande
De Lalande (crater)
de Lalande is a multiring impact crater on Venus....

 
20.5 355 21.3 Marie-Jeanne de Lalande
Marie-Jeanne de Lalande
Marie-Jeanne-Amélie Le Francais de Lalande, née Habray , was a French astronomer.She was the niece of Jerome de Lalande and married astronomer Michel-Jean-Jerome Le Francois de Lalande in 1788....

, 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...

 astronomer
Astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...

de Staël  37.4 324.3 25 Anne de Staël
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein , commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French-speaking Swiss author living in Paris and abroad. She influenced literary tastes in Europe at the turn of the 19th century.- Childhood :...

, 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...

 writer
De Witt  -6.5 275.6 20.7 Lydia De Witt, American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 pathologist
Pathology
Pathology is the precise study and diagnosis of disease. The word pathology is from Ancient Greek , pathos, "feeling, suffering"; and , -logia, "the study of". Pathologization, to pathologize, refers to the process of defining a condition or behavior as pathological, e.g. pathological gambling....

Deborah  -37.3 10.6 9.7 Hebrew
Hebrew language
Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...

 first name
Defa  32.2 11.3 8.5 Fulbe
Fula people
Fula people or Fulani or Fulbe are an ethnic group spread over many countries, predominantly in West Africa, but found also in Central Africa and Sudanese North Africa...

 first name
Degu  27.3 289.9 5.5 Adygan first name
Deken  47.1 288.5 48 Agatha Deken, Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 novelist
Deledda  76 127.5 32 Grazia Deledda
Grazia Deledda
Grazia Deledda was an Italian writer whose works won her the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1926.-Biography:...

, 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...

 novelist
Delilah  -57.9 250.2 18.5 Hebrew
Hebrew language
Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...

 first name
Deloria  -32 97.1 31.9 Ella Deloria
Ella Cara Deloria
Ella Cara Deloria , also called Ąnpétu Wašté Wįn , was an educator, anthropologist, ethnographer, linguist, and novelist of Yankton Sioux background...

, Sioux
Sioux
The Sioux are Native American and First Nations people in North America. The term can refer to any ethnic group within the Great Sioux Nation or any of the nation's many language dialects...

 Anthropologist
Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...

Dena  -20.7 338.7 2.4 Lithuania
Lithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

n first name
Denise  -14.4 94.7 2 Greek
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

 first name
Devorah  -22.5 343.4 4.8 Hebrew
Hebrew language
Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...

 first name
Devorguilla  15.3 4 22.9 Devorguilla Irish
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 heroine
Dheepa  -21.6 176.3 4.7 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 first name
Dickinson
Dickinson (crater)
Dickinson crater is located at 74.6 degrees north latitude and 177.2 east longitude, in the northeastern Atalanta Region of Venus. It is in diameter. The crater is complex, characterized by a partial central ring and a floor flooded by radar-dark and radar-bright materials. Hummocky,...

 
74.6 177.2 67.5 Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life...

, American poet
Dinah  -62.9 37.1 15.6 Hebrew
Hebrew language
Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...

 first name
Dix  -37 329 63.3 Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Lynde Dix was an American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums...

, American social activist
Dolores  51.4 201.6 12.6 Spanish first name
Domnika  18.4 294.3 6.7 Moldavian first name
Doris  2.3 90 14.5 First name from Greek
Dorothy  -35.4 11.3 8.4 Greek first name
du Chatelet  21.5 165 18.5 Émilie du Châtelet
Émilie du Châtelet
-Early life:Du Châtelet was born on 17 December 1706 in Paris, the only daughter of six children. Three brothers lived to adulthood: René-Alexandre , Charles-Auguste , and Elisabeth-Théodore . Her eldest brother, René-Alexandre, died in 1720, and the next brother, Charles-Auguste, died in 1731...

; French mathematician, physicist
Duncan  68.1 291.7 40.3 Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan was a dancer, considered by many to be the creator of modern dance. Born in the United States, she lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her death at age 50. In the United States she was popular only in New York, and only later in her life...

; American dancer
Dunghe  -56.2 295.3 5.5 Kalmyk first name
Durant  -62.3 227.7 21.1 Ariel Durant
Ariel Durant
Ariel Durant was the co-author of The Story of Civilization.-Biography:Durant was born in Proskurov as Chaya Kaufman to Ethel Appel Kaufman and Joseph Kaufman. The family emigrated to the United States in 1901. She met her future husband, Will Durant, while a student at Ferrer Modern School in...

; American writer
Duse  -82.5 358 30.4 Eleonora Duse
Eleonora Duse
-Life and career:Duse was born in Vigevano, Lombardy, and began acting as a child. Both her father and her grandfather were actors, and she joined the troupe at age four. Due to poverty, she initially worked continually, traveling from city to city with whichever troupe her family was currently...

; Italian actress
Dyasya  5.1 297.6 7.8 Nganasan (Samoyed) first name

E

Name Latitude Longitude Diameter (km) Named after
Edgeworth  32.2 22.8 29 Maria Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe...

, Irish writer
Edinger  -68.8 208.5 33.3 Tilly Edinger; American geologist (1897–1967)
Efimova  81 223 26.5 Nina Simonovich-Efimova; Soviet painter and puppet-theatre designer (1877–1948)
Eila  -75 94.6 9.5 Finnish first name
Eileen  -22.8 232.7 16.1 Irish first name
Eini  -41.6 96.4 5.9 Finnish first name
Elena  -18.3 73.4 17.6 Italian first name
Elenora  47.1 6.9 4.5 German first name (variation of Eleanor)
Elizabeth  59.1 215.4 10.5 Hebrew first name
Ellen  -22.8 281.3 14.6 German first name
Elma  -10.1 91.1 10.2 Finnish first name
Elza  -34.4 275.9 18 Latvian first name
Emilia  -26.5 88.2 12.5 Swedish first name
Emma  -13.7 302.3 11.8 German first name
Enid  16.4 352.1 9.2 Celtic first name
Erika  72 175.4 10.5 Hungarian, German first name
Erin  -47 184.8 13.6 Irish first name
Erinna  -78 309.1 33.8 Erinna
Erinna
Erinna was a Greek poet, a contemporary and friend of Sappho, a native of Rhodes or the adjacent island of Telos or even possibly Tenos, who flourished about 600 BC...

Erkeley  43.9 103.3 8 Altai first name
Ermolova  60.3 154.4 60.9 Maria Yermolova
Maria Yermolova
Maria Nikolayevna Yermolova was said to be the greatest actress in the history of the Maly Theatre in Moscow and the first person to be proclaimed the "People's Artist of the Republic" ....

, Russian actress (1853–1928)
Erxleben  -50.9 39.4 31.6 Dorothea Christiane Erxleben, first woman Ph. D in Germany (1715–1762)
Escoda  18.2 149.5 19.6 Josefa Llanes Escoda
Josefa Llanes Escoda
Josefa Llanes Madamba Vd.ª De Escoda was a well-known Filipino advocate of women's right of suffrage and founder of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines.-Early life:...

Esmeralda  64.4 104.5 9.8 Gypsy first name
Estelle  1.1 93.7 18.8 First name from Latin
Esterica  36.8 3.6 3.6 Romanian first name
Esther  19.4 21.8 17.6 First name from Persian
Persian language
Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...

Eudocia  -59.1 202 27.5 Aelia Eudocia
Aelia Eudocia
Aelia Eudocia Augusta was the wife of Theodosius II, and a prominent historical figure in understanding the rise of Christianity during the beginning of the Byzantine Empire. Eudocia lived in a world where Greek paganism and Christianity were still coming together...

Eugenia  80.6 105.4 6 Greek first name
Evangeline  69.6 221.9 16 First name from Greek
Evelyn  -61.2 212.3 18 Celtic first name
Evika  -5.1 31.4 20.3 Tatar first name
Ezraela  57 186.8 7.8 Hebrew first name

F

Name Latitude Longitude Diameter (km) Named after
Faiga  4.9 170.9 9.6 Anglo-Saxon first name
Faina  71.1 100.7 10 Turkish first name
Farida  4.8 39 18 Muslim first name from Arabic
Fatima  -17.8 31.9 14.5 Arabic first name
Faufau  18.8 8.3 7.8 Polynesian first name
Fava  -0.7 87.4 9.7 Dunghan (Kyrgyzstan) first name
Fazu  32.4 106 6.1 Avarian (Daghestan) first name
Fedorets  59.7 65.6 57.6 Velentina Fedorets; Soviet astronomer (1923–1976)
Felicia  -19.8 226.5 11.5 First name from Latin
Ferber  26.4 12.9 23.1 Edna Ferber
Edna Ferber
Edna Ferber was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big , Show Boat , and Giant .-Early years:Ferber was born August 15, 1885, in Kalamazoo, Michigan,...

Fernandez  76.2 17.2 23.7 M. A. Fernandez; Spanish actress (18th century).
Ferrier  15.7 111.3 29.1 Kathleen Ferrier
Kathleen Ferrier
Kathleen Mary Ferrier CBE was an English contralto who achieved an international reputation as a stage, concert and recording artist, with a repertoire extending from folksong and popular ballads to the classical works of Bach, Brahms, Mahler and Elgar...

Feruk  -64 107.6 8.3 Nivkhi (Sakhalin Isl.) first name
Festa  11.5 27.2 35.3 Italian painter
Fiona  5 166.6 3.5 Celtic first name
Firuza  51.8 108 6 Persian first name
Flagstad  -54.3 18.9 39.2 Kirsten Flagstad
Kirsten Flagstad
Kirsten Målfrid Flagstad was a Norwegian opera singer and a highly regarded Wagnerian soprano...

