List of craters on Venus
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This is a list of named craters on Venus
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craters are named after famous women or female first names.
Direction of Increasing Longitude: east
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
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Name | Latitude | Longitude | Diameter (km) | Named after |
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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 |
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Name | Latitude | Longitude | Diameter (km) | Named after |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Name | Latitude | Longitude | Diameter (km) | Named after |
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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 |
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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 Charlotte Mary Yonge , was an English novelist, known for her huge output, now mostly out of print.- Life :Charlotte Mary Yonge was born in Otterbourne, Hampshire, England, on 11 August 1823 to William Yonge and Fanny Yonge, née Bargus. She was educated at home by her father, studying Latin, Greek,... ; 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 |
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Name | Latitude | Longitude | Diameter (km) | Named after |
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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 Zenobia was a 3rd-century Queen of the Palmyrene Empire in Roman Syria. She led a famous revolt against the Roman Empire. The second wife of King Septimius Odaenathus, Zenobia became queen of the Palmyrene Empire following Odaenathus' death in 267... , 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) |