Venetia Burney, English educator, who named Pluto (d. 2009)
Venetia Katharine Douglas Burney (married name Phair, 11 July 1918 – 30 April 2009), as an English girl of 11 years old, was credited by Clyde Tombaugh with first suggesting the name Pluto for the dwarf planet he discovered in 1930. She was living in Oxford, England, at the time. As an adult she worked as an accountant and a teacher.