Florence  -15.2 85 10.5 English first name
Flutra  -68.4 112 6 Albanian first name
Fossey  2 188.7 30.4 Dian Fossey
Dian Fossey
Dian Fossey was an American zoologist who undertook an extensive study of gorilla groups over a period of 18 years. She studied them daily in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by famous anthropologist Louis Leakey...

Fouquet  -15.1 203.5 47.8 Marie Fouquet; French medical writer, charity worker (17th century).
Francesca  -28 57.7 17 Italian first name
Frank  -13.1 12.9 22.7 Anne Frank
Anne Frank
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.Born in the city of Frankfurt...

Fredegonde  -50.5 93.3 25.2 Fredegund
Fredegund
Fredegund was the Queen consort of Chilperic I, the Merovingian Frankish king of Soissons.All her wealth and power came to her through her association with Chilperic...

; Frankish queen (d. AD 597)
Frida  68.2 55.6 21.6 Swedish first name
Frosya  29.5 113.4 9.8 Russian first name
Fukiko  -23.1 105.8 13.9 Japanese first name

G

Name Latitude Longitude Diameter (km) Named after
Gabriela  -17.8 240.4 17.5 First name from Hebrew
Gahano  -80.2 77.4 4.5 Seneca first name
Gail  -16.1 97.5 10 Hebrew first name
Galina  47.6 307.1 16.8 Bulgarian first name
Galindo  -23.3 258.8 23.8 Beatrix Galindo, Spanish physician and educator (1465–1534)
Gautier  26.3 42.8 59.3 Judith Gautier
Judith Gautier
Judith Gautier was a French poet and historical novelist, the daughter of Théophile Gautier and Ernesta Grisi, sister of the noted singer and ballet dancer Carlotta Grisi...

: French Poet and novelist
Gaze  17.9 240.2 33.3 Vera Gaze; Soviet astronomer (1899–1954)
Gentileschi  45.2 260.6 20.5 Artemisia Gentileschi
Artemisia Gentileschi
Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian Early Baroque painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters in the generation influenced by Caravaggio...

 : Italian painter
Georgina  -20.4 58.8 5.9 Greek first name
Germain  -37.9 63.7 35.5 Sophie Germain
Sophie Germain
Marie-Sophie Germain was a French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. Despite initial opposition from her parents and difficulties presented by a gender-biased society, she gained education from books in her father's library and from correspondence with famous mathematicians such as...

Giliani  -72.9 142.1 19.9 Alessandra Giliani
Alessandra Giliani
Alessandra Giliani was born in 1307 and died on 26 March 1326, in a blazing inferno at age 19. She was an Italian anatomist, serving as the first female prosector in Italy....

; Italian anatomist (1307–1326)
Gillian  -15.2 50.1 14.7 First name from Latin
Gilmore  -6.7 132.8 21.3 Mary Gilmore
Mary Gilmore
Dame Mary Gilmore DBE was a prominent Australian socialist poet and journalist.-Early life:Mary Jean Cameron was born on 16 August 1865 at Cotta Walla near Goulburn, New South Wales...

Gina  78.1 76.5 14.6 Italian first name
Giselle  -11.8 298 10.4 French first name
Glaspell  -58.4 269.6 26.3 Susan Glaspell
Susan Glaspell
Susan Keating Glaspell was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actress, director, novelist, biographer and poet. She was a founding member of the Provincetown Players, one of the most important collaboratives in the development of modern drama in the United States...

Gloria  68.5 94.2 20.7 Portuguese first name
Godiva  -56.1 251.6 30.7 Lady Godiva
Lady Godiva
Godiva , often referred to as Lady Godiva , was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry in order to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants...

; (Godgifu) Mercian noblewoman (c. 1040-1085)
Goeppert-Mayer
Goeppert-Mayer (crater)
Goeppert-Mayer is a crater on the planet Venus. It is in diameter and lies above an escarpment at the edge of a ridge belt in Southern Ishtar Terra. West of the crater the scarp has more than one kilometer of relief....

 
59.7 26.8 33.5 Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Golubkina
Golubkina (crater)
Golubkina is a crater on Venus.Golubkina is characterized by terraced inner walls and a central peak, typical of large impact craters on the Earth, Moon and Mars. The terraced inner walls form at late stages in the formation of an impact crater, due to collapse of the initial cavity formed by the...

 
60.3 286.5 28.4 Anna Golubkina
Anna Golubkina
Anna Semyonovna Golubkina was a Russian impressionist sculptor. As the first Russian sculptor to receive the Paris Salon prize, she is regarded as the first female Russian sculptor of note. Golubkina also had an exhibition at the prestigious Alexander III Museum...

, Soviet sculptor (1864–1927)
Goncharova  -63 97.7 30.3 Natalia Goncharova
Natalia Goncharova
Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova was a Russian avant-garde artist , painter, costume designer, writer, illustrator, and set designer. Her great-aunt was Natalia Pushkina, wife of the poet Alexander Pushkin.-Life and work:...

Grace  -13.8 268.9 19 First name from Greek
Gražina  72.4 337.5 16.5 Lithuanian first name
Greenaway  22.9 145.1 93 Kate Greenaway
Kate Greenaway
Catherine Greenaway , known as Kate Greenaway, was an English children's book illustrator and writer, who spent much of her childhood at Rolleston, Nottinghamshire. She studied at what is now the Royal College of Art in London, which at that time had a separate section for women, and was headed by...

Gregory  7.1 95.8 18 Isabella Augusta Gregory
Gretchen  -59.7 212.3 20.8 German first name
Grey  -52.4 329.4 50 Lady Jane Grey
Lady Jane Grey
Lady Jane Grey , also known as The Nine Days' Queen, was an English noblewoman who was de facto monarch of England from 10 July until 19 July 1553 and was subsequently executed...

Grimke
Grimke (crater)
Grimke is a crater on Venus at latitude 17.2, longitude 215.3. It is 34.8 km in diameter and is named after Sarah Grimké....

 
17.2 215.3 34.8 Sarah Grimké
Sarah Grimké
Sarah Moore Grimké was an American abolitionist, writer, and suffragist.-Early life:Sarah Grimké was born in South Carolina. She was sixth of fourteen children and the second daughter of Mary and John Faucheraud Grimké, a rich plantation owner who was also an attorney and a judge in South Carolina...

Guan Daosheng  -61.1 181.8 43.6 Guan Daosheng
Guan Daosheng
Guan Daosheng was a Chinese poet and painter who was active during the Yuan Dynasty.She was born in Huzhou and was the wife of Zhao Mengfu. She was talented in calligraphy and painting ink bamboo and plum with delicate and elegant strokes...

, Chinese painter, calligrapher (1262–1319)
Gudrun  10.6 326.4 13.3 First name from Norse
Guilbert
Guilbert (crater)
Guilbert is an impact crater on Venus....

 
-58 13.6 25.5 Yvette Guilbert
Yvette Guilbert
Yvette Guilbert was a French cabaret singer and actress of the Belle Époque.-Biography:...

Gulchatay  20.5 295.5 9 Arabic first name
Gulnara  -23.7 174 5 Persian first name گلناره
Guzel  -57.6 298.7 7.3 Turkic first name
Gwynn  9.7 37.2 32 Nell Gwyn
Nell Gwyn
Eleanor "Nell" Gwyn was a long-time mistress of King Charles II of England. Called "pretty, witty Nell" by Samuel Pepys, she has been regarded as a living embodiment of the spirit of Restoration England and has come to be considered a folk heroine, with a story echoing the rags-to-royalty tale of...


H

Name Latitude Longitude Diameter (km) Named after
Hadisha  -39 97.2 8.9 Kazakh first name
Halima  28.5 14.6 8.9 Hausa first name.
Halle  -19.8 145.5 21.5 Wilhelmina Halle; Austrian violinist (1839–1911).
Hamuda  62.9 2.5 15.8 Hebrew first name.
Hanka  -27.3 114.3 5 Czech first name.
Hannah  17.9 102.6 19.8 First name from Hebrew.
Hansberry  -22.7 324.1 26.6 Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Hansberry was an African American playwright and author of political speeches, letters, and essays...

; American playwright (1930–1965).
Hapei  66.1 178 4.2 Cheyenne (Oklahoma) first name.
Hayashi  53.8 243.9 43.1 Hayashi Fumiko; Japanese writer (1903–1951).
Heather  -6.8 334.1 11.5 English first name.
Heidi  23.6 350.1 15.2 First name; form of Hester.
Helga  -10.4 116.7 8.8 Norwegian first name.
Hellman  4.7 356.3 34.7 Lillian Hellman
Lillian Hellman
Lillian Florence "Lily" Hellman was an American playwright, linked throughout her life with many left-wing causes...

; American playwright, author (1905–1984).
Heloise  40 51.9 38 Heloise; French physician, hospital founder (c. 1098-1164).
Helvi  12.4 82.7 12.2 Estonian first name.
Henie  -51.9 146 70.4 Sonja Henie
Sonja Henie
Sonja Henie was a Norwegian figure skater and film star. She was a three-time Olympic Champion in Ladies Singles, a ten-time World Champion and a six-time European Champion . Henie won more Olympic and World titles than any other ladies figure skater...

; Norwegian skater (1912–1969).
Hepworth  5.1 94.7 62.6 Barbara Hepworth
Barbara Hepworth
Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE was an English sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism, and with such contemporaries as Ivon Hitchens, Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo she helped to develop modern art in Britain.-Life and work:Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth was born on 10 January 1903 in Wakefield,...

