LIST OF ASTEROIDS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE

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Science

Politicians and monarchs

★ 12 Victoria (officially named after the Roman goddess of victory, but also honours Queen Victoria)

★ 45 Eugenia (Empress Eugénie), with its moon Petit-Prince in part for her son Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial

★ 216 Kleopatra (Cleopatra VII of Egypt)

★ 944 Hidalgo (Miguel Hidalgo)

★ 1841 Masaryk (Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, 1st Czechoslovak president)

★ 3571 Milanštefánik (Milan Rastislav Štefánik)

★ 4317 Garibaldi (Giuseppe Garibaldi)

★ 4721 Atahualpa (Atahuallpa)

★ 4927 O'Connell (Daniel O'Connell)

★ 7117 Claudius (Emperor Claudius)

★ 7211 Xerxes (Xerxes)

★ 8740 Václav (Václav, name of several Bohemian monarchs)

★ 9275 Persson (Jöran Persson)

★ 10293 Pribina (Pribina, ruler of Nitrian Principality)

★ 11014 Svätopluk (Svätopluk, ruler of Great Moravia)

★ 11830 Jessenius (Jan Jessenius)

★ 16951 Carolus Quartus (Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia)

★ 17702 Kryštofharant (Kryštof Harant)

★ 20969 Samo (Samo, ruler of Samo’s Empire)

★ 25340 Segoves (Segoves, Celtic duke)

★ 44613 Rudolf (Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperor, king of Bohemia and Hungary)

★ 53285 Mojmír (Mojmír I, ruler of Great Moravia)

War heroes and veterans

World War II heroes and veterans

★ 1793 Zoya (Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya)

★ 1907 Rudneva (Evgeniya Rudneva)

★ 2132 Zhukov (Georgy Zhukov)

★ 3348 Pokryshkin (Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin)

★ 11572 Schindler (Oskar Schindler, rescuer of 1,200 Jewish people)

★ 19384 Winton (Nicholas Winton, rescuer of 669 Jewish children)

★ 50413 Petrginz (Petr Ginz, Jewish boy who died in Auschwitz concentration camp)

Other war heroes

★ 1834 Palach (Jan Palach, Czech student who self-immolated in protest against Soviet occupation of his country)

★ 20164 Janzajíc (Jan Zajíc, Czech student who self-immolated in protest against Soviet occupation of his country)

Religion

★ 89 Julia (Julia of Corsica, martyr and patron saint, 5th century)

★ 1840 Hus (John Huss, Czech Jan Hus, religious reformer)

★ 5275 Zdislava (Zdislava Berka, in Czech Zdislava z Lemberka)

★ 7100 Martin Luther (Martin Luther)

★ 7256 Bonhoeffer (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

Explorers

★ 54 Alexandra (Alexander von Humboldt, naturalist and explorer)

★ 853 Nansenia (Fridtjof Nansen, polar explorer)

★ 1065 Amundsenia (Roald Amundsen, polar explorer)

★ 2473 Heyerdahl (Thor Heyerdahl, archaeologist and writer)

★ 2785 Sedov (Georgy Sedov, Arctic explorer)

★ 3130 Hillary (Edmund Hillary, mountaineer [see Tenzing, below])

★ 3357 Tolstikov (Yevgeny Tolstikov, polar explorer)

★ 4055 Magellan (Ferdinand Magellan, circumnavigator)

★ 6481 Tenzing (Tenzing Norgay, Sherpa [see Hillary, above])

★ 6542 Jacquescousteau (Jacques-Yves Cousteau, marine explorer)

★ 8291 Bingham (Hiram Bingham III, explorer)

★ 15425 Welzl (Jan Welzl, arctic explorer)

Historians

★ 3092 Herodotus (Herodotus)

★ 3097 Tacitus (Tacitus)

★ 4549 Burkhardt (Jacob Burkhardt)

★ 5946 Hrozný (Bedřich Hrozný, archaeologist, orientalist and linguist)

