List of craters on the Moon, T-Z

This is a subset of the list of craters on the Moon. Where a crater formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description pages.

Lists of craters on the Moon
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T

Crater	Diameter	Eponym
T. Mayer	33 km	Tobias Mayer (1723–1762)
Tacchini	40 km	Pietro Tacchini (1838–1905)
Tacitus	39 km	Cornelius Tacitus (circa 55-120)
Tacquet	7 km	André Tacquet (1612–1660)
Taizo	6 km	(Japanese male name)
Talbot	11 km	William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877)
Tamm	38 km	Igor Tamm (1895–1971)
Tannerus	28 km	Adam Tanner (1572–1632)
Taruntius	56 km	Lucius Taruntius Firmanus (flourished 86 BC)
Taylor	42 km	Brook Taylor (1685–1731)
Tebbutt	31 km	John Tebbutt (1834–1916)
Teisserenc	62 km	Léon Philippe Teisserenc de Bort (1855–1913)
Tempel	45 km	Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel (1821–1889)
Ten Bruggencate	59 km	Paul ten Bruggencate (1901–1961)
Tereshkova	31 km	Valentina Tereshkova (1937-)
Tesla	43 km	Nikola Tesla (1856–1943)
Thales	31 km	Thales of Miletus (circa 636-546 BC)
Theaetetus	24 km	Theaetetus (circa 380 BC)
Thebit	56 km	Thabit ibn Qurra (826-901)
Theiler	7 km	Max Theiler (1899–1972)
Theon Junior	17 km	Theon of Alexandria (circa 380)
Theon Senior	18 km	Theon of Smyrna (circa 100)
Theophilus	110 km	Theophilus (AD 412)
Theophrastus	9 km	Theophrastus (372-287 BC)
Thiel	32 km	Walter Thiel (1910–1943)
Thiessen	66 km	Georg Heinrich Thiessen (1914–1961)
Thomson	117 km	Joseph John Thomson (1856–1940)
Tikhomirov	65 km	Nikolaj Ivanovich Tikhomirov (1860–1930)
Tikhov	83 km	Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov (1875–1960)
Tiling	38 km	Reinhold Tiling (1890–1933)
Timaeus	32 km	Timaeus (circa 400 BC)
Timiryazev	53 km	Kliment Arkadyevich Timiryazev (1843–1920)
Timocharis	33 km	Timocharis (flourished circa 280 BC)
Tiselius	53 km	Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius (1902–1971)
Tisserand	36 km	François Félix Tisserand (1845–1896)
Titius	73 km	Johann Daniel Titius (1729–1796)
Titov	31 km	Gherman Titov (1935–2000)
Tolansky	13 km	Samuel Tolansky (1907–1973)
Torricelli	22 km	Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647)
Toscanelli	7 km	Paolo Dal Pozzo Toscanelli (1397–1482)
Townley	18 km	Sidney Dean Townley (1867–1946)
Tralles	43 km	Johann Georg Tralles (1763–1822)
Triesnecker	26 km	Franz de Paula Triesnecker (1745–1817)
Trouvelot	9 km	Étienne Léopold Trouvelot (1827–1895)
Trumpler	77 km	Robert Julius Trumpler (1866–1956)
Tsander	181 km	Friedrich Arturowitsch Zander (1887–1933)
Tseraskiy	56 km	Vitol'd Karlovic Tseraskiy (Ceraski) (1849–1925)
Tsinger	44 km	Nikolaj Yakovlevich Tsinger (Zinger) (1842–1918)
Tsiolkovskiy	185 km	Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935)
Tsu Chung-Chi	28 km	Zu Chongzhi (430-501)
Tucker	7 km	Richard Hawley Tucker (1859–1952)
Turner	11 km	Herbert Hall Turner (1861–1930)
Tycho	102 km	Tycho Brahe (1546–1601)
Tyndall	18 km	John Tyndall (1820–1893)

U

Crater	Diameter	Eponym
Ukert	23 km	Friedrich August Ukert (1780–1851)
Ulugh Beigh	54 km	Ulugh Beg (1394–1449)
Urey	38 km	Harold Urey (1893–1981)

