List of craters on the Moon
This is a list of the craters on the Moon:
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| Abbe | Ernst Abbe |
| Abbot | Charles Greeley Abbot |
| Abel | Niels Henrik Abel |
| Abenezra | Abraham ibn Ezra |
| Abetti | Antonio Abetti, Georgio Abetti |
| Abul Wáfa | Abul Wafa, Persian astronomer and mathematician |
| Abulfeda | Ismael Abul-fida, Syrian geographer |
| Acosta | Cristobal Acosta, Portuguese doctor |
| Adams | John Couch Adams, Walter Sydney Adams, Charles H. Adams |
| Agatharchides | Agatharchides |
| Agrippa | Agrippa, Greek astronomer |
| Airy | George Biddell Airy |
| Aitken | Robert Aitken |
| Akis | (Greek female name) |
| Alan | (Irish male name) |
| Al-Bakri | A. A. al-Bakri, Spanish-Arabian geographer |
| Albategnius | al-Batani |
| Al-Biruni | al-Biruni |
| Alden | Harold Alden, American astronomer |
| Alder | Kurt Alder |
| Aldrin | Buzz Aldrin |
| Alekhin | Nikolai Alekhin, Soviet rocket designer |
| Alexander | Alexander the Great |
| Alfraganus | al Fargani, Persian astronomer |
| Alhazen | Alhazen |
| Aliacensis | Pierre d'Ailly |
| Al-Khwarizmi | al-Khwarizmi |
| Almanon | Abdalla Al Mamun, Persian astronomer |
| Al-Marrakushi | Al-Marrakushi, Moroccan astronomer |
| Aloha | (a Hawaiian greeting) |
| Alpetragius | Nur Ed-Din Al Betrugi, Moroccan astronomer |
| Alphonsus | Alfonso X of Castile |
| Alter | Dinsmore Alter, American astronomer |
| Ameghino | Fiorino Ameghino, Italian natural historian |
| Amici | Giovanni Amici, Italian astronomer |
| Ammonius | Ammonius, Greek philosopher |
| Amontons | Guillaume Amontons |
| Amundsen | Roald Amundsen |
| Anaxagoras | Anaxagoras |
| Anaximander | Anaximander |
| Anaximenes | Anaximenes |
| Andĕl | |
| Anders | William A. Anders |
| Anderson | |
| Andersson | |
| Andronov | |
| Ango | (African male name) |
| Angström | Anders Jonas Ångström |
| Ann | (Hebrew female name) |
| Annegrit | (German female name) |
| Ansgarius | |
| Antoniadi | Eugene Antoniadi |
| Anuchin | |
| Anville | |
| Apianus | Petrus Apianus |
| Apollo | Apollo program |
| Apollonius | Apollonius of Perga |
| Appleton | Edward Victor Appleton |
| Arago | François Arago |
| Aratus | |
| Archimedes | Archimedes |
| Archytas | Archytas |
| Argelander | Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander |
| Ariadaeus | |
| Aristarchus | Aristarchus |
| Aristillus | Aristillus |
| Aristoteles | Aristoteles |
| Armiński | |
| Armstrong | Neil Armstrong |
| Arnold | Christoph Arnold |
| Arrhenius | Svante Arrhenius |
| Artamonov | |
| Artem'ev | |
| Artemis | Greek goddess |
| Artsimovich | |
| Aryabhata | Aryabhata |
| Arzachel | Arzachel |
| Asada | Goryu Asada |
| Asclepi | Giuseppe Asclepi |
| Ashbrook | Joseph Ashbrook |
| Aston | Francis William Aston |
| Atlas | Atlas (mythology) |
| Atwood | George Atwood |
| Autolycus | Autolycus |
| Auwers | Arthur Auwers |
| Auzout | Adrien Auzout |
| Avery | Oswald Theodore Avery |
| Avicenna | Avicenna |
| Avogadro | Amedeo Avogadro |
| Azophi | Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi |
| Baade | Walter Baade |
| Babakin | G. N. Babakin |
| Babbage | Charles Babbage |
| Babcock | Harold D. Babcock |
| Back | |
| Backlund | Oskar Backlund |
| Baco | Roger Bacon |
| Baillaud | Benjamin Baillaud |
| Bailly | Jean Sylvain Bailly |
| Baily | Francis Baily |
| Balandin | |
| Balboa | Vasco Núñez de Balboa |
| Baldet | Fernand Baldet |
| Ball | William Ball |
| Balmer | Johann Balmer |
| Banachiewicz | Tadeusz Banachiewicz |
| Bancroft | |
| Banting | Frederick Banting |
| Barbier | Daniel Barbier |
| Barkla | Charles Glover Barkla |
| Barnard | Edward Emerson Barnard |
| Barocius | Francesco Barocius |
| Barringer | Daniel Barringer |
| Barrow | Isaac Barrow |
| Bartels | Julius Bartels |
| Bawa | (African male name) |
| Bayer | Johann Bayer |
| Beals | |
| Beaumont | Leonce Elie de Beaumont |
| Becquerel | Henri Becquerel |
| Bečvář | Antonin Becvar |
| Beer | Wilhelm Beer |
| Behaim | Martin Behaim |
| Beijerinck | |
| Beketov | |
| Béla | (Slavic female name) |
| Bel'kovich | |
| Bell | Alexander Graham Bell |
| Bellinsgauzen | Bellingshausen |
| Bellot | |
| Belopol'skiy | Aristarkh Belopolsky |
| Belyaev | Pavel I. Belyaev |
| Benedict | |
| Bergman | |
| Bergstrand | |
| Berkner | |
| Berlage | |
| Bernoulli | Jacques Bernoulli, Jean Bernoulli |
| Berosus | |
| Berzelius | Jons Jakob Berzelius |
| Bessarion | |
| Bessel | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel |
| Bettinus | Mario Bettinus |
| Bhabha | |
| Bianchini | Francesco Bianchini |
| Biela | Wilhelm von Biela |
| Bilharz | |
| Billy | |
| Bingham | Hiram Bingham III |
| Biot | Jean-Baptiste Biot |
| Birkeland | |
| Birkhoff | George Birkhoff |
| Birmingham | John Birmingham |
| Birt | |
| Bjerknes | |
| Black | Joseph Black |
| Blackett | Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett |
| Blagg | Mary Adela Blagg |
| Blancanus | Giuseppe Biancani |
| Blanchard | Jean-Pierre Blanchard |
