- List of asteroids named after people
This is a list of asteroids named after people, both real and fictional.
cience
Mathematicians
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1001 Gaussia (Carl Friedrich Gauss )
*1005 Arago (François Arago )
*1006 Lagrangea (Joseph Louis Lagrange )
*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 )
*2002 Euler (Leonhard Euler )
*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 )
*27500 Mandelbrot (Benoît Mandelbrot )
*29552 Chern (Shiing-Shen Chern )Physicists
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837 Schwarzschilda (Karl Schwarzschild )
*1069 Planckia (Max Planck )
*1565 Lemaitre (Georges Lemaître )
*1979 Sakharov (Andrei Sakharov )
*2001 Einstein (Albert Einstein )
*2352 Kurchatov (Igor Kurchatov )
*3905 Doppler (Christian Doppler )
*3949 Mach (Ernst Mach )
*4065 Meinel (Aden Meinel )
*4530 Smoluchowski (Roman Smoluchowski , Polish born physicist and astrophysicist)
*5103 Diviš (Prokop Václav Diviš)
*5668 Foucault (Léon Foucault )
*7000 Curie (Maria Skłodowska-Curie)
*7279 Hagfors (Tor Hagfors)
*7495 Feynman (Richard Feynman )
*7672 Hawking (Stephen Hawking )
*8000 Isaac Newton (Isaac Newton )
*8103 Fermi (Enrico Fermi )
*10979 Fristephenson (Professor F. Richard Stephenson)
*13092 Schrödinger (Erwin Schrödinger )
*13149 Heisenberg (Werner Heisenberg )
*37582 Faraday (Michael Faraday )
*48798 Penghuanwu (Peng Huanwu )Astronomers
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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 andKarl Hermann Struve )
*819 Barnardiana (Edward Emerson Barnard )
*827 Wolfiana (Max Wolf )
*834 Burnhamia (Sherburne Wesley Burnham )
*854 Frostia (Edwin Brant Frost )
*914 Palisana (Johann Palisa )
*999 Zachia (Franz Xaver, Baron von Zach )
*1000 Piazzia (Giuseppe Piazzi , discoverer of the asteroid1 Ceres )
*1002 Olbersia (Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers )
*1004 Belopolskya (Aristarkh Belopolsky )
*1021 Flammario (Camille Flammarion )
*1024 Hale (George Ellery Hale )
*1040 Klumpkea (Dorothea Klumpke )
*1111 Reinmuthia (Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth )
*1120 Cannonia (Annie Jump Cannon )
*1123 Shapleya (Harlow Shapley )
*1129 Neujmina (Grigory Neujmin )
*1134 Kepler (Johannes Kepler )
*1241 Dysona (SirBenjamin Watson Valle )
*1280 Baillauda (Jules Baillaud , son of the astronomerBenjamin Baillaud )
*1303 Luthera (Karl Theodor Robert Luther )
*1412 Lagrula (Joanny-Philippe Lagrula )
*1501 Baade (Walter Baade)
*1510 Charlois (Auguste Charlois )
*1529 Oterma (Liisi Oterma )
*1539 Borrelly (Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly )
*1563 Noël (Emanuel Arend , son of the astronomer Sylvain Julien Victor Arend)
*1573 Väisälä (Yrjö Väisälä )
*1578 Kirkwood (Daniel Kirkwood )
*1591 Baize (Paul Baize )
*1600 Vyssotsky (Emma T. R. Williams Vyssotsky)
*1614 Goldschmidt (Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt )
*1622 Chacornac (Jean Chacornac )
*1637 Swings (Pol Swings )
*1655 Comas Solá (Josep Comas Solá )
*1686 De Sitter (Willem de Sitter )
*1677 Tycho Brahe (Tycho Brahe )
*1693 Hertzsprung (Ejnar Hertzsprung )
*1714 Sy (Frédéric Sy )
*1741 Giclas (Henry L. Giclas )
*1745 Ferguson (James Ferguson)
*1761 Edmondson (Frank K. Edmondson )
*1766 Slipher (V. M. Slipher and E. C. Slipher)
*1776 Kuiper (Gerard Kuiper )
*1778 Alfvén (Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén )
*1780 Kippes (Otto Kippes )
*1803 Zwicky (Fritz Zwicky )
*1830 Pogson (Norman Robert Pogson )
*1831 Nicholson (Seth Barnes Nicholson )
*1832 Mrkos (Antonín Mrkos )
*1846 Bengt (Bengt Strömgren )
*1850 Kohoutek (Luboš Kohoutek )
*1877 Marsden (Brian G. Marsden )
*1913 Sekanina (Zdenek Sekanina )
*1940 Whipple (Fred Lawrence Whipple )
*1983 Bok (Bart Bok )
*1995 Hajek (Tadeáš Hájek )
*1998 Titius (Johann Daniel Titius )
*1999 Hirayama (Kiyotsugu Hirayama )
*2000 Herschel (John Herschel)
