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Alphabetic list of Latinized crater names, and other more-or-less adjusted names


Source of exploration: the wonderful biographical dictionary compiled by the Cocks twins: Who's Who on the Moon (1995), and lots of additional sources from biographies on Wikipedia.
Explored by - DannyCaes DannyCaes Apr 29, 2017 since saturday the 29th of April 2017.

Bold: the Latinized or adjusted names (the way they appear in lunar atlases and maps)

A
Abenezra: Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra
Abulfeda: Abu-al-Fida' Isma il ibn Ali'imad-al-Din
Abul Wafa: Abu'l al-Wafa al Buzjani / al-Hasib
Agricola (of Montes Agricola, and also of craterlet Agricola at the site of Apollo 17): Georg Bauer
Agrippa: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, or... was Agrippa an (almost unknown) ancient Greek astronomer?
Albategnius: Muhammed Ben Geber Al-Batani
Alfraganus: Muhammed Ebn Ketir Al Fragani
Alhazen: Abu Ali Al-Hasen Ibn Al Haitham
Aliacensis: Pierre D'Ailly
Almanon: Abdalla Al-Mamun. Wikipedia: Abū Jaʿfar Abdullāh al-Maʾmūn ibn Hārūn al-Rashīd
Al-Marrakushi: Ibn Al-Banna Al-Marrakushi / Abul-Abbas Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Uthman Al-Azdi
Alpetragius: Abu Ishaq Al-Bitruji Al-Ishbili
Alphonsus: Alfonso X
Al-Tusi (see Nasireddin) (both craters are named after one and the same person)
Ansgarius: Saint Ansgar / Anskar
Apianus: Peter Bienwitz Apiani
Arzachel: Al Zarkala / Al Zarqali
Avicenna: Abu Ali Ibn Sina
Azophi: Abderrahman Al-Sufi / Abd al-Rahman, Umar al-Sufi
B
Barocius: Francesco Barozzi
Bettinus: Mario Bettini
Blancanus: Giuseppe Biancani
Blanchinus: Giovanni Bianchini
Brenner: Spiridon Gopcevic (his pseudonym was Leo Brenner)
Bullialdus: Ismael Boulliaud
Byrgius: Joost Burgi
C
Cabeus: Niccolo Cabeo
Capuanus: Francesco Giovanni Battista Capuano di Manfredonia
Cardanus: Girolamo (or Geronimo) Cardano
Casatus: Paolo Casati
Cavalerius: Buonaventura Cavalieri
Cichus: Francesco Degli Stabili (Cecco d'Ascoli)
Clavius: Christopher Klau
Columbo: Christopher Columbus
Curtius: Albert Curtz
Cusanus: Nikolaus von Cusa
Cyrillus: Saint Cyril
Cysatus: Jean-Baptiste Cysat
D
E
F
Fabricius: David Faber or David Goldschmidt (both names not mentioned in Who's Who on the Moon)
Fernelius: Jean Fernel
Fracastorius: Girolamo Fracastoro
Furnerius: Georges Fournier
G
Gauricus: Luca Gaurico
Geber: Jabir Ibn Aflah Al-Ishbili, Abu Muhammad. Not to be confused with Jabir ibn Hayyan (also known as Geber). ibn Hayyan was the LTO-name for Zwicky N on the moon's farside. See also the Pseudo-Geber problem.
Gemma Frisius: Jemme Reinerszoon (not mentioned in Who's Who on the Moon)
Goclenius: Rudolf Gockel
H
Hagecius: Thaddaeus Hayek / Hagek
Herigonius: Pierre Herigone
Hevelius: Johann Hewelcke
Hortensius: Maarten van den Hove
I
Ibn-Rushd (also known as Averroes)
Isidorus: Saint Isidore of Seville
J
K
Kidinnu: Cidenas
L
Langrenus: Michel Florent van Langren
Lansberg: Philippe van Lansbergen
Licetus: Fortunio Liceto
Lilius: Luigi Giglio/ Aloysius Lilio
Longomontanus: Christian Severin / Christian Sorensen Longberg
M
Magelhaens: Ferdinand Magellan
Maginus: Giovanni Antonio Magini
Manzinus: Carlo Antonio Mancini
Marius: Simon Mayer
Maurolycus: Francesco Maurolico
Mercator: Gerard de Kremer (or Gerard de Kremer van Rupelmonde)
Mersenius: Marin Mersenne
Messala: Masha'allah
Metius: Adriaan Adriaanszoon
Milichius: Jacob Milich
Mutus: Vincente Mut / Muth
N
Nasireddin: Nasir-Al-Din, Mohammed Ibn Hassan. From Wikipedia: Khawaja Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tūsī (which means that the nearside crater known as Nasireddin is named after the same person of the farside crater Al-Tusi, officially known as King Y).
Nearch: Nearkhos of Crete
Nonius: Pedro Nunez
O
Oken: Lorenz Okenfuss
Omar Khayyam: Ghiyathuddin Afbifath Omar Al Khayyami
Orontius: Oronce Fine
P
Paracelsus: Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim
Peirescius: Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc
Petavius: Denis Petau
Phocylides: Jan Fokkesz / Jan Fokker / Johann Holwarda / Johannes Fokkes Holwarda / Jan Fokkens Holwarda / Jan Fokkes van haylen
Pitatus: Pietro Pitati
Pontanus: Giovanni Gioviani Pontano
Q
R
Rabbi Levi: Levi Ben Gershon
Regiomontanus ("King's mountain"): Johann Muller
Reimarus: Nicolai Reymers Baer
Reiner: Vincenzo Reinieri
Rhaeticus: Georg Joachim de Porris / Georg Joachim von Lauchen / Georg Joachim von Iserin
Riccius: Matteo Ricci, and also Augustine Ricci
S
Sacrobosco: John of Holywood
Shirakatsi: Anania Shiracunensis ("The calculator"). Seems to be an Armenian name. I thought it was Japanese.
Sirsalis: Girolamo Sersale
Snellius: Willebrord van Royen Snell
Stadius: Jan Stade
Steno: Niels Stensen
Stiborius: Andreas Stoberl
T
Tannerus: Adam Tanner
Thebit: Thabit ibn Qurra, al-Sabi al-Harrani
Theon Junior: Theon of Alexandria
Theon Senior: Theon of Smyrna
U
V
Vendelinus: Gottfried Wendelin
Vesalius: Andries van Wesele (not mentioned in Who's Who on the Moon)
Vitello: Erazmus Ciokek Witelo
W
Wilhelm: Wilhelm IV, Landgrave of Hesse
Wurzelbauer: Johann Philipp von Wurzelbau
X
Y
Z
Zagut: Abraham Ben Samuel Zaguth
Zucchius: Niccolo Zucchi
Zupus: Giovanni Battista Zupi