| Blanchinus | |
| Blazhko | Sergei N. Blazhko |
| Bliss | Nathaniel Bliss |
| Bobillier | |
| Bobone | Jorge Bobone |
| Bode | Johann Elert Bode |
| Boethius | |
| Boguslawsky | Palon Heinrich Ludwig von Boguslawsky |
| Bohnenberger | |
| Bohr | Niels Bohr |
| Bok | Priscilla Fairfield Bok, Bart J. Bok |
| Boltzmann | Ludwig Boltzmann |
| Bolyai | Janos Bolyai |
| Bombelli | |
| Bondarenko | Valentin Bondarenko |
| Bonpland | Aimé Bonpland |
| Boole | George Boole |
| Borda | Jean Charles Borda |
| Borel | Felix Borel |
| Boris | (Russian male name) |
| Borman | Frank Borman |
| Born | Max Born |
| Boscovich | Rudjer Boscovich |
| Bose | Chandra Bose |
| Boss | Lewis Boss |
| Bouguer | Pierre Bouguer |
| Boussingault | Jean Baptiste Boussingault |
| Bowditch | Nathaniel Bowditch |
| Bowen | Ira S. Bowen |
| Boyle | Robert Boyle |
| Brackett | |
| Bragg | William Henry Bragg |
| Brashear | |
| Brayley | |
| Bredikhin | Fedor Aleksandrovich Bredikhin |
| Breislak | |
| Brenner | |
| Brewster | David Brewster |
| Brianchon | |
| Bridgman | Percy Williams Bridgman |
| Briggs | Henry Briggs |
| Brisbane | Thomas Brisbane |
| Bronk | |
| Brouwer | Dirk Brouwer, Luitzen E. J. Brouwer |
| Brown | Ernest William Brown |
| Bruce | Catherine Wolfe Bruce |
| Brunner | |
| Buch | |
| Buffon | Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon |
| Buisson | Henri Buisson |
| Bullialdus | Ismael Bullialdus |
| Bunsen | Robert Bunsen |
| Burckhardt | Johann Karl Burckhardt |
| Bürg | |
| Burnham | S. W. Burnham |
| Büsching | |
| Butlerov | |
| Buys-Ballot | C.H.D. Buys Ballot |
| Byrd | Richard E. Byrd |
| Byrgius |
| C. Herschel | Caroline Herschel |
| C. Mayer | Christian Mayer |
| Cabannes | Jean Cabannes |
| Cabeus | Niccolo Cabeo |
| Cailleux | |
| Cajal | Santiago Ramón y Cajal |
| Cajori | Florian Cajori |
| Calippus | Calippus of Cyzicus |
| Cameron | Robert Curry Cameron |
| Campanus | |
| Campbell | Leon Campbell; William Wallace Campbell |
| Cannizzaro | Stanislao Cannizzaro |
| Cannon | Annie Jump Cannon |
| Cantor | Georg Cantor, Moritz Cantor |
| Capella | Martianus Capella |
| Capuanus | |
| Cardanus | Girolamo Cardano |
| Carlini | Francesco Carlini |
| Carlos | (Spanish male name) |
| Carmichael | Leonard Carmichael |
| Carnot | Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot |
| Carol | (Latin female name) |
| Carpenter | James Carpenter; Edwin F. Carpenter |
| Carrel | Alexis Carrel |
| Carrillo | Flores Nabor Carrillo |
| Carrington | Richard Christopher Carrington |
| Cartan | Élie Cartan |
| Carver | George Washington Carver |
| Casatus | Paolo Casati |
| Cassegrain | Giovanni Cassegrain |
| Cassini | Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Jacques Cassini |
| Catalán | |
| Catharina | Saint Catherine of Alexandria |
| Cauchy | Augustin Louis Cauchy |
| Cavalerius | |
| Cavendish | Henry Cavendish |
| Caventou | |
| Cayley | Arthur Cayley |
| Celsius | Anders Celsius |
| Censorinus | |
| Cepheus | Cepheus (mythology) |
| Chacornac | Jean Chacornac |
| Chadwick | James Chadwick |
| Chaffee | Roger Chaffee |
| Challis | James Challis |
| Chalonge | |
| Chamberlin | |
| Champollion | Jean-François Champollion |
| Chandler | Seth Carlo Chandler |
| Chang Heng | Zhang Heng |
| Chang-Ngo | (Chinese female name) |
| Chant | Clarence Augustus Chant |
| Chaplygin | |
| Chapman | Sydney Chapman |
| Chappe | |
| Chappell | |
| Charles | (French male name) |
| Charlier | Carl Charlier |
| Chaucer | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Chauvenet | William Chauvenet |
| Chebyshev | Pafnuty Chebyshev |
| Chernyshev | |
| Chevallier | |
| Ching-Te | (Chinese male name) |
| Chladni | |
| Chrétien | Henri Chrétien |
| Christel | (German female name) |
| Cichus | |
| Clairaut | Alexis Clairaut |
| Clark | Alvan Clark, Alvan Graham Clark |
| Clausius | Rudolf Clausius |
| Clavius | |
| Cleomedes | |
| Cleostratus | |
| Clerke | Agnes Mary Clerke |
| Coblentz | |
| Cockcroft | |
| Collins | Michael Collins (astronaut) |
| Colombo | Christopher Columbus |
| Compton | Arthur Holly Compton, Karl T. Compton |
| Comrie | |
| Comstock | |
| Condon | |
| Condorcet | Jean de Condorcet |
| Congreve | William Congreve |
| Conon | |
| Cook | James Cook |
| Cooper | |
| Copernicus | Nicholas Copernicus |
| Cori | Gerty Theresa Cori |
| Coriolis | Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis |
| Couder | |
| Coulomb | Charles-Augustin de Coulomb |
| Courtney | (English male [sic] name) |
| Cremona | Luigi Cremona |
| Crile | |
| Crocco | |
| Crommelin | Andrew Crommelin |
| Crookes | William Crookes |
| Crozier | |
| Crüger | |
| Ctesibius | |
| Curie | Pierre Curie |
| Curtis | |
| Curtius | |
| Cusanus | |
| Cuvier | |
| Cyrano | Cyrano de Bergerac |
| Cyrillus | |
| Cysatus |
| da Vinci | Leonardo da Vinci |
| Daedalus | Daedalus |
| Dag | |
| Daguerre | Louis Daguerre |
| Dale | Henry Hallett Dale |
| D'Alembert | Jean le Rond d'Alembert |
| Dalton | John Dalton |