; English sculptor (1903–1975).
Higgins  8.1 241.3 40 Marguerite Higgins
Marguerite Higgins
Marguerite Higgins Hall was an American reporter and war correspondent. Higgins covered World War II, the Korean War and the war in Vietnam, and in the process advanced the cause of equal access for female war correspondents.Higgins was born in Hong Kong while her father, Lawrence Higgins, was...

; American journalist (1920–1966).
Hilkka  -69 72 10.3 Finnish first name.
Himiko  19 124.3 36.6 Himiko; Japanese queen (4th century).
Hiriata  15.3 23.5 5 Polynesian first name.
Hiromi  35.2 287.3 6 Japanese first name.
Holiday  -46.7 12.8 27.7 Billie; American singer (1915–1959).
Horner  23.4 97.7 25.2 Mary Horner; English naturalist, geologist (19th century).
Howe  -45.7 174.8 38.6 Julia Howe; American biographer, poet (1819–1910).
Hsueh T'ao  -52.6 13.8 21 Hsueh T'ao; Chinese poet, artist (c. AD 760).
Hua Mulan  86.8 337.7 24 Hua Mulan
Hua Mulan
Hua Mulan is a legendary figure from ancient China who was originally described in a Chinese poem known as the Ballad of Mulan . In the poem, Hua Mulan takes her aged father's place in the army. She fought for 12 years and gained high merit, but she refused any reward and retired to her hometown...

; Chinese warrior (c. AD 590).
Huang Daopo  -54.2 165.3 29.1 Huang Daopo; Chinese engineer.
Huarei  15 32.3 8.5 Polynesian first name.
Hull  59.4 263.6 47.3 Peggy Hull; American war correspondent (1889–1967).
Hurston  -77.6 94.7 52.4 Zora Hurston; American writer, anthropologist (1891–1960).
Hwangcini  6.3 141.8 30.2 Hwangcini; Korean poet (16th century)

I

Name Latitude Longitude Diameter (km) Named after
Icheko  6.6 97.9 5.9 Evenk/Tungu first name
Ichikawa  -61.6 156.3 31.4 Fusaye; Japanese feminist (1893–1981).
Ilga  -12.4 307.3 10.8 Latvian first name.
Imagmi  -48.4 100.7 7.6 Eskimo (Chukotka) first name.
Indira  64.1 289.8 16.6 Hindu first name.
Ines  -67.1 241.9 11.2 Galician-Portuguese and Spanish version of Agnes first name.
Inga  38.1 226.6 10 Danish first name.
Ingrid  -12.4 308.9 11.5 Scandinavian first name.
Inira  -43.1 239.4 16.5 Eskimo first name.
Inkeri  -28.3 223.9 10.1 Finnish first name.
Iondra  10.5 286.5 7.9 Selkup (Samoyed) first name.
Iraida  27.8 108.1 6.5 Greek first name.
Irene  49.8 134 13.6 First name from Greek.
Irina  35 91.2 15.2 Russian first name.
Irinuca  51.4 121.9 8 Romanian first name.
Irma  -50.9 122 9.5 Finnish first name.
Isabella
Isabella (crater)
Crater Isabella is the second largest impact crater on Venus. The feature is named in honor of the 15th Century queen of Spain, Isabella of Castile. Located at 30 degrees south latitude, 204 degrees east longitude, the crater has two extensive flow-like structures extending to the south and to the...

 
-29.8 204.2 175 Of Castile; Spanish queen (1451–1504).
Isako  -9 278 13.5 Japanese first name.
Isolde  -74.5 211.9 11.9 English first name.
Istadoy  -51.8 132.6 5.4 Tajik/Persian first name.
Ivka  68.2 303.8 14.9 Serbocroatian first name.
Ivne  -27 132.8 9 Koryak (Kamchatka) first name.
Izakay  -12.3 210.8 10.2 Mari first name.
Izudyr  -53.9 135.2 6.6 Mari (Volga Finn) first name

J

Name Latitude Longitude Diameter (km) Named after
Jaantje  46.5 123 7.8 Dutch first name
Jacqueline  -70.1 123.6 16.5 First name from French.
Jadwiga  68.4 91 12.7 Polish first name.
Jalgurik  -42.3 125.1 7.5 Evenk/Tungu first name.
Jamila  45.8 134.8 7.9 Arabic first name.
Jane  -60.5 304.8 10.2 Hebrew first name.
Janice  87.3 261.9 10 English first name.
Janina  -2 135.7 9.3 Polish first name.
Janyl  -28 138.8 5.6 Kyrgyz first name.
JaredLily  -12 959.0 3.14 The best first names.
Jasmin  15.6 61.6 15.1 Persian first name.
Jeanne
Jeanne (crater)
Jeanne is an impact crater on Venus.The distinctive triangular shape of the ejecta indicates that the impacting body probably hit obliquely, traveling from southwest to northeast. The crater is surrounded by dark material of two types...

 
40.1 331.5 19.4 French first name.
Jennifer  -4.6 99.8 9.6 First name from Greek.
Jerusha  -22 342.7 17.2 Hebrew first name.
Jex-Blake  65.4 169.3 31.6 Sophia; British pioneer woman physician (1840–1912).
Jhirad  -16.8 105.6 50.2 Jerusha; Indian physician.
Jitka  -61.9 70.9 13 Slovakian first name.
Jocelyn  -33.2 276.4 14 German first name.
Jodi  -35.7 68.7 10.2 English first name.
Johanna  19.5 247.3 15.1 Hebrew first name.
Johnson  51.8 254.6 24.5 Amy; Australian aviator (1903–1941).
Joliot-Curie  -1.6 62.4 91.1 Irene; French physicist, Nobel laureate (1897–1956).
Joshee  5.5 288.7 37 Anandibai; Indian pioneer physician (1865–1887).
Juanita  -62.8 90 19.3 Spanish first name.
Judith  -29.1 104.5 16.6 Hebrew first name.
Julie  51 242.6 13.5 Czech, German first name.
Jumaisat  -15.1 135.6 7.5 Kumyk (Daghestan) first name.
Jutta  0 142.6 7 Finnish first name

K

Name Latitude Longitude Diameter (km) Named after
Kafutchi  26.7 16.4 7.1 Bantu first name
Kahlo  -59.9 178.9 35.6 Frida; Mexican artist (1910–1954).
Kaikilani  -32.8 163.2 19.9 First female ruler of Hawaii, Kaikilani
Kaikilani
Kaikilani was the 17th Alii Aimoku of Hawaii Island 1575 - 1605. She ruled as the sovereign Queen or Chiefess of the island of Hawaii. She was also known as Ka'ikilani'ali'iwahine'opuna. She shared power with her two husbands, but she was the ruler, not them. Kaikilani on Venus is named after...

 (c. 1555).
Kaisa  13.5 293.3 12 Finnish first name.
Kala  1.5 314.4 17.4 Koryak (Kamchatka) first name.
Kalombo  -30.5 34 9.6 Bantu first name.
Kanik  -32.5 249.9 16.5 Sakhalin first name.
Karen  -12.4 17.7 10.5 Greek first name.
Karo  21.9 37.2 7 Maori first name.
Kartini  57.8 333 23.4 Raden Adjeng; Javanese educator (1879–1904).
Kastusha  -28.6 59.9 13 Mordovian (Volga River Finn, Russia) first name.
Katrya  -29.5 108.7 9.2 Ukrainian first name.
Katya  57.8 285.7 10.5 Russian first name.
Kauffman  49.4 27.1 25.5 Angelica; German painter (1741–1807).
Kavtora  59 23.3 9.8 Afghan first name.
Kelea  8.9 25.6 24.5 Chiefess of Maui, Keleanohoanaapiapi
Keleanohoanaapiapi
Keleanohoanaapiapi was Hawaiian chiefess being the beautiful but capricious sister of Kawaokaohele, king of Maui. Many version of the legend of this surf riding Mauian princesses has been told. She was named Kelea, surnamed Nohoanaapiapi . Her name is sometimes given as Keleanuinohoanaapiapi...

 (c. 1450).
Kelila  52.6 191.8 5 Hebrew first name.
Kelly  -4.8 359.2 11.2 Gaelic first name.
Kemble  47.7 14.9 23.6 Fanny; English actress (1809–1893).
Kenny  -44.4 271.1 52.7 Elizabeth; Australian nurse, therapist (1886–1952).
Ketzia  3.9 300.5 14.6 Hebrew first name.
Khadako  54.2 139.3 7.4 Nenets (Samoyed) first name.
Khafiza  6 299.2 7 Arabic first name.
Khatun  40.3 87.2 44.1 Mihri; Turkish poet (1456–1514).
Khelifa  -1.5 129.9 10.8 Arabic first name.
Kimitonga  -25.1 48.3 5 Polynesian first name.
Kingsley  -22.6 306.4 26.6 Mary; English explorer, writer (1862–1900).
Kiris  20.9 98.8 13.3 Latvian first name.
Kitna  -28.9 277.3 15.3 Kamchatka first name.
Klafsky  -20.7 188.1 25.5 Katherina; Hungarian opera singer (1855–1896).
Klenova  78.1 104.5 141 Maria Klenova
Maria Klenova
Maria Vasilyevna Klenova was a Russian and Soviet marine geologist and one of the founders of Russian marine science.Klenova studied to become a professor and later on worked as a member of the Council for Antarctic Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences...

