List of asteroids named after people
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This is a list of asteroids named after people. People are both real and fictional.
Contents
Science
Mathematicians
- 1858 Lobachevskij (Nikolai Lobachevsky)
- 1859 Kovalevskaya (Sofia Kovalevskaya)
- 1888 Zu Chong-Zhi (Zu Chongzhi)
- 1996 Adams (John Couch Adams)
- 1997 Leverrier (Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier)
- 2010 Chebyshev (Pafnuti Chebyshev)
- 2587 Gardner (Martin Gardner)
- 4354 Euclides (Euclid)
- 4628 Laplace (Pierre-Simon Laplace)
- 6765 Fibonacci (Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa)
- 6143 Pythagoras (Pythagoras)
- 12493 Minkowski (Hermann Minkowski)
- 29552 Chern (Shiing-Shen Chern)
Physicists
- 1069 Planck (Max Planck)
- 1979 Sakharov (Andrei Sakharov)
- 2001 Einstein (Albert Einstein)
- 2002 Euler (Leonhard Euler)
- 2352 Kurchatov (Igor Kurchatov)
- 3905 Doppler (Christian Doppler)
- 3949 Mach (Ernst Mach)
- 4065 Meinel (Aden Meinel)
- 5103 Diviš (Prokop Václav Diviš)
- 5668 Foucault (Léon Foucault)
- 7000 Curie (Maria Skłodowska-Curie)
- 7495 Feynman (Richard Feynman)
- 7672 Hawking (Stephen Hawking)
- 8000 Isaac Newton (Isaac Newton)
- 8103 Fermi (Enrico Fermi)
- 13092 Schrödinger (Erwin Schrödinger)
- 13149 Heisenberg (Werner Heisenberg)
- 37582 Faraday (Michael Faraday)
- 10979 Fristephenson (Professor F. Richard Stephenson)
Astronomers
- 281 Lucretia (Caroline Lucretia Herschel)
- 366 Vincentina (Vincenzo Cerulli)
- 676 Melitta (Philibert Jacques Melotte)
- 729 Watsonia (James Craig Watson)
- 768 Struveana (Otto Wilhelm von Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve and Karl Hermann Struve)
- 819 Barnardiana (Edward Emerson Barnard)
- 827 Wolfiana (Max Wolf)
- 834 Burnhamia (Sherburne Wesley Burnham)
- 914 Palisana (Johann Palisa)
- 999 Zachia (Franz Xaver, Baron von Zach)
- 1000 Piazzia (Giuseppe Piazzi, discoverer of the asteroid 1 Ceres)
- 1002 Olbersia (Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers)
- 1042 Hale (George Ellery Hale)
- 1111 Reinmuthia (Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth)
- 1129 Neujmina (Grigory Nikolaevich Neujmin)
- 1134 Kepler (Johannes Kepler)
- 1241 Dysona (Sir Frank Watson Dyson)
- 1280 Baillauda (Jules Baillaud, son of the astronomer Benjamin Baillaud)
- 1303 Luthera (Karl Theodor Robert Luther)
- 1412 Lagrula (Joanny-Philippe Lagrula)
- 1501 Baade (Walter Baade)
- 1510 Charlois (Auguste Charlois)
- 1529 Oterma (Liisi Oterma)
- 1539 Borrelly (Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly)
- 1563 Noël (Emanuel Arend, son of the astronomer Sylvain Julien Victor Arend)
- 1573 Väisälä (Yrjö Väisälä)
- 1578 Kirkwood (Daniel Kirkwood)
- 1600 Vyssotsky (Emma T. R. Williams Vyssotsky)
- 1614 Goldschmidt (Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt)
- 1622 Chacornac (Jean Chacornac)
- 1655 Comas Solá (Josep Comas Solá)
- 1686 De Sitter (Willem de Sitter)
- 1677 Tycho Brahe (Tycho Brahe)
- 1693 Hertzsprung (Ejnar Hertzsprung)
- 1714 Sy (Frédéric Sy)
- 1741 Giclas (Henry L. Giclas)
- 1745 Ferguson (James Ferguson)
- 1761 Edmondson (Frank K. Edmondson)
- 1766 Slipher (V. M. Slipher and E. C. Slipher)
- 1776 Kuiper (Gerard Kuiper)
- 1778 Alfvén (Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén)
- 1803 Zwicky (Fritz Zwicky)
- 1830 Pogson (Norman Robert Pogson)
- 1831 Nicholson (Seth Barnes Nicholson)
- 1832 Mrkos (Antonín Mrkos)
- 1846 Bengt (Bengt Strömgren)