*2003 Harding (Karl Ludwig Harding )
*2005 Hencke (Karl Ludwig Hencke )
*2018 Schuster (Hans-Emil Schuster )
*2074 Shoemaker (Eugene Shoemaker )
*2099 Öpik (Ernst Julius Öpik )
*2136 Jugta (Jay U. Gunter )
*2198 Ceplecha (Zdenek Ceplecha )
*2325 Chernykh (Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh andNikolai Stepanovich Chernykh )
*2602 Moore (SirPatrick Moore )
*2635 Huggins (William Huggins )
*2646 Abetti (Antonio Abetti andGiorgio Abetti )
*2709 Sagan (Carl Sagan )
*2772 Dugan (Raymond Smith Dugan )
*2780 Monnig (Oscar Monnig )
*2801 Huygens (Christiaan Huygens )
*2813 Zappalà (Vincenzo Zappalà )
*2849 Shklovskij (Iosif Shklovsky|)
*2874 Jim Young (James Whitney Young )
*2875 Lagerkvist (Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist )
*2900 Luboš Perek (Luboš Perek )
*2917 Sawyer Hogg (Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg)
*2996 Bowman (Fred N. Bowman )
*3070 Aitken (Robert Grant Aitken )
*3123 Dunham (David Waring Dunham )
*3169 Ostro (Steven J. Ostro )
*3174 Alcock (George Alcock )
*3216 Harrington (Robert Sutton Harrington )
*3267 Glo (Eleanor "Glo" Helin)
*3277 Aaronson (Marc Aaronson )
*3255 Tholen (David J Tholen )
*3337 Miloš (Miloš Tichý )
*3449 Abell (George Ogden Abell )
*3467 Bernheim (Robert Burnham, Jr. )
*3487 Edgeworth (Kenneth Edgeworth )
*3549 Hapke (Bruce William Hapke )
*3673 Levy (David H. Levy )
*3722 Urata (Takeshi Urata )
*3808 Tempel (Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel )
*3847 Šindel (Jan Šindel )
*3936 Elst (Eric Walter Elst )
*3999 Aristarchus (Aristarchus of Samos )
*4037 Ikeya (Kaoru Ikeya )
*4062 Schiaparelli (Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli )
*4279 De Gasparis (Annibale de Gasparis )
*4364 Shkodrov (Vladimir Georgiev Shkodrov )
*4567 Bečvář (Antonín Bečvář )
*4593 Reipurth (Bo Reipurth , Danish astronomer)
*4790 Petrpravec (Petr Pravec )
*4866 Badillo (Jesuit astronomer and former director of the Manila Observatory, Fr.Victor L. Badillo )
*5035 Swift (Lewis Swift )
*5036 Tuttle (Horace Parnell Tuttle )
*5392 Parker (Donald C. Parker )
*5757 Tichá (Jana Tichá )
*6006 Anaximandros (Anaximander )
*6076 Plavec (Miroslav Plavec )
*6398 Timhunter (Tim Hunter)
*7291 Hyakutake (Yuji Hyakutake )
*7359 Messier (Charles Messier )
*8785 Boltwood (Paul Boltwood )
*9133 d'Arrest (Heinrich Louis d'Arrest )
*9134 Encke (Johann Franz Encke )
*9121 Stefanovalentini (Stefano Valentini , Italian amateur astronomer and computer programmer)
*9494 Donici (Nicolae Donici , Romanian astronomer)
*14124 Kamil (Kamil Hornoch )
*14120 Espenak (Fred Espenak )
*14322 Shakura (Nikolai Ivanovich Shakura )
*15395 Rükl (Antonín Rükl )
*15955 Johannesgmunden (John of Gmunden )
*18150 López Moreno (José Juan López Moreno , Spanish astronomer)
*36445 Smalley (Kyle E. Smalley )
*68730 Straizys (Vytautas Straižys , Lithuanian astronomer, the founder ofVilnius photometric system )
*72021 Yisunji (Yi, Sunji, Korean astronomer in 15th century)
*95593 Azusienis (Algimantas Ažusienis , Lithuanian astronomer)
*99503 Leewonchul (Lee, Wonchul, Korean astronomer)
*106817 Yubangtaek (Yu, Bangtaek, Korean astronomer in 13th century)pace exploration
*Astrobiologists
**2410 Morrison (David Morrison )
**9826 Ehrenfreund (Pascale Ehrenfreund )
**12859 Marlamoore (Marla Moore )
*Planetary scientists
**2710 Veverka (Joseph Veverka )
**7231 Porco (Carolyn Porco )
**8356 Wadhwa (Meenakshi Wadhwa , meteorite analyst)
**many more
*Rocket scientists
**1590 Tsiolkovskaja (Konstantin Tsiolkovsky )
**1855 Korolev (Sergei Korolev )
**8062 Okhotsymskij (Dmitry Okhotsimsky )
**25143 Itokawa (Hideo Itokawa )
*USSR /Russia n 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 astronauts:
**2552 Remek (Vladimír Remek , Czechoslovak cosmonaut)
**22901 Ivanbella (Ivan Bella , Slovak cosmonaut)
**51828 Ilanramon (Ilan Ramon , Israeli astronaut and anSTS-107 crew member)Other sciences
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1007 Pawlowia (Ivan Pavlov , physiologist)