, Soviet marine geologist (c. 1910-1978).
Kodu  0.9 338.7 10.5 Wolof (W. Africa, Senegal) first name.
Koidula  64.2 139.6 67 Lydia; Estonian poetess (1843–1886).
Koinyt  -30.9 293.2 11.7 Nivkhi (E. Siberia) first name.
Kollado  -61 53.4 5.5 Fulbe first name.
Kollwitz  25.2 133.6 29.1 Kathe; German artist (1867–1945).
Konopnicka  14.5 166.6 20.1 Maria Konopnicka
Maria Konopnicka
Maria Konopnicka nee Wasiłowska , was a Polish poet, novelist, writer for children and youth, a translator, journalist and critic, as well as an activist for women's rights and Polish independence.Maria Konopnicka also composed a poem about the execution of the Irish patriot, Robert...

 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...

 poet (1842–1910).
Kosi  -43.9 54.9 7.7 Ewe first name.
Kristina  -65.2 315.9 9.7 Slavonic form of Christiana, Latin first name.
Kumba  26.3 332.7 11.4 Fulbe (W. Africa, Guinea) first name.
Kumudu  61.3 154.1 4.4 Singalese first name.
Kuro  7.8 57.6 8.8 Fulbe first name.
Kyen  -6.2 64.7 5.2 Bantu first name.
Kylli  41.1 67 13.2 Finnish first name

L

Name Latitude Longitude Diameter (km) Named after
La Fayette  70.2 107.6 39.6 Marie la Fayette
Lachappelle  26.7 336.7 36.8 Marie; French medical researcher (1769–1821).
Lagerlöf  81.2 285.2 56 Selma; Swedish novelist (1858–1940).
Landowska  84.6 74.3 33 Wanda Landowska
Wanda Landowska
Wanda Landowska was a Polish harpsichordist whose performances, teaching, recordings and writings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in the early 20th century...

; Polish harpsichordist (1877–1959).
Langtry  -17 155 50.3 Lillie; English actress (1853–1929).
Lara  -4.2 2.9 3.4 Latin first name.
Larisa  -18.47 131.06 3.7 Latin first name
Laulani  -68.2 121.2 12.4 Hawaiian first name.
Laura  48.9 141.2 17.2 Spanish, Italian first name.
Laurencin  -15.4 46.5 29.8 Marie; French painter (1885–1956).
Lazarus  -52.9 127.2 24.2 Emma; American poet (1849–1887).
Leah  -34.2 187.8 12 Hebrew first name.
Lebedeva  45.2 49.8 37.4 Sarah; Soviet sculptor (1881–1968).
Lehmann
Lehmann (crater)
Lehmann is a lunar impact crater attached to the northern rim of the much larger walled plain Schickard. To the northwest is the crater Lacroix....

 
-44.1 39.1 21.7 Inge; Danish geophysicist (1888-?).
Leida  -23.3 266.6 18.8 Estonian first name.
Leila  -44.2 86.8 18.8 First name from Arabic.
Lena  39.5 23 15.2 Russian first name.
Lenore  38.7 292.2 15.5 Greek first name (form of Helen).
Leona  -3.1 169 3 Greek first name.
Leonard  -73.8 185.2 31.7 Wrexie; American assistant to P. Lowell (1867–1937).
Leslie  -11.2 13.5 7.2 English first name.
Letitia  34.5 288.7 17.5 First name from Latin.
Leyster  1 260 45.8 Judith; Dutch painter (1609–1660).
Lhagva  -75.8 300.1 7.9 Mongolian first name.
Li Qingzhao  23.7 94.6 22.8 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 essayist, scholar (1085–1151).
Lida  36.6 273.9 20.3 Russian first name.
Lilian  25.6 336 13.5 First name from Hebrew.
Liliya  30.2 31.1 15 Russian first name.
Lind  50.2 355 25.8 Jenny; Swedish singer (1820–1887).
Linda  -12.4 2.8 7.1 Latin first name.
Lineta  -5 354.1 15.6 Latvian first name.
Lisa  29 182 4.5 Short form of Elizabeth, Hebrew first name.
Liv  -21.1 303.9 11.2 Norwegian first name.
Loan  28.3 60 7.4 Vietnamese first name.
Lockwood  -32.9 51.6 22 Belva; American lawyer, feminist (1830–1917).
Lois  -17.9 214.7 13.5 First name from Greek.
Lonsdale  55.6 222.4 43 Kathleen; English physicist, crystallographer (1903–1971).
Lorelei  55.7 243.9 15 German first name.
Loretta  -19.7 202.6 13.5 First name from Latin.
Lotta  51.1 335.9 11.8 Swedish first name.
Lu Zhi  -42.6 303.4 8.3 Chinese first name.
Lucia  -62.1 67.8 16 First name from Latin.
Lullin  23 81.3 25.1 Maria; Swiss entomologist (1750–1831).
Lydia  10.7 340.7 15.2 First name from Greek.
Lyon  -66.5 270.6 12.4 Mary; American educator, college president (1797–1849).
Lyuba  1.6 283.9 12.4 Russian first name
Lyudmila  62.1 329.7 14.1 Russian first name

M

Name Latitude Longitude Diameter (km) Named after
Ma Shouzhen  -35.7 92.5 18.9 Chinese poet, painter (1592–1628)
Maa-Ling  -14.7 359.5 6 Chinese first name
MacDonald  30 120.7 17.6 Flora MacDonald
Madeleine  -4.7 293.2 16 French first name
Madina  22.7 58 6.3 Kabarda first name
Mae  -40.5 345.2 7.5 From Margaret, Greek first name
Magda  67 329.7 10.1 Danish first name
Magdalena  -11.2 48.7 11.5 Spanish form of Hebrew first name
Magnani  58.6 337.2 26.4 Anna Magnani
Anna Magnani
Anna Magnani was an Italian stage and film actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress, along with four other international awards, for her portrayal of a Sicilian widow in The Rose Tattoo....

Mahina  -2 182.2 15.4 Hawaiian first name
Makola  -3.8 106.7 16.6 Hawaiian first name
Maltby  -23.3 119.7 36.6 Margaret; American physicist (1860–1944)
Mamajan  -65.1 257.3 2 Turkman first name from Persian
Mansa  -33.9 63.4 8.1 Akan first name
Manton  9.3 26.9 20.5 Sidnie; English zoologist (1902–1980)
Irene; botanist (1904–1988).
Manzolini  25.6 91.3 41.8 Anna Morandi; Italian anatomist, teacher (1716–1774)
Maranda  4.9 169.7 16.8 Latvian first name
Marere  19.6 65.8 6.3 Polynesian first name
Maret  -33.3 280.2 11.7 Estonian first name
Margarita  12.7 9.2 13 Greek first name
Margit  60.1 273.1 14 Hungarian first name
Maria Celeste
Maria Celeste (crater)
Maria Celeste is an impact crater on Venus named in honor of Maria Celeste, the daughter of Galileo Galilei....

 
23.4 140.4 97.5 Maria Celeste
Maria Celeste
Sister Maria Celeste , born Virginia Gamba, was the daughter of the famous Italian scientist Galileo Galilei and Marina Gamba. She was the eldest of three siblings, with a sister Livia and a brother Vincenzio...

, Daughter of Galileo (d. 1634)
Marianne  9.3 358 9 From Mary, Greek first name
Marie  -21.7 232.4 14.2 French first name
Mariko
Mariko (crater)
The impact crater Mariko on Venus was named for Chandra Mariko Miller Fienen. The official reference provided to the International Astronomical Union was in reference to Mariko being a Japanese first name, in accordance with the nomenclature rules....

 
-23.3 132.9 12.9 Japanese first name
Markham  -4.1 155.6 71.8 Beryl Markham
Beryl Markham
Beryl Markham was a British-born Kenyan aviatrix, adventurer, and racehorse trainer. During the pioneer days of aviation, she became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west...

Marsh  -63.6 46.6 47.7 Ngaio Marsh
Ngaio Marsh
Dame Ngaio Marsh DBE , born Edith Ngaio Marsh, was a New Zealand crime writer and theatre director. There is some uncertainty over her birth date as her father neglected to register her birth until 1900...

Martinez  -11.7 174.7 23.5 Maria Martinez
Maria Martinez
Maria Montoya Martinez was a Native American artist who created internationally known pottery...

Marysya  53.3 75.1 6.3 Belorussian first name
Marzhan  -58.9 248.3 13.8 Karakal first name
Masako  -30.2 53.2 23.8 Hozyo Masako
Hojo Masako
was the eldest child of Hōjō Tokimasa by his wife Hōjō no Maki, the first shikken, or regent, of the Kamakura shogunate. She was the sister of Hōjō Yoshitoki, and was married to Minamoto no Yoritomo, the first shogun of the Kamakura period...

Masha  60.7 88.5 6.4 Russian first name
Matahina  -72.3 65.9 8.5 Polynesian first name
Maurea  -39.5 69.1 9.9 Polynesian first name
Mbul'di  23.8 74.7 6 Fulbe/Wodabi first name
Mead
Mead (crater)
Mead is an impact crater on Venus named in honor of the cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead.Mead crater is the largest impact crater on Venus, with a diameter of . The crater has an inner and an outer ring and a small ejecta blanket surrounding the outer ring...

 
12.5 57.2 270 Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s....

Medhavi  -19.4 40.6 30.4 Ramabai; East Indian author, humanitarian (1858–1922)
Megan  -61.8 130.6 15.8 Welsh first name
Meitner
Meitner (crater on Venus)
Meitner is a multiring impact crater on Venus....

 
-55.6 321.6 149 Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner FRS was an Austrian-born, later Swedish, physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. Meitner was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, an achievement for which her colleague Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize...

Melanie  -62.8 144.3 12.3 First name from Greek
Melanka  34.4 19.2 9 Ukrainian first name
Melba  4.7 193.5 21.8 Nellie Melba
Nellie Melba
Dame Nellie Melba GBE , born Helen "Nellie" Porter Mitchell, was an Australian operatic soprano. She became one of the most famous singers of the late Victorian Era and the early 20th century...

