List of eponyms (A–K)

An eponym is a person (real or fictitious) from whom something is said to take its name. The word is back-formed from "eponymous", from the Greek "eponymos" meaning "giving name".

Here is a list of eponyms:

A

Shinzō Abe, Japanese Prime Minister – Abenomics
Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician – Abelian group, Abel's theorem, Abel–Ruffini theorem
Acantha, Greek mythological character – the plant genus Acanthus
Achaemenes, Persian king – Achaemenid dynasty
Achilles, Greek mythological character – Achilles' heel, Achilles tendon
Ada Lovelace, first person to describe computer programming (for the Babbage engine) - Ada programming language.
Adam, Biblical character – Adam's apple, adamite
Alvin Adams, American businessman – Adams Express
Adamson, Swedish comics character – Adamson Award
Thomas Addison, British physician – Addison's disease, Addisonian crisis, Addison–Schilder syndrome
Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, British queen – the city of Adelaide in Australia, Queen Adelaide, Cambridgeshire, Adelaide Archipelago, Adelaide Island
Adhemar, Belgian comics character – Bronzen Adhemar^[1]
Adonis, Greek mythological character – adonis (a good looking, handsome young boy),^[2] adonism, Adonis, adonis (species of skink)^[3]
Len Adleman, American computer scientist – the third letter of the name RSA, an asymmetric algorithm for public key cryptography, is taken from Adleman.
Aeolus, Greek mythological character – Aeolian harp.
Aeneas, Greek mythological character - aeneas rat, another name for the Linnaeus's mouse opossum.
Adam Afzelius, Swedish botanist - Afzelius' disease, afzelia
Agatha of Sicily, Italian Christian martyr – St. Agatha's Tower
Agrippina the Younger, Roman empress – Cologne, Germany (formerly Colonia Agrippina)
Ahasuerus, Biblical character - the term "ahasverus" is used to describe a "restless person" in certain languages, Ahasverus
Alfred V. Aho, Canadian computer scientist – the first letter of the name AWK, a computer pattern/action language, is taken from Aho
Ajax, Greek mythological character – Ajax Amsterdam
Akademos, Greek mythological character – academy
Akela, British literary character - Akela, another term for 'scoutsleader'
Rabbi Akiva, Judean rabbi – Bnei Akiva
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, Latinized as "Algoritmi", Persian mathematician – algorithm
Semyon Alapin, Lithuanian chess player – Alapin's Opening
Albert, Prince Consort, British prince – Prince Albert piercing, a common form of male genital piercing; Alberta (Canada), Albert Bridge, London, Albert Bridge, Glasgow, Royal Albert Dock, Royal Albert Hall, Albert Memorial, Lake Albert, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Albert Medal
Adolf Albin, Romanian chess player – Albin Countergambit.
Alcaeus, Greek poet – Alcaic stanza.
Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player – Alekhine's Defence
Alexander of Aphrodisias, Greek philosopher – Alexandrism, Alexander's band
Alexander the Great, Greek-Macedonian conqueror – Alexandria, İskenderun, Kandahar, alexandrine
Matthew Algie, Scottish businessman – "Matthew Algie" (company)
Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, American musicians – A&M Records
Thomas Allinson, British physician – Allinson bread
Arthur Cecil Alport, South African physician – Alport syndrome
Walter C. Alvarez, American physician − Alvarez' syndrome; Alvarez-waves; Walter C. Alvarez Memorial Award
Alois Alzheimer, German neurologist – Alzheimer's disease
Amanullah Khan, Afghan king – The Dutch term "ammehoela" (which means "yeah, right!" or "what do I care?"), is derived from his name.^[4]
Amaryllis, Roman literary character from Virgil's pastoral Eclogues - amaryllis
Amazon, Greek mythological tribe – Amazon River
Jakob Ammann, Swiss-American religious leader – Amish
Bruce Ames, American biochemist – Ames test
Amor (Latin name for Cupid), Greek mythological character – The French word "amour" and the Italian word "amore" (which both mean "love").
