Meanings of minor planet names: 236001–237000

As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center, and the discoverers can then submit names for them, following the IAU's naming conventions. The list below concerns those minor planets in the specified span of numbers that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names. Besides the Minor Planet Circulars (in which the citations are published), a key source is Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.

Minor planets not yet given a name have not been included in this list.

Name	Provisional Designation	Source of Name
	236001–236100
	236101–236200
236111 Wolfgangbüttner	2005 RW4	Wolfgang Büttner (1905–1998), a German educator and sidewalk astronomer in Dresden. †
236170 Cholnoky	2005 VP7	Jenő Cholnoky (1870-1950), one of the greatest Hungarian geographers and professor of geography at the University of Budapest. †
	236201–236300
	236301–236400
236305 Adamriess	2006 BU	Adam Riess (b. 1969), an American physicist. †
	236401–236500
236463 Bretécher	2006 FF	Claire Bretécher (born 1940), a cartoonist who contributed to many comic-strip magazines, including Spirou, Tintin and Pilote. †
236484 Luchijen	2006 FQ35	Lu Chi-Jen, an active amateur astronomer in Taiwan. †
	236501–236600
	236601–236700
236616 Gray	2006 JR61	David Frank Gray (b. 1938), a stellar spectroscopist. †
236683 Hujingyao	2006 QE111	Hu Jing-Yao (b. 1937), a leading astronomer of National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a pioneer optical astronomer in China. †
	236701–236800
236728 Leandri	2007 HP14	Andree Fernandez (b. 1939, née Leandri), a retired software engineer at Meudon Observatory. †
236743 Zhejiangdaxue	2007 JU34	Named for the 115th anniversary of the Zhejiang University, one of China's oldest institutions of higher education. †
236784 Livorno	2007 PU27	Livorno, an important port city of Italy. †
236785 Hilendarski	2007 PN29	Paisiy Hilendarski (1722-1773) was the author of Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya, the second modern Bulgarian history. †
236800 Broder	2007 QU3	Henryk M. Broder (born 1946) of Katowice, Poland, studied German law and political economics at Cologne, Germany. †
	236801–236900
236810 Rutten	2007 RH14	Harrie G. J. Rutten (b. 1950), a Dutch optician, and the author of Teleskop Optics, and numerous articles and speeches on popular astronomy that have been well received by the public. †
236851 Chenchikwan	2007 RA139	Chen Chi-Kwan (1921–2007), a renowned Taiwanese artist and architect whose designs on the campus of National Central University are some of his masterpieces. †
	236901–237000
236987 Deustua	2008 QX9	Susana E. Deustua (born 1961), an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. †
236988 Robberto	2008 QE12	Massimo Robberto (born 1958), an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. †