Melina  -69.9 319.5 12.7 Greek first name
Meredith  -14.5 278.9 11.4 English first name
Merian  34.5 76.3 22.2 Maria Sybilla Merian
Merit Ptah
Merit Ptah (crater)
Merit Ptah is an impact crater on Venus named in honor of the chief physician Merit Ptah in ancient Egypt....

 
11.4 115.6 16.5 Merit Ptah
Merit Ptah
Merit Ptah was an early physician in ancient Egypt. She is most notable for being the first woman known by name in the history of the field of medicine, and possibly the first named woman in all of science as well. Her picture can be seen on a tomb in the necropolis near the step pyramid of Saqqara...

Michelle  -19.6 40.5 15 First name from French
Mildred  -51.7 348.3 12 English first name
Millay  24.4 111.2 48 Edna St. Vincent; American poet (1892–1950)
Miovasu  72.1 99.9 4.5 Cheyenne first name
Mirabeau  1.1 284.3 23.8 Sibylle; French writer (d. 1932)
Miriam  36.5 48.2 16.5 First name from Hebrew
Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa (crater)
Mona Lisa is a crater on Venus at latitude 25.6, longitude 25.1. It is 79.4 km in diameter and was named after Lisa Giacondo, Leonardo da Vinci's model....

 
25.6 25.1 79.4 Lisa Giacondo
Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa is a portrait by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. It is a painting in oil on a poplar panel, completed circa 1503–1519...

; Leonardo da Vinci's model (b. c. 1474)
Monika  72.3 122.4 25.5 German first name
Montessori  59.4 280 42.1 Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori was an Italian physician and educator, a noted humanitarian and devout Catholic best known for the philosophy of education which bears her name...

Montez  17.9 266.5 21.1 Lola Montez
Lola Montez
Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, Countess of Landsfeld , better known by the stage name Lola Montez, was an Irish dancer and actress who became famous as a "Spanish dancer", courtesan and mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who made her Countess of Landsfeld. She used her influence to institute liberal...

Moore
Moore (crater)
Moore is an impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon. Like much of the far side, Moore is located in a region that has been saturated by impacts...

 
-30.4 248.4 21.1 Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore was an American Modernist poet and writer noted for her irony and wit.- Life :Moore was born in Kirkwood, Missouri, in the manse of the Presbyterian church where her maternal grandfather, John Riddle Warner, served as pastor. She was the daughter of mechanical engineer and inventor...

Morisot  -61.2 211.3 48 Berthe Morisot
Berthe Morisot
Berthe Morisot was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt.In 1864, she exhibited for the first...

Mosaido  17.3 75.2 7.4 Fulbe/Wodabi first name
Moses  34.6 119.9 28 Grandma Moses
Grandma Moses
Anna Mary Robertson Moses , better known as "Grandma Moses", was a renowned American folk artist. She is often cited as an example of an individual successfully beginning a career in the arts at an advanced age. Although her family and friends called her either "Mother Moses" or "Grandma Moses,"...

Mowatt  -14.6 292.3 38.4 Anna Cora Mowatt
Anna Cora Mowatt
Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie was an author, playwright, public reader, and actress.- Childhood :Anna Cora Ogden was born in Bordeaux, France, March 5, 1819. She was the tenth of fourteen children. Her father was Samuel Gouveneur Ogden , an American merchant...

; American actress, playwright, author (1819–1870)
Mu Guiying  41.2 81 32.3 Mu Guiying; Chinese warrior
Mukhina  29.5 0.5 24.5 Vera Mukhina
Vera Mukhina
Vera Ignatyevna Mukhina was a prominent Soviet sculptor.- Life :Mukhina was born in Riga into a wealthy merchant family, and lived at Turgeneva st. 23/25, where a memorial plaque has now been placed. She later moved to Moscow, where she studied at several private art schools, including those of...

Mumtaz-Mahal  30.3 228.4 38.2 Mumtaz Mahal
Mumtaz Mahal
Mumtaz Mahal born as Arjumand Banu Begum was a Mughal Empress and chief consort of emperor Shah Jahan...

Munter  -15.3 39.3 32.1 Gabriele Münter
Gabriele Münter
Gabriele Münter was a German expressionist painter who was at the forefront of the Munich avant-garde in the early 20th century. Artists and writers associated with German Expressionism shared a rebellious attitude toward the materialism and mores of German imperial and bourgeois society...

Muriel  -41.7 12.4 20.2 First name from Greek

N

Name Latitude Longitude Diameter (km) Named after
Nadeyka  -54.8 305.3 9.3 Belorussian first name
Nadia  -27.9 0.6 11.3 Russian first name.
Nadine  7.8 359.1 18.6 First name from French.
Nadira  44.1 201.5 31.4 Uzbek poet (1791–1842).
Nakai  -61 286.2 4.5 Cheyenne first name.
Nahid  Persian first name.
Nalkowska  28.1 290 22.2 Zofia Nałkowska, Polish novelist, playwright (1884–1954).
Nalkuta  30.1 307.8 6.5 Ossetian (N. Caucasus) first name.
Namiko  43.4 56.2 13 Japanese first name.
Nana  49.8 75.4 8.8 Serbocroatian first name.
Nancy  6.4 272.2 4.4 Hebrew first name
Nanichi
Nanichi (crater)
Nanichi is a crater found the Magellian region on the planet Venus. It measures 19km in diameter, and is located at +East, 0 - 360 using the planetocentric coordinate system....

 
-44.8 337.8 19 Taino (Puerto Rico) first name.
Naomi  6 70.3 17.5 First name from Hebrew.
Nastya  -49 275.8 12.5 From Anastasiya, Russian first name.
Natalia  67.1 272.9 10.8 Romanian first name.
Ndella  -15.9 60.7 5.9 Wolof first name.
Neda  16.7 313.5 7.7 Macedonian first name.
Nedko  -8.8 317.6 8.5 Nenets (Samoyed) first name.
Neeltje  12.4 124.4 10 Dutch first name.
Nelike  -26.8 329.2 6.3 Nanay (E. Siberia) first name.
Němcová  5.9 125.1 22.9 Božena; Czech novelist, poet (1820–1882).
Nevelson  -35.3 307.8 69.8 Louise; American artist (1899–1988).
Ngaio  -53.3 61.8 9.5 Maori first name.
Ngone  6 331.9 12.2 Wolof (W. Africa, Senegal) first name.
Nicole  48.4 259.3 6.4 French first name.
Nijinskaya  25.8 122.5 36.2 Bronislava; Russian dancer (1891–1972).
Nilanti  -38.2 331.4 9.2 Singalese first name.
Nilsson  -75.9 277.6 27.3 Christina Nilsson
Christina Nilsson
Christina Nilsson, Countess de Casa Miranda, was a Swedish operatic soprano. She possessed a brilliant bel canto technique and was considered a rival to the Victorian era's most famous diva, Adelina Patti...

; Swedish opera singer, violinist (1843–1921).
Nin  -3.9 266.4 27.1 Anais; French novelist (1903–1977).
Nina  -55.5 238.7 24.6 First name from Russian.
Ninzi  15.9 331.7 7.1 Burma (Myanmar) first name.
Nofret  -58.8 252.2 22.5 Egyptian queen (c. 1900 BC).
Nomeda  -49.2 55.5 10.4 Lithuanian first name.
Noreen  33.6 22.7 18.6 Irish first name.
Noriko  -5.3 358.3 7.5 Japanese first name.
Nsele  6.7 64.2 5.1 Mandingo first name.
Nuon  78.6 336.6 6.5 Khmer first name.
Nuriet  20.6 245.6 17.9 Adygan (N. Caucasus) first name.
Nutsa  27.5 341.2 8 Abkhazian (Georgia) first name.
Nyal'ga  17 64.5 5.5 Fulbe/Wodabi first name.
Nyele  -22.7 318.4 11.9 Mandingo (W. Africa, Mali) first name.
Nyogari  -46.4 306.4 13 Ewe (W. Africa, Ghana) first name

O

Name Latitude Longitude Diameter (km) Named after
O'Connor  -26 143.9 30.4 Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor
Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American novelist, short-story writer and essayist. An important voice in American literature, O'Connor wrote two novels and 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries...

O'Keeffe  24.5 228.8 76.9 Georgia; American artist (1887–1986).
Oakley  -29.3 310.5 18.4 Annie; American sharpshooter, entertainer (1860–1926).
Obukhova  70.7 289.7 46 Nadezhda; Soviet singer (1886–1961).
Odarka  40.8 138.2 7 Ukrainian first name.
Odikha  -41.6 238.1 10.6 Uzbek first name.
Odilia  81.2 200.2 20.8 Portuguese first name.
Ogulbek  2.4 145 6.5 Turkman first name.
Oivit  -73.9 195.5 4.8 Cheyenne first name.
Oksana  11.9 352 7.7 Ukrainian first name.
Oku  -64.2 232.2 13.3 Karelian first name.
Olena  10.9 149 7 Ukrainian first name.
Olesnicka  18.3 210.9 33 Zofia Olesnicka; Polish poet (fl. c. 1550).
Olesya  5.6 273.3 12 Ukrainian first name.
Olga  26.1 283.8 15.5 Russian first name.
Olivia  37.2 207.9 10.2 Dutch first name.
Olya  51.4 291.8 13.4 Russian first name.
Oma  -42.7 329.1 7.6 Sioux first name.
Onissya  -25.6 150.2 8.2 Komi-Permyak (Urals Finn) first name.
Opika  -57.1 151.9 9.8 Chuvash (Volga area) first name.
Orczy  3.7 52.3 26.9 Emmuska; Hungarian novelist, playwright (1865–1947).
Orguk  -23.5 198.2 11.7 Nivkhi (Amur River area, E. Siberia) first name.
Orlette  -68.1 193.3 12.5 French first name.
Orlova  56.5 235 19.6 Lyubov; Soviet actress (1902–1975).
Ortensia  7.6 155.7 7 Italian first name.
Oshalche  29.7 155.5 8.3 Mari (Volga Finn) first name.
Osipenko  71.2 321 30 Polina; Soviet aviator (1907–1939).
Ottavia  -47.5 187.1 12.9 Roman first name.
Outi  61.6 267.7 10.5 Finnish first name

P

Name Latitude Longitude Diameter (km) Named after
Paige  -1.2 24.6 6.8 Italian first name
Pamela  11 238.5 14.2 English first name.
Parishan  -0.2 146.5 6.8 Persian first name.
Parra  20.5 78.5 42.4 Parra
Parra
Parra is a Spanish surname meaning vine bower or trellis, for example an Arbor .People* Alondra de la Parra Mexican conductor* Parra family, Chilean family known for its many artists** Violeta Parra, Chilean folk singer...