- 1850 Kohoutek (Luboš Kohoutek)
- 1877 Marsden (Brian G. Marsden)
- 1913 Sekanina (Zdenek Sekanina)
- 1940 Whipple (Fred Lawrence Whipple)
- 1983 Bok (Bart Bok)
- 1995 Hajek (Tadeáš Hájek)
- 1998 Titius (Johann Daniel Titius)
- 1999 Hirayama (Kiyotsugu Hirayama)
- 2000 Herschel (John Herschel)
- 2003 Harding (Karl Ludwig Harding)
- 2005 Hencke (Karl Ludwig Hencke)
- 2018 Schuster (Hans-Emil Schuster)
- 2074 Shoemaker (Eugene Shoemaker)
- 2099 Öpik (Ernst Julius Öpik)
- 2198 Ceplecha (Zdenek Ceplecha)
- 2325 Chernykh (Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh and Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh)
- 2602 Moore (Sir Patrick Moore)
- 2635 Huggins (William Huggins)
- 2646 Abetti (Antonio Abetti and Giorgio Abetti)
- 2709 Sagan (Carl Sagan)
- 2772 Dugan (Raymond Smith Dugan)
- 2801 Huygens (Christiaan Huygens)
- 2813 Zappalà (Vincenzo Zappalà)
- 2849 Shklovskij (Iosif Shklovsky)
- 2875 Lagerkvist (Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist)
- 2900 Luboš Perek (Luboš Perek)
- 2917 Sawyer Hogg (Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg)
- 3070 Aitken (Robert Grant Aitken)
- 3169 Ostro (Steven J. Ostro)
- 3174 Alcock (George Alcock)
- 3216 Harrington (Robert Sutton Harrington)
- 3267 Glo (Eleanor "Glo" Helin)
- 3277 Aaronson (Marc Aaronson)
- 3255 Tholen (David J Tholen)
- 3337 Miloš (Miloš Tichý)
- 3449 Abell (George Ogden Abell)
- 3467 Bernheim (Robert Burnham, Jr.)
- 3487 Edgeworth (Kenneth Edgeworth)
- 3673 Levy (David H. Levy)
- 3722 Urata (Takeshi Urata)
- 3808 Tempel (Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel)
- 3936 Elst (Eric Walter Elst)
- 3999 Aristarchus (Aristarchus of Samos)
- 4037 Ikeya (Kaoru Ikeya)
- 4062 Schiaparelli (Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli)
- 4279 De Gasparis (Annibale de Gasparis)
- 4364 Shkodrov (Vladimir Georgiev Shkodrov)
- 4567 Bečvář (Antonín Bečvář)
- 4593 Reipurth (Bo Reipurth, Danish astronomer)
- 4790 Petrpravec (Petr Pravec)
- 4987 Flamsteed (John Flamsteed)
- 5035 Swift (Lewis Swift)
- 5036 Tuttle (Horace Parnell Tuttle)
- 5757 Tichá (Jana Tichá)
- 6006 Anaximandros (Anaximander)
- 6076 Plavec (Miroslav Plavec)
- 7291 Hyakutake (Yuji Hyakutake)
- 7359 Messier (Charles Messier)
- 9133 d'Arrest (Heinrich Louis d'Arrest)
- 9134 Encke (Johann Franz Encke)
- 9121 Stefanovalentini (Stefano Valentini, Italian amateur astronomer and computer programmer)
- 9494 Donici (Nicolae Donici, Romanian astronomer)
- 14322 Shakura (Nikolai Ivanovich Shakura)
- 15395 Rükl (Antonín Rükl)
- 18150 López Moreno (José Juan López Moreno, Spanish astronomer)
Space exploration
- Astrobiologists
- *2410 Morrison (David Morrison)
- Planetary scientists
- *2710 Veverka (Joseph Veverka)
- *8356 Wadhwa (Meenakshi Wadhwa, meteorite analyst)
- Rocket scientists
- *1590 Tsiolkovskaja (Konstantin Tsiolkovsky)
- *1855 Korolev (Sergei Korolev)
- *25143 Itokawa (Hideo Itokawa)
- USSR/Russian cosmonauts
- *1772 Gagarin (Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space)
- *1789 Dobrovolsky (Georgi Dobrovolski)
- *1790 Volkov (Vladislav Volkov)
- *1791 Patsayev (Viktor Patsayev)
- *1836 Komarov (Vladimir Komarov)
- Apollo 11 astronauts:
- *6469 Armstrong (Neil Armstrong)
- *6470 Aldrin ("Buzz" Aldrin)
- *6471 Collins (Michael Collins)
- STS-51-L crew members:
- *3350 Scobee (Francis "Dick" Scobee)
- *3351 Smith (Michael J. Smith)
- *3352 McAuliffe (Christa McAuliffe)
- *3353 Jarvis (Gregory Jarvis)
- *3354 McNair (Ronald McNair)
