Lunar features named after mathematicians


About 350 mathematicians in our archive have lunar features (mostly craters) named after them.
You can see an account of how these features were named and links to files of whom they were called after.

You can see a Wikipedia article on the feature by clicking on the (W) next to a name.
You can see a Lunar and Planetary Institute picture of the feature by clicking on the (L) next to a name.

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CATENAS
(L) Catena Gregory (James)
(L) Catena Sylvester

CRATERS
A
(W) (L) Abbe
(W) (L) Abel
(W) (L) Abenezra (A ben Ezra)
(W) (L) Abul Wafa
(W) (L) Adams
(W)       Aepinus
(W) (L) Airy
(W) (L) Albategnius
(W) (L) Al-Biruni
(W) (L) Alhazen
(W) (L) Al-Khwarizmi
(W)       Al-Marrakushi (Al-Banna)
(W) (L) Anaxagoras
(W) (L) Apollonius
(W) (L) Arago
(W) (L) Archimedes
(W) (L) Archytas
(W) (L) Aristarchus
(W) (L) Aristoteles
(W) (L) Aryabhata_I
(W) (L) Arzachel (Al-Zarqali)
(W) (L) Atwood
(W) (L) Autolycus
(W) (L) Avicenna
B
(W) (L) Babbage
(W) (L) Bacon
(W) (L) Baillaud
(W) (L) Balmer
(W)       Banachiewicz
(W) (L) Barkla
(W) (L) Barocius
(W) (L) Barrow
(W) (L) Bernoulli (Jacob/Johann)
(W) (L) Bessel
(W) (L) Billy
(W) (L) Biot
(W) (L) Birkhoff
(W) (L) Bjerknes (Vilhelm)
(W)       Bliss (Nathaniel)
(W) (L) Bobillier
(W) (L) Boethius
(W) (L) Bohr (Niels)
(W) (L) Boltzmann
(W) (L) Bolyai
(W)       Bombelli
(W)       Boole
(W) (L) Borda
(W) (L) Borel
(W) (L) Born
(W) (L) Boscovich
(W) (L) Bouguer
(W) (L) Bowditch
(W) (L) Boyle
(W) (L) Brianchon
(W) (L) Briggs
(W) (L) Brouwer
(W) (L) Brown
(W) (L) Buffon
(W) (L) Burckhardt
(W) (L) Byrgius (Bürgi)
C
(W) (L) Cajori
(W) (L) Calippus
(W) (L) Campanus
(W) (L) Cannon
(W) (L) Cantor (George/Moritz)
(W) (L) Cardanus
(W) (L) Carnot (Sadi)
(W)       Cartan
(W) (L) Cassini I (and II)
(W) (L) Cauchy
(W) (L) Cavalerius
(W) (L) Cayley
(W) (L) Celsius
(W)       Champollion
(W)       Chang Heng (Zhang Heng)
(W) (L) Chaplygin
(W)       Chapman
(W) (L) Chauvenet
(W) (L) Chebyshev
(W) (L) Clairaut
(W) (L) Clausius
(W) (L) Clavius
(W) (L) Cleomedes
(W) (L) Clerke
(W) (L) Condorcet
(W) (L) Conon
(W) (L) Copernicus
(W) (L) Coriolis
(W) (L) Coulomb
(W)       Cremona
D
(W) (L) da Vinci
(W) (L) D'Alembert
(W) (L) De Morgan
(W) (L) de Sitter
(W) (L) Delambre
(W) (L) Delaunay
(W) (L) Democritus
(W) (L) Desargues
(W) (L) Descartes
(W) (L) Diophantus
(W) (L) Dirichlet
(W) (L) Doppelmayer
(W) (L) Doppler
E
(W)       Eckert (Wallace)
(W) (L) Eddington
(W) (L) Einstein
(W) (L) Eotvos
(W) (L) Eratosthenes
(W)       Esclangon
(W) (L) Euclides
(W) (L) Eudoxus
(W) (L) Euler
F
(W) (L) Faraday
(W) (L) Fermat
(W) (L) Fermi
(W) (L) Fizeau
(W)       FitzGerald
(W) (L) Flamsteed
(W)       Fleming
(W) (L) Fontenelle
(W) (L) Foucault
(W) (L) Fourier
(W) (L) Fowler (Ralph)
(W) (L) Franklin (Benjamin)
(W)       Fredholm
G
(W) (L) Galilaei
(W) (L) Galois
(W)       Garavito
(W) (L) Gassendi
(W) (L) Gauss
(W) (L) Geminus
(W) (L) Gemma Frisius
(W) (L) Gibbs
(W) (L) Giordano Bruno
(W) (L) Glaisher
(W) (L) Green
(W) (L) Gregory (James)
