__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 School of Management, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany * Mercator Limited, a shipping company in India * 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) * {{SS|Mercator}} and {{MV|Mercator}}, 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)
{{disambig|surname}} Category:Latin-language surnames