What is "mellish"

Mellish is a crater on Mars located in the planet's southern hemisphere at coordinates 72.9S, 24.0W. It was named after John E. Mellish, an American amateur astronomer from St. Charles, Illinois. The crater was named after Mellish in 1994 at the request of Steven Dick at the U.S. Naval Observatory.

Mellish is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Arthur Preston Mellish (1905–1930). A Canadian mathematician. Proved a generalization of Barbier's theorem.
• Bob Mellish, Baron Mellish (1913–1998), British Labour politician and Member of Parliament (MP)
• Charles Mellish (1737–1797), British MP
• David B. Mellish (1831–1874), United States Representative from New York
• Edith Mary Mellish (1861–1922), New Zealand Anglican deaconess and nun
• Edward Mellish (1880–1962), English Victoria Cross recipient
• George Mellish (1814–1877), British judge
• Henry Mellish (1856–1927), English meteorologist
• John E. Mellish (1886–1970), American amateur astronomer
• Morgan Mellish (1970–2007), Australian journalist
• Page Mellish, founder of Feminists Fighting Pornography
• Thomas Mellish (1773–1837), English cricketer
• William Mellish (1764?–1838), English Governor of the Bank of England and Tory MP
• William Mellish (cricketer) (1813–1864), English soldier, landowner and cricketer

Fictional characters:

• Fielding Mellish, protagonist of Bananas (film)