- *3355 Onizuka (Ellison Onizuka)
- *3356 Resnik (Judith Resnik)
- STS-107 crew members:
- *51823 Rickhusband (Rick D. Husband)
- *51824 Mikeanderson (Michael P. Anderson)
- *51825 Davidbrown (David M. Brown)
- *51826 Kalpanachawla (Kalpana Chawla)
- *51827 Laurelclark (Laurel B. Clark)
- *51828 Ilanramon (see below)
- *51829 Williemccool (William C. McCool)
- Chinese taikonauts:
- *9512 Feijunlong (Fei Junlong)
- *9517 Niehaisheng (Nie Haisheng)
- *21064 Yangliwei (Yang Liwei)
- Other countries' astronauts
- *2558 Remek (Vladimír Remek, Czechoslovak cosmonaut)
- *22901 Ivanbella (Ivan Bella, Slovak cosmonaut)
- *51828 Ilanramon (Ilan Ramon, Israeli astronaut and an STS-107 crew member)
Other sciences
- 2496 Fernandus, (Fernandus Payne, zoologist)
- 2766 Leeuwenhoek (Anton van Leeuwenhoek, pioneering cell biologist)
- 3069 Heyrovský (Jaroslav Heyrovský, chemist and physicist)
- 3256 Daguerre (Louis Daguerre, photographic pioneer)
- 3313 Mendel (Gregor Mendel, father of genetics)
- 3701 Purkyně (Jan Evangelista Purkyně, fysiologist)
- 3899 Wichterle (Otto Wichterle, chemist)
- 4342 Freud (Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis)
- 4564 Clayton (Robert Clayton, chemist)
- 4565 Grossman (Lawrence Grossman, geochemist)
- 4716 Urey (Harold Urey, chemist)
- 4798 Mercator (Gerardus Mercator, cartographer)
- 4815 Anders (Robert Anders, chemist)
- 5102 Benfranklin (Benjamin Franklin, scientist/philosopher/statesman)
- 5697 Arrhenius (Svante Arrhenius, chemist)
- 5864 Montgolfier (Montgolfier brothers, hot air balloon pioneers)
- 5958 Barrande (Joachim Barrande, geologist and paleontologist)
- 6032 Nobel (Alfred Nobel, chemist)
- 6175 Cori (Carl Ferdinand Cori and Gerty Theresa Cori, biochemists)
- 6826 Lavoisier (Antoine Lavoisier, chemist)
- 8373 Stephengould (Stephen Jay Gould, evolutionist and essayist)
Politicians and monarchs
- 12 Victoria (officially named after the Roman goddess of victory, but also honours Queen Victoria)
- 45 Eugenia (Empress Eugénie), with its moon Petit-Prince in part for her son Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial
- 216 Kleopatra (Cleopatra VII of Egypt)
- 944 Hidalgo (Miguel Hidalgo)
- 1841 Masaryk (Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, 1st Czechoslovak president)
- 3571 Milanštefánik (Milan Rastislav Štefánik)
- 4317 Garibaldi (Giuseppe Garibaldi)
- 4721 Atahualpa (Atahuallpa)
- 4927 O'Connell (Daniel O'Connell)
- 7117 Claudius (Emperor Claudius)
- 7211 Xerxes (Xerxes)
- 8740 Václav (Václav, name of several Bohemian monarchs)
- 9275 Persson (Jöran Persson)
- 10293 Pribina (Pribina, ruler of Nitrian Principality)
- 11014 Svätopluk (Svätopluk, ruler of Great Moravia)
- 11830 Jessenius (Jan Jessenius)
- 16951 Carolus Quartus (Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia)
- 17702 Kryštofharant (Kryštof Harant)
- 20969 Samo (Samo, ruler of Samo’s Empire)
- 25340 Segoves (Segoves, Celtic duke)
- 44613 Rudolf (Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperor, king of Bohemia and Hungary)
- 53285 Mojmír (Mojmír I, ruler of Great Moravia)
War heroes and veterans
World War II heroes and veterans
- 1793 Zoya (Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya)
- 1907 Rudneva (Evgeniya Rudneva)
- 2132 Zhukov (Georgy Zhukov)
- 3348 Pokryshkin (Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin)
- 11572 Schindler (Oskar Schindler, rescuer of 1,200 Jewish people)
- 19384 Winton (Nicholas Winton, rescuer of 669 Jewish children)
