Maskelyne

Maskelyne is the surname of several people:

• Nevil Maskelyne (1732–1811), the fifth British Astronomer Royal
• Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne (1823–1911), an English geologist and politician
• Nevill Maskelyne Smyth, served in the First World War 1914–18.
• The Maskelyne family of magicians:
  • John Nevil Maskelyne (1829–1917), a British stage magician of the 19th century
  • Nevil Maskelyne (magician) (1863–1924), son of John Nevil
  • Jasper Maskelyne (1902–1973), a British stage magician in the 1930s and 1940s, son of Nevil

Others

• Maskelyne, a solitary lunar crater
• Maskelynes Islands, in Vanuatu and the
  • Maskelynes language