*2177 Oliver (Bernard M. Oliver , research scientist)
*2496 Fernandus (Fernandus Payne , zoologist)
*2766 Leeuwenhoek (Anton van Leeuwenhoek , pioneering cell biologist)
*3069 Heyrovský (Jaroslav Heyrovský , chemist and physicist)
*3256 Daguerre (Louis Daguerre , photographic pioneer)
*3313 Mendel (Gregor Mendel , father of genetics)
*3701 Purkyně (Jan Evangelista Purkyně , fysiologist)
*3899 Wichterle (Otto Wichterle , chemist)
*4342 Freud (Sigmund Freud , father of psychoanalysis)
*4564 Clayton (Robert Clayton, chemist)
*4565 Grossman (Lawrence Grossman , geochemist)
*7552 Sephton (Mark Sephton , geochemist)
*4716 Urey (Harold Urey , chemist)
*4798 Mercator (Gerardus Mercator , cartographer)
*4815 Anders (Robert Anders , chemist)
*5102 Benfranklin (Benjamin Franklin , scientist/philosopher/statesman)
*5697 Arrhenius (Svante Arrhenius , chemist)
*5864 Montgolfier (Montgolfier brothers ,hot air balloon pioneers)
*5958 Barrande (Joachim Barrande , geologist and paleontologist)
*6032 Nobel (Alfred Nobel , chemist)
*6175 Cori (Carl Ferdinand Cori andGerty Theresa Cori , biochemists)
*6826 Lavoisier (Antoine Lavoisier , chemist)
*8373 Stephengould (Stephen Jay Gould , evolutionist and essayist)
*9793 Torvalds (Linus Torvalds , computer scientist)
*9882 Stallman (Richard M. Stallman , computer scientist)
*15465 Buchroeder (Richard A. Buchroeder , optical engineer)
*15565 Benjaminsteele (Benjamin Steele , biologist)
*19139 Apian (Peter Apian)
*20780 Chanyikhei (Chan Yik Hei )
*73079 Davidbaltimore (David Baltimore ,Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Laureate)Politicians and monarchs
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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 sonNapoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial
*216 Kleopatra (Cleopatra VII of Egypt )
*852 Wladilena (Vladimir Lenin )
*911 Agamemnon (Agamemnon )
*932 Hooveria (Herbert Hoover )
*944 Hidalgo (Miguel Hidalgo )
*1068 Nofretete (Nefertiti )
*1128 Astrid (Astrid of Sweden )
*1841 Masaryk (Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk , 1st Czechoslovak president)
*3571 Milanštefánik (Milan Rastislav Štefánik )
*4317 Garibaldi (Giuseppe Garibaldi )
*4721 Atahualpa (Atahuallpa )
*4927 O'Connell (Daniel O'Connell )
*7117 Claudius (EmperorClaudius )
*7211 Xerxes (Xerxes )
*8740 Václav (Václav , name of several Bohemian monarchs)
*9275 Persson (Jöran Persson )
*10293 Pribina (Pribina , ruler ofNitrian Principality )
*11014 Svätopluk (Svätopluk, ruler ofGreat Moravia )
*11830 Jessenius (Jan Jessenius)
*16951 Carolus Quartus (Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and King ofBohemia )
*17702 Kryštofharant (Kryštof Harant )
*20969 Samo (Samo , ruler of Samo’s Empire)
*25340 Segoves (Segoves ,Celt ic duke)
*44613 Rudolf (Rudolph II ,Holy Roman Emperor , king ofBohemia andHungary )
*53285 Mojmír (Mojmír I , ruler ofGreat Moravia )War heroes and veterans
World War II heroes and veterans
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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 inAuschwitz concentration camp )Other war heroes
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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
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89 Julia (Julia of Corsica , martyr and patron saint,5th century )
*1840 Hus (John Huss , Czech Jan Hus, religious reformer)
*5275 Zdislava (Zdislava Berka , in CzechZdislava z Lemberka )
*7100 Martin Luther (Martin Luther )
*7256 Bonhoeffer (Dietrich Bonhoeffer )
*8661 Ratzinger (Joseph Alois Ratzinger -Pope Benedict XVI )Explorers
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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
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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 )Other social scientists
