Mercator

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

People

• Marius Mercator (c. 390–451), a Catholic ecclesiastical writer
• Gerardus Mercator, a 16th-century Flemish cartographer
  • Mercator projection, a cartographic projection devised by Gerardus Mercator
• Nicholas Mercator, a 17th-century mathematician

Companies and Universities

• Mercator (retail), a Slovenian supermarket chain
• Mercator School of Management, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
• Mercator Limited, 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

See also

• Merchant (surname)
• Marchant (French)
• Kaufmann (German)