André-Marie Ampère, French scientist – ampere – unit of electric current, Ampère's law, amp
Amun, Egyptian god – ammonia^[5]
Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer – Amundsen Sea; Amundsen crater, a crater on the Moon; Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station
Ignacio "Nacho" Anaya – inventor of nachos^[6]
José de Anchieta, Spanish priest – Anchieta Island, Anchieta Highway, in Brazil, Anchieta, Espírito Santo, Anchieta, Santa Catarina
Andromeda, Greek mythological character – andromeda, Andromeda Galaxy
Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist – angstrom, unit of distance
Adolf Anderssen, German chess player – Anderssen's Opening
Saint Andrew, Christian apostle – Order of Saint Andrew, Saint Andrew's Cross, St Andrews, Scotland, San Andreas Fault, and numerous other localities, churches and cathedrals.
Anne of Denmark, Scottish queen – Queen Anne's Men
Anne, Queen of Great Britain, British queen – Queen Anne style architecture, Queen Anne style furniture, Statute of Anne, Queen Anne's Bounty
Virginia Apgar, American physician and anesthesiologist – Apgar score
Antoninus Pius, Roman emperor – Antonine Wall
Aphrodite, Greek mythological character – aphrodisiac
Apollo, Greek mythological character – Apollonian and Dionysian, Apollo archetype
Apollinaris of Ravenna - Apollinaris (water)
Apollonius of Perga, Greek mathematician and astronomer – Apollonian circles, Apollonian gasket, Apollonian network, Apollonius' theorem, Problem of Apollonius.
Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian philosopher – Thomism, many educational institutions
Yasser Arafat, Palestinian politician and activist – Arafat scarf (nickname for a Palestinian keffiyeh)
Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, nicknamed Pichichi, Spanish association football player – Pichichi Trophy
Archimedes, Greek mathematician – Archimedes' screw, Archimedes' principle, Archimedean point, Claw of Archimedes, Archimedean solid
Argus Panoptes, Greek mythological character – argus-eyed,^[7] great argus (pheasant species), scatophagus argus (fish species)
Ariadne, Greek mythological character – Ariadne's thread (logic)
José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan revolutionary leader – Artiguism.
Aristoteles, Greek mathematician and philosopher – Aristotelianism, Aristotelian ethics, Aristotelian physics, Aristotelian Society Aristotelian theology Aristotelia, Aristotle Mountains, Aristotle's wheel paradox, Aristotle's theory of universals, Pseudo-Aristotle.
Jacobus Arminius, Dutch theologian – Arminianism.
Louis Armstrong, American jazz musician, who was nicknamed Satchmo - Satchmo's syndrome.
William George Armstrong, British inventor and business man – Armstrong breech-loading gun.
Arthur, British-Welsh mythological king - Arthurian fantasy, Arthurian heraldry, Arthurian legend.
José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan revolutionary leader – Artiguism.
Asclepius, Greek mythological character – rod of Asclepius, therapeutae of Asclepius
Hans Asperger, Austrian psychologist – Asperger syndrome
Atalanta, Greek mythological character - Atalanta butterfly
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkish president – Kemalism (also known as Atatürkism).
Robert Atkins, American nutriotinist – Atkins diet
Atlas, Greek mythological character – atlas, Atlas, atlas, Atlas, Atlas, Atlas, Atlas bear, Atlas beetle, Atlas cedar, Atlas pied flycatcher, Atlas moth, Atlas turtle
Athena, Greek goddess – The Greek city Athens, atheneum, Athens, Athene (bird)
Atthis, Greek mythological character – Atthis, Attica^[8]
Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, Israeli rabbi and theologist – Ramat Shlomo
Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira, Brazilian lexicographer – Aurélio's Brazilian Portuguese Dictionary, nicknamed the "Big Aurélio" in Portuguese.
Augeas, Greek mythological king – Augean stable^[9]^[10]
Augustus Caesar, Roman emperor – the month of August; the city of Zaragoza (originally Caesaraugustus); the city of Caesarea in Israel; numerous other cities once named Caesarea; the Caesarean section, because he was supposedly born in this manner. Augstan age
R. Stanton Avery, American inventor and businessman – Avery Dennison Corporation
Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist – Avogadro's number, Avogadro's law
Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigerian president – Zikism.

B

Báb, Persian religious leader – Bábism
Charles Babbage, British mathematician and inventor – Babbage engine, Babbage.
Isaac Babbitt, American inventor – Babbitt metal.