, Chilean writer.
Parvina  -62.2 153 7 Persian (Tajik) first name.
Pasha  42.7 156.3 7.2 Russian first name from Persian
Pat  2.9 262.6 10.1 English first name.
Patimat  -1.3 156.5 5.1 Avarian (Daghestan) first name.
Patti  35 301.6 47 Adelina
Adelina Patti
Adelina Patti was a highly acclaimed 19th-century opera singer, earning huge fees at the height of her career in the music capitals of Europe and America. She first sang in public as a child in 1851 and gave her last performance before an audience in 1914...

; Italian singer (1843–1919).
Pavlinka  -25.5 158.7 7.5 Belorussian first name.
Peck  -28.9 294.3 30.4 Annie; American mountaineer, educator (1850–1935).
Peggy  -20.4 357.2 11.9 English first name (form of Margaret).
Peña  -23.6 190.6 29.6 Tonita (Quah Ah); Pueblo artist (1895–1949).
Phaedra  35.9 252.7 15.7 First name from Greek.
Philomena  -40.7 151.9 14.8 Greek first name.
Phryne  -46.2 314.7 39.4 Phryne
Phryne
Phryne was a famous hetaera of Ancient Greece .- Early life :Her real name was Mnesarete , but owing to her yellowish complexion she was called Phryne "Toad", a name given to other courtesans. She was born at Thespiae in Boeotia, but seems to have lived at Athens...

, Greek model, courtesan (4th century BC).
Phyllis  12.3 132.4 11.4 First name from Greek.
Piaf  0.8 5.3 39.1 Edith
Édith Piaf
Édith Piaf , born Édith Giovanna Gassion, was a French singer and cultural icon who became widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer. Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being ballads...

; French singer, songwriter (1915–1963).
Piret  37.8 41.7 27 Estonian first name.
Pirkko  44.8 254.6 12.3 Finnish first name.
Piscopia  1.5 190.9 26.2 Elena
Elena Cornaro Piscopia
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia was a Venetian philosopher of noble descent, and the first woman to receive a degree.She was born in the Palazzo Loredan, at Venice, Republic of Venice on 5 June 1646. She was the third child of Giovanni Battista Cornaro-Piscopia, and his wife Zanetta Boni. ...

; Italian mathematician, educator (1646–1684).
Polenova  -45.5 335.5 41 Elena
Elena Polenova
Yelena Ilyichivna Polenova is a Russian team handball player, playing on the Russian women's national handball team. She won gold medal with the Russian winning team in the 2005 World Women's Handball Championship in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and again in the 2007 World Women's Handball...

; Russian painter, folk crafts trustee (1850–1898).
Polina  42.4 148.2 21.6 Russian first name.
Ponselle  -63 289.1 57.7 Rosa
Rosa Ponselle
Rosa Ponselle , was an American operatic soprano with a large, opulent voice. She sang mainly at the New York Metropolitan Opera and is generally considered by music critics to have been one of the greatest sopranos of the past 100 years.-Early life:She was born Rosa Ponzillo on January 22, 1897,...

; American opera singer (1897–1981).
Potanina  31.6 53.1 94.2 Aleksandra; Russian explorer (1843–1893).
Potter  7.2 309.1 46.9 Beatrix
Beatrix Potter
Helen Beatrix Potter was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children’s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.Born into a privileged Unitarian...

; English children's author (1866–1943).
Prichard  44 11.5 23.3 Katharine
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Katharine Susannah Prichard was an Australian author and co-founding member of the Communist Party of Australia.-Biography:...

; Australian writer (1884–1969).
Puhioia  20.6 69.4 5.5 Maori first name.
Purev  -31.1 46.4 11.6 Mongolian first name.
Pychik  -62.4 33.8 10.1 Chukcha (NE Siberia) first name

Q

Name Latitude Longitude Diameter (km) Named after
Qarlygha  -33 162.9 9.3 Kazakh first name
Quimby  -5.7 76.7 23.2 Harriet; American aviatrix (1884–1912)
Qulzhan  23.5 165.4 7.9 Kazakh first name
Quslu  6.2 166.8 8.7 Kazakh first name

R

Name Latitude Longitude Diameter (km) Named after
Rachel  -48.7 13.5 12.5 First name from Hebrew
Radhika  -30.3 166.4 7.9 Tamil first name.
Radka  75.6 96.3 10.5 Bulgarian first name.
Radmila  69.1 167 5.2 Serbocroatian first name.
Rae  -8.9 58.4 5.5 From Rachel, Hebrew first name.
Rafiga  62.9 175.6 5.7 Azeri first name from Arabic
Raisa  27.5 280.3 13.5 Russian first name.
Raki  -49.4 70 7.5 Fulbe first name.
Rampyari  50.6 179.3 7.7 Hindu first name.
Rand  -63.8 59.5 24.3 Ayn; American writer (1905–1982).
Rani  64.1 160.4 10.7 Hindu first name.
Raymonde  48.4 191.5 5.3 French first name.
Rebecca  -12.1 5.4 9.5 Hebrew first name.
Recamier  -12.6 58.1 25.3 Julie; French patriot; defied Napoleon (c. 1777-c. 1849).
Regina  30 147.3 24.9 First name from Latin.
Reiko  22.6 192.1 9.7 Japanese first name.
Retno  -52.9 192.3 7.2 Indonesian first name.
Rhoda  11.4 347.7 12.2 First name from Greek.
Rhys  8.6 298.8 44 Jean; Welsh writer (1894–1979).
Richards
Richards (crater)
Richards is a small lunar impact crater that is located in the northern interior of the walled plain Mendeleev, on the far side of the Moon. It lies about half-way between the craters Bergman to the west-southwest and Fischer to the east, both also within Mendeleev's interior.This is a circular,...

 
2.5 196.1 25 Ellen; founder of science of ecology (1842–1911).
Riley
Riley (crater)
Riley is a crater on Venus.The crater is in diameter. The floor of the crater is 580 metres below the plains surrounding the crater. The crater's rim rises 620 metres above the plains and 1,200 metres above the crater floor. The crater's central peak is 536 metres high...

 
14.1 72.5 20.2 Margaretta; English botanist (1804–1899).
Rita  71 334.8 8.3 Italian first name.
Romanskaya  23.2 178.4 30.4 Sofia; Soviet astronomer (1886–1969).
Romola  9.3 54.2 17.5 Italian first name.
Roptyna  62.2 28.9 11.5 Chukcha (NE Siberia) first name.
Rosa Bonheur  9.7 288.8 104 French painter (1822–1899).
Rose  -35.2 248.2 15.5 German first name.
Rossetti  57 6.4 23.4 Christina; English poet (1830–1894).
Rowena  10.4 171.4 19.5 Celtic first name.
Roxanna  26.5 334.6 9.5 First name from Persian.
Royle  -32.7 193.7 6.1 Bashkir first name.
Rudneva  78.4 174.7 29.8 Varvara; Russian physician (1844–1899).
Rufina  -74.6 195.1 5 Greek first name.
Ruit  -25.5 72.9 6.4 Polynesian first name.
Runak  -58.5 196.3 7.6 Kurdian first name.
Ruslanova  83.9 16.6 44.3 Lidiya Ruslanova
Lidiya Ruslanova
Lidia Andreyevna Ruslanova was one of the greatest and best-loved performers of Russian folk songs.-Early life:...

, Soviet singer (1900–1973).
Ruth
Ruth (crater on Venus)
Ruth is an impact crater on Venus....

 
43.3 19.9 18.5 Hebrew first name

S

Name Latitude Longitude Diameter (km) Named after
Sabin  -38.5 274.7 33.1 Florence R. Sabin
Florence R. Sabin
Florence Rena Sabin was an American medical scientist. She was a pioneer for women in science; she was the first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and the first woman to head a department at the...