| Daly | |
| Damoiseau | Marie-Charles Damoiseau |
| Daniell | |
| Danjon | André Danjon |
| Dante | Dante Alighieri |
| Darney | Maurice Darney |
| D'Arrest | Heinrich d'Arrest |
| D'Arsonval | |
| Darwin | Charles Darwin |
| Das | |
| Daubrée | |
| Davisson | |
| Davy | Humphry Davy |
| Dawes | William Rutter Dawes |
| Dawson | |
| De Forest | Lee de Forest |
| de Gasparis | Annibale de Gasparis |
| de Gerlache | |
| De La Rue | Warren de la Rue |
| De Moraes | |
| De Morgan | Augustus de Morgan |
| De Roy | |
| De Sitter | Willem de Sitter |
| De Vico | Francesco de Vico |
| De Vries | Hugo de Vries |
| Debes | |
| Debus | |
| Debye | Peter Debye |
| Dechen | |
| Delambre | Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre |
| Delaunay | Charles-Eugène Delaunay |
| Delia | (Greek female name) |
| Delisle | Joseph Nicolas Delisle |
| Dellinger | |
| Delmotte | Gabriel Delmotte |
| Delporte | Eugène Delporte |
| Deluc | |
| Dembowski | Ercole Dembowski |
| Democritus | Democritus |
| Demonax | |
| Denning | William Frederick Denning |
| Desargues | Gerard Desargues |
| Descartes | René Descartes |
| Deseilligny | |
| Deslandres | Henri-Alexandre Deslandres |
| Deutsch | |
| Dewar | Sir James Dewar |
| Diana | (Latin feminine name) |
| Diderot | Denis Diderot |
| Dionysius | |
| Diophantus | Diophantus |
| Dirichlet | Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet |
| Dobrovol'skiy | |
| Doerfel | |
| Dollond | John Dollond |
| Donati | Giovanni Battista Donati |
| Donna | (Italian female name) |
| Donner | Anders Donner |
| Doppelmayer | Johann Gabriel Doppelmayer |
| Doppler | Christian Doppler |
| Douglass | |
| Dove | |
| Draper | Henry Draper |
| Drebbel | |
| Dreyer | John L. E. Dreyer |
| Drude | |
| Dryden | |
| Drygalski | |
| Dubyago | |
| Dufay | Jean Dufay |
| Dugan | Raymond Smith Dugan |
| Dunér | |
| Dunthorne | Richard Dunthorne |
| Dyson | Sir Frank Watson Dyson |
| Dziewulski | Wladyslaw Dziewulski |
| Eckert | |
| Eddington | Arthur Eddington |
| Edison | Thomas Edison |
| Edith | (English female name) |
| Egede | |
| Ehrlich | Paul Ehrlich |
| Eichstadt | |
| Eijkman | |
| Eimmart | |
| Einstein | Albert Einstein |
| Einthoven | |
| Elger | |
| Ellerman | |
| Ellison | |
| Elmer | |
| Elvey | |
| Emden | |
| Encke | Johann Franz Encke |
| Endymion | Endymion |
| Engel'gardt | (Engelhardt) |
| Eötvös | Roland von Eötvös |
| Epigenes | |
| Epimenides | |
| Eratosthenes | Eratosthenes |
| Erro | |
| Esclangon | Ernest Esclangon |
| Esnault-Pelterie | |
| Espin | |
| Euclides | Euclid |
| Euctemon | |
| Eudoxus | Eudoxus |
| Euler | Leonhard Euler |
| Evans | Sir Arthur Evans |
| Evdokimov | |
| Evershed | John Evershed |
| Ewen | (Gaelic male name) |
| Fabbroni | |
| Fabricius | David Fabricius |
| Fabry | Charles Fabry |
| Fahrenheit | Gabriel Fahrenheit |
| Fairouz | |
| Faraday | Michael Faraday |
| Faustini | |
| Fauth | |
| Faye | Hervé Faye |
| Fechner | |
| Fedorov | |
| Felix | (Latin male name) |
| Fényi | |
| Feoktistov | |
| Fermat | Pierre de Fermat |
| Fermi | Enrico Fermi |
| Fernelius | |
| Fersman | |
| Fesenkov | |
| Feuillée | |
| Finsch | |
| Finsen | Niels Ryberg Finsen |
| Firmicus | |
| Firsov | |
| Fischer | |
| Fitzgerald | |
| Fizeau | Hippolyte Fizeau |
| Flammarion | Camille Flammarion |
| Flamsteed | John Flamsteed |
| Fleming | Alexander Fleming, Williamina Fleming |
| Florensky | |
| Focas | |
| Fontana | Francesco Fontana |
| Fontenelle | |
| Foster | John Stuart Foster |
| Foucault | Léon Foucault |
| Fourier | Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier |
| Fowler | Alfred Fowler, Ralph H. Fowler |
| Fox | |
| Fra Mauro | |
| Fracastorius | |
| Franck | |
| Franklin | Benjamin Franklin |
| Franz | |
| Fraunhofer | Joseph von Fraunhofer |
| Fredholm | |
| Freud | Sigmund Freud |
| Freundlich | Erwin Findlay-Freundlich |
| Fridman | (Friedmann) |
| Froelich | |
| Frost | Edwin B. Frost |
| Fryxell | |
| Furnerius |
| G. Bond | George Phillips Bond |
| Gadomski | |
| Gagarin | Yuri Gagarin |
| Galen | Claudius Galen |
| Galilaei | Galileo Galilei |
| Galle | Johann Gottfried Galle |
| Galois | Evariste Galois |
| Galvani | Luigi Galvani |
| Gambart | |
| Gamow | George Gamow |
| Ganskiy | (Hansky) |
| Ganswindt | |
| Garavito | |
| Gardner | |
| Gärtner | |
| Gassendi | Pierre Gassendi |
| Gaston | (French male name) |
| Gaudibert | |
| Gauricus | |
| Gauss | Carl Friedrich Gauss |
| Gavrilov | |
| Gay-Lussac | Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac |
| Geber | |
| Geiger | |
| Geissler | Heinrich Geissler |
| Geminus | Geminus |
| Gemma Frisius | |
| Gerard | Alexander Gerard |
| Gerasimovich | Boris Gerasimovich |
| Gernsback | Hugo Gernsback |
| Gibbs | Josiah Willard Gibbs |
| Gilbert | Grove Karl Gilbert |
| Gill | David Gill |
| Ginzel | |
| Gioja | |
| Giordano Bruno | Giordano Bruno |
| Glaisher | James Glaisher |
| Glauber | |
| Glazenap | |
| Glushko | |
| Goclenius | |
| Goddard | Robert Goddard |
