Mercury
Appearance
Mercury commonly refers to:
- Mercury (mythology), a Roman god
- Mercury (planet), the nearest planet to the Sun in the solar system
- Mercury (element), the chemical element
- The land of heavenliness
Mercury may also refer to:
Geography
- Mercury, Nevada, United States
- Mercury, Texas, United States
- Mercury, Savoie, a village in France
- Mercury Islands, an island off the northeast coast of New Zealand
- Mercury Bay, a large V-shaped bay in New Zealand
- Mercury Boulevard, a road in Virginia, United States
Transportation
- Mercury (automobile), a marque of automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company
- Mercury (cyclecar), a United States cyclecar from 1914
- Mercury (train), a family of New York Central streamliner passenger trains, 1936-1958.
- Bristol Mercury, a 9-cylinder aircraft engine
- Blackburn Mercury, British aircraft from 1911
- E-6 Mercury, a United States military aircraft
- Miles Mercury, a British aircraft designed during the Second World War
- MV Celebrity Mercury, a cruise ship built in 1997
- Project Mercury, the first human spaceflight program of the United States
- HMS Mercury, the name of several ships of the Royal Navy
- USS Mercury, the name of several ships of the United States Navy
- Mercury (brig), Russian warship
- Mercury, Shuttle America's callsign
- Mercury Marine, a manufacturer of marine engines
Music
- Mercury (Longview album)
- Mercury (American Music Club album)
- Mercury (Madder Mortem album)
- "Mercury" (song), a song by Bloc Party
- Mercury Records, a record label
- Mercury Prize, an annual music prize awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom
- "Mercury", a song by Kathleen Edwards from Failer
- "Mercury", a song by Counting Crows from Recovering the Satellites
- "Mercury, the Winged Messenger", a movement in Gustav Holst's The Planets
- Project Mercury (album), a split album by Rosetta and Balboa
Comics
- Mercury (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character who can turn herself into a mercurial substance
- Mercury (Amalgam Comics), a combination of the characters Impulse and Quicksilver
- Makkari (comics) or Mercury, an Eternal
- Mercury, a member of the Metal Men, a DC comics team
- Mercury, a member of Cerebro's X-Men
- Sailor Mercury, a character from Sailor Moon
Computing
- Mercury Interactive, software testing tools vendor
- Mercury (programming language), a functional/logical programming language based on Prolog
- Mercurial (software), a distributed revision control tool
- Mercury OS, a real-time operating system for embedded systems
- Ferranti Mercury, an early 1950s commercial computer
- Mercury Messenger, an WLM based instant messaging client written in Java
- Mercury Mail Transport System
Sports
- Edmonton Mercurys, a 1940s and 50s intermediate ice hockey team from Canada
- Phoenix Mercury, a Women's National Basketball Association team from Arizona, United States
- Toledo Mercurys, a defunct International Hockey League franchise from Ohio, United States
Media
- Mercury (magazine), an astronomy magazine
Newspapers
- Mercury (Newport), a newspaper in Rhode Island
- Mercury (Pennsylvania), a newspaper in Pennsylvania, United States
- Clevedon Mercury, a weekly free newspaper in England
- Guelph Mercury, a Canadian newspaper
- Illawarra Mercury, a daily newspaper in Australia
- Leicester Mercury, a United Kingdom regional newspaper
- London Mercury, a list of periodicals named London Mercury published in London
- Maitland Mercury, an Australian newspaper
- Matlock Mercury, a United Kingdom newspaper
- Mercury News, a newspaper in San Jose, CA
- Quebec Mercury, a defunct 19th Century weekly newspaper published in Quebec City, Canada
- Sherborne Mercury, a defunct newspaper from Dorset United Kingdom
- St Arnaud Mercury, a newspaper in Victoria, Australia
- Staffordshire Mercury, a newspaper that was published in Staffordshire, England
- Sunday Mercury, a newspaper in Birmingham, United Kingdom
- The Mercury (Hobart), a newspaper in Hobart, Australia
- The Mercury (South Africa), an English language newspaper published in Durban, South Africa
- The Portland Mercury, an alternative weekly newspaper published in Oregon, United States
- The Somerset Mercury, a regional newspaper in Somerset, England
- The Weston & Somerset Mercury, a weekly paid for newspaper in Somerset, England
- Rutland And Stamford Mercury, a weekly paid-for newspaper. The oldest newspaper in England
Radio stations
- 102.7 Mercury FM, a radio station in Surrey, United Kingdom
- Hertfordshire's Mercury 96.6, an independent local radio station in England
Other uses
- Mercury (novel), a novel by Ben Bova
- Mercury (cipher machine), a British cipher machine used from the 1950s
- Mercury (satellite), the name of a series of three United States satellites
- Mercury (plant), members of the plant genus Mercurialis
- Mercury dime, a United States dime minted from 1916 through 1945
- Operation Mercury, codename for the German invasion of Crete during World War II
- The Mercury Award, an international airline award for in-flight catering
- Mercury (TV series), an Australian TV series launched in 1996
- Mercury Communications, a British telecommunications firm set up in the 1980s
People with the name
- Daniela Mercury, Brazilian singer
- Freddie Mercury (1946-1991), singer of the rock group Queen
- Joey Mercury or Adam Birch, professional wrestler
- Mercury Hayes (born 1973), former professional American football wide receiver
- Mercury Morris, former American football player
See also
- First planet
- Mercur (disambiguation)
- Mercurius (disambiguation)
- The Mercury (disambiguation)
- Mercury 1 (disambiguation)
- Mercury 2 (disambiguation)
- Mercury 3 (disambiguation)
- Mercury 4 (disambiguation)
- Mercury chloride (disambiguation)
- Mercury House (disambiguation)
- Mercury program (disambiguation)
- Red mercury (disambiguation)