Asteroids named after people called Maryam

(20450) Marymohammed

Maryam Khadijah Mohammed (b. 1990) is a finalist in the 2004 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition, for her biochemistry, medicine, health, and microbiology project. She attends the C.W. Ruckel Middle School, Niceville, Florida.Discovered 13 May 1999 by LINEAR, Socorro

(321357) Mirzakhani

Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017), a professor at Stanford, was an outstanding Iranian-born mathematician. She was the first woman to receive the prestigious Fields Medal. She focused her work on algebraic and hyperbolic geometry, and Riemann surfaces.Discovered 3 September 1994 by E. W. Elst, La Silla