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Mercury commonly refers to:

• Mercury (element), the chemical element
• Mercury (planet), the planet nearest to the Sun in the Solar System
• Mercury (mythology), a Roman god

Mercury may also refer to:

Geography

• Mercury, Nevada, United States
• Mercury, Texas, United States
• Mercury, Savoie, a village in France
• Mercury Islands, an island off the northeast coast of New Zealand
• Mercury Bay, a large V-shaped bay in New Zealand
• Mercury Boulevard, a road in Virginia, United States

Transportation

• Mercury (automobile), a marque of automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company
• Mercury (cyclecar), a United States cyclecar from 1914
• Mercury (train), a family of New York Central streamliner passenger trains, 1936-1958.
• Bristol Mercury, a 9-cylinder aircraft engine
• Blackburn Mercury, British aircraft from 1911
• E-6 Mercury, a United States military aircraft
• Miles Mercury, a British aircraft designed during the Second World War
• MV Celebrity Mercury, a cruise ship built in 1997
• Project Mercury, the first human spaceflight program of the United States
• HMS Mercury, the name of several ships of the Royal Navy
• USS Mercury, the name of several ships of the United States Navy
• Mercury (brig), Russian warship
• Mercury, Shuttle America's callsign
• Mercury Marine, a manufacturer of marine engines

Music

• Mercury (Longview album)
• Mercury (American Music Club album)
• Mercury (Madder Mortem album)
• "Mercury" (song), a song by Bloc Party
• Mercury Records, a record label
• Mercury Prize, an annual music prize awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom
• "Mercury", a song by Kathleen Edwards from Failer
• "Mercury", a song by Counting Crows from Recovering the Satellites
• "Mercury, the Winged Messenger", a movement in Gustav Holst's The Planets
• Project Mercury (album), a split album by Rosetta and Balboa

Comics

• Mercury (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character who can turn herself into a mercurial substance
• Mercury (Amalgam Comics), a combination of the characters Impulse and Quicksilver
• Makkari (comics) or Mercury, an Eternal
• Mercury, a member of the Metal Men, a DC comics team
• Mercury, a member of Cerebro's X-Men
• Sailor Mercury, a character from Sailor Moon

Computing

• Mercury Interactive, software testing tools vendor
• Mercury (programming language), a functional/logical programming language based on Prolog
• Mercurial (software), a distributed revision control tool
• Mercury OS, a real-time operating system for embedded systems
• Ferranti Mercury, an early 1950s commercial computer
• Mercury Mail Transport System

Sports

• Edmonton Mercurys, a 1940s and 50s intermediate ice hockey team from Canada
• Phoenix Mercury, a Women's National Basketball Association team from Arizona, United States
• Toledo Mercurys, a defunct International Hockey League franchise from Ohio, United States

Media

• Mercury (magazine), an astronomy magazine

Newspapers

• Mercury (Newport), a newspaper in Rhode Island
• Mercury (Pennsylvania), a newspaper in Pennsylvania, United States
• Clevedon Mercury, a weekly free newspaper in England
• Guelph Mercury, a Canadian newspaper
• Illawarra Mercury, a daily newspaper in Australia
• Leicester Mercury, a United Kingdom regional newspaper
• London Mercury, a list of periodicals named London Mercury published in London
• Maitland Mercury, an Australian newspaper
• Matlock Mercury, a United Kingdom newspaper
• Mercury News, a newspaper in San Jose, CA
• Quebec Mercury, a defunct 19th Century weekly newspaper published in Quebec City, Canada
• Sherborne Mercury, a defunct newspaper from Dorset United Kingdom
• St Arnaud Mercury, a newspaper in Victoria, Australia
• Staffordshire Mercury, a newspaper that was published in Staffordshire, England
• Sunday Mercury, a newspaper in Birmingham, United Kingdom
• The Mercury (Hobart), a newspaper in Hobart, Australia
• The Mercury (South Africa), an English language newspaper published in Durban, South Africa
• The Portland Mercury, an alternative weekly newspaper published in Oregon, United States
• The Somerset Mercury, a regional newspaper in Somerset, England
• The Weston & Somerset Mercury, a weekly paid for newspaper in Somerset, England
• Rutland And Stamford Mercury, a weekly paid-for newspaper. The oldest newspaper in England

Radio stations

• 102.7 Mercury FM, a radio station in Surrey, United Kingdom
• Hertfordshire's Mercury 96.6, an independent local radio station in England

Other uses

• Mercury (novel), a novel by Ben Bova
• Mercury (cipher machine), a British cipher machine used from the 1950s
• Mercury (satellite), the name of a series of three United States satellites
• Mercury (plant), members of the plant genus Mercurialis
• Mercury dime, a United States dime minted from 1916 through 1945
• Operation Mercury, codename for the German invasion of Crete during World War II
• The Mercury Award, an international airline award for in-flight catering
• Mercury (TV series), an Australian TV series launched in 1996
• Mercury Communications, a British telecommunications firm set up in the 1980s
• Archer Maclean's Mercury, a puzzle game for the PlayStation Portable

People with the name

• Daniela Mercury (born 1965), Brazilian singer
• Freddie Mercury (1946-1991), singer of the rock group Queen
• Joey Mercury (born 1979) or Adam Birch, professional wrestler
• Mercury Hayes (born 1973), former professional American football wide receiver
• Mercury Morris (born 1947), former American football player

See also

• First planet
• Mercur (disambiguation)
• Mercurius (disambiguation)
• The Mercury (disambiguation)
• Mercury 1 (disambiguation)
• Mercury 2 (disambiguation)
• Mercury 3 (disambiguation)
• Mercury 4 (disambiguation)
• Mercury chloride (disambiguation)
• Mercury House (disambiguation)
• Mercury program (disambiguation)
• Mercury Theatre (disambiguation)
• Red mercury (disambiguation)

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