Mercury

Mercury usually refers to:

• Mercury (element), a metallic chemical element
• Mercury (mythology), a Roman god
• Mercury (planet), first planet from the Sun

Mercury may also refer to:

In arts and entertainment

Comics

• Mercury (Marvel Comics), a 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, a Marvel comics race of superhumans
• Mercury, a member of the Metal Men, a DC comics team
• Mercury, a member of Cerebro's X-Men

Music

Recordings

• Mercury (Longview album)
• Mercury (American Music Club album)
• Mercury (Madder Mortem album)
• "Mercury" (song), 2008, by Bloc Party
• "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

Other uses in music

• Mercury Records, a record label
• Freddie Mercury (1946–1991), frontman for the rock group Queen
• Daniela Mercury (born 1965), Brazilian singer, songwriter and record producer
• Mercury Prize, an annual music prize awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom

Literature and journalism

• Mercury (magazine), an astronomy magazine
• Mercury (newspaper), any of several English-language newspapers
• Mercury (novel), 2005, by Ben Bova
• Mercury, a novel by Anna Kavan

Other media

• Mercury (TV series), from Australia
• Mercury FM, a radio station in Surrey, United Kingdom
• Mercury 96.6, present-day Heart Hertfordshire, a radio station in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
• Sailor Mercury, a character in the Sailor Moon franchise
• Archer Maclean's Mercury, a 2005 PlayStation Portable video game

Businesses

• Mercury Communications, a British telecommunications firm set up in the 1980s
• Mercury Drug, a Philippine pharmacy chain
• Mercury Insurance Group
• The Mercury Mall, a shopping centre in Romford, England
• Mercury Marine, a major manufacturer of marine engines, particularly outboard motors
• Mercury Provident, a former British ethical bank
• Shuttle America, a regional airline (callsign "Mercury")

In the military

• Operation Mercury, codename for the German invasion of Crete during World War II
• HMS Mercury, any of several ships of the Royal Navy
• USS Mercury, any of several ships of the United States Navy
• Boeing E-6 Mercury, an American aircraft used as an airborne command post and communications relay
• Miles Mercury, a British aircraft designed during the Second World War
• Russian brig Mercury, a 1820 warship

People

• Mercury (name), any of several people with that surname or given name
• Mercury Morris (born 1947), former American football player

Places

• Mercury Bay, on the North Island of New Zealand
• Mercury Islands, off the northeast coast of New Zealand
• Mercury, Nevada, a closed city within the Nevada Test Site, United States
• Mercury, Savoie, a commune in southeastern France
• Mercury Boulevard, a road in Virginia, United States

Science and technology

Computing

• Mercury Interactive, a software testing tools vendor
• Mercury (programming language)
• Mercury Systems, a defense-related information technology company
• Ferranti Mercury, an early 1950s commercial computer
  • Mercury Autocode, a programming language for the Ferranti Mercury computer
• Mercury Mail Transport System, an email server

Transportation

• Mercury (automobile), produced by the Ford Motor Company from 1938 to 2011
• Mercury (cyclecar), an American cyclecar from 1914
• Mercury (train), a family of New York Central streamliner passenger trains (1936–1958)
• Blackburn Mercury, a British aircraft from 1911
• Bristol Mercury, a nine-cylinder aircraft engine

Other uses in science and technology

• Project Mercury, the first United States human spaceflight program
• Mercury (cipher machine)
• Mercury (plant), members of the plant genus Mercurialis
• Mercury (satellite)

Sports

• Edmonton Mercurys, a 1940s and 1950s 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
• Fujita Soccer Club Mercury, a Japanese women's football team from 1989 to 1999

Other uses

• Mercury dime, a United States coin minted from 1916 through 1945
• Mercury Fountain, in Tom Quad, Christ Church College, Oxford, England
• Mercurialis annua, a species of flowering plant known by the common name annual mercury
• Blitum bonus-henricus, a species of goosefoot knwon by the common names English mercury or mercury goosefoot, among other names

See also

• Mercur (disambiguation)
• Mercurius (disambiguation)
• Mercury 1 (disambiguation)
• Mercury 2 (disambiguation)
• Mercury 3 (disambiguation)
• Mercury 4 (disambiguation)
• Mercury 7 (disambiguation)
• Mercury VIII (disambiguation)
• Mercury House (disambiguation)
• Mercury mission (disambiguation)
• Mercury program (disambiguation)
• Mercury project (disambiguation)