List of craters of the moon / L

Surname	Named after	location	Mean diameter (km)
La Caille	Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille	23 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  S , 1 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  E	67
La Condamine	Charles Marie de La Condamine	53 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  N , 28 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  W.	37
La Pérouse	Jean-François de La Pérouse	10 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 76 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E	77
Lacchini	Giovanni Lacchini	41 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  N , 107 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  W.	58
Lacroix	Sylvestre Francois de Lacroix	37 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 59 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W.	37
Ark	Heinrich Eduard von Lade	1 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  S , 10 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  E	55
Lagalla	Giulio Cesare Lagalla	44 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  S , 22 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  W.	85
Lagrange	Joseph-Louis Lagrange	32 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  S , 72 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W.	225
Lalande	Joseph Jérôme le Francois de Lalande	4 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  S , 8 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  W.	24
Lallemand	André Lallemand	14 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  S , 84 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  W.	18th
Lamarck	Jean Baptiste PA De M. Lamarck	22 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 69 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W.	100
Lamb	Sir Horace Lamb	42 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 100 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  E	106
Lambert	Johann Heinrich Lambert	25 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  N , 21 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W.	30th
Lame	Gabriel Lamé	14 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 64 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E	84
Lamèch	Félix Chemla Lamèch	42 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  N , 13 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  E	13
Lamont	Johann von Lamont	4 ° 24 ′ 0 "  N , 23 ° 42 ′ 0"  E	106
Lampland	Carl O. Lampland	31 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  S , 131 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E	65
Landau	Lev D. Landau	41 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  N , 118 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  W.	214
Countries	Richard Lemon Lander	15 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  S , 131 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E	40
Landsteiner	Karl Landsteiner	31 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  N , 14 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W.	6th
Lane	Jonathan H. Lane	9 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 132 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E	55
Langemak	Georgy E. Langemak	10 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  S , 118 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E	97
Langevin	Paul Langevin	44 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  N , 162 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E	58
Langley	Samuel P. Langley	51 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  N , 86 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  W.	59
Langmuir	Irving Langmuir	35 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 128 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  W.	91
Langrenus	Michael Florent van Langren	8 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 61 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  E	127
Lansberg	Philippe van Lansberg	0 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  S , 26 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  W.	38
Larmor	Sir Joseph Larmor	32 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  N , 179 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  W.	97
Lassell	William Lassell	15 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 7 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  W.	23
Lukewarm	Max TF from Laue	28 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 96 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  W.	38
Lauritsen	Charles Lauritsen	27 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  S , 96 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  E	52
Laveran	Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran	81 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 160 ° 39 ′ 0 ″  W.	13
Lavoisier	Antoine Laurent Lavoisier	38 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 81 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  W.	70
Lawrence	Ernest Orlando Lawrence	7 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  N , 43 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E	24
Le Gentil	Guillaume Le Gentil	74 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  S , 75 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  W.	128
Le Monnier	Pierre Charles Lemonnier	26 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  N , 30 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E	60
Le Verrier	Urbain Jean Le Verrier	40 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  N , 20 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  W.	20th
Leakey	Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey	3 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  S , 37 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E	12
Leavitt	Henrietta Swan Leavitt	44 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  S , 139 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  W.	66
Lebedev	Pyotr Nikolayevich Lebedev	47 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  S , 107 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E	102
Lebedinskiy	Aleksandr I. Lebedinskiy	8 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  N , 164 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  W.	62
Lebesgue	Henri Léon Lebesgue	5 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  S , 89 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E	11
lee	John Lee	30 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 40 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  W.	41
Leeuwenhoek	Antoni van Leeuwenhoek	29 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  S , 178 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  W.	125
Legendre	Adrien-Marie Legendre	28 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 70 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E	78
Lehmann	Jacob Heinrich Wilhelm Lehmann	40 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  S , 56 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W.	53
Leibniz	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz	38 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  S , 179 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E	245
Lemaître	Georges Lemaître	61 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  S , 149 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  W.	91
Lenard	Philipp Lenard	82 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 105 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W.	48
Lents	Emil Lenz	2 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  N , 102 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  W.	21st
Leonov	Alexei Archipowitsch Leonov	19 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 148 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E	33
Lepaute	Nicole-Reine Lepaute	33 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  S , 33 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  W.	16
Letronne	Jean Antoine Letronne	10 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  S , 42 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  W.	116
Leucippus	Leucippus	29 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  N , 116 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W.	56
Leuschner	Armin Otto Leuschner	1 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  N , 108 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W.	49
Levi-Civita	Tullio Levi-Civita	23 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 143 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E	121
Lewis	Gilbert Newton Lewis	18 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 113 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W.	42
Lexell	Johan Lexell is different	35 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  S , 4 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  W.	62
Ley	Willy Ley	42 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 154 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  E	79
Licetus	Fortunio Liceti	47 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  S , 6 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E	74
Lichtenberg	Georg Christoph Lichtenberg	31 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  N , 67 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  W.	20th
Lick	James Lick	12 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  N , 52 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E	31
Dear	Justus von Liebig	24 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  S , 48 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  W.	37
Lilius	Aloisius Lilius	54 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 6 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E	61
Linda	spanish woman's name	30 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  N , 33 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  W.	1
Lindbergh	Charles Lindbergh	5 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  S , 52 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  E	12
Lindblad	Bertil Lindblad	70 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  N , 98 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W.	66
Lindenau	Bernhard von Lindenau	32 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  S , 24 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  E	53
Lindsay	Eric Mervyn Lindsay Margaret Lindsay Huggins	7 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  S , 13 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E	32
Linnaeus	Carl von Linné	27 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E	2
Liouville	Joseph Liouville	2 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  N , 73 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E	16
Lippershey	Hans Lippershey	25 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 10 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  W.	6th
Lippmann	Gabriel Lippmann	56 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  S , 114 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  W.	160
Lipskiy	Yuriy N. Lipskiy	2 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  S , 179 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  W.	80
Litke	Fyodor Petrovich Litke	16 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  S , 123 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  E	39
Littrow	Joseph Johann von Littrow	21 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 31 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E	30th
Lobachevskiy	Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky	9 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  N , 112 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E	84
Lockyer	Norman Lockyer	46 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  S , 36 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E	34
Lodygin	Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin	17 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 146 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W.	62
Loewy	Maurice Loewy	22 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 32 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W.	24
Lohrmann	Wilhelm Gotthelf Lohrmann	0 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 67 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  W.	30th
Lohse	Wilhelm Oswald Lohse	13 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 60 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E	41
Lomonosov	Mikhail Wassiljewitsch Lomonossow	27 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  N , 98 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E	92
Longomontanus	Christian Sorensen Longomontanus	49 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  S , 21 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W.	157
Lorentz	Hendrik Antoon Lorentz	32 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  N , 95 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  W.	312
Louise	French woman name	28 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 34 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  W.	0.8
Louville	Jacques d'Allonville de Louville	44 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 46 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W.	36
Love	Augustus EH Love	6 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  S , 129 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E	84
Lovelace	William R. Lovelace Ada Lovelace	82 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  N , 106 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  W.	54
Lovell	James Arthur Lovell	36 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  S , 141 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  W.	34
Lowell	Percival Lowell	12 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 103 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  W.	66
Lubbock	Sir John William Lubbock	3 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 41 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E	13
Lubiniezky	Stanislaus Lubiniezky	17 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  S , 23 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W.	43
Lucian	Lucian of Samosata	14 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  N , 36 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E	7th
Lucretius	Titus C. Lucretius	8 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  S , 120 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W.	63
Ludwig	Carl Ludwig	7 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 97 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E	23
Lundmark	Knut E. Lundmark	39 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 152 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E	106
Luther	Karl Theodor Robert Luther Martin Luther	33 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 24 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  E	9
Lyapunov	Alexander Mikhailovich Lyapunov	26 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  N , 89 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E	66
Lyell	Sir Charles Lyell	13 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  N , 40 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E	32
Lyman	Theodore Lyman	64 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  S , 163 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E	84
Lyot	Bernard Lyot	49 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  S , 84 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E	132