- 50413 Petrginz (Petr Ginz, Jewish boy who died in Auschwitz concentration camp)
Other war heroes
- 1834 Palach (Jan Palach, Czech student who self-immolated in protest against Soviet occupation of his country)
- 20164 Janzajíc (Jan Zajíc, Czech student who self-immolated in protest against Soviet occupation of his country)
Religion
- 89 Julia (Julia of Corsica, martyr and patron saint, 5th century)
- 1840 Hus (John Huss, Czech Jan Hus, religious reformer)
- 5275 Zdislava (Saint Zdislava of Berka, in Czech Zdislava z Lemberka)
- 7100 Martin Luther (Martin Luther)
- 7256 Bonhoeffer (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
Explorers
- 54 Alexandra (Alexander von Humboldt, naturalist and explorer)
- 853 Nansenia (Fridtjof Nansen, polar explorer)
- 1065 Amundsenia (Roald Amundsen, polar explorer)
- 2473 Heyerdahl (Thor Heyerdahl, archaeologist and writer)
- 2785 Sedov (Georgy Sedov, Arctic explorer)
- 3130 Hillary (Edmund Hillary, mountaineer [see Tenzing, below])
- 3357 Tolstikov (Yevgeny Tolstikov, polar explorer)
- 4055 Magellan (Ferdinand Magellan, circumnavigator)
- 6481 Tenzing (Tenzing Norgay, Sherpa [see Hillary, above])
- 6542 Jacquescousteau (Jacques-Yves Cousteau, marine explorer)
- 8291 Bingham (Hiram Bingham III, explorer)
- 15425 Welzl (Jan Welzl, arctic explorer)
Historians
- 3092 Herodotus (Herodotus)
- 3097 Tacitus (Tacitus)
- 4549 Burkhardt (Jacob Burkhardt)
- 5946 Hrozný (Bedřich Hrozný, archaeologist, orientalist and linguist)
- 6174 Polybius (Polybius)
- 6304 Josephus Flavius (Josephus)
- 40444 Palacký (František Palacký)
Philosophers
- 5329 Decaro (Mario De Caro)
- 5450 Sokrates (Socrates)
- 5451 Plato (Plato)
- 6001 Thales (Thales)
- 6123 Aristoteles (Aristotle)
- 7009 Hume (David Hume)
- 7010 Locke (John Locke)
- 7012 Hobbes (Thomas Hobbes)
- 7014 Nietzsche (Friedrich Nietzsche)
- 7015 Schopenhauer (Arthur Schopenhauer)
- 8318 Averroes (Averroes or Ibn Rushd)
The Arts
Literature
General authors
- 1931 Čapek (Karel Čapek)
- 2681 Ostrovskij (Nikolai Ostrovsky)
- 3047 Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
- 3412 Kafka (Franz Kafka)
- 4112 Hrabal (Bohumil Hrabal)
- 5418 Joyce (James Joyce)
- 5535 Annefrank (Anne Frank)
- 5666 Rabelais (François Rabelais)
- 5676 Voltaire (Voltaire)
- 6984 Lewiscarroll (Lewis Carroll or Charles Dodgson)
- 7328 Casanova (Giacomo Casanova)
- 8315 Bajin (Bajin)
- 8379 Straczynski (J. Michael Straczynski)
- 8382 Mann (brothers Heinrich Mann and Thomas Mann)
- 13406 Sekora (Ondřej Sekora)
- 26314 Škvorecký (Josef Škvorecký)
- 40106 Erben (Karel Jaromír Erben)
- 44597 Thoreau (Henry David Thoreau)
Novelists
- 2362 Mark Twain (Mark Twain)
- 2578 Saint-Exupéry (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
- 2625 Jack London (Jack London)
- 2675 Tolkien (J.R.R. Tolkien)
- 3453 Dostoevsky (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
- 3628 Božněmcová (Božena Němcová)
- 3836 Lem (Stanisław Lem)
- 4124 Herriot (James Herriot)
- 4266 Waltari (Mika Waltari)
- 4370 Dickens (Charles Dickens)
- 4474 Proust (Marcel Proust)
- 4923 Clarke (Arthur C. Clarke)
- 5020 Asimov (Isaac Asimov)
- 6223 Dahl (Roald Dahl)
- 6371 Heinlein (Robert A. Heinlein)
- 6440 Ransome (Arthur Ransome)
- 7016 Conandoyle (Arthur Conan Doyle)
- 7232 Nabokov (Vladimir Nabokov)
- 7390 Kundera (Milan Kundera)
- 7644 Cslewis (C.S. Lewis)
- 10733 George Sand (George Sand)
- 10930 Jinyong (Jinyong)
- 11020 Orwell (George Orwell)
- 11379 Flaubert (Gustave Flaubert)