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1861 Komenský (Jan Amos Komenský (Comenius), teacher of nations)
*13916 Bernolák (Anton Bernolák , linguist)
*40440 Dobrovský (Josef Dobrovský , linguist)Philosophers
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2807 Karl Marx (Karl Marx )
*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
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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 (brothersHeinrich Mann andThomas Mann )
*13406 Sekora (Ondřej Sekora )
*26314 Škvorecký (Josef Škvorecký )
*40106 Erben (Karel Jaromír Erben )
*44597 Thoreau (Henry David Thoreau )Novelists
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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 )
*10251 Mulisch (Harry Mulisch )
*10733 Georgesand (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 )
*77185 Cherryh (C. J. Cherryh )Poets
*
1875 Neruda (Jan Neruda )
*2106 Hugo (Victor Hugo )
*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 )
*59830 Reynek (Bohuslav Reynek )Playwrights
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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 )atirists
*
2734 Hašek (Jaroslav Hašek )
*3244 Petronius (Petronius )
*15017 Cuppy (Will Cuppy )Translators
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4049 Noragal' (Nora Gal , Russian translator)Visual arts
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2730 Barks (Carl Barks , cartoonist)
*3001 Michelangelo (Michelangelo Buonarroti , painter and sculptor)
*3246 Bidstrup (Herluf Bidstrup , caricaturist)
*3566 Levitan (Isaac Levitan , painter)
*4511 Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn, painter)
*4671 Drtikol (František Drtikol , photographer)
*4691 Toyen , (Toyen ), painter and graphic artist)
*5055 Opekushin (Alexander Opekushin , sculptor)
*5122 Mucha (Alfons Mucha , painter and graphic artist)
*5363 Kupka (František Kupka , painter and graphic artist)
*5800 Pollock (Jackson Pollock , painter)
*6056 Donatello (Donatello , painter)
*6592 Goya (Francisco Goya , painter)
*6674 Cézanne (Paul Cézanne , painter)
*6676 Monet (Claude Monet , painter)
*6677 Renoir (Pierre-Auguste Renoir , painter)
*6701 Warhol (Andy Warhol , artist)
*6768 Mathiasbraun (Mathias Braun , also known as Matyáš Braun, sculptor and carver)
*6769 Brokoff (Johann Brokoff, also known as Jan Brokoff, sculptor and carver)
*7701 Zrzavý (Jan Zrzavý , painter)
*7867 Burian (Zdeněk Burian , painter and book illustrator)
*8236 Gainsborough (Thomas Gainsborough , landscape and portrait artist)
*8237 Constable (John Constable , painter)
*8240 Matisse (Henri Matisse , painter)
*14976 Josefčapek (Josef Čapek , painter and writer)
*17625 Joseflada (Josef Lada , painter)
*17806 Adolfborn (Adolf Born , painter)
*20364 Zdeněkmiler (Zdeněk Miler , animator and illustrator)
*29490 Myslbek (Josef Václav Myslbek , sculptor)
*46280 Hollar (Václav Hollar , graphic artist and painter)
*98127 Vilgusová (Hedvika Vilgusová , painter and illustrator of books for children)Architects
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5318 Dientzenhofer (Dientzenhofer family or architects, likeChristoph Dientzenhofer and his sonKilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer )
*6055 Brunelleschi (Filippo Brunelleschi )
*6266 Letzel (Jan Letzel )
*6550 Parléř (Peter Parler , _cs. Petr Parléř)
*19129 Loos (Adolf Loos )
*35233 Krčín (Jakub Krčín )Classical music
Composers
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1034 Mozartia (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart )
*1059 Mussorgskia (Modest Mussorgsky )
*1405 Sibelius (Jean Sibelius )
*1814 Bach (member ofBach family , probablyJohann Sebastian Bach )
*1815 Beethoven (Ludwig van Beethoven )
*1818 Brahms (Johannes Brahms )
*2047 Smetana (Bedřich Smetana )
*2055 Dvořák (Antonín Dvořák )
*2073 Janáček (Leoš Janáček )
*2205 Glinka (Mikhail Glinka )