★ 6174 Polybius (Polybius)

★ 6304 Josephus Flavius (Josephus)

★ 40444 Palacký (František Palacký)

Other social scientists

★ 1861 Komenský (Jan Amos Komenský (Comenius), teacher of nations)

★ 13916 Bernolák (Anton Bernolák, linguist)

★ 40440 Dobrovský (Josef Dobrovský, linguist)

Philosophers

★ 5329 Decaro (Mario De Caro)

★ 5450 Sokrates (Socrates)

★ 5451 Plato (Plato)

★ 6001 Thales (Thales)

★ 6123 Aristoteles (Aristotle)

★ 7009 Hume (David Hume)

★ 7010 Locke (John Locke)

★ 7012 Hobbes (Thomas Hobbes)

★ 7014 Nietzsche (Friedrich Nietzsche)

★ 7015 Schopenhauer (Arthur Schopenhauer)

★ 8318 Averroes (Averroes or Ibn Rushd)

The Arts

Literature

General authors

★ 1931 Čapek (Karel Čapek)

★ 2681 Ostrovskij (Nikolai Ostrovsky)

★ 3047 Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

★ 3412 Kafka (Franz Kafka)

★ 4112 Hrabal (Bohumil Hrabal)

★ 5418 Joyce (James Joyce)

★ 5535 Annefrank (Anne Frank)

★ 5666 Rabelais (François Rabelais)

★ 5676 Voltaire (Voltaire)

★ 6984 Lewiscarroll (Lewis Carroll or Charles Dodgson)

★ 7328 Casanova (Giacomo Casanova)

★ 8315 Bajin (Bajin)

★ 8379 Straczynski (J. Michael Straczynski)

★ 8382 Mann (brothers Heinrich Mann and Thomas Mann)

★ 13406 Sekora (Ondřej Sekora)

★ 26314 Škvorecký (Josef Škvorecký)

★ 40106 Erben (Karel Jaromír Erben)

★ 44597 Thoreau (Henry David Thoreau)

Novelists

★ 2362 Mark Twain (Mark Twain)

★ 2578 Saint-Exupéry (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

★ 2625 Jack London (Jack London)

★ 2675 Tolkien (J.R.R. Tolkien)

★ 3453 Dostoevsky (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

★ 3628 Božněmcová (Božena Němcová)

★ 3836 Lem (Stanisław Lem)

★ 4124 Herriot (James Herriot)

★ 4266 Waltari (Mika Waltari)

★ 4370 Dickens (Charles Dickens)

★ 4474 Proust (Marcel Proust)

★ 4923 Clarke (Arthur C. Clarke)

★ 5020 Asimov (Isaac Asimov)

★ 6223 Dahl (Roald Dahl)

★ 6371 Heinlein (Robert A. Heinlein)

★ 6440 Ransome (Arthur Ransome)

★ 7016 Conandoyle (Arthur Conan Doyle)

★ 7232 Nabokov (Vladimir Nabokov)

★ 7390 Kundera (Milan Kundera)

★ 7644 Cslewis (C.S. Lewis)

★ 10251 Mulisch (Harry Mulisch)

★ 10733 George Sand (George Sand)

★ 10930 Jinyong (Jinyong)

★ 11020 Orwell (George Orwell)

★ 11379 Flaubert (Gustave Flaubert)

★ 17776 Troska (J. M. Troska)

★ 25399 Vonnegut (Kurt Vonnegut)

★ 25924 Douglasadams (Douglas Adams)

★ 77185 Cherryh (C. J. Cherryh)

Poets

★ 1875 Neruda (Jan Neruda)

★ 2106 Hugo (Victor Hugo)

★ 2208 Pushkin (Aleksandr Pushkin)

★ 2222 Lermontov (Mikhail Lermontov)

★ 2604 Marshak (Samuil Marshak)

★ 3067 Akhmatova (Anna Akhmatova)

