This is a list of asteroids named after important people:
Science
Physicists
Astronomers
- 366 Vincentina (Vincenzo Cerulli)
- 676 Melitta (Philibert Jacques Melotte)
- 729 Watsonia (James Craig Watson)
- 768 Struveana (Otto Wilhelm von Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve and Karl Hermann Struve)
- 819 Barnardiana (Edward Emerson Barnard)
- 827 Wolfiana (Max Wolf)
- 914 Palisana (Johann Palisa)
- 999 Zachia (Franz Xaver, Baron von Zach)
- 1000 Piazzia (Giuseppe Piazzi, discoverer of the asteroid 1 Ceres)
- 1002 Olbersia (Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, astronomer, physician, physicist)
- 1042 Hale (George Ellery Hale)
- 1111 Reinmuthia (Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth)
- 1129 Neujmina (Grigory Nikolaevich Neujmin)
- 1134 Kepler (Johannes Kepler)
- 1241 Dysona (Sir Frank Watson Dyson)
- 1280 Baillauda (Jules Baillaud)
- 1303 Luthera (Karl Theodor Robert Luther)
- 1412 Lagrula (Joanny-Philippe Lagrula)
- 1501 Baade (Walter Baade)
- 1510 Charlois (Auguste Charlois)
- 1529 Oterma (Liisi Oterma)
- 1539 Borrelly (Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly)
- 1563 Noël (Emanuel Arend, son of the astronomer Sylvain Julien Victor Arend)
- 1573 Väisälä (Yrjö Väisälä, astronomer and physicist)
- 1578 Kirkwood (Daniel Kirkwood)
- 1600 Vyssotsky (Emma T.R. Williams Vyssotsky)
- 1614 Goldschmidt (Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt, astronomer and painter)
- 1622 Chacornac (Jean Chacornac)
- 1655 Comas Solá (Josep Comas Solá)
- 1686 De Sitter (Willem de Sitter, mathematician, physicist and astronomer)
- 1693 Hertzsprung (Ejnar Hertzsprung, chemist and astronomer)
- 1714 Sy (Frédéric Sy)
- 1745 Ferguson (James Ferguson)
- 1761 Edmondson (Frank K. Edmondson)
- 1776 Kuiper (Gerard Kuiper)
- 1778 Alfvén (Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén, Swedish electrical power engineer and astrophysicist)
- 1803 Zwicky (Fritz Zwicky)
- 1830 Pogson (Norman Robert Pogson)
- 1831 Nicholson (Seth Barnes Nicholson)
- 1850 Kohoutek (Luboš Kohoutek)
- 1877 Marsden (Brian G. Marsden)
- 1940 Whipple (Fred Lawrence Whipple)
- 1983 Bok (Bart Bok)
- 1995 Hajek (Tadeás Hájek, astronomer, physician and occultist)
- 1998 Titius (Johann Daniel Titius)
- 1999 Hirayama (Kiyotsugu Hirayama)
- 2000 Herschel (John Herschel)
- 2003 Harding (Karl Ludwig Harding)
- 2005 Hencke (Karl Ludwig Hencke)
- 2018 Schuster (Hans-Emil Schuster)
- 2074 Shoemaker (Eugene Shoemaker)
- 2099 Öpik (Ernst Julius Öpik, astronomer and astrophysicist)
- 2325 Chernykh (Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh and Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh)
- 2602 Moore (Sir Patrick Moore)
- 2635 Huggins (William Huggins)
- 2646 Abetti (Antonio Abetti and Giorgio Abetti)
- 2709 Sagan (Carl Sagan, astronomer and science popularizer)
- 2772 Dugan (Raymond Smith Dugan)
- 2801 Huygens (Christiaan Huygens)
- 2813 Zappalŕ (Vincenzo Zappalŕ)
- 2849 Shklovskij (Iosif Shklovsky|)
- 2917 Sawyer Hogg (Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg, astronomer and columnist)
- 3070 Aitken (Robert Grant Aitken)
- 3169 Ostro (Steven J. Ostro)
- 3174 Alcock (George Alcock, comet and nova hunter)
- 3216 Harrington (Robert Sutton Harrington)
- 3277 Aaronson (Marc Aaronson)