V

Crater	Diameter	Eponym
Väisälä	8 km	Yrjö Väisälä (1891–1971)
Valier	67 km	Max Valier (1895–1930)
van Albada	21 km	Gale Bruno van Albada (1912–1972)
Van Biesbroeck	9 km	George Van Biesbroeck (1880–1974)
Van de Graaff	233 km	Robert Van de Graaff (1901–1967)
Van den Bergh	42 km	George van den Bergh (1890–1966)
van den Bos	22 km	Willem Hendrik van den Bos (1896–1974)
Van der Waals	104 km	Johannes Van der Waals (1837–1923)
Van Gent	43 km	Hendrik Van Gent (1900–1947)
Van Maanen	60 km	Adriaan Van Maanen (1884–1946)
van Rhijn	46 km	Pieter Johannes van Rhijn (1886–1960)
Van Vleck	31 km	John Monroe Van Vleck (1833–1912)
Van Wijk	32 km	Uco van Wijk (1924–1966)
van't Hoff	92 km	Jacobus van 't Hoff (1852–1911)
Vasco da Gama	83 km	Vasco da Gama (1469–1524)
Vashakidze	44 km	Mikheil Alexandres dze Vashakidze (1909–1956)
Vavilov	98 km	Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov (1887–1943)
		Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov (1891–1951)
Vega	75 km	Jurij Vega (1754–1802)
Vendelinus	131 km	Godefroid Wendelin (1580–1667)
Vening Meinesz	87 km	Felix A. Vening Meinesz (1887–1966)
Ventris	95 km	Michael George Francis Ventris (1922–1956)
Vera	2 km	(Latin female name)
Vernadskiy	91 km	Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (1863–1945)
Verne	2 km	(Jules Verne)
Vertregt	187 km	Marinus Vertregt (1897–1973)
Very	5 km	Frank Washington Very (1852–1927)
Vesalius	61 km	Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564)
Vestine	96 km	Ernest Harry Vestine (1906–1968)
Vetchinkin	98 km	Vladimir Petrovich Vetchinkin (1888–1950)
Vieta	87 km	Francois Vieta (1540–1603)
Vil'ev	45 km	Mikhail Anatol'evich Vil'ev (1893–1919)
Virchow	16 km	Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow (1821–1902)
Virtanen	44 km	Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (1895–1973)
Vitello	42 km	Erazmus Ciolek Witelo (1210–1285)
Vitruvius	29 km	Marcus Pollio Vitruvius (flourished circa 25 BC)
Viviani	26 km	Vincenzo Viviani (1622–1703)
Vlacq	89 km	Adriaan Vlacq (circa 1600-1667)
Vogel	26 km	Hermann Carl Vogel (1841–1907)
Volkov	40 km	Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov (1935–1971)
Volta	123 km	Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (1745–1827)
Volterra	52 km	Vito Volterra (1860–1940)
von Baeyer	13.8 km	Adolf von Baeyer (1835–1917)
von Behring	38 km	Emil Adolf von Behring (1854–1917)
von Békésy	96 km	Georg von Békésy (1899–1972)
von Braun	60 km	Wernher von Braun (1912–1977)
Von der Pahlen	56 km	Baron Emanuel von der Pahlen (1882–1952)
Von Kármán	180 km	Theodore von Kármán (1881–1963)
Von Neumann	78 km	John Von Neumann (1903–1957)
Von Zeipel	83 km	Edvard Hugo von Zeipel (1873–1959)
Voskresenskiy	49 km	Leonid Alexandrovich Voskresenskiy (1913–1965)