★ 4110 Keats (John Keats)

★ 4369 Seifert (Jaroslav Seifert)

★ 4635 Rimbaud (Arthur Rimbaud)

★ 7855 Tagore (Rabindranath Tagore)

★ 9495 Eminescu (Mihai Eminescu)

★ 18624 Prévert (Jacques Prévert)

★ 59830 Reynek (Bohuslav Reynek)

Playwrights

★ 2930 Euripides (Euripides)

★ 2985 Shakespeare (William Shakespeare)

★ 2921 Sophocles (Sophocles)

★ 2934 Aristophanes (Aristophanes)

★ 3046 Molière (Molière, French playwright)

★ 3079 Schiller (Friedrich Schiller, German playwright)

★ 5696 Ibsen (Henrik Ibsen)

Satirists

★ 2734 Hašek (Jaroslav Hašek)

★ 3244 Petronius (Petronius)

★ 3044 Saltykov (Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist)

★ 15017 Cuppy (Will Cuppy)

Translators

★ 4049 Noragal' (Nora Gal, Russian translator)

Visual arts

★ 2730 Barks (Carl Barks, cartoonist)

★ 3001 Michelangelo (Michelangelo Buonarroti, painter and sculptor)

★ 4511 Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn, painter)

★ 4671 Drtikol (František Drtikol, photographer)

★ 4691 Toyen, (Toyen), painter and graphic artist)

★ 5122 Mucha (Alfons Mucha, painter and graphic artist)

★ 5363 Kupka (František Kupka, painter and graphic artist)

★ 5800 Pollock (Jackson Pollock, painter)

★ 6056 Donatello (Donatello, painter)

★ 6592 Goya (Francisco Goya, painter)

★ 6674 Cézanne (Paul Cézanne, painter)

★ 6676 Monet (Claude Monet, painter)

★ 6677 Renoir (Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painter)

★ 6701 Warhol (Andy Warhol, artist)

★ 6768 Mathiasbraun (Mathias Braun, also known as Matyáš Braun, sculptor and carver)

★ 6769 Brokoff (Johann Brokoff, also known as Jan Brokoff, sculptor and carver)

★ 7701 Zrzavý (Jan Zrzavý, painter)

★ 7867 Burian (Zdeněk Burian, painter and book illustrator)

★ 8236 Gainsborough (Thomas Gainsborough, landscape and portrait artist)

★ 8237 Constable (John Constable, painter)

★ 8240 Matisse (Henri Matisse, painter)

★ 14976 Josefčapek (Josef Čapek, painter and writer)

★ 17625 Joseflada (Josef Lada, painter)

★ 17806 Adolfborn (Adolf Born, painter)

★ 20364 Zdeněkmiler (Zdeněk Miler, animator and illustrator)

★ 29490 Myslbek (Josef Václav Myslbek, sculptor)

★ 46280 Hollar (Václav Hollar, graphic artist and painter)

Architects

★ 5318 Dientzenhofer (Kryštof Dientzenhofer and his son Kilián Ignác Dientzenhofer)

★ 6055 Brunelleschi (Filippo Brunelleschi)

★ 6266 Letzel (Jan Letzel)

★ 6550 Parléř (Peter Parler, )

★ 19129 Loos (Adolf Loos)

★ 35233 Krčín (Jakub Krčín)

Sculptors

★ 5055 Opekushin (Alexander Opekushin)

Classical music

Composers

★ 1034 Mozartia (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

★ 1059 Mussorgskia (Modest Mussorgsky)

★ 1405 Sibelius (Jean Sibelius)

★ 1814 Bach (member of Bach family, probably Johann Sebastian Bach)

★ 1815 Beethoven (Ludwig van Beethoven)

★ 1818 Brahms (Johannes Brahms)

★ 2047 Smetana (Bedřich Smetana)

★ 2055 Dvořák (Antonín Dvořák)