- 3467 Bernheim (Robert Burnham, Jr., author of Burnham's Celestial Handbook)
- 3673 Levy (Davide Levy, astronomer and author)
- 3722 Urata (Takeshi Urata, asteroid hunter)
- 3808 Tempel (Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel)
- 3936 Elst (Eric Walter Elst)
- 3999 Aristarchus (Aristarchus, Ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician)
- 4037 Ikeya (Kaoru Ikeya, comet hunter)
- 4062 Schiaparelli (Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli, Mars mapper)
- 4279 De Gasparis (Annibale de Gasparis)
- 4364 Shkodrov (Vladimir Georgiev Shkodrov)
- 4593 Reipurth (Bo Reipurth)
- 4987 Flamsteed (John Flamsteed, Astronomer Royal)
- 5035 Swift (Lewis Swift, comet hunter)
- 5036 Tuttle (Horace Parnell Tuttle, comet hunter)
- 5757 Tichá (Jana Tichá)
- 6006 Anaximandros (Anaximander, Ancient Greek astronomer)
- 7291 Hyakutake (Yuji Hyakutake, amateur astronomer and comet hunter)
- 7359 Messier (Charles Messier)
- 9133 d'Arrest (Heinrich Louis d'Arrest)
- 9134 Encke (Johann Franz Encke)
Space exploration
Other sciences
- 1858 Lobachevskij (Nikolai Lobachevsky, mathematician)
- 1859 Kovalevskaya (Sofia Kovalevskaya, mathematician)
- 1996 Adams (John Couch Adams, mathematician)
- 1997 Leverrier (Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, mathematician)
- 2010 Chebyshev (Pafnuti Chebyshev, mathematician)
- 2766 Leeuwenhoek (Anton van Leeuwenhoek, pioneering cell biologist)
- 3256 Daguerre (Louis Daguerre, photographic pioneer)
- 3313 Mendel (Gregor Mendel, father of genetics)
- 4342 Freud (Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis)
- 4354 Euclides (Euclid, mathematician)
- 4564 Clayton (Robert Clayton), chemist
- 4565 Grossman (Lawrence Grossman), geochemist
- 4628 Laplace (Pierre-Simon Laplace, mathematician)
- 4716 Urey (Harold Urey), chemist
- 4798 Mercator (Gerardus Mercator, cartographer)
- 4815 Anders (Robert Anders), chemist
- 5102 Benfranklin (Benjamin Franklin, scientist/philosopher/statesman)
- 5697 Arrhenius (Svante Arrhenius), chemist
- 5864 Montgolfier (Montgolfier brothers, hot air balloon pioneers)
- 6032 Nobel (Alfred Nobel, chemist)
- 6143 Pythagoras (Pythagoras, mathematician)
- 6765 Fibonacci (Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa, mathematician)
- 6826 Lavoisier (Antoine Lavoisier, chemist)
- 8373 Stephengould (Stephen Jay Gould, evolutionist and essayist)
- 12493 Minkowski (Hermann Minkowski, mathematician)
Politicians and monarchs
War heroes and veterans
World War II heroes and veterans
Religion
Explorers
- 54 Alexandra (Alexander von Humboldt, naturalist and explorer)
- 853 Nansenia (Fridtjof Nansen, polar explorer)
- 1065 Amundsenia (Roald Amundsen, polar explorer)
- 2473 Heyerdahl (Thor Heyerdahl, archaeologist and writer)
- 2785 Sedov (Georgy Sedov, Arctic explorer)
- 3130 Hillary (Edmund Hillary, mountaineer [see Tenzing, below])
- 4055 Magellan (Ferdinand Magellan, circumnavigator)
- 6481 Tenzing (Tenzing Norgay, Sherpa [see Hillary, above])
- 6542 Jacquescousteau (Jacques-Yves Cousteau, marine explorer)
- 8291 Bingham (Hiram Bingham III, explorer)
Historians
Philosophers
The Arts
Literature
General authors
Novelists
Poets
Playwrights
Satirists
Visual arts
- 2730 Barks (Carl Barks, cartoonist)
- 3001 Michelangelo (Michelangelo Buonarroti, painter and sculptor)
- 4511 Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn, painter)
- 5800 Pollock (Jackson Pollock, painter)
- 6055 Brunelleschi (Filippo Brunelleschi, architect)
- 6056 Donatello (Donatello, painter)
- 6592 Goya (Francisco Goya, painter)
- 6674 Cézanne (Paul Cézanne, painter)
- 6676 Monet (Claude Monet, painter)
- 6677 Renoir (Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painter)
- 6701 Warhol (Andy Warhol, artist)
- 8236 Gainsborough (Thomas Gainsborough, landscape and portrait artist)
- 8237 Constable (John Constable, painter)
- 8240 Matisse (Henri Matisse, painter)
Classical music
Composers
- 1034 Mozartia (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer)
- 1059 Mussorgskia (Modest Mussorgsky, composer)
- 1405 Sibelius (Jean Sibelius, composer)
- 1814 Bach (member of Bach family, probably Johann Sebastian Bach, composer)
- 1815 Beethoven (Ludwig van Beethoven, composer)
- 1818 Brahms (Johannes Brahms, composer)
- 2047 Smetana (Bedrich Smetana, composer)
- 2055 Dvořák (Antonin Dvorak, composer)
- 2073 Janáček (Leos Janacek, composer)
- 2205 Glinka (Mikhail Glinka, composer)
- 2266 Tchaikovsky (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer)
- 2523 Ryba (Jakub Jan Ryba, composer)
- 2669 Shostakovich (Dmitri Shostakovich, composer)
- 3081 Martinůboh (Bohuslav Martinu, composer)
- 3159 Prokof'ev (Sergei Prokofiev, composer)
- 3590 Holst (Gustav Holst, composer)
- 3592 Nedbal (Oskar Nedbal, composer)
- 3784 Chopin (Frédéric Chopin, composer)
- 3826 Handel (George Frideric Handel, composer)
- 3917 Franz Schubert (Franz Schubert, composer)
- 3941 Haydn (Joseph Haydn, composer)
- 3954 Mendelssohn (Felix Mendelssohn, composer)
- 3955 Bruckner (Anton Bruckner, composer)
- 3975 Verdi (Giuseppe Verdi, composer)
- 3992 Wagner (Richard Wagner, composer
- 4003 Schumann (probably Robert Schumann, composer)
- 4040 Purcell (Henry Purcell, composer)
- 4079 Britten (Benjamin Britten, composer)
- 4132 Bartók (Béla Bartók, composer)
- 4134 Schütz (Heinrich Schütz, composer)
- 4330 Vivaldi (Antonio Vivaldi, composer)
- 4345 Rachmaninoff (Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer)
- 4382 Stravinsky (Igor Stravinsky, composer)
- 4406 Mahler (Gustav Mahler, composer)
- 4492 Debussy (Claude Debussy, composer)
- 4515 Khrennikov (Tikhon Khrennikov, composer)
- 4527 Schoenberg (Arnold Schoenberg, composer)
- 4528 Berg (Alban Berg, composer)
- 4429 Webern (Anton Webern, composer)
- 4532 Copland (Aaron Copland, composer)
- 4534 Rimskij-Korsakov (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composer)
- 4546 Franck (Cesar Franck, composer)
- 4559 Strauss (Johann Strauss family or Richard Strauss)
- 4579 Puccini (Giacomo Puccini, composer)
- 4625 Shchedrin (Rodion Shchedrin, composer)
- 4727 Ravel (Maurice Ravel, composer)
- 4734 Rameau (Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer
- 4802 Khatchaturian (Aram Khatchaturian, composer)
- 4818 Elgar (Edward Elgar, composer)
- 4850 Palestrina (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, composer)
- 4972 Pachelbel (Johann Pachelbel, composer)
- 5004 Bruch (Max Bruch, composer)
- 5063 Monteverdi (Claudio Monteverdi, composer)
- 5157 Hindemith (Paul Hindemith, composer)
- 5177 Hugowolf (Hugo Wolf, composer)
- 5203 Pavarotti (Luciano Pavarotti, opera singer)
- 5210 Saint-Saëns (Camille Saint-Saëns, composer)
- 6480 Scarlatti (Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti, both composers)
- 6549 Skryabin (Alexander Scriabin, composer)
- 6777 Balakirev (Mily Balakirev, composer)
- 6780 Borodin (Alexander Borodin, composer)
- 6798 Couperin (François Couperin, composer)
- 7522 Pergolesi (Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, composer)
- 7624 Gluck (Christoph Willibald Gluck, composer)
- 7625 Louisspohr (Louis Spohr, composer)
- 7903 Albinoni (Tomaso Albinoni, composer)
- 8181 Rossini (Gioacchino Rossini, composer)
- 8249 Gershwin (George Gershwin, composer)
- 8877 Rentaro (Taki Rentaro, composer)
- 9438 Satie (Erik Satie, composer)
- 9912 Donizetti (Gaetano Donizetti, composer)
- 9913 Humperdinck (Engelbert Humperdinck, composer)
- 10055 Silcher (Friedrich Silcher, composer)
- 10116 Robertfranz (Robert Franz, composer)
- 10820 Offenbach (Jacques Offenbach, composer)
- 10875 Veracini (Francesco Maria Veracini, composer)
- 11050 Messiaën (Olivier Messiaën, composer)
- 11289 Frescobaldi (Girolamo Frescobaldi, composer)
- 11530 d'Indy (Vincent d'Indy, composer)
- 11899 Weill (Kurt Weill, composer)
- 15808 Zelter (Carl Friedrich Zelter, composer)
- 16590 Brunowalter (Bruno Walter, composer and conductor)
- 17509 Ikumadan (Ikuma Dan, composer)
- 69288 Berlioz (Hector Berlioz, composer)
Operas and musical pieces
Entertainment
Popular music
- 2620 Santana (Carlos Santana, musician)
- 3834 Zappafrank (Frank Zappa, musician)
- 4305 Clapton (Eric Clapton, musician)
- 4442 Garcia (Jerry Garcia, musician)
- The Beatles members:
- 6354 Vangelis (Vangelis Papathanassiou, composer)
- 6433 Enya (Enya, musician)
- 7934 Sinatra (Frank Sinatra, vocalist)
- 8249 Gershwin (George Gershwin, composer)
- 9179 Satchmo (Louis Armstrong, musician)
- 16155 Buddy (Buddy Holly, musician)
- 17059 Elvis (Elvis Presley, musician)
- 18125 Brianwilson (Brian Wilson, musician)
- 23990 Springsteen (Bruce Springsteen, musician)
Film and TV
- 2374 Vladvysotskij, (Vladimir Vysotsky, singer, poet, writer, movie and theatre actor)
- 2816 Pien, (Armand Pien (1920-2003), Belgian TV weatherman)
- 3147 Samantha (Samantha Smith, US girl, peace ambassador, actress)
- 3252 Johnny (Johnny Carson, Talk Show Host)
- 4238 Audrey (Audrey Hepburn, actress)
- 4659 Roddenberry (Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek creator)
- 6318 Cronkite (Walter Cronkite, TV newsreader)
- 6377 Cagney (James Cagney, actor)
- 6546 Kaye (Danny Kaye, actor and comedian)
- 7032 Hitchcock (Alfred Hitchcock, film director)
- 7037 Davidlean (David Lean, film director)
- 8299 Téaleoni (Téa Leoni, actress)
- 8353 Megryan (Meg Ryan, actress)
- 9341 Gracekelly (Grace Kelly, actress)
- 9342 Carygrant (Cary Grant, actor)
- Monty Python members:
- 10221 Kubrick (Stanley Kubrick)
- 10378 Ingmarbergman (Ingmar Bergman, film director)
- 11548 Jerrylewis (Jerry Lewis, comedian and actor)
- 13070 Seanconnery (Sean Connery, actor)
- 17744 Jodiefoster (Jodie Foster, actress)
- 19578 Kirkdouglas (Kirk Douglas, actor)
- 26858 Misterrogers (Fred Rogers, US children's television host)
Sports
Other entertainers
Others
Fictional characters
Characters in classic fiction
Characters in modern fiction
References
See also
pt:Lista de asteróides com nomes de pessoas importantes
