See main article: List of craters on the Moon.
The list of approved names in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature maintained by the International Astronomical Union includes the diameter of the crater and the person the crater is named for.[1] Where a crater formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description pages.
| data-sort-type="number" style="width:10em" | Coordinates ! | Diameter (km) | Approval Year | Ref | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=right | 63.98 | align=center | 1970 | Ernst Abbe (1840–1905) | ||||
| align=right | 10.4 | align=center | 1973 | Charles Greeley Abbot (1872–1973) | ||||
| align=right | 137.35 | align=center | 1964 | Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829) | ||||
| align=right | 43.19 | align=center | 1935 | Abraham ibn Ezra (1092–1167) | ||||
| align=right | 1.6 | align=center | 1976 | Antonio Abetti (1846–1928) and Giorgio Abetti (1882–1982) | ||||
| align=right | 54.18 | align=center | 1970 | Abul Wáfa (940–998) | ||||
| align=right | 62.23 | align=center | 1935 | Ismael Abul-fida (1273–1331) | ||||
| align=right | 13.06 | align=center | 1976 | Cristobal Acosta (1515–1580) | ||||
| align=right | 63.27 | align=center | 1970 | John Couch Adams (1819–1892), Charles Hitchcock Adams (1868–1951) and Walter Sydney Adams (1876–1956) | ||||
| align=right | 16.74 | align=center | 2009 | Franz Aepinus (1724–1802) | ||||
| align=right | 51.98 | align=center | 1935 | Agatharchides (died c. 150 BC) | ||||
| align=right | 43.75 | align=center | 1935 | Agrippa (92 AD) | ||||
| align=right | 38.9 | align=center | 1935 | George Biddell Airy (1801–1892) | ||||
| align=right | 129.69 | align=center | 1970 | Robert Aitken (1864–1951) | ||||
| align=right | 2.28 | align=center | 1976 | (Greek female name) | ||||
| align=right | 1.44 | align=center | 1976 | (Celtic male name) | ||||
| align=right | 12.21 | align=center | 1976 | Abu Abdullah al-Bakri (1010–1094) | ||||
| align=right | 130.84 | align=center | 1935 | al-Batani (850–929) | ||||
| align=right | 0.1 | 2012 | German male name | |||||
| align=right | 80.41 | align=center | 1970 | al-Biruni (973–1048) | ||||
| align=right | 111.44 | align=center | 1970 | Harold Alden (1890–1964) | ||||
| align=right | 82.12 | align=center | 1979 | Kurt Alder (1902–1958) | ||||
| align=right | 2.8 | align=center | 1970 | Buzz Aldrin (born 1930) | ||||
| align=right | 74.82 | align=center | 1970 | Nikolai Alekhin (1913–1964) | ||||
| align=right | 94.8 | align=center | 1935 | Alexander the Great (356–323 BC) | ||||
| align=right | 20.52 | align=center | 1935 | Alfraganus (died c. 840) | ||||
| align=right | 34.65 | align=center | 1935 | Alhazen (987–1038) | ||||
| align=right | 79.65 | align=center | 1935 | Pierre d'Ailly (1350–1420) | ||||
| align=right | 56.25 | align=center | 1973 | al-Khwarizmi (died c. 825) | ||||
| align=right | 47.76 | align=center | 1935 | Abdalla Al Mamun (786–833) | ||||
| align=right | 8.57 | align=center | 1976 | Ibn al-Banna al-Marrakushi (c. 1281–82 AD) | ||||
| align=right | 2.55 | align=center | 1976 | (a Hawaiian greeting) | ||||
| align=right | 40.02 | align=center | 1935 | Nur Ed-Din Al Betrugi (died c. 1100) | ||||
| align=right | 110.54 | align=center | 1935 | Alfonso X of Castile (1223–1284) | ||||
| align=right | 64.73 | align=center | 1970 | Dinsmore Alter (1888–1968) | ||||
