title: Maskelyne
text: # Maskelyne
  
  Maskelyne may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Nevil Maskelyne (MP) (1711–1679), English landowner, MP for Cricklade
  * Nevil Maskelyne (1732–1811), the fifth British Astronomer Royal
  * Nevil Story Maskelyne (1823–1911), English geologist, MP for Cricklade
  * Nevill Maskelyne Smyth (1868–1941), British Army office, recipient of the Victoria Cross
  * Ryan Maskelyne (born 1999), Australian-born Papua New Guinean Olympic swimmer
  * The Maskelyne family of British magicians:
     * John Nevil Maskelyne (1829–1917), stage magician
     * Nevil Maskelyne (magician) (1863–1924), son of John Nevil
     * Jasper Maskelyne (1902–1973), stage magician in the 1930s and 1940s, son of Nevil
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Maskelyne (crater), a solitary lunar crater
  * Maskelynes Islands, in Vanuatu
     * Maskelynes language
  * Maskelyne Passage, Antarctica
  