- 17776 Troska (J. M. Troska)
- 25399 Vonnegut (Kurt Vonnegut)
- 25924 Douglasadams (Douglas Adams)
Poets
- 1875 Neruda (Jan Neruda)
- 2208 Pushkin (Aleksandr Pushkin)
- 2222 Lermontov (Mikhail Lermontov)
- 2604 Marshak (Samuil Marshak)
- 3067 Akhmatova (Anna Akhmatova)
- 4110 Keats (John Keats)
- 4369 Seifert (Jaroslav Seifert)
- 4635 Rimbaud (Arthur Rimbaud)
- 7855 Tagore (Rabindranath Tagore)
- 9495 Eminescu (Mihai Eminescu)
- 18624 Prévert (Jacques Prévert)
Playwrights
- 2930 Euripides (Euripides)
- 2985 Shakespeare (William Shakespeare)
- 2921 Sophocles (Sophocles)
- 2934 Aristophanes (Aristophanes)
- 3046 Molière (Molière, French playwright)
- 3079 Schiller (Friedrich Schiller, German playwright)
- 5696 Ibsen (Henrik Ibsen)
Satirists
- 2734 Hašek (Jaroslav Hašek)
- 3244 Petronius (Petronius)
- 3044 Saltykov (Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist)
- 15017 Cuppy (Will Cuppy)
Visual arts
- 2730 Barks (Carl Barks, cartoonist)
- 3001 Michelangelo (Michelangelo Buonarroti, painter and sculptor)
- 4511 Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn, painter)
- 4671 Drtikol (František Drtikol, photographer)
- 4691 Toyen, (Toyen), painter and graphic artist)
- 5122 Mucha (Alfons Mucha, painter and graphic artist)
- 5363 Kupka (František Kupka, painter and graphic artist)
- 5800 Pollock (Jackson Pollock, painter)
- 6056 Donatello (Donatello, painter)
- 6592 Goya (Francisco Goya, painter)
- 6674 Cézanne (Paul Cézanne, painter)
- 6676 Monet (Claude Monet, painter)
- 6677 Renoir (Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painter)
- 6701 Warhol (Andy Warhol, artist)
- 6768 Mathiasbraun (Mathias Braun, also known as Matyáš Braun, sculptor and carver)
- 6769 Brokoff (Johann Brokoff, also known as Jan Brokoff, sculptor and carver)
- 7701 Zrzavý (Jan Zrzavý, painter)
- 7867 Burian (Zdeněk Burian, painter and book illustrator)
- 8236 Gainsborough (Thomas Gainsborough, landscape and portrait artist)
- 8237 Constable (John Constable, painter)
- 8240 Matisse (Henri Matisse, painter)
- 14976 Josefčapek (Josef Čapek, painter and writer)
- 17625 Joseflada (Josef Lada, painter)
- 17806 Adolfborn (Adolf Born, painter)
- 29490 Myslbek (Josef Václav Myslbek, sculptor)
- 46280 Hollar (Václav Hollar, graphic artist and painter)
Architects
- 5318 Dientzenhofer (Kryštof Dientzenhofer and his son Kilián Ignác Dientzenhofer
- 6055 Brunelleschi (Filippo Brunelleschi)
- 6266 Letzel (Jan Letzel)
- 6550 Parléř (Peter Parler, Czech Petr Parléř)
- 19129 Loos (Adolf Loos)
Classical music
Composers
- 1034 Mozartia (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
- 1059 Mussorgskia (Modest Mussorgsky)
- 1405 Sibelius (Jean Sibelius)
- 1814 Bach (member of Bach family, probably Johann Sebastian Bach)
- 1815 Beethoven (Ludwig van Beethoven)
- 1818 Brahms (Johannes Brahms)
- 2047 Smetana (Bedrich Smetana)
- 2055 Dvořák (Antonín Dvořák)
- 2073 Janáček (Leoš Janáček)
- 2205 Glinka (Mikhail Glinka)
- 2266 Tchaikovsky (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
- 2523 Ryba (Jakub Jan Ryba)
- 2669 Shostakovich (Dmitri Shostakovich)
- 3081 Martinůboh (Bohuslav Martinů)
- 3159 Prokof'ev (Sergei Prokofiev)
- 3590 Holst (Gustav Holst)
- 3592 Nedbal (Oskar Nedbal)
- 3784 Chopin (Frédéric Chopin)
- 3826 Handel (George Frideric Handel)
- 3917 Franz Schubert (Franz Schubert)
- 3941 Haydn (Joseph Haydn)
- 3954 Mendelssohn (Felix Mendelssohn)
- 3955 Bruckner (Anton Bruckner)
- 3975 Verdi (Giuseppe Verdi)