★ 2073 Janáček (Leoš Janáček)

★ 2205 Glinka (Mikhail Glinka)

★ 2266 Tchaikovsky (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

★ 2420 Čiurlionis (Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis)

★ 2523 Ryba (Jakub Jan Ryba)

★ 2669 Shostakovich (Dmitri Shostakovich)

★ 3081 Martinůboh (Bohuslav Martinů)

★ 3159 Prokof'ev (Sergei Prokofiev)

★ 3590 Holst (Gustav Holst)

★ 3592 Nedbal (Oskar Nedbal)

★ 3784 Chopin (Frédéric Chopin)

★ 3826 Handel (George Frideric Handel)

★ 3917 Franz Schubert (Franz Schubert)

★ 3941 Haydn (Joseph Haydn)

★ 3954 Mendelssohn (Felix Mendelssohn)

★ 3955 Bruckner (Anton Bruckner)

★ 3975 Verdi (Giuseppe Verdi)

★ 3992 Wagner (Richard Wagner)

★ 4003 Schumann (probably Robert Schumann)

★ 4040 Purcell (Henry Purcell)

★ 4079 Britten (Benjamin Britten)

★ 4132 Bartók (Béla Bartók)

★ 4134 Schütz (Heinrich Schütz)

★ 4330 Vivaldi (Antonio Vivaldi)

★ 4345 Rachmaninoff (Sergei Rachmaninoff)

★ 4382 Stravinsky (Igor Stravinsky)

★ 4406 Mahler (Gustav Mahler)

★ 4492 Debussy (Claude Debussy)

★ 4515 Khrennikov (Tikhon Khrennikov)

★ 4527 Schoenberg (Arnold Schoenberg)

★ 4528 Berg (Alban Berg)

★ 4529 Webern (Anton Webern)

★ 4532 Copland (Aaron Copland)

★ 4534 Rimskij-Korsakov (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)

★ 4546 Franck (César Franck)

★ 4559 Strauss (Johann Strauss family or Richard Strauss)

★ 4579 Puccini (Giacomo Puccini)

★ 4625 Shchedrin (Rodion Shchedrin)

★ 4727 Ravel (Maurice Ravel)

★ 4734 Rameau (Jean-Philippe Rameau)

★ 4802 Khatchaturian (Aram Khatchaturian)

★ 4818 Elgar (Edward Elgar)

★ 4850 Palestrina (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)

★ 4972 Pachelbel (Johann Pachelbel)

★ 5004 Bruch (Max Bruch)

★ 5063 Monteverdi (Claudio Monteverdi)

★ 5157 Hindemith (Paul Hindemith)

★ 5177 Hugowolf (Hugo Wolf)

★ 5210 Saint-Saëns (Camille Saint-Saëns)

★ 6480 Scarlatti (Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti)

★ 6549 Skryabin (Alexander Scriabin)

★ 6777 Balakirev (Mily Balakirev)

★ 6780 Borodin (Alexander Borodin)

★ 6798 Couperin (François Couperin)

★ 7622 Pergolesi (Giovanni Battista Pergolesi)

★ 7624 Gluck (Christoph Willibald Gluck)

★ 7625 Louisspohr (Louis Spohr)

★ 7903 Albinoni (Tomaso Albinoni)

★ 8181 Rossini (Gioacchino Rossini)

★ 8249 Gershwin (George Gershwin)

★ 8877 Rentaro (Taki Rentaro)

★ 9438 Satie (Erik Satie)

★ 9493 Enescu (George Enescu)

★ 9912 Donizetti (Gaetano Donizetti)

★ 9913 Humperdinck (Engelbert Humperdinck)

★ 10055 Silcher (Friedrich Silcher)

★ 10116 Robertfranz (Robert Franz)

★ 10820 Offenbach (Jacques Offenbach)

★ 10875 Veracini (Francesco Maria Veracini)

★ 11050 Messiaen (Olivier Messiaen)

