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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), or Mercurius, a Roman god

Mercury may also refer to:

• Mercury (plant), members of the genus Mercurialis
• Project Mercury, an early American program for launching humans into space
• Good King Henry, a species of goosefoot also called mercury or English mercury
• Inches of mercury, a measure of atmospheric pressure
• Mercurius (crater), a crater on the Moon
• USNS Mercury (T-AGM-21), a Vanguard Class Missile Range Instrumentation Ship

• Freddie Mercury, singer of the rock group Queen
• Mercury Music Prize, a British award
• Mercury Records, a commercial record label
• Mercury, the Winged Messenger, a movement in Gustav Holst's The Planets suite
• Mercury (album), a 2005 music album by Long-View
• Mercury (song) by the band Counting Crows, from the 1996 album Recovering the Satellites
• Mercury (American Music Club album)
• Mercury (Madder Mortem album)

• Mercury (magazine), a popular astronomy magazine published by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• Mercury (Newport), an alternative weekly newspaper in Rhode Island formerly called The Newport Mercury
• Mercury FM, a commercial radio station in Surrey, United Kingdom
• Mercury 96.6, a commercial radio station in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
• The Mercury (Hobart), a newspaper published in Hobart, Australia
• Mercury (Pennsylvania), a newspaper published in Pennsylvania, United States
• Sunday Mercury, a Sunday newspaper published in Birmingham, United Kingdom
• San Jose Mercury-News, a daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, United States
• Mercury (comics), a.k.a. Cessily Kincaid, a Marvel Comics character who can turn herself into a mercurial substance
• Mercury (Amalgam Comics), a combination of the characters Impulse and Quicksilver made for Amalgam Comics

• Mercury (TV series), an 1996 Australian television show
• Mercury dime, a coin preceding the current dime in the United States
• Mercury Theatre, a theatre company founded in New York by Orson Welles and John Houseman
• Mike Mercury, chief test pilot of the Supercar team
• Adam Birch, a professional wrestler with the stage name Joey Mercury
• Ami Mizuno, codenamed Sailor Mercury in the Sailor Moon franchise
• Mercury Rising, a 1998 movie starring Bruce Willis and Alec Baldwin
• Archer Maclean's Mercury, a video game for the PlayStation Portable
• OZ-13MSX2 Mercurius, a mobile suit from the anime Gundam Wing
• Operation Mercury, codename for the German invasion of Crete during World War II

• 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 (SMS), a program that sends Short Message Service messages
• Bristol Mercury, a 9-cylinder aircraft engine
• Mercury arc valve, a rectifier device intended for high electrical voltages/currents
• Mercury Autocode, a high-level language run by the Ferranti/Manchester computer
• Mercury Mail Transport System, email server
• Mercury memory, kind of delay line memory, in use in the 1950s
• Mercury Messenger, a cross-platform Instant Messaging program
• Mercury programming language, a functional/logical programming language based on Prolog
• Mercury OS, a real-time operating system for embedded systems

• Mercury, Nevada
• Mercury, Savoie, a commune in the Savoie département of France

• Conrail Mercury, an intermodal service formerly operated by Conrail
• Mercury (automobile), a marque of automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company
• 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
• Mercury Insurance Group, an American automobile and property insurance company
• Mercury Marine, a manufacturer of marine engines and propulsion systems
• Mercury (ship), a cruise ship that Celebrity Cruises owns and operates
• Mercury Cider, an alcoholic beverage produced by Cascade Brewery