*2266 Tchaikovsky (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky )
*2420 Čiurlionis (Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis )
*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 (probablyRobert 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 )
*4529 Webern (Anton Webern )
*4532 Copland (Aaron Copland )
*4534 Rimskij-Korsakov (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov )
*4546 Franck (César Franck )
*4559 Strauss (Johann Strauss family orRichard 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 andDomenico Scarlatti )
*6549 Skryabin (Alexander Scriabin )
*6777 Balakirev (Mily Balakirev )
*6780 Borodin (Alexander Borodin )
*6798 Couperin (François Couperin )
*7622 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
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5203 Pavarotti (Luciano Pavarotti , opera singer)
*5230 Asahina (Takashi Asahina , conductor)
*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
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1889 Pakhmutova (Aleksandra Pakhmutova , composer)
*2620 Santana (Carlos Santana , musician)
*2644 Victor Jara (Víctor Jara , 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 andJean 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)
*10313 Vanessa-Mae (Vanessa-Mae , musician)
*14024 Procol Harum (Procol Harum , band)
*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)
*110393 Rammstein (Rammstein , band)Film, TV and Theatre
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2374 Vladvysotskij , (Vladimir Vysotsky , singer, poet, writer, movie and theatre actor)
*2816 Pien , (Armand Pien (1920-2003), Belgian TV weatherman)
*3252 Johnny (Johnny Carson , Talk Show Host)
*3998 Tezuka (Osamu Tezuka , pioneering Japanese comic artist and animator)
*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)
*5608 Olmos (Edward James Olmos , actor)
*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)
*7307 Takei (George Takei , actor)
*8299 Téaleoni (Téa Leoni , actress)
*8353 Megryan (Meg Ryan , actress
*8883 Miyazakihayao (Hayao Miyazaki , animator)
*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)
*26733 Nanavisitor (Nana Visitor , actress)
*26858 Misterrogers (Fred Rogers , US children's television host)
*38461 Jiřítrnka (Jiří Trnka ,puppet maker and puppet-film director)
*68410 Nichols (Nichelle Nichols , actress)
*71000 Hughdowns (Hugh Downs , Television and radio anchorman)
*116939 Jonstewart (Jon Stewart , comedian and TV host)ports
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1740 Nurmi (Paavo Nurmi , Olympic medalist)
*3027 Shavarsh (Shavarsh Karapetyan , finswimmer)
*5891 Gehrig (Lou Gehrig , baseball player)
*5910 Zátopek (Emil Zátopek , long-distance runner, Olympic medalist)
*6758 Jesseowens (Jesse Owens , athlete)
*7835 Myroncope (Myron Cope , sportscaster and journalist)
*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)
*10675 Kharlamov (Valery Kharlamov , hockey player)
*12373 Lancearmstrong (Lance Armstrong , cyclist)
*12414 Bure (Pavel Bure , ice hockey player)
*26986 Čáslavská (Věra Čáslavská , gymnast, Olympic medalist)
*82656 Puskás (Ferenc Puskás , football player)
*128036 Rafaelnadal (Rafael Nadal Parera, tennis player and Olympic Gold medalist)Other entertainers
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3163 Randi (James Randi , magician and skeptic)Others
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83 Beatrix (Beatrice Portinari , immortalized in Dante's "Divine Comedy ")
*1038 Tuckia (Edward Tuck , philanthropist)
*1462 Zamenhof (L. L. Zamenhof , father ofEsperanto )
*3018 Godiva (Lady Godiva )
*3044 Saltykov (Nikita Saltykov, Russian vegetable grower, one of the discoverers' grandfathers)
*3147 Samantha (Samantha Smith ,peace activist )
*4318 Baťa (Tomáš Baťa , founder of the Bata shoe company)
*4487 Pocahontas (Pocahontas )