- 3992 Wagner (Richard Wagner)
- 4003 Schumann (probably Robert Schumann)
- 4040 Purcell (Henry Purcell)
- 4079 Britten (Benjamin Britten)
- 4132 Bartók (Béla Bartók)
- 4134 Schütz (Heinrich Schütz)
- 4330 Vivaldi (Antonio Vivaldi)
- 4345 Rachmaninoff (Sergei Rachmaninoff)
- 4382 Stravinsky (Igor Stravinsky)
- 4406 Mahler (Gustav Mahler)
- 4492 Debussy (Claude Debussy)
- 4515 Khrennikov (Tikhon Khrennikov)
- 4527 Schoenberg (Arnold Schoenberg)
- 4528 Berg (Alban Berg)
- 4429 Webern (Anton Webern)
- 4532 Copland (Aaron Copland)
- 4534 Rimskij-Korsakov (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
- 4546 Franck (Cesar Franck)
- 4559 Strauss (Johann Strauss family or Richard Strauss)
- 4579 Puccini (Giacomo Puccini)
- 4625 Shchedrin (Rodion Shchedrin)
- 4727 Ravel (Maurice Ravel)
- 4734 Rameau (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
- 4802 Khatchaturian (Aram Khatchaturian)
- 4818 Elgar (Edward Elgar)
- 4850 Palestrina (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- 4972 Pachelbel (Johann Pachelbel)
- 5004 Bruch (Max Bruch)
- 5063 Monteverdi (Claudio Monteverdi)
- 5157 Hindemith (Paul Hindemith)
- 5177 Hugowolf (Hugo Wolf)
- 5210 Saint-Saëns (Camille Saint-Saëns)
- 6480 Scarlatti (Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti)
- 6549 Skryabin (Alexander Scriabin)
- 6777 Balakirev (Mily Balakirev)
- 6780 Borodin (Alexander Borodin)
- 6798 Couperin (François Couperin)
- 7522 Pergolesi (Giovanni Battista Pergolesi)
- 7624 Gluck (Christoph Willibald Gluck)
- 7625 Louisspohr (Louis Spohr)
- 7903 Albinoni (Tomaso Albinoni)
- 8181 Rossini (Gioacchino Rossini)
- 8249 Gershwin (George Gershwin)
- 8877 Rentaro (Taki Rentaro)
- 9438 Satie (Erik Satie)
- 9493 Enescu (George Enescu)
- 9912 Donizetti (Gaetano Donizetti)
- 9913 Humperdinck (Engelbert Humperdinck)
- 10055 Silcher (Friedrich Silcher)
- 10116 Robertfranz (Robert Franz)
- 10820 Offenbach (Jacques Offenbach)
- 10875 Veracini (Francesco Maria Veracini)
- 11050 Messiaen (Olivier Messiaen)
- 11289 Frescobaldi (Girolamo Frescobaldi)
- 11530 d'Indy (Vincent d'Indy)
- 11899 Weill (Kurt Weill)
- 15808 Zelter (Carl Friedrich Zelter)
- 16590 Brunowalter (Bruno Walter, composer and conductor)
- 17509 Ikumadan (Ikuma Dan)
- 53159 Mysliveček (Josef Mysliveček)
- 69288 Berlioz (Hector Berlioz)
Others
- 5203 Pavarotti (Luciano Pavarotti, opera singer)
- 6583 Destinn (Ema Destinnová, also known as Emmy Destinn, opera singer)
- 11201 Talich (Václav Talich, conductor)
- 18460 Pecková (Dagmar Pecková, opera singer)
- 21801 Ančerl (Karel Ančerl, conductor)
- 21804 Václavneumann (Václav Neumann, conductor)
- 36226 Mackerras (Charles Mackerras, conductor)
Entertainment
Popular music
- 1889 Pakhmutova (Aleksandra Pakhmutova, singer)
- 2620 Santana (Carlos Santana, musician)
- 3834 Zappafrank (Frank Zappa, musician)
- The Beatles members:
- *4147 Lennon (John Lennon)
- *4148 McCartney (Paul McCartney)
- *4149 Harrison (George Harrison)
- *4150 Starr (Ringo Starr)
- 4305 Clapton (Eric Clapton, musician)
- 4422 Jarre (Maurice Jarre and Jean Michel Jarre, French composers)
- 4442 Garcia (Jerry Garcia, musician)
- 5656 Oldfield (Mike Oldfield, composer)
- 5945 Roachapproach (Steve Roach, musician)
- 6354 Vangelis (Vangelis Papathanassiou, composer)
- 6433 Enya (Enya, musician)
- 7226 Kryl (Karel Kryl, musician)
- 7707 Yes (Yes, band)
- 7934 Sinatra (Frank Sinatra, vocalist)
- 8249 Gershwin (George Gershwin, composer)
- 9179 Satchmo (Louis Armstrong, musician)