Joseph Babinski, French neurologist – Babinski's sign, Anton–Babinski syndrome, Babinski–Fröhlich syndrome, Babinski–Froment syndrome, Babinski–Nageotte syndrome, Babinski–Vaquez syndrome, Babinski–Weil test, Babinski–Jarkowski rule.
Lauren Bacall, American actress – Bogart–Bacall syndrome
Facundo Bacardi, Spanish-Cuban business man – Bacardi, Bacardi cocktail, Bacardi Breezer
Bacchus, Greek-Roman mythological character – Bacchic, Bacchic art, Bacchanalia
Edward Bach, British physician – Bach flower remedies
Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer – BACH motif
John Backus, American computer scientist – Backus–Naur form
Karl Baedeker, German business man – Baedeker
Leo Baekeland, Belgian inventor – Bakelite
William Baffin, British explorer – Baffin Bay, Baffin Island
Bahá'u'lláh, Persian religious leader – Bahá'í Faith
Bahram V Gur, Persian king – bahramdipity^[11]^[12]
Donald Bailey, British engineer and inventor – Bailey bridge
Francis Baily, British astronomer – Baily's beads
René Baire, French mathematician – Baire category theorem, Baire function, Baire measure, Baire set, Baire space, Baire space, Property of Baire
Italo Balbo, Italian aviator and politician – Balbo, Seventh Street Balbo Drive (street in Chicago)^[13]
Ed Balducci, Italian-American illusionist – Balducci levitation
Balthazar, Biblical character – 12-litre wine bottle (see Wine bottle#Sizes)
J. G. Ballard, British author – Ballardian, Ballardesque
János Balogh, Hungarian-Romanian chess master – Balogh Defense
Honoré de Balzac, French author – Balzac Prize
Bambi, Austrian literary character – Bambi effect, Bambi effect, Bambi Award.
Heinrich Band, German inventor and music instrument builder– Bandoneón
Bernhard Bang, Danish physician – Bang's disease
Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen, Danish businesspeople – Bang and Olufsen
Joseph Banks, British botanician – Banks Peninsula, genus Banksia
Baphomet, demon character – Sigil of Baphomet
Barbara, daughter of American business woman Ruth Handler – Barbie doll
Joseph Barbera and William Hanna, American animators – Hanna-Barbera
Willem Barentsz, Dutch explorer – Barents Sea, Barentsz bridge, Barents Region
Francis Baring, British businessman – Barings Bank
Heinrich Barkhausen, German physicist – Barkhausen effect, Barkhausen stability criterion, Barkhausen–Kurz tube
Thomas Wilson Barnes, British chess master – Barnes Defence, Barnes Opening
P. T. Barnum, American circus entertainer – Barnum effect^[14]
Murray Barr, Canadian physician – Barr body
Yvonne Barr and Sir Anthony Epstein, British physicians – Epstein–Barr virus
Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist – Guillain–Barré syndrome, Barré test
Caspar Bartholin the Younger, Danish physician – Bartholin's gland
Basarab I of Wallachia – Bessarabia
Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer – Bartok pizzicato
Karl Adolph von Basedow, German physician – Graves–Basedow disease
John Baskerville, British typographer – Baskerville
George Bass, British explorer – Bass Strait
Tomáš Baťa, Czech businessman – Bata Shoes; Bata Shoe Museum, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Batawa; Batanagar, India; Batapur, Punjab, Pakistan
Henry Walter Bates, British biologist – Batesian mimicry
Émile Baudot, French engineer – Baudot alphabet, Baudot code
Antoine Baumé, French engineer – Baumé scale
Bavo of Ghent, Southern-Dutch/Walloon Roman Catholic saint – Bamberg, Germany
Bryce Bayer, American scientist – Bayer filter^[15]
Friedrich Bayer, German business man – Bayer AG
Herbert Bayer, Austrian-American graphic designer and architect – Bayer Universal, Architype Bayer
William Bayliss, British physician – Bayliss effect
Donald E. Baxter and Delia B. Baxter – Baxter International
The Beatles, British rock group – Beatlesque, Beatle boot, Beatle haircut, Beatlemania
Francis Beaufort, French captain – Beaufort scale
Heinrich Beck, German businessman – Beck's beer, Beck's Futures art prize
John Bruce Beckwith, American physician – Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome
Louis de Béchamel, a courtier of Louis XIV – Béchamel sauce
Warren A. Bechtel, American businessman – Bechtel
Carl Bechstein, German businessman – C. Bechstein
Henri Becquerel, French physicist – becquerel.
