Mercury commonly refers to:

• Mercury (planet), the nearest planet to the Sun in the solar system
• Mercury (element), the chemical element (also called quicksilver)
• Mercury (mythology), a Roman god

• Mercury, Nevada, United States

Science

• Mercury (plant), members of the genus Mercurialis
• Project Mercury, an early American program for launching humans into space

Transportation

• Mercury (ship), a cruise ship owned and operated by Celebrity Cruises
• HMS Mercury, the name of several ships of the Royal Navy
• USS Mercury, the name of several ships of the United States Navy
• Mercury (automobile), a marque of automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company
• Short S.20 Mercury, a piggyback long-range seaplane/flying boat combination

Culture

Music

• "Mercury" (Counting Crows song), a song by Counting Crows from Recovering the Satellites
• "Mercury" (Kathleen Edwards song), the sixth track off Kathleen Edwards' debut album Failer
• Mercury (album), an album by Long-View
• Mercury (American Music Club album)
• Mercury (Madder Mortem album)
• Mercury Records, a record label
• Mercury Music Prize, a British award
• "Mercury, the Winged Messenger", a movement in Gustav Holst's The Planets suite
• Mercury (band), a Queen tribute band

Media

• Mercury News, a newspaper in San Jose, CA
• Mercury (novel), a novel by Ben Bova
• Mercury (magazine), an astronomy magazine
• Mercury (Newport), a newspaper in Rhode Island
• The Mercury (Hobart), a newspaper in Hobart, Australia
• Mercury (Pennsylvania), a newspaper in Pennsylvania, United States
• Sunday Mercury, a newspaper in Birmingham, United Kingdom
• 102.7 Mercury FM, a radio station in Surrey, United Kingdom
• Mercury 96.6, a radio station in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
• Mercury (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Mercury (Amalgam Comics), an Amalgam Comics character
• Sailor Mercury or Ami Mizuno, one of the Sailor Senshi from the anime/manga, Sailor Moon
• Mercury, a member of the Metal Men, a DC comics team

Other

• Mercury dime, a coin preceding the current dime in the United States
• Mercury Theatre, a theatre company founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman
• Archer Maclean's Mercury, a video game for the [PlayStation]Create? Portable
• Operation Mercury, codename for the German invasion of Crete during World War II
• Mercury Ranger, one of the other Power Rangers

Technology

• Mercury (cipher machine), a British cipher machine used from the 1950s
• Mercury (computer), developed in the early 1950s by Ferranti and the University of Manchester computing department
• Mercury (programming language), a functional/logical programming language based on Prolog
• Bristol Mercury, a 9-cylinder aircraft engine
• Mercury arc valve, a rectifier device intended for high electrical voltages/currents
• Mercury memory, kind of delay line memory, in use in the 1950s
• Mercury Autocode, a high-level language run by the Ferranti/Manchester computer
• Mercury Mail Transport System, email server
• Mercury OS, a real-time operating system for embedded systems
• Mercury Messenger (formerly called dMSN) is an MSN based Instant Messaging client developed under Java

Business

• Conrail Mercury, an intermodal service formerly operated by Conrail
• Mercury Communications, a now-defunct British telecommunications company
• Mercury Computer Systems, an embedded digital signal and image processing solutions provider
• Mercury Drug, a Philippine drug store chain
• Mercury Energy, an energy company in New Zealand
• Mercury Interactive, a software and consulting company (subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard)
• Mercury Insurance Group, an American automobile and property insurance company
• Mercury Marine, a manufacturer of marine engines and propulsion systems
• Mercury Cider, an alcoholic beverage produced by Cascade Brewery
• Mercury, the callsign for Shuttle America Airlines

People with the surname Mercury

• Freddie Mercury, singer of the rock group Queen
• Daniela Mercury, Brazilian singer
• Adam Birch, a professional wrestler with the stage name Joey Mercury

Fictional

• Mike Mercury, the chief test pilot of the Supercar team

See also

• Mercurius (disambiguation)

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