Craters of Mercury and the people they are named for. I'm researching their biographies in alphabetical order.

• Abedin crater - Zainul Abedin***, a Bengali painter, printmaker, and fater of Bangladesh art. Famous for art of the 1940s Bengal famine. (1914-1976)
• Abu Nuwas crater - Abu Nuwas***, an Arabic poet known for satire and sauciness. (756-814)
• Africanus Horton crater - also known as James Beale Horton***, a soldier, surgeon, political thinker, nationalist for African independence. (1835-1883)
• Ahmad Baba crater - Ahmad Baba al-Massufi***, a philosopher, writer, and scholar of medievil West Africa and Timbuktu. (1556-1627)
• Al-Akhtal crater - Al-akhtal ***, court satire and wine, Arabic, Christian poet of the Umayyad Period. (640-710)
• Alencar crater - José de Martiniano Alencar***, Brazilian romantic writer. (1929-1877)
• Al-Hamadhani - Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani***, Medieval Arab story maker known for "Maqamat". (969-1007)
• Al-Jāhiz
• Amaral
• Amru Al-Qays
• Andal
• Apollodorus
• Aristoxenus
• Atget
• Bach
• Balagtas
• Balzac
• Barma
• Bartók
• Bashō
• Beckett
• Beethoven
• Bek
• Belinskij
• Bello