★ 11289 Frescobaldi (Girolamo Frescobaldi)

★ 11530 d'Indy (Vincent d'Indy)

★ 11899 Weill (Kurt Weill)

★ 15808 Zelter (Carl Friedrich Zelter)

★ 16590 Brunowalter (Bruno Walter, composer and conductor)

★ 17509 Ikumadan (Ikuma Dan)

★ 53159 Mysliveček (Josef Mysliveček)

★ 69288 Berlioz (Hector Berlioz)

Others

★ 5203 Pavarotti (Luciano Pavarotti, opera singer)

★ 6583 Destinn (Ema Destinnová, also known as Emmy Destinn, opera singer)

★ 11201 Talich (Václav Talich, conductor)

★ 18460 Pecková (Dagmar Pecková, opera singer)

★ 21801 Ančerl (Karel Ančerl, conductor)

★ 21804 Václavneumann (Václav Neumann, conductor)

★ 36226 Mackerras (Charles Mackerras, conductor)

Entertainment

Popular music

★ 1889 Pakhmutova (Aleksandra Pakhmutova, composer)

★ 2620 Santana (Carlos Santana, musician)

★ 2644 Victor Jara (Víctor Jara, musician)

★ 3834 Zappafrank (Frank Zappa, musician)

★ The Beatles members:

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★ 4147 Lennon (John Lennon)

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★ 4148 McCartney (Paul McCartney)

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★ 4149 Harrison (George Harrison)

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★ 4150 Starr (Ringo Starr)

★ 4305 Clapton (Eric Clapton, musician)

★ 4422 Jarre (Maurice Jarre and Jean Michel Jarre, French composers)

★ 4442 Garcia (Jerry Garcia, musician)

★ 5656 Oldfield (Mike Oldfield, composer)

★ 5945 Roachapproach (Steve Roach, musician)

★ 6354 Vangelis (Vangelis Papathanassiou, composer)

★ 6433 Enya (Enya, musician)

★ 7226 Kryl (Karel Kryl, musician)

★ 7707 Yes (Yes, band)

★ 7934 Sinatra (Frank Sinatra, vocalist)

★ 8249 Gershwin (George Gershwin, composer)

★ 9179 Satchmo (Louis Armstrong, musician)

★ 14024 Procol Harum (Procol Harum, band)

★ 15092 Beegees (Bee Gees, band)

★ 16155 Buddy (Buddy Holly, musician)

★ 17059 Elvis (Elvis Presley, musician)

★ 18132 Spector (Phil Spector, musician)

★ 18125 Brianwilson (Brian Wilson, musician)

★ 19367 Pink Floyd (Pink Floyd, band)

★ 19383 Rolling Stones (Rolling Stones, band)

★ 23990 Springsteen (Bruce Springsteen, musician)

★ 44016 Jimmypage (Jimmy Page, musician)

★ 79896 Billhaley (Bill Haley, musician)

★ 110393 Rammstein (Rammstein, band)

Film and TV

★ 2374 Vladvysotskij, (Vladimir Vysotsky, singer, poet, writer, movie and theatre actor)

★ 2816 Pien, (Armand Pien (1920-2003), Belgian TV weatherman)

★ 3252 Johnny (Johnny Carson, Talk Show Host)

★ 4238 Audrey (Audrey Hepburn, actress)

★ 4535 Adamcarolla (Adam Carolla, comedian, television and radio host)

★ 4536 Drewpinsky (Drew Pinsky, television and radio host, actor)

★ 4659 Roddenberry (Gene Roddenberry, ''Star Trek'' creator)

★ 6318 Cronkite (Walter Cronkite, TV newsreader)

★ 6377 Cagney (James Cagney, actor)

★ 6546 Kaye (Danny Kaye, actor and comedian)

★ 7032 Hitchcock (Alfred Hitchcock, film director)

★ 7037 Davidlean (David Lean, film director)

