Mercator

Mercator (Latin for "merchant") may refer to:

People

 * Marius Mercator (c. 390–451), a Catholic ecclesiastical writer


 * Arnold Mercator, a 16th-century cartographer
 * Gerardus Mercator, a 16th-century cartographer
 * Mercator 1569 world map
 * Mercator projection, a cartographic projection devised by Gerardus Mercator
 * Rumold Mercator, a 16th-century cartographer


 * Nicholas Mercator, a 17th-century mathematician
 * Mercator series, a representation of the natural logarithm

Companies and universities

 * Mercator (retail), a Slovenian supermarket chain
 * Mercator-S, a retail company in Serbia, part of Agrokor Group
 * Mercator School of Management, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
 * Mercator Limited, a shipping company in India
 * Mercator Corporation, a consulting firm and investment bank formed by James Giffen, involved with Kazakhgate

Vehicles

 * Mercator (ship), a barquentine museum ship in Oostende, Belgium
 * P4M Mercator, a reconnaissance aircraft used by the United States Navy during the 1950s
 * QinetiQ Mercator, a British unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
 * SS Mercator and MV Mercator, a number of ships named Mercator

Other

 * Mercator Telescope, a Belgian telescope installed in La Palma, Canary Islands
 * Mercator K55K, a type of pocketknife produced in Germany
 * Mercator (play), a comedic play by Plautus
 * IBM InfoSphere DataStage, software whose component DataStage TX was formerly known as Mercator and is now called WebSphere Transformation Extender
 * "Mercator", a song by P-MODEL from the album Perspective II
 * Mercator (crater), a lunar impact crater on the southwestern edge of Mare Nubium