| align=right | 9.2 | align=center | 1976 | Fiorino Ameghino (1854–1911) | ||||
| align=right | 52.03 | align=center | 1970 | Giovanni Battista Amici (1786–1863) | ||||
| align=right | 8.55 | align=center | 1976 | Ammonius Hermiae (died c. 517) | ||||
| align=right | 2.47 | align=center | 1976 | Guillaume Amontons (1663–1705) | ||||
| align=right | 103.39 | align=center | 1964 | Roald Amundsen (1872–1928) | ||||
| align=right | 51.9 | align=center | 1935 | Anaxagoras (500–428 BC) | ||||
| align=right | 68.71 | align=center | 1935 | Anaximander (c. 610 – 546 BC) | ||||
| align=right | 81.12 | align=center | 1935 | Anaximenes (585–528 BC) | ||||
| align=right | 32.93 | align=center | 1935 | Karel Anděl (1884–1947) | ||||
| align=right | 41.33 | align=center | 1970 | William A. Anders (born 1933) | ||||
| align=right | 40.15 | align=center | 2018 | Crater visible in the foreground of the iconic Earthrise color photograph (AS08-14-2383) | ||||
| align=right | 105.33 | align=center | 1970 | John August Anderson (1876–1959) | ||||
| align=right | 13.42 | align=center | 1985 | Leif Erland Andersson (1943–1979) | ||||
| align=right | 16.57 | align=center | 1976 | Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Andronov (1901–1952) | ||||
| align=right | 0.87 | align=center | 1976 | (African male name) | ||||
| align=right | 9.55 | align=center | 1935 | Anders Jonas Ångström (1814–1874) | ||||
| align=right | 2.12 | align=center | 1976 | (Hebrew female name) | ||||
| align=right | 1.29 | align=center | 1976 | (German female name) | ||||
| align=right | 91.42 | align=center | 1935 | Saint Ansgar (801–864) | ||||
| align=right | 137.92 | align=center | 1970 | Eugene Antoniadi (1870–1944) | ||||
| align=right | 62.14 | align=center | 1979 | Dmitry Nikolayevich Anuchin (1843–1923) | ||||
| align=right | 10.26 | align=center | 1976 | Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697–1782) | ||||
| align=right | 63.44 | align=center | 1935 | Petrus Apianus (1495–1552) | ||||
| align=right | 524.23 | align=center | 1970 | |||||
| align=right | 50.66 | align=center | 1935 | Apollonius of Perga (3rd century BC) | ||||
| align=right | 64.59 | align=center | 1970 | Edward Victor Appleton (1892–1965) | ||||
| align=right | 25.51 | align=center | 1935 | François Arago (1786–1853) | ||||
| align=right | 10.23 | align=center | 1935 | Aratus of Soli (c. 315 – 245 BC) | ||||
| align=right | 81.04 | align=center | 1935 | Archimedes (c. 287 – 212 BC) | ||||
| align=right | 31.95 | align=center | 1935 | Archytas (c. 428 – 347 BC) | ||||
| align=right | 33.72 | align=center | 1935 | Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (1799–1875) | ||||
| align=right | 10.4 | align=center | 1935 | Philipus III Arrhidaeus (died 317 BC) | ||||
| align=right | 39.99 | align=center | 1935 | Aristarchus of Samos (c. 310 – 230 BC) | ||||
| align=right | 54.37 | align=center | 1935 | Aristillus (c. 280 BC) | ||||
| align=right | 87.57 | align=center | 1935 | Aristotle (384–322 BC) | ||||
| align=right | 26.76 | align=center | 1976 | Franciszek Armiński (1789–1848) | ||||
| align=right | 4.21 | align=center | 1970 | Neil Armstrong (1930–2012) | ||||
| align=right | 93.13 | align=center | 1935 | Christoph Arnold (1650–1695) | ||||
| align=right | 40.93 | align=center | 1970 | Svante Arrhenius (1859–1927) | ||||
| align=right | 62.45 | align=center | 1970 | Nikolaj N. Artamonov (1906–1965) | ||||
| align=right | 66.39 | align=center | 1970 | Vladimir A. Artemyev (1885–1962) | ||||
| align=right | 2.28 | align=center | 1976 | |||||
| Artsimovich | align=right | 7.96 | align=center | 1973 | Lev A. Artsimovich (1909–1973) | |||
| align=right | 21.89 | align=center | 1979 | Aryabhata (476 – c. 550) | ||||
| align=right | 96.99 | align=center | 1935 | Arzachel (c. 1028 – 1087) | ||||
| align=right | 12.37 | align=center | 1976 | Goryu Asada (1734–1799) | ||||
| align=right | 40.56 | align=center | 1935 | Giuseppe Asclepi (1706–1776) | ||||
| align=right | 157.68 | align=center | 1994 | Joseph Ashbrook (1918–1980) | ||||
| align=right | 44.48 | align=center | 1964 | Francis William Aston (1877–1945) | ||||
| align=right | 88.12 | align=center | 1935 | |||||
| align=right | 28.64 | align=center | 1976 | George Atwood (1745–1807) | ||||
| align=right | 38.88 | align=center | 1935 | Autolycus of Pitane (c. 360 BC – c. 290 BC) | ||||
| align=right | 19.64 | align=center | 1935 | Arthur Auwers (1838–1915) | ||||
| align=right | 32.92 | align=center | 1961 | Adrien Auzout (1622–1691) | ||||
| align=right | 10.73 | align=center | 1976 | Oswald Theodore Avery (1877–1955) | ||||
| align=right | 72.99 | align=center | 1970 | Avicenna (980–1037) | ||||
| align=right | 129.84 | align=center | 1970 | Amedeo Avogadro (1776–1856) | ||||
| align=right | 47.54 | align=center | 1935 | Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi (903–986) |
| data-sort-type="number" style="width:10em" | Coordinates ! | Diameter (km) | Approval Year | Ref | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=right | 57.85 | align=center | 1964 | Walter Baade (1893–1960) | ||||
| align=right | 19.15 | align=center | 1973 | Georgij N. Babakin (1914–1971) | ||||
| align=right | 146.56 | align=center | 1935 | Charles Babbage (1792–1871) | ||||
| align=right | 95.28 | align=center | 1970 | Harold D. Babcock (1882–1968) | ||||
| align=right | 34.63 | align=center | 1976 | Ernst Emil Alexander Back (1881–1959) | ||||
| align=right | 75.46 | align=center | 1970 | Oskar Backlund (1846–1916) | ||||
| align=right | 65.31 | align=center | 1935 | Roger Bacon (c. 1214 – c. 1294) | ||||
| align=right | 89.44 | align=center | 1935 | Benjamin Baillaud (1848–1934) | ||||
| align=right | 300.56 | align=center | 1935 | Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736–1793) | ||||
| align=right | 25.68 | align=center | 1935 | Francis Baily (1774–1844) | ||||
| align=right | 11.81 | align=center | 1976 | Aleksei Aleksandrovich Balandin (1898–1967) | ||||
| align=right | 69.19 | align=center | 1964 | Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475–1519) | ||||
| align=right | 55.76 | align=center | 1970 | Fernand Baldet (1885–1964) | ||||
| align=right | 40.31 | align=center | 1935 | William Ball (died 1690) | ||||
| align=right | 136.3 | align=center | 1964 | Johann Balmer (1825–1898) | ||||
| align=right | 99.09 | align=center | 1964 | Tadeusz Banachiewicz (1882–1954) | ||||
| align=right | 12.5 | align=center | 1976 | Wilder Dwight Bancroft (1867–1953) | ||||
| align=right | 1.0 | align=center | 2022 | Joshua Bandfield (1974-2019) | ||||
| align=right | 5.15 | align=center | 1973 | Frederick Banting (1891–1941) | ||||
| align=right | 65.38 | align=center | 1970 | Daniel Barbier (1907–1965) | ||||
| align=right | 40.9 | align=center | 1979 | Charles Glover Barkla (1877–1944) | ||||
| align=right | 115.73 | align=center | 1964 | Edward Emerson Barnard (1857–1923) | ||||
| align=right | 82.72 | align=center | 1935 | Francesco Barozzi (1570) | ||||
| align=right | 66.89 | align=center | 1970 | Daniel Barringer (1860–1929) | ||||
| align=right | 93.82 | align=center | 1935 | Isaac Barrow (1630–1677) | ||||
| align=right | 54.95 | align=center | 1970 | Julius Bartels (1899–1964) | ||||
| align=right | 1.57 | align=center | 1976 | (African male name) | ||||
| align=right | 48.51 | align=center | 1935 | Johann Bayer (1572–1625) | ||||
| align=right | 52.61 | align=center | 1982 | Carlyle Smith Beals (1899–1979) | ||||
| align=right | 50.69 | align=center | 1935 | Léonce Élie de Beaumont (1798–1874) | ||||
| align=right | 62.86 | align=center | 1970 | Henri Becquerel (1852–1908) | ||||
| align=right | 66.62 | align=center | 1970 | Antonin Becvar (1901–1965) | ||||
| align=right | 9.06 | align=center | 1935 | Wilhelm Beer (1797–1850) | ||||
| align=right | 56.21 | align=center | 1935 | Martin Behaim (1459–1507) | ||||
| align=right | 76.77 | align=center | 1970 | Martinus Willem Beijerinck (1851–1931) | ||||
| align=right | 8.3 | align=center | 1976 | Nikolay Nikolayevich Beketov (1827–1911) | ||||
| align=right | 10.07 | align=center | 1976 | (Slavic female name) | ||||
| align=right | 215.08 | align=center | 1964 | Igor Vladimirovich Belkovich (1904–1949) | ||||
| align=right | 86.33 | align=center | 1970 | Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922) | ||||
| align=right | 63.23 | align=center | 1970 | Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (1778–1852) | ||||
| align=right | 17.5 | align=center | 1935 | Joseph René Bellot (1826–1853) | ||||
| align=right | 61.9 | align=center | 1970 | Aristarkh Belopolsky (1854–1934) | ||||
| align=right | 55.9 | align=center | 1970 | Pavel Ivanovich Belyaev (1925–1970) | ||||
| align=right | 13.83 | align=center | 1976 | Francis Gano Benedict (1870–1957) | ||||
| align=right | 22.51 | align=center | 1976 | Torbern Olof Bergman (1735–1784) | ||||
| align=right | 42.98 | align=center | 1970 | Carl Östen Emanuel Bergstrand (1873–1948) | ||||
| align=right | 87.62 | align=center | 1970 | Lloyd Viel Berkner (1905–1967) | ||||
| align=right | 93.75 | align=center | 1970 | Hendrik Petrus Berlage (1896–1968) | ||||
| align=right | 47.3 | align=center | 1985 | Jacques Bernoulli (1654–1705) and Jean Bernoulli (1667–1748) | ||||
| align=right | 75.24 | align=center | 1935 | Berosus the Chaldean (died c. 250 BC) | ||||
| align=right | 48.53 | align=center | 1935 | Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779–1848) | ||||
| align=right | 9.84 | align=center | 1935 | Johannes Bessarion (c. 1369 – 1472) | ||||
| align=right | 15.56 | align=center | 1935 | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784–1846) | ||||
| align=right | 71.78 | align=center | 1935 | Mario Bettinus (1582–1657) | ||||
| align=right | 70.25 | align=center | 1970 | Homi Jehangir Bhabha (1909–1966) | ||||
| align=right | 37.59 | align=center | 1935 | Francesco Bianchini (1662–1729) | ||||
| align=right | 77.03 | align=center | 1935 | Wilhelm von Biela (1782–1856) | ||||
| align=right | 44.55 | align=center | 1976 | Theodore Maximilian Bilharz (1825–1862) | ||||
| align=right | 45.57 | align=center | 1935 | Jacques de Billy (1602–1679) | ||||
| align=right | 34.99 | align=center | 1976 | Hiram Bingham III (1875–1956) | ||||
| align=right | 13.01 | align=center | 1935 | Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774–1862) | ||||
| align=right | 81.64 | align=center | 1970 | Olaf Kristian Birkeland (1867–1917) | ||||
| align=right | 329.81 | align=center | 1970 | George D. Birkhoff (1884–1944) | ||||
| align=right | 89.92 | align=center | 1935 | John Birmingham (1816–1884) | ||||
| align=right | 15.81 | align=center | 1935 | William Radcliffe Birt (1804–1881) | ||||
| Bi Sheng | align=right | 55.27 | align=center | 2010 | Bi Sheng (990–1051) | |||
| align=right | 48.18 | align=center | 1970 | Vilhelm Frimann Koren Bjerknes (1862–1951) | ||||
| align=right | 19.46 | align=center | 1976 | Joseph Black (1728–1799) | ||||
| align=right | 145.31 | align=center | 1979 | Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett (1897–1974) | ||||
| align=right | 4.97 | align=center | 1935 | Mary Adela Blagg (1858–1944) | ||||
| align=right | 105.82 | align=center | 1935 | Giuseppe Biancani (1566–1624) | ||||
| align=right | 37.46 | align=center | 1991 | Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753–1809) | ||||
| align=right | 59.9 | align=center | 1935 | Giovanni Bianchini (1458) | ||||
| align=right | 51.11 | align=center | 1970 | Sergei Nikolaevich Blazhko (1870–1956) | ||||
| align=right | 22.85 | align=center | 2000 | Nathaniel Bliss (1700–1764) | ||||
| align=right | 6.04 | align=center | 1976 | Étienne Bobillier (1798–1840) | ||||
| align=right | 32.14 | align=center | 1970 | Jorge Bobone (1901–1958) | ||||
| align=right | 17.8 | align=center | 1935 | Johann Elert Bode (1747–1826) | ||||
| align=right | 11.17 | align=center | 1976 | Boethius (c. 480 – 524) | ||||
| align=right | 94.59 | align=center | 1935 | Palm Heinrich Ludwig von Boguslawski (1789–1851) | ||||
| align=right | 31.74 | align=center | 1935 | Johann Gottlob Friedrich von Bohnenberger (1765–1831) | ||||
| align=right | 70.07 | align=center | 1964 | Niels H. D. Bohr (1885–1962) | ||||
| align=right | 43.03 | align=center | 1979 | Priscilla Fairfield Bok (1896–1975) and Bart J. Bok (1906–1983) | ||||
| align=right | 72.31 | align=center | 1964 | Ludwig E. Boltzmann (1844–1906) | ||||
| align=right | 102.22 | align=center | 1970 | János Bolyai (1802–1860) | ||||
| align=right | 9.72 | align=center | 1976 | Raphael Bombelli (1526–1572) | ||||
| align=right | 28.26 | align=center | 1991 | Valentin V. Bondarenko (1937–1961) | ||||
| align=right | 59.25 | align=center | 1935 | Aimé Bonpland (1773–1858) | ||||
| align=right | 61.34 | align=center | 1964 | George Boole (1815–1864) | ||||
| align=right | 45.4 | align=center | 1935 | Jean Charles Borda (1733–1799) | ||||
| align=right | 4.66 | align=center | 1976 | Félix Édouard Émile Borel (1871–1956) | ||||
| align=right | 1.73 | align=center | 1979 | (Russian male name) | ||||
| align=right | 50.72 | align=center | 1970 | Frank Borman (born 1928) | ||||
| align=right | 15.07 | align=center | 1979 | Max Born (1882–1970) | ||||
| align=right | 0.4 | align=center | 2012 | Russian male name | ||||
| align=right | 19.58 | align=center | 2009 | Carl Bosch (1874–1940) | ||||
| align=right | 41.53 | align=center | 1935 | Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich (1711–1787) | ||||
| align=right | 92.55 | align=center | 1970 | Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1937) | ||||
| align=right | 50.2 | align=center | 1964 | Lewis Boss (1846–1912) | ||||
| align=right | 22.23 | align=center | 1935 | Pierre Bouguer (1698–1758) | ||||
| align=right | 127.61 | align=center | 1935 | Jean Baptiste Boussingault (1802–1887) | ||||
| align=right | 43.04 | align=center | 1976 | Nathaniel Bowditch (1773–1848) | ||||
| align=right | 8.09 | align=center | 1973 | Ira Sprague Bowen (1898–1973) | ||||
| align=right | 57.13 | align=center | 1970 | Robert Boyle (1627–1691) | ||||
| align=right | 8.87 | align=center | 1973 | Frederick Sumner Brackett (1896–1988) | ||||
| align=right | 77.21 | align=center | 1970 | William Henry Bragg (1862–1942) | ||||
| align=right | 60.16 | align=center | 1970 | John Alfred Brashear (1840–1920) | ||||
| align=right | 11.28 | align=center | 2009 | Semion Braude (1911–2003) | ||||
| align=right | 14.17 | align=center | 1935 | Edward William Brayley (1801–1870) | ||||
| align=right | 61.68 | align=center | 1970 | Fedor Aleksandrovich Bredikhin (1831–1904) | ||||
| align=right | 48.64 | align=center | 1935 | Scipione Breislak (1748–1826) | ||||
| align=right | 90.01 | align=center | 1935 | Leo Brenner (1855–1928) | ||||
| align=right | 9.83 | align=center | 1976 | David Brewster (1781–1868) | ||||
| align=right | 137.26 | align=center | 1964 | Charles Julien Brianchon (1783–1864) | ||||
| align=right | 81.89 | align=center | 1970 | Percy Williams Bridgman (1882–1961) | ||||
| align=right | 36.75 | align=center | 1935 | Henry Briggs (1561–1630) | ||||
| align=right | 44.32 | align=center | 1935 | Sir Thomas Brisbane (1770–1860) | ||||
| align=right | 66.16 | align=center | 1979 | Detlev Wulf Bronk (1897–1975) | ||||
| align=right | 119.6 | align=center | 1970 | Dirk Brouwer (1902–1966) and Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer (1881–1968) | ||||
| align=right | 34.03 | align=center | 1935 | Ernest William Brown (1866–1938) | ||||
| align=right | 6.14 | align=center | 1935 | Catherine Wolfe Bruce (1816–1900) | ||||
| align=right | 50.66 | align=center | 1970 | William Otto Brunner (1878–1958) | ||||
| align=right | 51.31 | align=center | 1935 | Christian Leopold von Buch (1774–1853) | ||||
| align=right | 105.76 | align=center | 1970 | Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788) | ||||
| align=right | 61.27 | align=center | 1970 | Henri Buisson (1873–1944) | ||||
| align=right | 60.72 | align=center | 1935 | Ismael Bullialdus (1605–1694) | ||||
| align=right | 55.22 | align=center | 1964 | Robert Bunsen (1811–1899) | ||||
| align=right | 54.36 | align=center | 1935 | Johann Karl Burckhardt (1773–1825) | ||||
| align=right | 41.04 | align=center | 1935 | Johann Tobias Bürg (1766–1834) | ||||
| align=right | 24.09 | align=center | 1935 | Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838–1921) | ||||
| align=right | 53.49 | align=center | 1935 | Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724–1793) | ||||
| align=right | 38.77 | align=center | 1970 | Aleksandr M. Butlerov (1828–1886) | ||||
| align=right | 66.38 | align=center | 1970 | C. H. D. Buys Ballot (1817–1890) | ||||
| align=right | 97.49 | align=center | 1964 | Richard E. Byrd (1888–1957) | ||||
| align=right | 84.46 | align=center | 1935 | Joost Bürgi (1552–1632) |