(W) (L) Grimaldi
H
(W) (L) Halley
(W)       Hamilton
(W) (L) Harriot
(W) (L) Heaviside
(W) (L) Helmholtz
(W) (L) Herigonius
(W) (L) Hermann
(W) (L) Hermite
(W) (L) C. Herschel (Caroline)
(W) (L) J. Herschel (John)
(W) (L) Herschel (William)
(W) (L) Hevelius (Johannes)
(W) (L) Hilbert
(W) (L) Hill
(W) (L) Hipparchus
(W) (L) Hooke
(W) (L) Hubble
(W) (L) Hypatia
J
(W) (L) Jacobi
(W) (L) Jeans
K
(W) (L) Kastner
(W) (L) Kepler
(W) (L) Kirchhoff
(W) (L) Kovalevskaya
(W) (L) Krylov (Aleksei)
(W) (L) Kuo Shou Ching (Guo Shoujing)
L
(W) (L) La Condamine
(W) (L) Lacroix
(W) (L) Lagrange
(W) (L) Lalande (Jérôme)
(W) (L) Lamb
(W) (L) Lambert
(W) (L) Lame
(W) (L) Landau (Lev)
(W) (L) Larmor
(W) (L) Le Verrier
(W) (L) Lebesgue
(W) (L) Legendre
(W) (L) Leibnitz
(W) (L) Lepaute
(W) (L) Leucippus
(W) (L) Levi-Civita
(W) (L) Lexell
(W) (L) Liouville
(W) (L) Lobachevsky
(W) (L) Lorentz
(W) (L) Love
(W) (L) Lyapunov
M
(W) (L) Maclaurin
(W) (L) Markov
(W) (L) Maskelyne
(W) (L) Maunder
(W) (L) Maupertuis
(W) (L) Maurolycus
(W) (L) Maxwell
(W) (L) C. Mayer
(W) (L) T. Mayer
(W) (L) Menelaus
(W) (L) Mercator (Gerard)
(W) (L) Mersenius
(W) (L) Meshcherskiy
(W) (L) Miller
(W) (L) Milne
(W) (L) Mineur
(W) (L) Minkowski
(W) (L) Mitchell (Maria)
(W) (L) Mobius
(W) (L) Monge
N
(W) (L) Nasireddin (Al-Tusi Nasir)
(W) (L) Neper (Napier)
(W) (L) Newcomb
(W) (L) Newton
(W) (L) Nicollet
(W) (L) Noether (Emmy)
O
(W) (L) Ohm
(W) (L) Omar Khayyam
(W) (L) Oresme
(W) (L) Orontius
P
(W) (L) Pascal
(W) (L) Pauli
(W) (L) Peirce (Benjamin)
(W)       Petit
(W) (L) Petzval
(W) (L) Piazzi
(W) (L) Picard (Jean)
(W) (L) Pitiscus
(W) (L) Plana
(W) (L) Planck
(W) (L) Plato
(W) (L) Playfair
(W) (L) Plummer
(W) (L) Poincare
(W) (L) Poinsot
(W) (L) Poisson
(W) (L) Poncelet
(W) (L) Posidonius
(W)       Prandtl
(W) (L) Proclus
(W) (L) Ptolemaeus
(W) (L) Puiseux
(W) (L) Pythagoras
Q
(W) (L) Quetelet
R
(W) (L) Rabbi Levi
(W) (L) Ramsden
(W) (L) Rankine
(W) (L) Rayleigh
(W) (L) Regiomontanus
(W) (L) Reinhold
(W) (L) Rhaeticus
(W) (L) Riccioli
(W) (L) Riccius (Matteo)
(W) (L) Riemann
(W) (L) Rittenhouse
(W) (L) Robertson
(W) (L) Runge
(W)       Rydberg
S
(W) (L) Sacrobosco
(W)       Sampson
(W) (L) Schickard
(W) (L) Schrodinger
(W) (L) Schroter
(W) (L) Schwarzschild
(W) (L) Segner
(W) (L) Seidel
(W) (L) Shapley
(W) (L) Shirakatsi (Ananias)
(W) (L) Sierpinski
(W) (L) Snellius
(W) (L) Somerville
(W) (L) Sommerfeld
(W) (L) Stefan (Josef)
(W) (L) Steklov
(W) (L) Stevinus
(W)       Stokes
(W) (L) Subbotin
(W) (L) Sylvester
T
(W) (L) Tacquet
(W)       Talbot
(W) (L) Taylor
(W) (L) Thales
(W) (L) Theaetetus
(W) (L) Thebit
(W) (L) Theon Junior
(W) (L) Theon Senior
(W) (L) Tisserand
(W) (L) Torricelli
(W) (L) Tycho (Brahe)
U
(W) (L) Ulugh Beigh
V
(W) (L) Van Vleck
(W) (L) Vega
(W) (L) Vieta
(W) (L) Viviani
(W) (L) Vlacq
(W)       Volterra
(W) (L) Von Karman
(W) (L) Von Neumann
W
(W) (L) Weber
(W) (L) Weierstrass
(W) (L) Weyl
(W) (L) Whewell
(W) (L) Wiener (Norbert)
(W) (L) Wilson (Alexander)
(W) (L) Winlock (Joseph)
Y
(W) (L) Young (Thomas)
Z
(W) (L) Zhukovskiy
(W)       Zwicky