| Godin | Louis Godin |
| Goldschmidt | Hermann Goldschmidt |
| Golgi | Camillo Golgi |
| Golitsyn | |
| Golovin | |
| Goodacre | Walter Goodacre |
| Gould | Benjamin Gould |
| Grace | (English female name) |
| Grachev | |
| Graff | |
| Grave | |
| Greaves | |
| Green | George Green |
| Gregory | James Gregory |
| Grigg | |
| Grimaldi | Francesco Grimaldi |
| Grissom | Gus Grissom |
| Grotrian | |
| Grove | |
| Gruemberger | |
| Gruithuisen | |
| Guericke | |
| Guillaume | Charles Guillaume |
| Gullstrand | |
| Gum | Colin Gum |
| Gutenberg | Johann Gutenberg |
| Guthnick | |
| Guyot | Arnold Guyot |
| Gyldén |
| H. G. Wells | H. G. Wells |
| Hagecius | |
| Hagen | |
| Hahn | Friedrich von Hahn, Otto Hahn |
| Haidinger | Wilhelm Karl von Haidinger |
| Hainzel | |
| Haldane | J. B. S. Haldane |
| Hale | George Ellery Hale, William Hale |
| Hall | Asaph Hall |
| Halley | Edmond Halley |
| Hamilton | William Rowan Hamilton |
| Hanno | Hanno |
| Hansen | Peter Andreas Hansen |
| Hansteen | |
| Harden | Arthur Harden |
| Harding | Karl Ludwig Harding |
| Haret | |
| Hargreaves | Frederick James Hargreaves |
| Harkhebi | |
| Harlan | |
| Harold | (Scandinavian male name) |
| Harpalus | Harpalus |
| Harriot | Thomas Harriot |
| Hartmann | |
| Hartwig | Ernst Hartwig |
| Harvey | William Harvey |
| Hase | Johann Matthias Hase |
| Hatanaka | Takeo Hatanaka |
| Hausen | |
| Hayford | |
| Hayn | |
| Healy | |
| Heaviside | Oliver Heaviside |
| Hecataeus | Hecataeus |
| Hédervári | |
| Hedin | Sven Hedin |
| Heinrich | |
| Heinsius | |
| Heis | |
| Helberg | |
| Helicon | Helicon |
| Hell | Maximilian Hell |
| Helmert | |
| Helmholtz | Hermann von Helmholtz |
| Henderson | Thomas Henderson |
| Hendrix | |
| Henry | Joseph Henry |
| Henry Frères | |
| Henyey | Louis G. Henyey |
| Heraclitus | Heraclitus |
| Hercules | Hercules |
| Herigonius | |
| Hermann | Jacob Hermann |
| Hermite | Charles Hermite |
| Herodotus | Herodotus |
| Heron | |
| Herschel | William Herschel |
| Hertz | Heinrich Hertz |
| Hertzsprung | Ejnar Hertzsprung |
| Hesiodus | Hesiod |
| Hess | |
| Hevelius | Johannes Hevelius |
| Heymans | Corneille Jean François Heymans |
| Heyrovsky | |
| Hilbert | David Hilbert |
| Hill | George William Hill |
| Hind | John Russell Hind |
| Hippalus | Hippalus |
| Hipparchus | Hipparchus |
| Hippocrates | Hippocrates |
| Hirayama | Kiyotsugu Hirayama, Shin Hirayama |
| Hoffmeister | Cuno Hoffmeister |
| Hogg | Frank Scott Hogg |
| Hohmann | Walter Hohmann |
| Holden | Edward Singleton Holden |
| Holetschek | |
| Hommel | Johann Hommel |
| Hooke | Robert Hooke |
| Hopmann | |
| Hornsby | Thomas Hornsby |
| Horrebow | |
| Horrocks | Jeremiah Horrocks |
| Hortensius | |
| Houtermans | Friedrich Georg Houtermans |
| Houzeau | |
| Hubble | Edwin Hubble |
| Huggins | William Huggins |
| Humason | Milton L. Humason |
| Humboldt | Wilhelm von Humboldt |
| Hume | David Hume |
| Hutton | James Hutton |
| Huxley | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Hyginus | |
| Hypatia | Hypatia of Alexandria |
| Ian | (Scottish male name) |
| Ibn Battuta | |
| Ibn Firnas | |
| Ibn Yunus | |
| Ibn-Rushd | Averroes |
| Icarus | Icarus (mythology) |
| Ideler | |
| Idel'son | |
| Il'in | |
| Ina | (Latin female name) |
| Ingalls | Albert L. Ingalls |
| Inghirami | Giovanni Inghirami |
| Innes | Robert T. A. Innes |
| Ioffe | Abram Fedorovich Ioffe |
| Isabel | (Spanish female name) |
| Isaev | |
| Isidorus | St. Isidore of Seville |
| Isis | (Egyptian goddess) |
| Ivan | (Russian male name) |
| Izsak | Imre Izsak |
| J. Herschel | John Herschel |
| Jackson | John Jackson |
| Jacobi | Karl Gustav Jacob Jacobi |
| Jansen | Zacharias Janszoon |
| Jansky | Karl Jansky |
| Janssen | Pierre Janssen |
| Jarvis | Gregory Jarvis |
| Jeans | James Jeans |
| Jehan | (Turkish female name) |
| Jenkins | Louise Jenkins |
| Jenner | Edward Jenner |
| Jerik | (Scandinavian male name) |
| Joliot | Frederic Joliot-Curie |
| Jomo | (African male name) |
| José | (Spanish male name) |
| Joule | James Joule |
| Joy | Alfred H. Joy |
| Jules Verne | Jules Verne |
| Julienne | (French female name) |
| Julius Caesar | Julius Caesar |
| Kaiser | Frederik Kaiser |
| Kamerlingh Onnes | Heike Kamerlingh Onnes |
| Kane | |
| Kant | Immanuel Kant |
| Kao | |
| Kapteyn | Jacobus Kapteyn |
| Karima | (Arabic female name) |
| Karpinskiy | Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky |
| Karrer | |
| Kasper | (Polish male name) |
| Kästner | Abraham Kästner |
| Katchalsky | |
| Kathleen | (Irish female name) |
| Kearons | |
| Keeler | |
| Kekulé | |
| Keldysh | |
| Kepínski | |
| Kepler | Johannes Kepler |
| Khvol'son | |
| Kibal'chich | |
| Kidinnu | |
| Kies | |
| Kiess | |
| Kimura | Hisashi Kimura |
| Kinau | |
| King | |
| Kira | |
| Kirch | |
| Kircher | |
| Kirchhoff | |
| Kirkwood | |
| Klaproth | |
| Klein | |
| Kleymenov | |
| Klute | |
| Knox-Shaw | |
| Koch | |
| Kohlschütter | |
| Kolhörster | |
| Komarov | Vladimir Komarov |
