Anaximenes is a low-rimmed lunar crater that is located near the north-northwest limb of the Moon. It lies to the west of the Philolaus crater, and northeast of Carpenter crater. To the northwest is the Poncelet crater, close to the visible edge of the Moon.

a presocratic Greek philosopher and associate of Anaximander who believed that all things are made of air in different degrees of density (6th century BC)