Mercury commonly refers to: * Mercury (planet), the nearest planet to the Sun *

Mercury (element) Mercury is a chemical element with the symbol Hg and atomic number 80. It is also known as quicksilver and was formerly named hydrargyrum ( ) from the Greek words, ''hydor'' (water) and ''argyros'' (silver). A heavy, silvery d-block A block ...

, a metallic chemical element with the symbol Hg *

Mercury (mythology) Mercury (; la, Mercurius ) is a major god in Roman religion and mythology, being one of the 12 Dii Consentes within the ancient Roman pantheon. He is the god of financial gain, commerce, eloquence, messages, communication (including divinat ...

, a Roman god Mercury or The Mercury may also refer to:

Companies

* Mercury (toy manufacturer), a brand of diecast toy cars manufactured in Italy * Mercury Communications, a British telecommunications firm set up in the 1980s * Mercury Drug, a Philippine pharmacy chain * Mercury Energy, an electricity generation and retail company in New Zealand *

Mercury Filmworks Mercury Filmworks is a Canadian independent animation studio based in Ottawa, Ontario. The studio was originally founded in Vancouver by Clint Eland, the current CEO, in 1997. Mercury Filmworks has produced animated television series and featur ...

, a Canadian independent animation studio * Mercury General, a multiple-line American insurance organization * Mercury Interactive, a software testing tools vendor * Mercury Marine, a manufacturer of marine engines, particularly outboard motors * Mercury Systems, a defense-related information technology company

Computing

* Mercury (programming language), a functional logic programming language * Mercury (metadata search system), a data search system for earth science research * Ferranti Mercury, an early 1950s commercial computer * Mercury Browser, a freeware mobile browser * Mercury Mail Transport System, an email server

Film and television

* ''Mercury'' (film), a 2018 Indian silent horror thriller by Karthik Subbaraj * ''Mercury'' (TV series), an Australian television series *Mercury, a fictional town in ''Young Adult'' * Mercury Black, a character in the ''RWBY'' web series * Sailor Mercury, a character in the ''Sailor Moon'' manga and anime franchise

Literature

Comics

* Mercury (Marvel Comics), a character who can turn herself into a mercurial substance * 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 * Mercury, an Amalgam Comics character

Magazines

* ''Mercury'' (magazine), an astronomy magazine * '' The American Mercury'', originally a literary magazine, gradually more political

Newspapers

* ''The Mercury'' (Hobart), Tasmania, Australia * ''The Mercury'' (South Africa), Durban * ''The Mercury'' (Pennsylvania), US * ''Mercury'' (Newport), Rhode Island, US * ''The Mercury'', former name of the '' Reading Mercury'' * List of newspapers named ''Mercury'', for newspapers whose titles include that word

Novels

* ''Mercury'' (Bova novel), a novel by Ben Bova * ''Mercury'' (Livesey novel), a novel by Margot Livesey * ''Mercury'', a novel by

Anna Kavan Anna Kavan (born Helen Emily Woods; 10 April 1901 – 5 December 1968) was a British novelist, short story writer and painter. Originally publishing under her first married name, Helen Ferguson, she adopted the name Anna Kavan in 1939, not onl ...

Music

* Mercury Nashville, a record label * Mercury Records, a record label * Mercury Prize, an annual music prize awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom * "

Mercury, the Winged Messenger ''The Planets'', Op. 32, is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1917. In the last movement the orchestra is joined by a wordless female chorus. Each movement of the suite is named ...

", a movement in Gustav Holst's ''The Planets''

Albums

* ''Mercury'' (American Music Club album) (1993) * ''Mercury'' (Longview album) (2003) * ''Mercury'' (Madder Mortem album) (1999) * '' Mercury – Act 1'' (2021), by Imagine Dragons * ''

Mercury – Acts 1 & 2 ''Mercury – Acts 1 & 2'' is the sixth studio album by American pop rock band Imagine Dragons, released through Kidinakorner and Interscope Records. It is a double album consisting of 32 tracks, with the first half, ''Mercury – Act 1'', releas ...

'' (2022), by Imagine Dragons

Songs

* "Mercury" (song), a 2008 song by Bloc Party * "Mercury", a song by Counting Crows from '' Recovering the Satellites'' * "Mercury", a song by Kathleen Edwards from '' Failer'' * "Mercury", a song by Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly and James McAlister from ''

Planetarium A planetarium ( planetariums or ''planetaria'') is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation. A dominant feature of most planetarium ...

Military

Operation Mercury The Battle of Crete (german: Luftlandeschlacht um Kreta, el, Μάχη της Κρήτης), codenamed Operation Mercury (german: Unternehmen Merkur), was a major Axis Powers, Axis Airborne forces, airborne and amphibious assault, amphibious ope ...

, codename for the German invasion of Crete during World War II * 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 * , various vessels or shore establishments of that name * , seven vessels of that name * , an 1820 warship * Mercury (pigeon), honored for bravery during World War II

People

Mercury (name) Mercury is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname *Daniela Mercury, Brazilian singer *Eric Mercury, Canadian singer *Freddie Mercury, singer of the rock group Queen *Joey Mercury or Adam Birch, professional ...