★ 71000 Hughdowns (Hugh Downs, Television and radio anchorman)

★ 8299 Téaleoni (Téa Leoni, actress)

★ 8353 Megryan (Meg Ryan, actress)

★ 9341 Gracekelly (Grace Kelly, actress)

★ 9342 Carygrant (Cary Grant, actor)

★ Monty Python members:

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★ 9617 Grahamchapman (Graham Chapman)

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★ 9618 Johncleese (John Cleese)

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★ 9619 Terrygilliam (Terry Gilliam)

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★ 9620 Ericidle (Eric Idle)

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★ 9621 Michaelpalin (Michael Palin)

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★ 9622 Terryjones (Terry Jones)

★ 10221 Kubrick (Stanley Kubrick)

★ 10378 Ingmarbergman (Ingmar Bergman, film director)

★ 11333 Forman (Miloš Forman, film director)

★ 11548 Jerrylewis (Jerry Lewis, comedian and actor)

★ 13070 Seanconnery (Sean Connery, actor)

★ 17744 Jodiefoster (Jodie Foster, actress)

★ 19291 Karelzeman (Karel Zeman, film director)

★ 19578 Kirkdouglas (Kirk Douglas, actor)

★ 26858 Misterrogers (Fred Rogers, US children's television host)

★ 38461 Jiřítrnka (Jiří Trnka, puppet maker and puppet-film director)

Sports

★ 1740 Nurmi (Paavo Nurmi, Olympic medalist)

★ 3027 Shavarsh (Shavarsh Karapetyan, finswimmer)

★ 5891 Gehrig (Lou Gehrig, baseball player)

★ 5910 Zátopek (Emil Zátopek, long-distance runner, Olympic medalist)

★ 6758 Jesseowens (Jesse Owens, athlete)

★ 8217 Dominikhašek (Dominik Hašek, ice hockey player, Olympic medalist)

★ 9224 Železný (Jan Železný, javelin thrower, Olympic medalist)

★ 10634 Pepibican (Josef Bican, called “Pepi“, football player)

★ 12373 Lancearmstrong, (Lance Armstrong, cyclist)

★ 26986 Čáslavská (Věra Čáslavská, gymnast, Olympic medalist)

★ 82656 Puskás (Ferenc Puskás, football player)

★ 128036 Rafaelnadal (Rafael Nadal, tennis player)

Other entertainers

★ 3163 Randi (James Randi, magician)

Others

★ 83 Beatrix (Beatrice Portinari, immortalized in Dante's ''Divine Comedy'')

★ 1462 Zamenhof (L. L. Zamenhof, father of Esperanto)

★ 3018 Godiva (Lady Godiva)

★ 3147 Samantha (Samantha Smith, peace activist)

★ 4318 Baťa (Tomáš Baťa, founder of the Bata shoe company)

★ 4487 Pocahontas (Pocahontas)

★ 4987 Flamsteed (Ethelwin ("Win") Frances Flamsteed Moffatt, a direct descendant of the brother of John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal of England)

★ 6282 Edwelda (Edwin L. Aguirre and Imelda B. Joson, Filipino editors of the Sky & Telescope)

★ 7166 Kennedy (Malcolm Kennedy, secretary of the Astronomical Society of Glasgow)

★ 11697 Estrella (Allan Noriel Estrella, Filipino high school student and 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair winner)

★ 12088 Macalintal (Jeric Valles Macalintal, Filipino high school student and 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair winner)

★ 12522 Rara (Prem Vilas Fortran Rara, Filipino high school student and 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair winner)

★ 13241 Biyo (Josette Biyo, Filipino high school teacher and 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair winner)

★ 69275 Wiesenthal (Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter)

Fictional characters

Characters in classic fiction

★ 92 Undina (Undine, heroine of the novella ''Undine'' by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué)

★ 264 Libussa (Libuše, mythical Bohemian prophetess)

★ 2041 Lancelot (Arthurian knight)