| Kondratyuk | Yuri Kondratyuk |
| König | |
| Konoplev | |
| Konstantinov | |
| Kopff | August Kopff |
| Korolev | Sergei Korolev |
| Kosberg | |
| Kostinskiy | |
| Koval'skiy | |
| Kovalevskaya | |
| Kozyrev | |
| Krafft | |
| Kramarov | |
| Kramers | |
| Krasnov | |
| Krasovskiy | |
| Kreiken | |
| Krieger | |
| Krishna | |
| Krogh | |
| Krusenstern | |
| Krylov | |
| Kugler | |
| Kuiper | Gerard Kuiper |
| Kulik | Leonid A. Kulik |
| Kundt | |
| Kunowsky | George K. Kunowsky |
| Kuo Shou Ching | |
| Kurchatov | Igor Kurchatov |
| La Caille | Nicolas Louis de Lacaille |
| La Condamine | Charles Marie de La Condamine |
| La Pérouse | |
| Lacchini | |
| Lacroix | |
| Lade | |
| Lagalla | |
| Lagrange | Joseph Louis Lagrange |
| Lalande | Joseph Jérôme Le François de Lalande |
| Lallemand | André Lallemend |
| Lamarck | Jean Lamarck |
| Lamb | Horace Lamb |
| Lambert | Johann Heinrich Lambert |
| Lamé | Gabriel Lamé |
| Lamèch | |
| Lamont | John Lamont |
| Lampland | Carl Otto Lampland |
| Landau | Lev Davidovich Landau |
| Lander | |
| Landsteiner | Karl Landsteiner |
| Lane | |
| Langemak | |
| Langevin | Paul Langevin |
| Langley | Samuel Pierpont Langley |
| Langmuir | Irving Langmuir |
| Langrenus | |
| Lansberg | Philippe van Lansberg |
| Larmor | |
| Lassell | William Lassell |
| Laue | Max von Laue |
| Lauritsen | |
| Lavoisier | Antoine Lavoisier |
| Lawrence | Ernest O. Lawrence, Robert H. Lawrence |
| Le Gentil | Guillaume Le Gentil |
| Le Monnier | Pierre Charles Lemonnier |
| Le Verrier | Urbain Le Verrier |
| Leakey | Louis Leakey |
| Leavitt | Henrietta Swan Leavitt |
| Lebedev | |
| Lebedinskiy | |
| Lebesgue | Henri Lebesgue |
| Lee | |
| Leeuwenhoek | Antony van Leeuwenhoek |
| Legendre | Adrien Marie Legendre |
| Lehmann | |
| Leibniz | Gottfried Leibniz |
| Lemaître | Georges Lemaître |
| Lents | (Lenz) |
| Leonov | Alexei Leonov |
| Lepaute | |
| Letronne | |
| Leucippus | Leucippus |
| Leuschner | Armin O. Leuschner |
| Levi-Civita | Tullio Levi-Civita |
| Lewis | |
| Lexell | Anders Johann Lexell |
| Ley | Willy Ley |
| Licetus | |
| Lichtenberg | |
| Lick | James Lick |
| Liebig | |
| Lilius | |
| Linda | (Spanish female name) |
| Lindbergh | Charles Lindbergh |
| Lindblad | Bertil Lindblad |
| Lindenau | |
| Lindsay | |
| Linné | Carl von Linné |
| Liouville | Joseph Liouville |
| Lippershey | |
| Lippmann | Gabriel Lippmann |
| Lipskiy | |
| Litke | (Lütke) |
| Littrow | Johann Josef von Littrow |
| Lobachevskiy | Nikolai Lobachevsky |
| Lockyer | |
| Lodygin | |
| Loewy | Moritz Loewy |
| Lohrmann | |
| Lohse | Oswald Lohse |
| Lomonosov | Mikhail Lomonosov |
| Longomontanus | Christian Sørensen Longomontanus |
| Lorentz | Hendrik Lorentz |
| Louise | (French female name) |
| Louville | |
| Love | |
| Lovelace | |
| Lovell | James Lovell |
| Lowell | Percival Lowell |
| Lubbock | John William Lubbock |
| Lubiniezky | Stanislaus Lubiniezky |
| Lucian | Lucian of Samosata |
| Lucretius | Lucretius |
| Ludwig | Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig |
| Lundmark | |
| Luther | Robert Luther |
| Lyapunov | Aleksandr Lyapunov |
| Lyell | Charles Lyell |
| Lyman | Theodore Lyman |
| Lyot | Bernard Lyot |
| Mach | Ernst Mach |
| Maclaurin | Colin Maclaurin |
| Maclear | Thomas Maclear |
| MacMillan | William Duncan MacMillan |
| Macrobius | |
| Mädler | Johann Heinrich Mädler |
| Maestlin | Michael Maestlin |
| Magelhaens | Ferdinand Magellan |
| Maginus | |
| Main | Robert Main |
| Mairan | |
| Maksutov | Dmitry Maksutov |
| Malapert | Charles Malapert |
| Mallet | |
| Malyy | |
| Mandel'shtam | |
| Manilius | |
| Manners | Russell Henry Manners |
| Manuel | (Spanish male name) |
| Manzinus | |
| Maraldi | Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, Jacques Philippe Maraldi |
| Marci | |
| Marco Polo | Marco Polo |
| Marconi | Guglielmo Marconi |
| Marinus | Marinus of Tyre |
| Mariotte | |
| Marius | Simon Marius |
| Markov | |
| Marth | Albert Marth |
| Mary | (English form of Hebrew female name) |
| Maskelyne | Nevil Maskelyne |
| Mason | Charles Mason |
| Maunder | Annie S. D. R. Maunder, Edward Walter Maunder |
| Maupertuis | Pierre Louis de Maupertuis |
| Maurolycus | |
| Maury | Matthew Fontaine Maury, Antonia Maury |
| Mavis | (Scottish female name) |
| Maxwell | James Clerk Maxwell |
| McAdie | |
| McAuliffe | Christa McAuliffe |
| McClure | |
| McDonald | William Johnson McDonald; Thomas Logie McDonald |
| McKellar | Andrew McKellar |
| McLaughlin | |
| McMath | |
| McNair | Ronald McNair |
| McNally | |
| Mechnikov | |
| Mee | |
| Mees | |
| Meggers | William F. Meggers |
| Meitner | Lise Meitner |
| Melissa | (Greek female name) |
| Mendel | Gregor Mendel |
| Mendeleev | Dmitry Mendeleev |
| Menelaus | Menelaus of Alexandria |
| Menzel | Donald Howard Menzel |
| Mercator | Gerardus Mercator |
| Mercurius | Mercury (god) |
| Merrill | Paul Merrill |
| Mersenius | Marin Mersenne |
| Meshcherskiy | |
| Messala | |
| Messier | Charles Messier |
