Mercury most commonly refers to: *

Mercury (planet) Mercury is the first planet from the Sun. It is a rocky planet with a trace atmosphere. While it is the List of Solar System objects by size, smallest and least massive planet of the Solar System, its surface gravity is slightly higher than ...

, the closest planet to the Sun *

Mercury (element) Mercury is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Hg and atomic number 80. It is commonly known as quicksilver. A Heavy metal element, heavy, silvery d-block element, mercury is the only metallic element that is known to be liqui ...

, a chemical element *

Mercury (mythology) Mercury (; ) 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 divination), travel ...

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

Companies

Mercury (toy manufacturer) Mercury was an Italian manufacturing company of die-cast toy, die-cast scale model model car, cars. Based in Turin, Mercury was active from 1932 until 1980. Along with Dinky Toys in England, Mercury was a pioneer in 1:43 scale diecast toys mad ...

, a brand of diecast toy cars manufactured in Italy * Mercury Communications, a British telecommunications firm set up in the 1980s * Mercury Corporation, an American aircraft manufacturer * Mercury Cyclecar Company, a defunct American car company * Mercury Drug, a Philippine pharmacy chain *

Mercury Energy Mercury NZ Limited is a New Zealand electricity generation and multi-product utility retailer of electricity, gas, broadband and mobile telephone services. All the company's electricity generation is renewable. Mercury has a pre-paid electrici ...

, 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 feature ...

, 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 engines, as well as a li ...

, a manufacturer of marine engines, particularly outboard motors * Mercury Systems, a defense-related information technology company * Mercury Technologies, a financial technology company * Mercury Truck & Tractor Company, a defunct English manufacturer of industrial vehicles * Shenzhen Mercury Communication Technology Co., Ltd., a Chinese market subsidiary of TP-Link

Computing

Mercury (programming language) Mercury is a functional logic programming language made for real-world uses. The first version was developed at the University of Melbourne, Computer Science department, by Fergus Henderson, Thomas Conway, and Zoltan Somogyi, under Somogyi's ...

, a functional logic programming language * Mercury (metadata search system), a data search system for earth science research *

Ferranti Mercury The Mercury was an early commercial computer from the mid-1950s built by Ferranti. It was the successor to the Ferranti Mark 1, adding a floating point unit for improved performance, and increased reliability by replacing the Williams tube memor ...

, an early 1950s commercial computer * Mercury Browser, a freeware mobile browser *

Mercury Mail Transport System Mercury Mail Transport System (Mercury MTS) is a standards-compliant mail server developed by David Harris, who also develops the Pegasus Mail client. It was freeware prior to January 2007, but is now donationware for non-commercial and perso ...

, 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 Black, a character in the ''RWBY'' web series *

Sailor Mercury , better known as is a fictional character in the ''Sailor Moon'' manga series created by Naoko Takeuchi, a teenage Japanese schoolgirl, and a member of the Sailor Guardians, supernatural female fighters who protect the Solar System from evil. ...

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

Literature

Comics

Mercury (Marvel Comics) Mercury (Cessily Kincaid) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir, and Keron Grant, the character first appeared in ''The New Mutants (comic book), New Mutants'' vo ...

, 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. Created by Jack Kirby, the character first appeared as Makkari in '' The Eternals'' #5 (November 1976), but ...

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

Metal Men The Metal Men are a group of robot 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 C ...

, 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'' *

The Mercury News ''The Mercury News'' (formerly ''San Jose Mercury News'', often locally known as ''The Merc'') is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is published by the Bay Area News Group, a subsidia ...

, San Jose, California daily newspaper * 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

Music

Mercury Nashville Music Corporation of America, formerly known as Universal Music Group Nashville, is Universal Music Group's country music subsidiary. It was officially opened in 1945 as #MCA Nashville, MCA Nashville and #Mercury Nashville, Mercury Nashville wh ...

, 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. Mercury Records released ...

, a record label *

Mercury Prize The Mercury Prize, formerly called the Mercury Music Prize, is an annual Music award, music prize awarded for the best album released by a musical act from the Music of the United Kingdom, United Kingdom or Music of Ireland, Ireland. It was cre ...

, an annual music prize awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom * " Mercury, the Winged Messenger", 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 ''Mercury – Act 1'' is the first half of the fifth studio album by American pop rock band Imagine Dragons, released on September 3, 2021, by Kidinakorner and Interscope Records in the United States. Imagine Dragons recorded the album in 2018 af ...

'' (2021), by Imagine Dragons * ''

Mercury – Acts 1 & 2 ''Mercury – Acts 1 & 2'' is the full fifth 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'' ...

'' (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 planetariums is ...

'' * "Mercury", a song by Steve Lacy from '' Gemini Rights''

Military

Operation Mercury The Battle of Crete (, ), codenamed Operation Mercury (), was a major Axis Powers, Axis Airborne forces, airborne and amphibious assault, amphibious operation during World War II to capture the island of Crete. It began on the morning of 20 May ...

, codename for the German invasion of Crete during World War II *

Boeing E-6 Mercury The Boeing E-6 Mercury (formerly E-6 Hermes) is an airborne command post and communications relay based on the Boeing 707-300. The original E-6A manufactured by Boeing's defense division entered service with the United States Navy in July 19 ...

, 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), 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 Mercury is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in McCulloch County, Texas, McCulloch County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 166 in 2000. The community is situa ...

, United States

Plants

* Mercury (plant), members of the plant genus ''Mercurialis'' * Annual mercury (''Mercurialis annua''), a species of flowering plant * English mercury, or mercury goosefoot (''Blitum bonus-henricus''), a species of goosefoot

Radio

* Mercury FM, 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, American women's soccer team *

Phoenix Mercury The Phoenix Mercury are an American professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. The Mercury compete in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) as a member of the Western Conference. One of eight original franchises, it wa ...

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

Theatres

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 scr ...

, a theatre in Adelaide, Australia * Mercury Theatre (disambiguation), a list of Mercury theatres

Vehicles

Air

Blackburn Mercury The Blackburn Mercury was an early British aircraft designed as a pilot trainer for the Blackburn Flying School, Filey, in 1911. It was an enlarged, two-seat version of the Second Monoplane that flew earlier that year. It was a mid-wing monop ...

, 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) Mercury was a brand of medium-priced Car, automobiles that was produced by American manufacturer Ford Motor Company between the 1939 and 2011 motor years. Created by Edsel Ford in 1938, Mercury was established to bridge the gap between the Ford ...

, brand of automobiles produced by the Ford Motor Company from 1938 to 2011 :* List of Mercury vehicles * 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 Un ...

, a United States human spaceflight program, 1958–1963 * Mercury (satellite), a series of American spy satellites

Locations

* Mercury Boulevard in Virginia, United States * The Mercury Mall, a shopping centre in Romford, England

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 bask ...

, a 1950s British cipher machine * Shuttle America's callsign