__NOTOC__ Mercator (Latin for "merchant") often refers to the Mercator projection, a cartographic projection named after its inventor, Gerardus Mercator.
Mercator may also refer to:
People Gerardus Mercator, 16th-century geographer, cosmographer, and cartographer Marius Mercator, (c. 390–451), a Catholic ecclesiastical writer
Arnold Mercator, a 16th-century cartographer Rumold Mercator, a 16th-century cartographer
Nicholas Mercator, a 17th-century mathematician Mercator series, a representation of the natural logarithm
Companies and universities Mercator (retail), a Slovenian supermarket chain Mercator-S, a retail company in Serbia, part of Agrokor Group Mercator Institute for China Studies, a German think tank with a focus on China Mercator Limited, a shipping company in India Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, a German Institute for research about climate Mercator School of Management, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany 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) and , a number of ships named Mercator
Other Mercator 1569 world map, the first map in Mercator's projection 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 Mercator (crater), a lunar impact crater on the southwestern edge of Mare Nubium
See also Kaufmann (German) Kofman or Koffman (Dutch) Marchant (French) Merchant (surname)