W

Crater	Diameter	Eponym
W. Bond	156 km	William Cranch Bond (1789–1859)
Walker	32 km	Joseph Albert Walker (1921–1966)
Wallace	26 km	Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913)
Wallach	6 km	Otto Wallach (1847–1931)
Walter	1 km	(German male name)
Walther	128 km	Bernhard Walther (1430–1504)
Wan-Hoo	52 km	Wan Hu (ahistoric, first mentioned in 1945)
Wapowski	11.6 km	Bernard Wapowski (1450–1535)
Wargentin	84 km	Pehr Vilhelm Wargentin (1717–1783)
Warner	35 km	Worcester Reed Warner (1846–1929)
Waterman	76 km	Alan Tower Waterman (1892–1967)
Watson	62 km	James Craig Watson (1838–1880)
Watt	66 km	James Watt (1736–1819)
Watts	15 km	Chester Burleigh Watts (1889–1971)
Webb	21 km	Thomas William Webb (1806–1885)
Weber	42 km	Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804–1891)
Wegener	88 km	Alfred Lothar Wegener (1880–1930)
Weierstrass	33 km	Karl Weierstrass (1815–1897)
Weigel	35 km	Erhard Weigel (1625–1699)
Weinek	32 km	Ladislaus Weinek (1848–1913)
Weiss	66 km	Edmund Weiss (1837–1917)
Werner	70 km	Johann Werner (1468–1528)
Wexler	51 km	Harry Wexler (1911–1962)
Weyl	108 km	Hermann Weyl (1885–1955)
Whewell	13 km	William Whewell (1794–1866)
Whipple	15.7 km	Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906–2004)
White	39 km	Edward Higgins White, II (1930–1967)
Wichmann	10 km	Moritz Ludwig George Wichmann (1821–1859)
Widmannstätten	46 km	Alois von Beckh-Widmannstätten (1753–1849)
Wiechert	41 km	Emil Johann Wiechert (1861–1928)
Wiener	120 km	Norbert Wiener (1894–1964)
Wildt	11 km	Rupert Wildt (1905–1976)
Wilhelm	106 km	Wilhelm IV, Landgrave of Hesse (1532–1592)
Wilkins	57 km	Hugh Percy Wilkins (1896–1960)
Williams	36 km	Arthur Stanley Williams (1861–1938)
Wilsing	73 km	Johannes Wilsing (1856–1943)
Wilson	69 km	Alexander Wilson (1714–1786)
		Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869–1959)
		Ralph Elmer Wilson (1886–1960)
Winkler	22 km	Johannes Winkler (1897–1947)
Winlock	64 km	Joseph Winlock (1826–1875)
Winthrop	17 km	John Winthrop (1714–1779)
Wöhler	27 km	Friedrich Wöhler (1800–1882)
Wolf	25 km	Maximilian Wolf (1863–1932)
Wollaston	10 km	William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828)
Woltjer	46 km	Jan Woltjer (1891–1946)
Wood	78 km	Robert Williams Wood (1868–1955)
Wright	39 km	Frederick Eugene Wright (1877–1953)
		Thomas Wright (1711–1786)
		William Hammond Wright (1871–1959)
Wróblewski	21 km	Sigmund von Wróblewski (1845–1888)
Wrottesley	57 km	John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley (1798–1867)
Wurzelbauer	88 km	Johann Philipp von Wurzelbauer (1651–1725)
Wyld	93 km	James Hart Wyld (1913–1953)

X

Crater	Diameter	Eponym
Xenophanes	125 km	Xenophanes (570-480 BC)
Xenophon	25 km	Xenophon (427-355 BC)

Y

Crater	Diameter	Eponym
Yablochkov	99 km	Pavel Nikolayevich Yablochkov (1847–1894)
Yakovkin	37 km	Avenir Aleksandrovich Yakovkin (1887–1974)
Yamamoto	76 km	Issei Yamamoto (1889–1959)
Yangel'	8 km	Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel' (1911–1971)
Yerkes	36 km	Charles Tyson Yerkes (1837–1905)
Yoshi	1 km	(Japanese male name)
Young	71 km	Thomas Young (1773–1829)

Z

Crater	Diameter	Eponym
Zach	70 km	Franz Xaver von Zach (1754–1832)
Zagut	84 km	Abraham Ben Samuel Zagut (circa 1450-circa 1522)
Zähringer	11 km	Joseph Zähringer (1929–1970)
Zanstra	42 km	Herman Zanstra (1894–1972)
Zasyadko	11 km	Alexander Dmitrievich Zasyadko (1779–1837)
Zeeman	190 km	Pieter Zeeman (1865–1943)
Zelinskiy	53 km	Nikolay Dimitrievich Zelinskiy (1860–1953)
Zeno	65 km	Zeno of Citium (circa 335-263 BC)
Zernike	48 km	Frits Zernike (1888–1966)
Zhang Yuzhe	35 km	Zhang Yuzhe (1902–1986)
Zhiritskiy	35 km	Georgiy Sergeevich Zhiritskiy (1893–1966)
Zhukovskiy	81 km	Nikolay Egorovich Zhukovskiy (1847–1921)
Zinner	4 km	Ernst Zinner (1886–1970)
Zöllner	47 km	Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834–1882)
Zsigmondy	65 km	Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865–1929)
Zucchius	64 km	Niccolò Zucchi (1586–1670)
Zupus	38 km	Giovanni Battista Zupi (circa 1590-1650)
Zwicky	150 km	Fritz Zwicky (1898–1974)