Mercator
Mercator (lat. "Businessman") is:
Surname of the following people:
- Anna Mercator (1620–1672) from Danzig, wife of Jeremias Falck
- Arnold Mercator (1537–1587), cartographer, son of Gerhard Mercator
- Gerhard Mercator (1512–1594), actually Gerard De Kremer, cartographer and inventor of the Mercator projection
- Johannes I. Mercator , actually Johannes I. Kaufmann , Cistercian abbot and university professor
- Nikolaus Mercator (1620–1687), actually Niklaus Kauffman, mathematician and astronomer
- Rumold Mercator (1541–1599), cartographer, son of Gerhard Mercator
Also:
- (4798) Mercator , named after Gerhard Mercator
- Mercator (moon crater) , also named after Gerhard Mercator
- Mercator projection , a type of projection created by Gerhard Mercator especially for the needs of nautical science
- Mercator (Schiff, 1990) , German research ship of the Mercator Research Group. V.
- Mercator (ship, 1932) , a Belgian sailing training ship
- Mercator (ship type) , a ship type from the Warnow shipyard
- Non-profit Stiftung Mercator , founded in 1996 by the Karl Schmidt family from Duisburg
- Mercator College for international tasks , a young talent development program for highly qualified and goal-oriented university graduates
- Gerhard-Mercator-Universität Duisburg, merged in 2003 into Universität_Duisburg-Essen
- Mercator professorship, professorship in honor of Gerhard Mercator, see Universität_Duisburg-Essen # Mercator professors
- Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) in Berlin
- Mercator Medal of the German Society for Cartography
- Martin P4M Mercator, American reconnaissance aircraft
- Mercator (Plautus) , a comedy by the Roman poet Plautus
- Mercator (software) , maker of enterprise application integration software tools
- Mercator (drone) , British drone (UAV)
- Mercator (retail) , Slovenian retail company
- Mercator telescope , part of the Roque de los Muchachos observatory on the Roque de los Muchachos on La Palma
- Mercator-Verlag , a German publisher
- Mercator knife , a German knife that has been manufactured for 150 years
- Module "Mercator Fellow" , a research project of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Mercator (insurance) , a Belgian insurance company
- Mercator Piedmont Glacier , foreland glacier on the Bowman Coast of Graham Land, Antarctica
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