MONS
(W) (L) Mons Ampere
(W) (L) Montes Archimedes
(W) (L) Mons Bradley
(W) (L) Mons Huygens
(W) (L) Mons La Hire
(W) (L) Mons Euler
(now Mons Vinogradov)

PROMONTORIA
(W) (L) Promontorium Fresnel
(W) (L) Promontorium Kelvin
(W) (L) Promontorium Laplace

RIMAE
(W) (L) Rimae Apollonius
(W) (L) Rimae Archimedes
(W)       Rima Archytas
(W) (L) Rimae Aristarchus
(W) (L) Rima Billy
(W) (L) Rimae Boscovich
(W) (L) Rima Bradley
(W) (L) Rimae Burg
(W) (L) Rima Calippus
(W) (L) Rima Cardanus
(W) (L) Rima Cauchy
(W)       Rima Conon
(W) (L) Rima Diophantus
(W) (L) Rimae Doppelmayer
(W)       Rima Euler
(W) (L) Rimae Fresnel
(W) (L) Rima Galilaei
(W) (L) Rimae Gassendi
(W) (L) Rima Hadley
(W) (L) Rimae Herigonius
(W) (L) Rimae Hypatia
(W) (L) Rimae Maupertuis
(W)       Rima T. Mayer
(W) (L) Rimae Menelaus
(W) (L) Rimae Mersenius
(W) (L) Rimae Plato
(W) (L) Rimae Ramsden

RUPES
(W) (L) Rupes Cauchy
(W) (L) Rupes Kelvin
(W) (L) Rupes Mercator

VALLES
(W) (L) Vallis Bohr (Niels)
(W)       Vallis Planck
(W) (L) Vallis Schrodinger
(W) (L) Vallis Snellius

Other Web sites:

Wikipedia lunar crater list
The Moon-wiki
Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature