Meanings of minor planet names: 562001–563000 explained

562001–562100

|-id=008| 562008 Samtackeff || || Samantha “Sam" Tackeff (born 1986) is a North American entrepreneur and food connoisseur. || |}

562101–562200

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562201–562300

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562301–562400

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562401–562500

|-id=446| 562446 Pilinszky || || János Pilinszky (1921–1981), a Hungarian poet, best known for his poems about the horrors of a prisoner of war and the life under a communist dictatorship. || |}

562501–562600

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562601–562700

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562701–562800

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562801–562900

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562901–563000

|-id=936| 562936 Bródyimre || || Imre Bródy (1891–1944), a Hungarian physicist, inventor and developer of the modern krypton electric bulb. || |-id=964| 562964 Hudin || || Lucian Hudin (b. 1975) is a Romanian amateur astronomer and computer programmer who owns a small roll-off observatory in Cluj-Napoca. A very active member of the EURONEAR project using the Isaac Newton Telescope, he was involved in data reduction of near Earth asteroids, discovering seven such bodies and other minor planets. || |-id=971| 562971 Johannhagen || || Johann Georg Hagen (1847–1930), an Austrian-American astronomer and Jesuit priest. He helped devise several experiments that proved Copernicus and Galileo's theories. || |-id=979| 562979 Barabásmiklós || || Miklós Barabás (1810–1898) was a painter, graphic artist, photographer, and a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was one of the most outstanding masters of Hungarian Biedermeier painting, and one of the earliest Hungarian photographers. || |}