John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British politician – Bedfordite
Michel Bégon, French politician – begonia
Alison Bechdel, American cartoonist – Bechdel test
Hulusi Behçet, Turkish dermatologist – Behçet's disease
Adrian Bejan, Romanian-American mathematician – Bejan number
Léon Bekaert, Belgian businessman – Bekaert
Jacob Bekenstein, Israelian-American theoretical physicist – Bekenstein bound
Édouard Belin, French-Swiss inventor – Belinograph
Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor – bel – unit of relative power level; Bell Labs, BellSouth, Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies), Regional Bell Operating Company, Bell Canada – companies.
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Estonian-German explorer – Bellingshausen Sea
Nikos Beloyannis, Greek resistance leader – Beloiannisz (village in Hungary)
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Litvak lexicographer – Ben Yehuda Street, Ben Yehuda Street (Tel Aviv)
Benedick, British theatrical character – benedick
Benedict of Nursia, Italian priest – Benedictine
Edvard Beneš, Czech president – Beneš decrees
Luciano Benetton, Italian business man – Benetton Group, Benetton Formula
Benjamin, Biblical character – a Benjamin (in some languages the youngest son of a family is referred to by this name)
Pal Benko, Hungarian chess player – Benko Gambit, Benko's Opening
Arnold Bennett, British novelist – Omelette Arnold Bennett, dish developed at the Savoy Hotel, London
Linn Boyd Benton, American typographer – Benton Pantograph
Karl Benz, German businessman – Benz & Cie. (later Daimler-Benz)
Hiram Berdan, American inventor – Berdan Sharps rifle, Berdan centerfire primer
Hans Berenberg and Paul Berenberg, German businessman – Berenberg Bank
Vitus Bering, Danish explorer – Bering Strait
Busby Berkeley, American choreographer – "Busby Berkeley choreography", "Busby Berkeley number" (a elaborate sing and dance number with lots of people involved, usually in a geometrical arrangement)
David Berkowitz also known as "Son of Sam", American criminal – Son of Sam law
Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman – Berliner Gramophone
Maximilian Berlitz, German-American businessman – Berlitz Language Schools
Juan de Bermúdez, Spanish explorer – Bermuda
Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch mathematician – Bernoulli's principle
Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Russian mathematician – Bernstein polynomial, Bernstein algebra, Bernstein's inequality, Bernstein inequalities in probability theory, Bernstein polynomial, Bernstein's problem, Bernstein's theorem, Bernstein's theorem on monotone functions, Bernstein–von Mises theorem
Yogi Berra, American baseball player – Yogi Bear, Yogiisms
Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist – Berthollide
Henry Bessemer, British inventor – Bessemer converter, Bessemer steel.
Aneurin Bevan, British politician – Bevanism.
Pierre Bézier, French engineer and mathematician – Bézier curve, Bézier surface
Marcel Bich, French-Italian businessman – Bic
Bieda, a Saxon landowner ("Bieda's ford" + shire) – Bedfordshire
Big Brother, British literary character – "Big Brother society" (a society where government surveillance is omnipresent), Big Brother Awards
Alfred Binet, French mathematician – Stanford-Binet IQ test
Meyer Herman Bing and Frederik Vilhelm Grøndahl, Danish business people – Bing & Grøndahl
Bintje Jansma, Dutch pupil – Bintje
Forrest Bird, American inventor – Bird Innovator
Henry Bird, British chess player – Bird's Opening
Clarence Birdseye, American businessman – Captain Birdseye
László Bíró, Hungarian inventor – Biro, (ballpoint pen)
Otto von Bismarck, German chancellor – Bismarck Archipelago and Bismarck Sea near New Guinea; German battleship Bismarck as well as two ships of the Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine); Bismarck, North Dakota, Bismarck herring
Fischer Black and Myron Scholes, American economists – Black–Scholes formula, Black–Scholes equation
S. Duncan Black and Alonzo G. Decker, American business men – Black & Decker.
Tony Blair, British Prime Minister – