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List of asteroids named after important people
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This is a list of asteroids named after people, both real and fictional.
Science
Mathematicians
Physicists
Astronomers
- 281 Lucretia (Caroline Lucretia Herschel)
- 366 Vincentina (Vincenzo Cerulli)
- 676 Melitta (Philibert Jacques Melotte)
- 729 Watsonia (James Craig Watson)
- 768 Struveana (Otto Wilhelm von Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve and Karl Hermann Struve)
- 819 Barnardiana (Edward Emerson Barnard)
- 827 Wolfiana (Max Wolf)
- 834 Burnhamia (Sherburne Wesley Burnham)
- 854 Frostia (Edwin Brant Frost)
- 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)
- 1004 Belopolskya (Aristarkh Belopolsky)
- 1021 Flammario (Camille Flammarion)
- 1024 Hale (George Ellery Hale)
- 1040 Klumpkea (Dorothea Klumpke)
- 1111 Reinmuthia (Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth)
- 1120 Cannonia (Annie Jump Cannon)
- 1123 Shapleya (Harlow Shapley)
- 1129 Neujmina (Grigory Neujmin)
- 1134 Kepler (Johannes Kepler)
- 1241 Dysona (Sir Benjamin Watson Valle)
- 1280 Baillauda (Jules Baillaud, son of the astronomer Benjamin 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)
- 1578 Kirkwood (Daniel Kirkwood)
- 1591 Baize (Paul Baize)
- 1600 Vyssotsky (Emma T. R. Williams Vyssotsky)
- 1614 Goldschmidt (Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt)
- 1622 Chacornac (Jean Chacornac)
- 1637 Swings (Pol Swings)
- 1655 Comas Solá (Josep Comas Solá)
- 1686 De Sitter (Willem de Sitter)
- 1677 Tycho Brahe (Tycho Brahe)
- 1693 Hertzsprung (Ejnar Hertzsprung)
- 1714 Sy (Frédéric Sy)
- 1741 Giclas (Henry L. Giclas)
- 1745 Ferguson (James Ferguson)
- 1761 Edmondson (Frank K. Edmondson)
- 1766 Slipher (V. M. Slipher and E. C. Slipher)
- 1776 Kuiper (Gerard Kuiper)
- 1778 Alfvén (Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén)
- 1780 Kippes (Otto Kippes)
- 1803 Zwicky (Fritz Zwicky)
- 1830 Pogson (Norman Robert Pogson)
- 1831 Nicholson (Seth Barnes Nicholson)
- 1832 Mrkos (Antonín Mrkos)
- 1846 Bengt (Bengt Strömgren)
- 1850 Kohoutek (Luboš Kohoutek)
- 1877 Marsden (Brian G. Marsden)
- 1913 Sekanina (Zdenek Sekanina)
- 1940 Whipple (Fred Lawrence Whipple)
- 1983 Bok (Bart Bok)
- 1995 Hajek (Tadeáš Hájek)
- 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)
- 2136 Jugta (Jay U. Gunter)
- 2198 Ceplecha (Zdenek Ceplecha)
- 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)
- 2772 Dugan (Raymond Smith Dugan)
- 2780 Monnig (Oscar Monnig)
- 2801 Huygens (Christiaan Huygens)
- 2813 Zappalà (Vincenzo Zappalà)
- 2849 Shklovskij (Iosif Shklovsky|)
- 2874 Jim Young (James Whitney Young)
- 2875 Lagerkvist (Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist)
- 2900 Luboš Perek (Luboš Perek)
- 2917 Sawyer Hogg (Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg)
- 2996 Bowman (Fred N. Bowman)
- 3070 Aitken (Robert Grant Aitken)
- 3123 Dunham (David Waring Dunham)
- 3169 Ostro (Steven J. Ostro)
- 3174 Alcock (George Alcock)
- 3216 Harrington (Robert Sutton Harrington)
- 3267 Glo (Eleanor "Glo" Helin)
- 3277 Aaronson (Marc Aaronson)
- 3255 Tholen (David J Tholen)
- 3337 Miloš (Miloš Tichý)
- 3449 Abell (George Ogden Abell)
- 3467 Bernheim (Robert Burnham, Jr.)
- 3487 Edgeworth (Kenneth Edgeworth)
- 3549 Hapke (Bruce William Hapke)
- 3673 Levy (David H. Levy)
- 3722 Urata (Takeshi Urata)
- 3808 Tempel (Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel)
- 3847 Šindel (Jan Šindel)
- 3936 Elst (Eric Walter Elst)
- 3999 Aristarchus (Aristarchus of Samos)
- 4037 Ikeya (Kaoru Ikeya)
- 4062 Schiaparelli (Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli)
- 4279 De Gasparis (Annibale de Gasparis)
- 4364 Shkodrov (Vladimir Georgiev Shkodrov)
- 4567 Bečvář (Antonín Bečvář)
- 4593 Reipurth (Bo Reipurth, Danish astronomer)
- 4790 Petrpravec (Petr Pravec)
- 4866 Badillo (Jesuit astronomer and former director of the Manila Observatory, Fr. Victor L. Badillo)
- 5035 Swift (Lewis Swift)
- 5036 Tuttle (Horace Parnell Tuttle)
- 5392 Parker (Donald C. Parker)
- 5757 Tichá (Jana Tichá)
- 6006 Anaximandros (Anaximander)
- 6076 Plavec (Miroslav Plavec)
- 6398 Timhunter (Tim Hunter)
- 7291 Hyakutake (Yuji Hyakutake)
- 7359 Messier (Charles Messier)
- 8785 Boltwood (Paul Boltwood)
- 9133 d'Arrest (Heinrich Louis d'Arrest)
- 9134 Encke (Johann Franz Encke)
- 9121 Stefanovalentini (Stefano Valentini, Italian amateur astronomer and computer programmer)
- 9494 Donici (Nicolae Donici, Romanian astronomer)
- 14124 Kamil (Kamil Hornoch)
- 14120 Espenak (Fred Espenak)
- 14322 Shakura (Nikolai Ivanovich Shakura)
- 15395 Rükl (Antonín Rükl)
- 15955 Johannesgmunden (John of Gmunden)
- 18150 López Moreno (José Juan López Moreno, Spanish astronomer)
- 36445 Smalley (Kyle E. Smalley)
- 68730 Straizys (Vytautas Straižys, Lithuanian astronomer, the founder of Vilnius photometric system)
- 72021 Yisunji (Yi, Sunji, Korean astronomer in 15th century)
- 95593 Azusienis (Algimantas Ažusienis, Lithuanian astronomer)
- 99503 Leewonchul (Lee, Wonchul, Korean astronomer)
- 106817 Yubangtaek (Yu, Bangtaek, Korean astronomer in 13th century)
Space exploration
Other sciences
- 1007 Pawlowia (Ivan Pavlov, physiologist)
- 2177 Oliver (Bernard M. Oliver, research scientist)
- 2496 Fernandus (Fernandus Payne, zoologist)
- 2766 Leeuwenhoek (Anton van Leeuwenhoek, pioneering cell biologist)
- 3069 Heyrovský (Jaroslav Heyrovský, chemist and physicist)
- 3256 Daguerre (Louis Daguerre, photographic pioneer)
- 3313 Mendel (Gregor Mendel, father of genetics)
- 3701 Purkyně (Jan Evangelista Purkyně, fysiologist)
- 3899 Wichterle (Otto Wichterle, chemist)
- 4342 Freud (Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis)
- 4564 Clayton (Robert Clayton, chemist)
- 4565 Grossman (Lawrence Grossman, geochemist)
- 7552 Sephton (Mark Sephton, geochemist)
- 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)
- 5958 Barrande (Joachim Barrande, geologist and paleontologist)
- 6032 Nobel (Alfred Nobel, chemist)
- 6175 Cori (Carl Ferdinand Cori and Gerty Theresa Cori, biochemists)
- 6826 Lavoisier (Antoine Lavoisier, chemist)
- 8373 Stephengould (Stephen Jay Gould, evolutionist and essayist)
- 9793 Torvalds (Linus Torvalds, computer scientist)
- 9882 Stallman (Richard M. Stallman, computer scientist)
- 15465 Buchroeder (Richard A. Buchroeder, optical engineer)
- 15565 Benjaminsteele (Benjamin Steele, biologist)
- 19139 Apian (Peter Apian)
- 20780 Chanyikhei (Chan Yik Hei)
- 73079 Davidbaltimore (David Baltimore, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Laureate)
Politicians and monarchs
- 12 Victoria (officially named after the Roman goddess of victory, but also honours Queen Victoria)
- 45 Eugenia (Empress Eugénie), with its moon Petit-Prince in part for her son Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial
- 216 Kleopatra (Cleopatra VII of Egypt)
- 852 Wladilena (Vladimir Lenin)
- 911 Agamemnon (Agamemnon)
- 932 Hooveria (Herbert Hoover)
- 944 Hidalgo (Miguel Hidalgo)
- 1068 Nofretete (Nefertiti)
- 1128 Astrid (Astrid of Sweden)
- 1841 Masaryk (Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, 1st Czechoslovak president)
- 3571 Milanštefánik (Milan Rastislav Štefánik)
- 4317 Garibaldi (Giuseppe Garibaldi)
- 4721 Atahualpa (Atahuallpa)
- 4927 O'Connell (Daniel O'Connell)
- 7117 Claudius (Emperor Claudius)
- 7211 Xerxes (Xerxes)
- 8740 Václav (Václav, name of several Bohemian monarchs)
- 9275 Persson (Jöran Persson)
- 10293 Pribina (Pribina, ruler of Nitrian Principality)
- 11014 Svätopluk (Svätopluk, ruler of Great Moravia)
- 11830 Jessenius (Jan Jessenius)
- 16951 Carolus Quartus (Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia)
- 17702 Kryštofharant (Kryštof Harant)
- 20969 Samo (Samo, ruler of Samo’s Empire)
- 25340 Segoves (Segoves, Celtic duke)
- 44613 Rudolf (Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperor, king of Bohemia and Hungary)
- 53285 Mojmír (Mojmír I, ruler of Great Moravia)
War heroes and veterans
World War II heroes and veterans
Other war heroes
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])
- 3357 Tolstikov (Yevgeny Tolstikov, polar explorer)
- 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)
- 15425 Welzl (Jan Welzl, Arctic explorer)
Historians
Other social scientists
Philosophers
The Arts
Literature
General authors
Novelists
Poets
Playwrights
Satirists
Translators
Visual arts
- 2730 Barks (Carl Barks, cartoonist)
- 3001 Michelangelo (Michelangelo Buonarroti, painter and sculptor)
- 4511 Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn, painter)
- 4671 Drtikol (František Drtikol, photographer)
- 4691 Toyen, (Toyen), painter and graphic artist)
- 5055 Opekushin (Alexander Opekushin, sculptor)
- 5122 Mucha (Alfons Mucha, painter and graphic artist)
- 5363 Kupka (František Kupka, painter and graphic artist)
- 5800 Pollock (Jackson Pollock, painter)
- 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)
- 6768 Mathiasbraun (Mathias Braun, also known as Matyáš Braun, sculptor and carver)
- 6769 Brokoff (Johann Brokoff, also known as Jan Brokoff, sculptor and carver)
- 7701 Zrzavý (Jan Zrzavý, painter)
- 7867 Burian (Zdeněk Burian, painter and book illustrator)
- 8236 Gainsborough (Thomas Gainsborough, landscape and portrait artist)
- 8237 Constable (John Constable, painter)
- 8240 Matisse (Henri Matisse, painter)
- 14976 Josefčapek (Josef Čapek, painter and writer)
- 17625 Joseflada (Josef Lada, painter)
- 17806 Adolfborn (Adolf Born, painter)
- 20364 Zdeněkmiler (Zdeněk Miler, animator and illustrator)
- 29490 Myslbek (Josef Václav Myslbek, sculptor)
- 46280 Hollar (Václav Hollar, graphic artist and painter)
Architects
Classical music
Composers
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