, including a list of people with that surname or given name

Places

* Mercury, Savoie, a commune in southeastern France * Mercury Bay, New Zealand * Mercury, a place in Alabama * Mercury, Nevada, a closed city within the Nevada Test Site, United States * Mercury, Texas, United States

Plants

Mercury (plant) ''Mercurialis'' is a genus of plants in the family Euphorbiaceae, the spurges, known commonly as the mercuries. These are slender herbs (forbs), rhizomatious perennials and woody perennials, native to Europe, North Africa, and Asia. ;Species ...

, members of the plant genus ''Mercurialis'' *

Annual mercury ''Mercurialis annua'' is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae known by the common name annual mercury or (rarely) French mercury. It is native to Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East but it is known on many other c ...

(''Mercurialis annua''), a species of flowering plant *

English mercury ''Blitum bonus-henricus'' (Synonym (taxonomy), syn. ''Chenopodium bonus-henricus''), also called Good-King-Henry, poor-man's asparagus, perennial goosefoot, Lincolnshire spinach, Markery, English mercury, or mercury goosefoot, is a species of go ...

, or mercury goosefoot (''Blitum bonus-henricus''), a species of goosefoot

Radio

* Mercury FM, a radio station in Surrey, United Kingdom *

Mercury 96.6 Heart Hertfordshire (previously known as ''Hertfordshire's Mercury 96.6'') is a local radio station owned by Communicorp UK and operated by Global as part of the Heart network. It broadcasts across Hertfordshire from studios in Watford. In 2 ...

or Heart Hertfordshire, a radio station in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Sports

* Edmonton Mercurys, a 1940s and 1950s intermediate ice hockey team from Canada * Fujita Soccer Club Mercury, a Japanese women's football team active from 1989 to 1999 *

Memphis Mercury Memphis Mercury was an American women's soccer team, founded in 2005. The team was a member of the Women's Premier Soccer League The Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL) is an amateur women's soccer league in the United States and Canada. It is ...

, American women's soccer team *

Phoenix Mercury The Phoenix Mercury are an American professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona, playing in the Western Conference (WNBA), Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The team was founded before the league ...

, a Women's National Basketball Association team from Arizona, United States * Toledo Mercurys, a defunct International Hockey League franchise from Ohio, United States

Vehicles

Air

* Blackburn Mercury, a British aircraft from 1911 *

Bristol Mercury The Bristol Mercury is a British nine-cylinder, air-cooled, single-row, piston radial engine. Designed by Roy Fedden of the Bristol Aeroplane Company it was used to power both civil and military aircraft of the 1930s and 1940s. Developed from ...

, a nine-cylinder aircraft engine

Land

* Mercury (automobile), brand of automobiles 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)

Sea

* , several ships of that name *

Cape Cod Mercury 15 The Cape Cod Mercury 15, also called the Mercury Sloop and just the Mercury, is an American trailerable sailboat and sailing dinghy, that was designed by Sparkman & Stephens and first built in 1940.Sherwood, Richard M.: ''A Field Guide to Sai ...

, an American sailboat design *

Mercury 18 The Mercury 18, sometimes just referred to as a Mercury, is an American sailboat that was designed by Ernest Nunes as a one design racer and first built in 1939. The boat was one of the first one-design sailboat classes designed for plywood ...

, an American sailboat design

Space

* Project Mercury, a United States human spaceflight program, 1958–1963 ** The space capsule used for the flights, also called

Mercury Mercury commonly refers to: * Mercury (planet), the nearest planet to the Sun * Mercury (element), a metallic chemical element with the symbol Hg * Mercury (mythology), a Roman god Mercury or The Mercury may also refer to: Companies * Merc ...

Mercury (satellite) Mercury, also known as Advanced Vortex, was a series of three United States spy satellites launched in the 1990s. These satellites were launched and operated by the National Reconnaissance Office with the participation of the United States Air F ...

, a series of American spy satellites

Other uses

* '' Archer Maclean's Mercury'', a 2005 PlayStation Portable video game *

Mercury (cipher machine) Mercury was a British cipher machine used by the Air Ministry from 1950 until at least the early 1960s. Mercury was an online rotor machine descended from Typex, but modified to achieve a longer cycle length using a so-called ''double-drum baske ...

, a 1950s British cipher machine *

Mercury Boulevard Mercury Boulevard in the cities of Hampton and Newport News in the Peninsula region of southeastern Virginia carries U.S. Route 258 (US 258) approximately south from Fort Monroe at Old Point Comfort on Hampton Roads to the north en ...

in Virginia, United States * Mercury Cinema, a theatre in Adelaide, Australia * Shuttle America's callsign *

The Mercury Mall The Mercury Mall is an enclosed shopping centre in Romford town centre, in the London Borough of Havering, Greater London. It opened in June 1990 as Liberty 2. From 2006 to August 2010 it was owned by The Mall Fund and was known as The Mall Ro ...

, a shopping centre in Romford, England