Mercury

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Mercury most commonly refers to:

Mercury (planet), the closest planet to the Sun
Mercury (element), a chemical element
Mercury (mythology), a Roman deity

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 Corporation, an American aircraft manufacturer
Mercury Cyclecar Company, a defunct American car company
Mercury Drug, a Philippine pharmacy chain
Mercury Energy, an electricity generation and retail company in New Zealand
Mercury Filmworks, a Canadian independent animation studio
Mercury General, a multiple-line American insurance organization
Mercury Interactive, a software testing tools vendor
Mercury Marine, 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), 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 Black, a character in the RWBY web series
Sailor Mercury, a character in the Sailor Moon manga and anime franchise

Literature

Comics

Mercury (Marvel Comics), a character who can turn herself into a mercurial substance
Makkari (comics) or Mercury, an Eternal, a Marvel Comics race of superhumans
Mercury, a member of the Metal Men, a DC Comics team
Mercury, a member of Cerebro's X-Men
Mercury, an Amalgam Comics character

Magazines

Mercury (magazine), an astronomy magazine
The American Mercury, 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, 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, a record label
Mercury Records, a record label
Mercury Prize, 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 (2021), by Imagine Dragons
Mercury – Acts 1 & 2 (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
"Mercury", a song by Steve Lacy from Gemini Rights

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
HMS Mercury, various vessels or shore establishments of that name
USS Mercury, seven vessels of that name
Russian brig Mercury, 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, 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, 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 Theatre (disambiguation), a list of Mercury theatres

Vehicles

Air

Blackburn Mercury, a British aircraft from 1911
Bristol Mercury, a nine-cylinder aircraft engine

Land

Mercury (automobile), 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

Mercury (ship), several ships of that name
Cape Cod Mercury 15, an American sailboat design
Mercury 18, an American sailboat design

Space

Project Mercury, a United States human spaceflight program, 1958–1963
Mercury (satellite), 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 in Virginia, United States
Mercury Cinema, a theatre in Adelaide, Australia
Shuttle America's callsign
The Mercury Mall, a shopping centre in Romford, England