| Metius | |
| Meton | Meton |
| Mezentsev | |
| Michael | (English male name) |
| Michelson | Albert A. Michelson |
| Milankovič | Milutin Milankovic |
| Milichius | |
| Miller | William Allen Miller |
| Millikan | Robert Millikan |
| Mills | |
| Milne | E. Arthur Milne |
| Mineur | Henri Mineur |
| Minkowski | Hermann Minkowski, Rudolph Minkowski |
| Minnaert | Marcel Minnaert |
| Mitchell | Maria Mitchell |
| Mitra | |
| Möbius | August Möbius |
| Mohorovičić | Andrija Mohorovicic |
| Moigno | |
| Moiseev | |
| Moissan | Henri Moissan |
| Moltke | Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke |
| Monge | Gaspard Monge |
| Monira | (Arabic female name) |
| Montanari | Geminiano Montanari |
| Montgolfier | Montgolfier brothers |
| Moore | |
| Moretus | |
| Morley | Edward Williams Morley |
| Morozov | |
| Morse | Samuel Morse |
| Moseley | Henry Moseley |
| Mösting | |
| Mouchez | Amédée Mouchez |
| Moulton | Forest Ray Moulton |
| Müller | Karl Müller |
| Murakami | Harutaro Murakami |
| Murchison | Roderick Murchison |
| Mutus |
| Nagaoka | Hantaro Nagaoka |
| Nansen | Fridtjof Nansen |
| Naonobu | Naonobu Ajima |
| Nasireddin | Nasir al-Din al-Tusi |
| Nasmyth | James Nasmyth |
| Nassau | |
| Natasha | (Russian female name) |
| Naumann | Karl Friedrich Naumann |
| Neander | |
| Nearch | |
| Necho | Necho |
| Neison | |
| Neper | John Napier |
| Nernst | Walther Nernst |
| Neujmin | G. N. Neujmin |
| Neumayer | |
| Newcomb | Simon Newcomb |
| Newton | Isaac Newton |
| Nicholson | Seth Barnes Nicholson |
| Nicolai | |
| Nicollet | |
| Nielsen | |
| Niepce | Nicéphore Niepce |
| Nijland | |
| Nikolaev | Andrian Nikolayev |
| Nishina | Yoshio Nishina |
| Nobel | Alfred Nobel |
| Nobile | Umberto Nobile |
| Nobili | Leopoldo Nobili |
| Nöggerath | |
| Nonius | |
| Norman | Robert Norman |
| Nöther | Emmy Noether |
| Novalis | |
| Numerov | |
| Nunn | |
| Nušl |
| Oberth | Hermann Oberth |
| Obruchev | |
| O'Day | Marcus O'Day |
| Oenopides | Oenopides of Chios |
| Oersted | Hans Christian Oersted |
| Ohm | Georg Simon Ohm |
| Oken | |
| Olbers | Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers |
| Olcott | |
| Olivier | |
| Omar Khayyam | Omar Khayyam |
| Onizuka | Ellison Onizuka |
| Opelt | Friedrich Wilhelm Opelt |
| Oppenheimer | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| Oppolzer | |
| Oresme | |
| Orlov | |
| Orontius | |
| Osama | (Arabic male name) |
| Osiris | Osiris (Egyptian deity) |
| Osman | (Turkish male name) |
| Ostwald | Wilhelm Ostwald |
| Palisa | Johann Palisa |
| Palitzsch | Johann Palitzsch |
| Pallas | Peter Simon Pallas |
| Palmieri | Luigi Palmieri |
| Paneth | Friedrich Adolf Paneth |
| Pannekoek | Anton Pannekoek |
| Papaleksi | |
| Paracelsus | Paracelsus |
| Paraskevopoulos | John S. Paraskevopoulos |
| Parenago | |
| Parkhurst | |
| Parrot | |
| Parry | William Edward Parry |
| Parsons | |
| Pascal | Blaise Pascal |
| Paschen | Friedrich Paschen |
| Pasteur | Louis Pasteur |
| Patricia | (English female name) |
| Patsaev | |
| Pauli | Wolfgang Pauli |
| Pavlov | Ivan Pavlov |
| Pawsey | Joseph Pawsey |
| Peary | Robert Peary |
| Pease | Francis G. Pease |
| Peek | |
| Peirce | Benjamin Peirce |
| Peirescius | |
| Pentland | Joseph Barclay Pentland |
| Perel'man | |
| Perepelkin | |
| Perkin | |
| Perrine | Charles Dillon Perrine |
| Petavius | |
| Petermann | |
| Peters | Christian August Friedrich Peters |
| Petit | |
| Petrie | Robert Methven Petrie |
| Petropavlovskiy | |
| Petrov | |
| Pettit | Edison Pettit |
| Petzval | |
| Phillips | John Phillips |
| Philolaus | Philolaus of Croton |
| Phocylides | |
| Piazzi | Giuseppe Piazzi |
| Piazzi Smyth | Charles Piazzi Smyth |
| Picard | Jean Picard |
| Piccolomini | Alessandro Piccolomini |
| Pickering | Edward Charles Pickering, William Henry Pickering |
| Pictet | |
| Pikel'ner | |
| Pilâtre | |
| Pingré | |
| Pirquet | |
| Pitatus | |
| Pitiscus | |
| Pizzetti | |
| Plana | Giovanni Plana |
| Planck | Max Planck |
| Planté | |
| Plaskett | John Stanley Plaskett |
| Plato | Plato |
| Playfair | John Playfair |
| Plinius | Pliny the Elder |
| Plummer | |
| Plutarch | Plutarch |
| Poczobutt | |
| Pogson | Norman Robert Pogson |
| Poincaré | Henri Poincaré |
| Poinsot | Louis Poinsot |
| Poisson | Simeon Poisson |
| Polybius | Polybius |
| Polzunov | |
| Pomortsev | |
| Poncelet | |
| Pons | Jean-Louis Pons |
| Pontanus | |
| Pontécoulant | |
| Popov | |
| Porter | |
| Posidonius | Posidonius |
| Poynting | John Henry Poynting |
| Prager | |
| Prandtl | |
| Priestley | Joseph Priestley |
| Prinz | |
| Priscilla | (Latin female name) |
| Proclus | |
| Proctor | Mary Proctor |
| Protagoras | |
| Ptolemaeus | Ptolemy |
| Puiseux | Pierre Puiseux |
| Pupin | |
| Purbach | Georg Purbach |
| Purkynĕ | Jan Purkinje |
| Pythagoras | Pythagoras |
| Pytheas | Pytheas |
| Quetelet | Adolphe Quetelet |
| Rabbi Levi | |
| Racah | |
| Raimond | |
| Raman | Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman |
| Ramsay | William Ramsay |
| Ramsden | |
| Rankine | William John Macquorn Rankine |
| Raspletin | |
| Ravi | |
| Rayet | Georges Rayet |
| Rayleigh | Lord Rayleigh |
| Razumov | |
| Réaumur | René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur |
| Recht | |
| Regiomontanus | Regiomontanus |
| Regnault | |
| Reichenbach | |
| Reimarus | |
| Reiner | |
| Reinhold | Erasmus Reinhold |
| Repsold | |
| Resnik | Judith Resnik |
| Respighi | Lorenzo Respighi |
| Rhaeticus | |
| Rheita | |
| Riccioli | Giovanni Battista Riccioli |
| Riccius | Matteo Ricci |
| Ricco | Annibale Ricco |
| Richards | Theodore William Richards |
| Richardson | Owen Willans Richardson |
| Riedel | Klaus Riedel |
| Riemann | Bernhard Riemann |
| Ritchey | George Willis Ritchey |
| Rittenhouse | David Rittenhouse |
| Ritter | Karl Ritter, August Ritter |
| Ritz | Walter Ritz |
| Robert | (English male name) |
| Roberts | |
| Robertson | |
| Robinson | |
| Rocca | |
| Rocco | |
| Roche | Edouard Roche |
| Romeo | (Italian male name) |
| Römer | Ole Rømer |
| Röntgen | Wilhelm Röntgen |
| Rosa | (Spanish female name) |
| Rosenberger | Otto August Rosenberger |
| Ross | James Clark Ross, Frank E. Ross |
| Rosse | Lord Rosse |
| Rosseland | Svein Rosseland |
| Rost | |
| Rothmann | |
| Rowland | |
| Rozhdestvenskiy | |
| Rumford | Count Rumford |
| Runge | Carle David Tolmé Runge |
| Russell | Henry Norris Russell, John Russell |
| Ruth | (Hebrew female name) |
| Rutherford | Ernest Rutherford |
| Rutherfurd | Lewis Morris Rutherfurd |
| Rydberg | Johannes Rydberg |
| Rynin |
| Sabatier | Paul Sabatier |
| Sabine | Edward Sabine |
| Sacrobosco | |
| Saenger | |
| Šafařík | |
| Saha | |
| Samir | (Arabic male name) |
| Sampson | Ralph Allen Sampson |
| Sanford | |
| Santbech | |
| Santos-Dumont | Alberto Santos-Dumont |
| Sarabhai | Vikram Sarabhai |
| Sarton | |
| Sasserides | |
| Saunder | |
| Saussure | Horace-Bénédict de Saussure |
| Scaliger | Joseph Justus Scaliger |
| Schaeberle | John Martin Schaeberle |
| Scheele | |
| Scheiner | Christopher Scheiner |
| Schiaparelli | Giovanni Schiaparelli |
| Schickard | Wilhelm Schickard |
| Schiller | Julius Schiller |
| Schjellerup | |
| Schlesinger | Frank Schlesinger |
| Schliemann | Heinrich Schliemann |
| Schlüter | |
| Schmidt | |
| Schneller | |
| Schomberger | Georg Schomberger |
| Schönfeld | Eduard Schönfeld |
| Schorr | Richard Schorr |
| Schrödinger | Erwin Schrödinger |
| Schröter | Johann Hieronymus Schröter |
| Schubert | Theodor Friedrich von Schubert |
| Schumacher | Heinrich Christian Schumacher |
| Schuster | Arthur Schuster |
| Schwabe | Samuel Heinrich Schwabe |
| Schwarzschild | Karl Schwarzschild |
| Scobee | Dick Scobee |
| Scoresby | William Scoresby |
| Scott | Robert F. Scott |
| Seares | Frederick H. Seares |
| Secchi | Angelo Secchi |
| Sechenov | |
| Seeliger | |
| Segers | |
| Segner | |
| Seidel | |
| Seleucus | Seleucus |
| Seneca | Seneca the Younger |
| Seyfert | Carl Seyfert |
| Shackleton | Ernest Shackleton |
| Shahinaz | (Turkish female name) |
| Shaler | |
| Shapley | Harlow Shapley |
| Sharonov | |
| Sharp | Abraham Sharp |
| Shatalov | |
| Shayn | G. A. Shajn |
| Sheepshanks | Anne Sheepshanks |
| Sherrington | Charles Scott Sherrington |
| Shi Shen | |
| Shirakatsi | |
| Shoemaker | Eugene Shoemaker |
| Short | James Short |
| Shternberg | (Sternberg) |
| Shuckburgh | George Shuckburgh |
| Shuleykin | |
| Siedentopf | |
| Sierpinski | Waclaw Sierpinski |
| Sikorsky | Igor Sikorsky |
| Silberschlag | |
| Simpelius | Hugh Sempill |
| Sinas | |
| Sirsalis | |
| Sisakyan | |
| Sita | (Indian female name) |
| Sklodowska | Marie Curie |
| Slipher | Earl C. Slipher, Vesto Slipher |
| Slocum | Frederick Slocum |
| Smith | Michael J. Smith |
| Smithson | James Smithson |
| Smoluchowski | |
| Snellius | Willebrord Snell |
| Sniadecki | |
| Soddy | Frederick Soddy |
| Somerville | Mary Fairfax Somerville |
| Sommerfeld | Arnold Sommerfeld |
| Sömmering | |
| Sophocles | Sophocles |
| Soraya | (Persian female name) |
| Sosigenes | Sosigenes |
| South | James South |
| Spallanzani | Lazzaro Spallanzani |
| Spencer Jones | Harold Spencer Jones |
| Spörer | Gustav Spörer |
| Spurr | Josiah Edward Spurr |
| St. John | Charles E. St. John |
| Stadius | |
| Stark | Johannes Stark |
| Stearns | Carl Leo Stearns |
| Stebbins | Joel Stebbins |
| Stefan | Josef Stefan |
| Stein | |
| Steinheil | |
| Steklov | |
| Stella | (Latin female name) |
| Steno | Nicolaus Steno |
| Sternfeld | |
| Stetson | Harlan T. Stetson |
| Stevinus | |
| Stewart | John Quincy Stewart |
| Stiborius | |
| Stöfler | |
| Stokes | George Stokes |
| Stoletov | |
| Stoney | George Johnstone Stoney |
| Störmer | |
| Strabo | Strabo |
| Stratton | |
| Street | Thomas Street |
| Strömgren | Elis Strömgren |
| Struve | Otto Wilhelm von Struve, Otto Struve, Friedrich Struve |
| Subbotin | |
| Suess | Eduard Suess |
| Sulpicius Gallus | |
| Sumner | Thomas H. Sumner |