- 15092 Beegees (Bee Gees, band)
- 16155 Buddy (Buddy Holly, musician)
- 17059 Elvis (Elvis Presley, musician)
- 18132 Spector (Phil Spector, musician)
- 18125 Brianwilson (Brian Wilson, musician)
- 19367 Pink Floyd (Pink Floyd, band)
- 19383 Rolling Stones (Rolling Stones, band)
- 23990 Springsteen (Bruce Springsteen, musician)
- 44016 Jimmypage (Jimmy Page, musician)
- 79896 Billhaley (Bill Haley, musician)
Film and TV
- 2374 Vladvysotskij, (Vladimir Vysotsky, singer, poet, writer, movie and theatre actor)
- 2816 Pien, (Armand Pien (1920-2003), Belgian TV weatherman)
- 3147 Samantha (Samantha Smith, US girl, peace ambassador, actress)
- 3252 Johnny (Johnny Carson, Talk Show Host)
- 4238 Audrey (Audrey Hepburn, actress)
- 4535 Adamcarolla (Adam Carolla, comedian, television and radio host)
- 4536 Drewpinsky (Drew Pinsky, television and radio host, actor)
- 4659 Roddenberry (Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek creator)
- 6318 Cronkite (Walter Cronkite, TV newsreader)
- 6377 Cagney (James Cagney, actor)
- 6546 Kaye (Danny Kaye, actor and comedian)
- 7032 Hitchcock (Alfred Hitchcock, film director)
- 7037 Davidlean (David Lean, film director)
- 71000 Hughdowns (Hugh Downs, Television and radio anchorman)
- 8299 Téaleoni (Téa Leoni, actress)
- 8353 Megryan (Meg Ryan, actress)
- 9341 Gracekelly (Grace Kelly, actress)
- 9342 Carygrant (Cary Grant, actor)
- Monty Python members:
- *9617 Grahamchapman (Graham Chapman)
- *9618 Johncleese (John Cleese)
- *9619 Terrygilliam (Terry Gilliam)
- *9620 Ericidle (Eric Idle)
- *9621 Michaelpalin (Michael Palin)
- *9622 Terryjones (Terry Jones)
- 10221 Kubrick (Stanley Kubrick)
- 10378 Ingmarbergman (Ingmar Bergman, film director)
- 11333 Forman (Miloš Forman, film director)
- 11548 Jerrylewis (Jerry Lewis, comedian and actor)
- 13070 Seanconnery (Sean Connery, actor)
- 17744 Jodiefoster (Jodie Foster, actress)
- 19291 Karelzeman (Karel Zeman, film director)
- 19578 Kirkdouglas (Kirk Douglas, actor)
- 26858 Misterrogers (Fred Rogers, US children's television host)
- 38461 Jiřítrnka (Jiří Trnka, puppet maker and puppet-film director)
Sports
- 1740 Nurmi (Paavo Nurmi, Olympic medalist)
- 5891 Gehrig (Lou Gehrig, baseball player)
- 5910 Zátopek (Emil Zátopek, long-distance runner, Olympic medalist)
- 6758 Jesseowens (Jesse Owens, athlete)
- 8217 Dominikhašek (Dominik Hašek, ice hockey player, Olympic medalist)
- 9224 Železný (Jan Železný, javelin thrower, Olympic medalist)
- 10634 Pepibican (Josef Bican, called “Pepi“, football player)
- 12373 Lancearmstrong, (Lance Armstrong, cyclist)
- 26986 Čáslavská (Věra Čáslavská, gymnast, Olympic medalist)
Other entertainers
- 3163 Randi (James Randi, magician)
Others
- 83 Beatrix (Beatrice Portinari, immortalized in Dante's Divine Comedy)
- 1462 Zamenhof (L. L. Zamenhof, father of Esperanto)
- 1861 Komenský (Jan Amos Komenský (Comenius), teacher of nations)
- 3018 Godiva (Lady Godiva)
- 4318 Baťa (Tomáš Baťa, founder of the Bata shoe company)
- 4487 Pocahontas (Pocahontas)
- 3147 Samantha (Samantha Smith, peace activist)
- 7166 Kennedy (Malcolm Kennedy, secretary of the Astronomical Society of Glasgow)
- 13916 Bernolák (Anton Bernolák, linguist)
- 40440 Dobrovský (Josef Dobrovský, linguist)
- 69275 Wiesenthal (Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter)
Fictional characters
Characters in classic fiction
- 92 Undina (Undine, heroine of the novella Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué)