Sabira  -5.8 239.9 15.7 Tatar first name from Arabic
Safarmo  -10.8 161.4 7.4 Tajik first name.
Saida  28.2 302 9.5 Arabic first name.
Salika  -5 97.7 12.5 Mari first name.
Samantha  45.6 281.7 16.9 First name from Aramaic.
Samintang  -39 80.7 25.9 16th century Korean poet.
Sandel  -45.7 211.7 17.9 Cora; Norwegian author (1880–1974).
Sandi  -68.1 315.1 12.6 From Alexandra, Greek first name.
Sandugach  59.9 143.5 10 Tartar first name.
Sanger  33.8 288.6 83.6 Margaret; American medical researcher (1883–1966).
Sanija  33.1 251 18 Tatar first name.
Saodat  -2.9 344.6 3.7 Uzbek first name from Arabic
Sarah  -42.4 1.8 18.5 Hebrew first name.
Sartika  -63.4 67 18.7 Ibu Dewi; Indonesian educator (1884–1942).
Sasha  38.3 277.3 4.6 Russian first name.
Saskia  -28.6 337.1 37.1 Artist's model, wife of Rembrandt.
Sayers  -67.5 229.8 98 Dorothy L.; English novelist, playwright (1893–1957).
Sayligul  73.6 172.9 4.3 Persian (Tajik) first name.
Scarpellini  -23.2 34.6 27.1 Caterina; 19th century Italian astronomer.
Seiko  -21 216.6 3.4 Japanese first name.
Selma  68.5 155.9 11.4 First name from Celtic.
Seseg  -36.3 312.6 9.8 Buryat (Siberia) first name.
Sévigné  52.6 326.5 29.6 Marie; French writer (1626–1696).
Seymour  18.2 326.5 63 Jane; English queen (c. 1509-1537).
Shakira  3 213.6 17.6 Bashkir first name.
Shasenem  -44 258.9 9 Turkman first name from Persian and Arabic
Sheila  19.9 50.2 5.6 Irish/Celtic first name.
Shih Mai-Yu  18.4 318.9 22.3 Chinese physician (1873–1954).
Shirley  31.5 55.4 18 English first name.
Shushan  -43.8 70.2 8.5 Armenian first name.
Sidney  13.4 199.6 20.2 Mary; Elizabethan dramatist (1561–1621).
Sigrid  63.6 314.4 16.2 Scandinavian first name.
Simbya  -74.4 130 4 Nganasan (Samoyed) first name.
Simonenko  -26.9 97.6 31.9 Soviet astronomer.
Sirani  -31.5 230.4 28.3 Elisabetta; Italian painter, etcher, printmaker (1638–1665).
Sitwell  16.6 190.4 32.8 Edith; English poet, critic (1887–1964).
Solace  35.9 317.2 5.3 Latin first name.
Sophia  -28.6 18.8 17.6 First name from Greek.
Sovadi  -44.8 225.5 12.4 Khmer (Cambodia) first name.
Stanton  -23.3 199.3 107 Elizabeth C.; American suffragist (1815–1902).
Stefania
Stefania (crater)
Stephania is a crater on Venus in the northern Sedna Planitia. With a diameter of it is one of the smaller craters on Venus. Because many small meteoroids disintegrate during their passage through the dense atmosphere, there is an absence of craters smaller than in diameter, and even craters...

 
51.3 333.3 11.7 Romanian first name.
Stein  -30.1 345.5 13.3 Gertrude; American writer (1874–1946).
Steinbach  -41.4 256.9 20.3 Sabina; German sculptor (c. 1250).
Stina  37.4 22.8 10.4 Swedish first name.
Storni  -9.8 245.6 21.7 Alfonsina; Argentine poet (1892–1938).
Stowe  -43.2 233.2 80 Harriet B.; American novelist (1811–1896).
Stuart  -30.8 20.2 68.6 Mary; Queen of Scots (1542–1587).
Suliko  9.6 214.6 14.9 Georgian first name.
Sullivan
Sullivan (crater)
Sullivan as a crater may refer to:*Sullivan *Sullivan...

 
-1.4 110.9 32 Anne; American teacher of Helen Keller (1866–1936).
Surija  5.3 178.2 15.3 Azeri first name.
Susanna  6 93.3 13.3 First name from Hebrew.
Sveta  82.5 273.2 21 Russian first name

T

Name Latitude Longitude Diameter (km) Named after
Taglioni  41.7 122.6 31 Marie Taglioni
Marie Taglioni
Marie Taglioni was a famous Italian/Swedish ballerina of the Romantic ballet era, a central figure in the history of European dance.-Biography:...

Tahia  44.3 73.7 6.1 Polynesian first name.
Taira  -1.6 296.8 19.6 Osset first name.
Tako  25.1 285.3 10.7 Fulbe first name.
Talvikki  41.9 22 12.6 Finnish first name.
Tamara  61.6 317.2 11 Georgian first name.
Tanya  -19.3 282.7 14 Russian first name.
Tatyana  85.4 212.4 19 Russian first name.
Taussig  -9.2 229 25.8 Helen; American pediatrician, heart researcher (1898–1986).
Tehina  -30.4 76.4 5.4 Polynesian first name.
Tekarohi  21.2 76.4 9.3 Polynesian first name.
Temou  -10 83.4 9.3 Polynesian first name.
Teresa  -42.5 10 14.8 First name from Greek.
Terhi  45.7 253.1 10.7 Finnish first name.
Teroro  -75.8 88.1 9.2 Polynesian first name.
Teumere  -38.3 88.1 5.4 Polynesian first name.
Teura  -12.3 90.2 9.3 Polynesian first name.
Thomas  -13 272.5 25.2 Martha; American college president (1857–1935).
Tiffany  -8.7 22.9 7 Greek first name.
Tinyl  9.7 132.1 12.8 Chukcha (NE Siberia) first name.
Toklas  0.7 273.1 17.5 Alice; American writer, art patron (1877–1967).
Tolgonay  68.8 271.1 4.6 Kyrgyz first name.
Trollope  -54.8 246.4 27.2 Frances; English novelist (1780–1863).
Truth  28.7 287.8 47.3 Sojourner; American abolishionist (1797–1883).
Tseraskaya  28.6 79.2 30.3 Lidiya; Soviet astronomer (1855–1931).
Tsetsa  31.3 317.7 9.9 Mordovian (Volga Finn) first name.
Tsiala  2.9 100 16.5 Georgian first name.
Tsvetayeva  64.6 147.4 42.9 Marina; Soviet poet (1892–1941).
Tsyrma  -14.1 318.5 7.8 Buryat (Siberia) first name.
Tubman  23.6 204.6 42.9 Harriet; American abolishionist (1820–1913).
Tünde  76.8 193 16.3 Hungarian first name.
Tursunoy  80.9 229.3 4.7 Uzbek first name.
Tussaud  21.7 221 16 Marie; Swiss wax artist (1760–1850).
Tuyara  -62.9 15.5 13.2 Yakut first name

U

Name Latitude Longitude Diameter (km) Named after
Ualinka  13.2 168.6 8.1 Ossetian (N. Caucasus) first name
Udagan  10.7 206.9 11.5 Yakut first name.
Udaltsova  -20.3 275.3 26.7 Nadezhda Udaltsova
Nadezhda Udaltsova
Nadezhda Andreeva Udaltsova was a Russian avant-garde artist and painter.-Biography:Nadezhda Udaltsova was born in town Orel in Russia. Udaltsova studied at private art studios in Moscow, then in Paris under André Segonzac....

, Russian artist (1885–1961).
Udyaka  30.9 172.9 7.7 Orochi (Amur River) first name.
Ugne  34.9 205.8 10.3 Lithuanian first name.
Ul'yana  24.3 253 12.5 Russian first name.
Uleken  33.7 185.1 10.9 Nanay (Amur River area, E. Siberia) first name.
Ulla  -51.5 184.5 10.4 Swedish first name.
Ulpu  -35.7 179 7 Finnish first name.
Ulrique  75.9 55.6 19.6 French first name.
Uluk  -62.2 178.6 10.3 Neghidalian (Amur River area, E. Siberia) first name.
Umaima  -23.3 195.4 6.9 Arabic first name.
Umkana  -53.3 198.6 6.2 Eskimo (Chukotka) first name.
Unay  53.5 172.7 11.4 Mari first name.
Undset  51.7 60.8 20 Sigrid; Norwegian author (1882–1949).
Unitkak  40.8 199.5 8 Eskimo (Chukotka) first name.
Urazbike  -9 202.5 7 Tartar first name.
Ustinya  -41.2 251.6 11.8 Russian first name.
Uvaysi  2.3 198.3 38.9 Uzbek poet (c. 1780-c. 1850).
Uyengimi  -76.9 204.9 8.9 Khanty, Mansi (Ob River Finn) first name

V

Name Latitude Longitude Diameter (km) Named after
Văcărescu  -63 199.8 31.5 Elena Văcărescu
Elena Vacarescu
Elena Văcărescu or Hélène Vacaresco was a Romanian-French aristocrat writer, twice a laureate of the Académie française.-Life:...

Vaka  -41.4 8.9 11.8 Bulgarian first name.
Valadon  -49 167.7 25.2 Suzanne; French painter (1865–1940).
Valborg  75.5 272.1 20 Danish first name.
Valentina  46.4 144.1 24.6 Latin first name.
Valerie  -6.4 30.9 13.6 French first name.
Vallija  26.3 120 15.2 Latvian first name.
Vanessa  -6 1.9 10 Greek first name.
Vard  17.5 314.5 6.1 Armenian first name.
Varya  2.8 211.8 14.3 Russian first name.
Vashti  -6.8 43.7 17 Persian first name.
Vasilutsa  16.5 334.4 5.7 Moldavian first name.
Vassi  34.4 346.5 8.5 Karelian first name.
Veriko  20.4 350.1 5.2 Georgian first name.
Veronica  -38.1 124.6 17.9 First name from Latin.
Vesna  -60.3 220.5 14.9 Slavic first name.
Veta  42.6 349.5 6.4 Romanian first name.
Vigée-Lebrun  17.3 141.4 57.8 Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun; French painter (1755–1842). Spelling changed from Vigier Lebrun.
Viola  -36.1 240.5 10 English first name.
Virga  -26.9 7.7 10.3 Lithuanian first name.
Virginia  -52.9 185.9 18.5 First name from Latin.
Virve  -5.1 346.9 18 Estonian first name.
Vlasta  28.4 250.1 10.7 Czech first name.
Volkova  75.2 242.2 47.5 Anna; Russian chemist (1800–1876).
Volyana  60.6 359.9 5.3 Gypsy first name.
von Paradis  -32.2 314.9 37.5 Maria; Austrian pianist (1759–1834).
von Schuurman  -5 191 29.1 Anna Maria van Schurman
Anna Maria van Schurman
Anna Maria van Schurman was a German-Dutch painter, engraver, poet and scholar. She was a highly educated woman by seventeenth century standards...