*4987 Flamsteed (Ethelwin ("Win") Frances Flamsteed Moffatt, a direct descendant of the brother ofJohn Flamsteed , the first Astronomer Royal of England)
*6282 Edwelda (Edwin L. Aguirre and Imelda B. Joson, Filipino editors of theSky & Telescope )
*7166 Kennedy (Malcolm Kennedy, secretary of the Astronomical Society of Glasgow)
*11697 Estrella (Allan Noriel Estrella, Filipino high school student and 2002Intel International Science and Engineering Fair winner)
*12088 Macalintal (Jeric Valles Macalintal, Filipino high school student and 2002Intel International Science and Engineering Fair winner)
*12522 Rara (Prem Vilas Fortran Rara, Filipino high school student and 2002Intel International Science and Engineering Fair winner)
*13241 Biyo (Josette Biyo, Filipino high school teacher and 2002Intel International Science and Engineering Fair winner)
*69275 Wiesenthal (Simon Wiesenthal , Nazi hunter)Fictional characters
Characters in classic fiction
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92 Undina (Undine, heroine of the novella "Undine" byFriedrich de la Motte Fouqué )
*264 Libussa (Libuše , mythicalBohemian prophetess)
*2041 Lancelot (Arthurian knight)
*2082 Galahad (Arthurian knight)
*2483 Guinevere (Guinevere , King Arthur's queen)
*2597 Arthur (King Arthur , legendary king ofEngland )
*2598 Merlin (Merlin, wizard who helped King Arthur)
*3102 Krok (Krok , mythicalBohemian duke, father ofLibuše ,Kazi andTeta )
*3552 Don Quixote (Don Quixote , hero of the novel "Don Quixote de la Mancha" byMiguel de Cervantes )
*5797 Bivoj (Bivoj , mythicalBohemian hero)
*7695 Přemysl (Přemysl the Ploughman, mythical founder of thePřemyslid dynasty )
*9551 Kazi (Kazi ,Bohemian mythical female healer)
*10764 Rübezahl (Rübezahl , Czech Krakonoš, giant ruler of theGiant Mountains )
*15374 Teta (Teta , mythicalBohemian prophetess)Characters in modern fiction
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1683 Castafiore (the diva inHergé 's "The Adventures of Tintin ")
*2309 Mr. Spock (Mr. Spock , the famous Vulcan, by way of the discoverer's cat)
*2521 Heidi (title character inJohanna Spyri 's well-known book "Heidi ")
*4512 Sinuhe (title hero of "The Egyptian " byMika Waltari )
*Characters created byArthur 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 byLewis Carroll in "Alice in Wonderland":
**6042 Cheshirecat (theCheshire cat )
**6735 Madhatter (the Mad Hatter)
**6736 Marchare (theMarch Hare )
*Fabulous beasts described or mentioned byLewis Carroll in "Jabberwocky ":
**7470 Jabberwock (the Jabberwock)
*7796 Járacimrman (Jára Cimrman , a fictional Czech genius)
*7896 Švejk (Josef Švejk, the good soldier)
*9007 James Bond (James Bond , fictional spy created byIan Fleming )
*12448 Mr. Tompkins (Mr. Tompkins , hero of science books byGeorge Gamow )
*18610 Arthurdent (Arthur Dent , hapless protagonist inThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series)
*20496 Jeník (Jeník, hero ofBedřich Smetana ’s operaBartered Bride )
*20497 Mařenka (Mařenka, hero ofBedřich Smetana ’s operaBartered Bride )
*29401 Asterix (Asterix , famous comic strip character byGoscinny andUderzo )
*29402 Obelix (Obélix , famous comic strip character byGoscinny andUderzo )
*29471 Spejbl (Spejbl, popular puppet character created byJosef Skupa )
*29472 Hurvínek (Hurvínek, son of Spejbl, popular puppet character created byJosef Skupa )
*33377 Večerníček (Večerníček , animated character inviting Czech children to watch evening TV fairytale)
*Petit-Prince, moon of45 Eugenia (The Little Prince , hero of book byAntoine de Saint-Exupéry )References
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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://www.cfa.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.ee also
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List of asteroids
*List of noteworthy asteroids
*List of asteroids named after places
*Meanings of asteroid names
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