- 264 Libussa (Libuše, mythical Bohemian prophetess)
- 2041 Lancelot (Arthurian knight)
- 2082 Galahad (Arthurian knight)
- 2483 Guinevere (Guinevere, King Arthur's queen)
- 2597 Arthur (King Arthur, legendary king of England)
- 2598 Merlin (Merlin, wizard who helped King Arthur)
- 3102 Krok (Krok, mythical Bohemian duke, father of Libuše, Kazi and Teta)
- 3552 Don Quixote (Don Quixote, hero of the novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes)
- 4250 Perun (Perun, Slavic god)
- 5797 Bivoj (Bivoj, mythical Bohemian hero)
- 7695 Přemysl (Přemysl the Ploughman, mythical founder of the Přemyslid dynasty)
- 9551 Kazi (Kazi, Bohemian mythical female healer)
- 10764 Rübezahl (Rübezahl, Czech Krakonoš, giant ruler of the Giant Mountains)
- 15374 Teta (Teta, mythical Bohemian prophetess)
Characters in modern fiction
- 1683 Castafiore (the diva in Hergé's adventures of Tintin)
- 2309 Mr. Spock (Mr. Spock, the famous Vulcan, by way of the discoverer's cat)
- 4512 Sinuhe (title hero of The Egyptian by Mika Waltari)
- Characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle:
- *5048 Moriarty (Professor Moriarty, archenemy of Sherlock Holmes)
- *5049 Sherlock (Sherlock Holmes, detective)
- *5050 Doctorwatson (Doctor Watson, sidekick of Sherlock Holmes)
- Characters created by Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland:
- *6042 Cheshirecat (the Cheshire cat)
- *6735 Madhatter (the Mad Hatter)
- *6736 Marchare (the March Hare)
- Fabulous beasts described or mentioned by Lewis Carroll in Jabberwocky:
- *7470 Jabberwock (the Jabberwock)
- *7980 Bandersnatch (the Bandersnatch)
- 7796 Járacimrman (Jára Cimrman, a fictional Czech genius)
- 7896 Švejk (Josef Švejk, the good soldier)
- 9007 James Bond (James Bond, fictional spy created by Ian Fleming)
- 12448 Mr. Tompkins (Mr. Tompkins, hero of science books by George Gamow)
- 18610 Arthurdent (Arthur Dent, hapless protagonist in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series)
- 20496 Jeník (Jeník, hero of Bedřich Smetana’s opera Bartered Bride)
- 20497 Mařenka (Mařenka, hero of Bedřich Smetana’s opera Bartered Bride)
- 29401 Asterix (Astérix, famous comic strip character by Goscinny and Uderzo)
- 29402 Obelix (Obélix, famous comic strip character by Goscinny and Uderzo)
- 29471 Spejbl (Spejbl, popular puppet character created by Josef Skupa)
- 29472 Hurvínek (Hurvínek, son of Spejbl, popular puppet character created by Josef Skupa)
- 33377 Večerníček (Večerníček, animated character inviting Czech children to watch evening TV fairytale)
- Petit-Prince, moon of 45 Eugenia (The Little Prince, hero of book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
References
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "Tribute to the Crew of Columbia." http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2003/columbia-tribute.cfm (accessed 17 May 2004).
- Kleť Observatory. "Kleť numbered minor planets" (9 May 2004). http://www.klet.org/names/ (accessed 12 May 2004).
- Minor Planet Center. "Minor Planet Names: Alphabetical List" (6 May 2004). http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/MPNames.html (accessed 13 May 2004).
- Schmadel, Lutz D. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (2nd ed.). Berlin; New York: Springer-Verlag, 1993.
See also
- List of asteroids
- List of noteworthy asteroids
- List of asteroids named after places
- Meanings of asteroid names
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