; Dutch linguist, writer, artist (1607–1678).
Von Siebold  -52 36.6 32.4 Regina; German physician, educator (1771–1849).
von Suttner  -10.6 234.9 24 Bertha; Austrian journalist, pacifist (1843–1914).
Voynich  35.4 56.1 48.7 Ethel Lilian Voynich
Ethel Lilian Voynich
Ethel Lilian Voynich, née Boole was a British novelist and musician, and a supporter of several revolutionary causes. She was born in Cork. Her father was the mathematician George Boole. Her mother was feminist philosopher Mary Everest, niece of George Everest and an author for the...


W

Name Latitude Longitude Diameter (km) Named after
Wanda
Wanda (crater)
Wanda is a crater in the Akna Montes on Venus first mapped first by the Soviet Venera 15/16 mission in 1984. It was formed by the impact of an asteroid. The crater has a rugged central peak and a smooth radar-dark floor, probably volcanic material. The crater does not appear to be much deformed by...

 
71.3 323.1 21.7 Polish first name
Wang Zhenyi  13.2 217.8 23.4 Chinese astronomer, geophysicist (1768–1797).
Warren  -11.7 176.5 50.9 Mercy; American colonial poet, playwright, historian (1728–1814).
Wazata  33.6 298.3 13.9 Hausa (Nigeria) first name.
Weil  19.4 283.1 24.2 Simone; French author (1909–1943).
Wen Shu  -5 303.7 31.5 Chinese painter (1595–1634).
Wendla  22.5 207.6 5.7 Swedish first name.
West  26.1 303 28.8 Rebecca; Irish novelist, critic, actress (1892–1983).
Wharton  55.7 61.9 50.5 Edith; American writer (1862–1937).
Wheatley
Wheatley (crater)
Wheatley is a crater on Venus at latitude 16.6, longitude 268 in Asteria Regio. It is 74.8 km in diameter and was named after Phillis Wheatley, the first black writer of note in America ....

 
16.6 268 74.8 Phillis; first black writer of note in America (1753–1784).
Whiting  -6.1 128 35.7 Sarah; American physicist, astronomer (1847–1927).
Whitney  -30.2 151.3 42.5 Mary; American astronomer (1847–1921).
Wieck  -74.2 244.8 20.2 Clara; German pianist, composer (1819–1896).
Wilder  17.4 122.6 35.1 Laura Ingalls; American author (1867–1957).
Willard  -24.6 296.1 48.4 Emma; American educator (1787–1870).
Wilma  36.7 1.7 12.5 English first name.
Winema  3 168.6 21.7 Modoc Indian heroine, peacemaker (c. 1848-1932).
Winnemucca  -15.4 121.1 30.3 Sarah; Piute interpreter, activist (c. 1844-1891).
Wiwi-yokpa  -73.8 228.4 4.5 Abenaki/Algonquin (Canada) first name.
Wollstonecraft  -39.1 260.8 44.1 Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book...

; English author (1759–1797).
Woolf  -37.7 27.2 24.5 Virginia; British writer (1882–1941).
Workman  -12.9 299.9 17.4 Fanny; American mountaineer, author (1859–1925).
Wu Hou  -25.5 317.4 27.5 Chinese empress (c. 624-705).
Wynne  55 53.6 10 English first name

X

Name Latitude Longitude Diameter (km) Named after
Xantippe  -10.9 11.8 40.4 Xanthippe
Xanthippe
Xanthippe was the wife of Socrates and mother of their three sons: Lamprocles, Sophroniscus, and Menexenus. There are far more stories about her than there are facts. She was likely much younger than Socrates, perhaps by as much as forty years.-Name:...

, the wife of Socrates
Socrates
Socrates was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon, and the plays of his contemporary ...

.
Xenia  -30.3 249.4 13.5 Greek first name
Xi Wang  14 208 7.7 Chinese first name
Xiao Hong  -43.5 101.7 38.7 Xiao Hong
Xiao Hong
Xiao Hong , also spelled Hsiao Hung, was a Chinese writer. Her real name was Zhang Naiying ; she also used the pen name Qiao Yin.Xiao Hong was born in Hulan county, Heilongjiang Province, on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival to a landowning family. Her mother died when Xiao Hong was young, and...

, Chinese novelist (1911–1942)
Ximena  -68.2 243.6 12.8 Portuguese first name

Y

Name Latitude Longitude Diameter (km) Named after
Yablochkina
Yablochkina (crater)
Yablochkina is an impact crater on Venus. It was named after Aleksandra Yablochkina....

 
48.3 195.3 64.3 Aleksandra Yablochkina
Aleksandra Yablochkina
Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Yablochkina was a leading actress of the Maly Theatre in Moscow for more than 75 years. She studied acting under her father before joining the Korsh Theatre troupe in 1886. Two years later, she moved to the Maly, where she worked with Maria Yermolova and Alexander Yuzhin...

; Soviet actress (1866–1964)
Yakyt  2.1 170.2 13.8 Karakalpak first name.
Yale  -13.4 271.2 18.5 Caroline Yale ; American educator of the deaf (1848–1933).
Yambika  32.6 208.7 6.5 Mari (Volga Finn) first name.
Yasuko  -26.1 169 10.6 Japanese first name.
Yazruk  21.2 160.2 10.5 Nivkhi (Amur River area, E. Siberia) first name.
Yelya  -47.5 211.7 8.6 Nenets (Samoyed) first name.
Yemysh  11.9 214.7 6 Mari (Volga Finn) first name.
Yenlik  -16 225.4 8.6 Kazakh first name.
Yerguk  42.7 226.8 6.3 Neghidalian (Amur River) first name.
Yeska  27.4 230.1 9.1 Selkup (Samoyed) first name.
Yetta  58.6 185.4 9 From Henrietta, German first name.
Yokhtik  -50.1 158.1 11.4 Nivkhi (Amur River area, E. Siberia) first name.
Yoko  -5.7 232 5 Japanese first name.
Yolanda  7.8 152.7 11.4 Greek first name.
Yomile  -27.3 138.7 13.6 Bashkir first name.
Yonge  -14 115.1 42.8 Charlotte Mary Yonge
Charlotte Mary Yonge
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; English writer (1823–1901).
Yonok  -65.1 234.1 9.5 Korean first name.
Yonsuk  -34 234.8 8.5 Korean first name.
Yoshioka  -32.4 59 16.6 Yayoi
Yoshioka Yayoi
was a physician and women's rights activist, who founded the in 1900, as the first medical school for women in Japan. She was also known as Washiyama Yayoi.-Biography:...

; Japanese physician, college founder (c. 1871-1959).
Ytunde  49.9 81.1 6.1 Yoruba first name.
Yvette  7.5 249.6 10.6 French first name
Yvonne  -56 298.4 14.5 French first name

Z

Name Latitude Longitude Diameter (km) Named after
Zakiya  -66.5 234.1 7.5 Arabic first name
Zamudio  9.6 189.3 19 Adela Zamudio
Adela Zamudio
Paz Juana Plácida Adela Rafaela Zamudio Ribero , who also used the pen-name Soledad, was a Bolivian poet and novelist.-Works:* Essayos poéticos * Violeta o la princesa azul...

; Bolivian poet (1854–1928).
Zarema  16.8 235.2 5 Avarian (Daghestan) first name.
Zdravka  65.1 299 12.5 Bulgarian first name.
Zeinab  -2.2 159.6 12.5 Persian first name from Arabic
Zemfira  -46.2 157.7 11.4 Gypsy first name.
Zenobia  -29.3 28.6 39.1 Zenobia
Zenobia
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, Queen of Palmyra (Syria) (3rd century AD).
Zerine  -29.6 258.6 6.5 Persian first name.
Zhilova  66.3 125.7 53 Maria Zhilova ; Russian astronomer (1870–1934).
Zhu Shuzhen  -26.5 356.5 29.4 Zhu Shuzhen
Zhu Shuzhen
Zhu Shuzhen was a Chinese poet who lived during the Song dynasty. She married an official with whom she had a bad marriage. She either had an affair or committed suicide and her parents burned poetry by her hand....

, Chinese poet (1126–1200).
Zija  -3.5 265 16.8 Arabic first name.
Zina  41.9 320.1 9 Romanian first name.
Živile  48.8 113.1 13.5 Lithuanian first name.
Zlata  64.6 333.9 7 Serbocroatian first name.
Zosia  -18.9 109.2 10.5 Polish first name.
Zoya  69.1 236.2 20 Russian first name.
Zuhrah  34.7 357 5.8 Arabic first name.
Zula  7.3 282 5 Chechen first name.
Zulfiya  18.4 101.9 12.9 Uzbek first name.
Zulma  -7.7 102 11 Spanish first name.
Zumrad  32.1 94.8 12.9 Uzbek first name.
Zurka  -12.8 275.2 5.5 Gypsy first name.
Zvereva  45.4 283.1 22.9 Lidiya Zvereva, Russian aviator (1890–1916)

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