Auguste Charlois who discovered 317 Roxane named for Roxana from what area
Roxana Roxana (Ancient Greek: Ῥωξάνη ; Old Iranian "Raoxshna"; sometimes Roxanne, Roxanna, Roxandra and Roxane) was a Sogdian princess of Bactria and a wife of the Greek Macedonian king, Alexander the Great. She was born in c. 340 BC though the precise date remains uncertain and died in c. 310 BC.
Wilhelm Filchner Wilhelm Filchner (13 September 1877 – 7 May 1957) was a German explorer. He travelled in the Pamir ranges, Tibet and the Antarctic. Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in the Antarctic is named after him.