★ 2082 Galahad (Arthurian knight)

★ 2483 Guinevere (Guinevere, King Arthur's queen)

★ 2597 Arthur (King Arthur, legendary king of England)

★ 2598 Merlin (Merlin, wizard who helped King Arthur)

★ 3102 Krok (Krok, mythical Bohemian duke, father of Libuše, Kazi and Teta)

★ 3552 Don Quixote (Don Quixote, hero of the novel ''Don Quixote de la Mancha'' by Miguel de Cervantes)

★ 5797 Bivoj (Bivoj, mythical Bohemian hero)

★ 7695 Přemysl (Přemysl the Ploughman, mythical founder of the Přemyslid dynasty)

★ 9551 Kazi (Kazi, Bohemian mythical female healer)

★ 10764 Rübezahl (Rübezahl, Czech Krakonoš, giant ruler of the Giant Mountains)

★ 15374 Teta (Teta, mythical Bohemian prophetess)

Characters in modern fiction

★ 1683 Castafiore (the diva in Hergé's ''The Adventures of Tintin'')

★ 2309 Mr. Spock (Mr. Spock, the famous Vulcan, by way of the discoverer's cat)

★ 2521 Heidi (title character in Johanna Spyri's well-known book ''Heidi'')

★ 4512 Sinuhe (title hero of ''The Egyptian'' by Mika Waltari)

★ Characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle:

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★ 5048 Moriarty (Professor Moriarty, archenemy of Sherlock Holmes)

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★ 5049 Sherlock (Sherlock Holmes, detective)

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★ 5050 Doctorwatson (Doctor Watson, sidekick of Sherlock Holmes)

★ Characters created by Lewis Carroll in ''Alice in Wonderland'':

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★ 6042 Cheshirecat (the Cheshire cat)

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★ 6735 Madhatter (the Mad Hatter)

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★ 6736 Marchare (the March Hare)

★ Fabulous beasts described or mentioned by Lewis Carroll in ''Jabberwocky'':

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★ 7470 Jabberwock (the Jabberwock)

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★ 7980 Bandersnatch (the Bandersnatch)

★ 7796 Járacimrman (Jára Cimrman, a fictional Czech genius)

★ 7896 Švejk (Josef Švejk, the good soldier)

★ 9007 James Bond (James Bond, fictional spy created by Ian Fleming)

★ 12448 Mr. Tompkins (Mr. Tompkins, hero of science books by George Gamow)

★ 18610 Arthurdent (Arthur Dent, hapless protagonist in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series)

★ 20496 Jeník (Jeník, hero of Bedřich Smetana’s opera Bartered Bride)

★ 20497 Mařenka (Mařenka, hero of Bedřich Smetana’s opera Bartered Bride)

★ 29401 Asterix (Asterix, famous comic strip character by Goscinny and Uderzo)

★ 29402 Obelix (Obélix, famous comic strip character by Goscinny and Uderzo)

★ 29471 Spejbl (Spejbl, popular puppet character created by Josef Skupa)

★ 29472 Hurvínek (Hurvínek, son of Spejbl, popular puppet character created by Josef Skupa)

★ 33377 Večerníček (Večerníček, animated character inviting Czech children to watch evening TV fairytale)

★ Petit-Prince, moon of 45 Eugenia (The Little Prince, hero of book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

References

★ Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "Tribute to the Crew of Columbia." http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2003/columbia-tribute.cfm (accessed 17 May 2004).

★ Kleť Observatory. "Kleť numbered minor planets" (9 May 2004). http://www.klet.org/names/ (accessed 12 May 2004).

★ Minor Planet Center. "Minor Planet Names: Alphabetical List" (6 May 2004). http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/MPNames.html (accessed 13 May 2004).

★ Schmadel, Lutz D. ''Dictionary of Minor Planet Names'' (2nd ed.). Berlin; New York: Springer-Verlag, 1993.

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