| Sundman | Karl Fritiof Sundman |
| Sung-Mei | (Chinese female name) |
| Susan | (English female name) |
| Sverdrup | Otto Sverdrup |
| Swann | |
| Swasey | |
| Swift | Lewis Swift |
| Sylvester | James J. Sylvester |
| Szilard | Leó Szilárd |
| T. Mayer | Tobias Mayer |
| Tacchini | Pietro Tacchini |
| Tacitus | Cornelius Tacitus |
| Tacquet | |
| Taizo | (Japanese male name) |
| Talbot | William Henry Fox Talbot |
| Tamm | Igor Tamm |
| Tannerus | |
| Taruntius | |
| Taylor | Brook Taylor |
| Tebbutt | John Tebbutt |
| Teisserenc | Léon Teisserenc de Bort |
| Tempel | Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel |
| Ten Bruggencate | |
| Tereshkova | Valentina Tereshkova |
| Tesla | Nikola Tesla |
| Thales | Thales |
| Theaetetus | |
| Thebit | Thabit ibn Qurra |
| Theiler | Max Theiler |
| Theon Junior | Theon of Alexandria |
| Theon Senior | Theon of Smyrna |
| Theophilus | Theophilus |
| Theophrastus | Theophrastus |
| Thiel | Walter Thiel |
| Thiessen | |
| Thomson | Joseph John Thomson |
| Tikhomirov | |
| Tikhov | |
| Tiling | Reinhold Tiling |
| Timaeus | Timaeus |
| Timiryazev | |
| Timocharis | Timocharis |
| Tiselius | Arne Tiselius |
| Tisserand | Félix Tisserand |
| Titius | Johann Daniel Titius |
| Titov | Gherman Titov |
| Tolansky | Samuel Tolansky |
| Torricelli | Evangelista Torricelli |
| Toscanelli | Paolo Toscanelli |
| Townley | Sidney Dean Townley |
| Tralles | |
| Triesnecker | |
| Trouvelot | |
| Trumpler | Robert Julius Trumpler |
| Tsander | Friedrich Zander |
| Tseraskiy | (Ceraski) |
| Tsinger | (Zinger) |
| Tsiolkovskiy | Konstantin Tsiolkovsky |
| Tsu Chung-Chi | Zu Chongzhi |
| Tucker | Richard Hawley Tucker |
| Turner | Herbert Hall Turner |
| Tycho | Tycho Brahe |
| Tyndall | John Tyndall |
| Ukert | Friedrich August Ukert |
| Ulugh Beigh | Ulugh Beg |
| Urey | Harold Urey |
| Väisälä | Yrjö Väisälä |
| Valier | Max Valier |
| van Albada | |
| Van Biesbroeck | George Van Biesbroeck |
| Van de Graaff | Robert Van de Graaff |
| Van den Bergh | |
| van den Bos | Willem Hendrik van den Bos |
| Van der Waals | Johannes Van der Waals |
| Van Gent | Hendrik Van Gent |
| Van Maanen | Adriaan Van Maanen |
| van Rhijn | |
| Van Vleck | Edward Burr Van Vleck |
| Van Wijk | |
| van't Hoff | Jacobus van 't Hoff |
| Vasco da Gama | Vasco da Gama |
| Vashakidze | |
| Vavilov | |
| Vega | Jurij Vega |
| Vendelinus | |
| Vening Meinesz | Felix A. Vening Meinesz |
| Ventris | Michael Ventris |
| Vera | (Latin female name) |
| Vernadskiy | Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky |
| Verne | (Latin male name) |
| Vertregt | |
| Very | |
| Vesalius | Vesalius |
| Vestine | |
| Vetchinkin | Vladimir Petrovich Vetchinkin |
| Vieta | |
| Vil'ev | |
| Virchow | |
| Virtanen | Artturi Virtanen |
| Vitello | |
| Vitruvius | |
| Viviani | Vincenzo Viviani |
| Vlacq | Adriaan Vlacq |
| Vogel | Hermann Carl Vogel |
| Volkov | |
| Volta | Alessandro Volta |
| Volterra | Vito Volterra |
| von Behring | Emil von Behring |
| von Békésy | Georg von Békésy |
| von Braun | Wernher von Braun |
| Von der Pahlen | |
| Von Kármán | Theodore von Kármán |
| Von Neumann | John Von Neumann |
| Von Zeipel | |
| Voskresenskiy |
| W. Bond | William Cranch Bond |
| Walker | |
| Wallace | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Wallach | Otto Wallach |
| Walter | (German male name) |
| Walther | Bernard Walther |
| Wan-Hoo | Wan Hu |
| Wargentin | |
| Warner | |
| Waterman | |
| Watson | James Craig Watson |
| Watt | James Watt |
| Watts | |
| Webb | Thomas William Webb |
| Weber | Wilhelm Weber |
| Wegener | Alfred Wegener |
| Weierstrass | Karl Weierstrass |
| Weigel | Erhard Weigel |
| Weinek | |
| Weiss | Edmund Weiss |
| Werner | Johann Werner |
| Wexler | |
| Weyl | Hermann Weyl |
| Whewell | William Whewell |
| White | Edward White |
| Wichmann | Moritz Ludwig George Wichmann |
| Widmannstätten | |
| Wiechert | |
| Wiener | Norbert Wiener |
| Wildt | Rupert Wildt |
| Wilhelm | Wilhelm IV, Landgrave of Hesse |
| Wilkins | |
| Williams | Arthur Stanley Williams |
| Wilsing | |
| Wilson | |
| Winkler | |
| Winlock | Joseph Winlock |
| Winthrop | John Winthrop |
| Wöhler | Friedrich Wöhler |
| Wolf | Maximilian Wolf |
| Wollaston | William Hyde Wollaston |
| Woltjer | Jan Woltjer |
| Wood | |
| Wright | |
| Wróblewski | |
| Wrottesley | John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley |
| Wurzelbauer | |
| Wyld |
| Xenophanes | Xenophanes |
| Xenophon | Xenophon |
| Yablochkov | |
| Yakovkin | |
| Yamamoto | Issei Yamamoto |
| Yangel' | |
| Yerkes | Charles Tyson Yerkes |
| Yoshi | (Japanese male name) |
| Young | Thomas Young |
| Zach | |
| Zagut | |
| Zähringer | |
| Zanstra | Herman Zanstra |
| Zasyadko | |
| Zeeman | Pieter Zeeman |
| Zelinskiy | |
| Zeno | Zeno of Citium |
| Zernike | Frits Zernike |
| Zhiritskiy | |
| Zhukovskiy | |
| Zinner | Ernst Zinner |
| Zöllner | |
| Zsigmondy | Richard Adolf Zsigmondy |
| Zucchius | |
| Zupus | |
| Zwicky | Fritz Zwicky |