Mercury commonly refers to: *

Mercury (planet) Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System and the closest to the Sun. Its orbit around the Sun takes 87.97 Earth days, the shortest of all the Sun's planets. It is named after the Roman god ' ( Mercury), god of commerce, messenger ...

, 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 element, ...

, 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 divin ...

, 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 The Mercury Drug Corporation, better known as Mercury Drug, is a Filipino pharmacy chain. A subsidiary of the Mercury Group of Companies, it is headquartered in Bagumbayan, Quezon City. The chain was founded in Santa Cruz, Manila in 1945, mak ...

, 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 Mercury Marine is a marine engine division of Brunswick Corporation headquartered in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The main product line is outboard motors. It also produces the MerCruiser line of sterndrives and inboard motors. Some manufactur ...

, 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 is a fictional character in the ''Sailor Moon'' manga series created by Naoko Takeuchi. She is the alternate identity of , a teenage Japanese schoolgirl, and a member of the Sailor Guardians, supernatural female fighters who protect the Solar Sys ...

, a character in the ''Sailor Moon'' manga and anime franchise

Literature

Comics

Mercury (Marvel Comics) Mercury (Cessily Kincaid) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character has appeared in the ''X-Men'' series. She is a teenage member of the student body at the Xavier Institute and a recurr ...

, a character who can turn herself into a mercurial substance *

Makkari (comics) Makkari, formerly known as Hurricane and Mercury, is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is depicted as a member of the Eternals, a race of superhumans in the Marvel Universe. He fir ...

or Mercury, an Eternal, a Marvel Comics race of superhumans * Mercury, a member of the

Metal Men The Metal Men are a group of superheroes that appear in DC Comics. The characters first appeared in '' Showcase'' #37 (March–April 1962) and were created by writer Robert Kanigher and artist Ross Andru. Debuting in the Silver Age of Comic Book ...

, a DC Comics team * Mercury, a member of

Cerebro's X-Men Cerebro's X-Men are a team of supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. They are a nanotechnology version of the X-Men created by Cerebro when the supercomputer briefly goes rogue. This team was created and d ...

* Mercury, an Amalgam Comics character

Magazines

* ''Mercury'' (magazine), an astronomy magazine * ''

The American Mercury ''The American Mercury'' was an American magazine published from 1924Staff (Dec. 31, 1923)"Bichloride of Mercury."''Time''. to 1981. It was founded as the brainchild of H. L. Mencken and drama critic George Jean Nathan. The magazine featured w ...

'', 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 Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. It had significant success as an independent operation in the 1940s and 1950s. Smash Records and Fontana Records were sub labels of Mercury. In the United States, it is ...

, a record label *

Mercury Prize The Mercury Prize, formerly called the Mercury Music Prize, is an annual music prize awarded for the best album released in the United Kingdom by a British or Irish act. It was created by Jon Webster and Robert Chandler in association with the B ...

, 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, 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 Mercury Bay is a large V-shaped bay on the eastern coast of the Coromandel Peninsula on the North Island of New Zealand. It was named by the English navigator Captain James Cook during his exploratory expeditions. It was first named ''Te-Whang ...

, New Zealand * Mercury, a place in Alabama *

Mercury, Nevada Mercury is a closed village in Nye County, Nevada, United States, north of U.S. Route 95 at a point northwest of Las Vegas. It is situated within the Nevada National Security Site and was constructed by the Atomic Energy Commission to hou ...

, 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 Mercury FM was a radio station in the Surrey and Sussex area of the United Kingdom that was founded on 20 October 1984 and closed on 25 July 2010. The station broadcast on FM 97.5 MHz in Horsham and 102.7 MHz in East Surrey and N ...

, a radio station in Surrey, United Kingdom * Mercury 96.6 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 in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The team was founded before the league's inaugural 1997 season ...

, a Women's National Basketball Association team from Arizona, United States *

Toledo Mercurys The Toledo Mercurys is a discontinued International Hockey League franchise from Toledo, Ohio. The Toledo Franchise was the first IHL franchise to be granted outside of the Windsor-Detroit area, for the cost of $1000 to Virgil Gladeaux of Toled ...

, 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 The radial engine is a reciprocating type internal combustion engine configuration in which the cylinders "radiate" outward from a central c ...

, a nine-cylinder aircraft engine

Land

Mercury (automobile) Mercury is a defunct division of the American automobile manufacturer Ford Motor Company. Created in 1938 by Edsel Ford, Mercury served as the medium-price brand of Ford for nearly its entire existence, bridging the price gap between the For ...

, 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, an American sailboat design * Mercury 18, an American sailboat design

Space

Project Mercury Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet U ...

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

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), 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 Mercury CX, formerly Media Resource Centre (MRC), is a not-for-profit film and television training organisation based in the Lion Arts Centre on the corner of Morphett Street and North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, which aims to give s ...

, 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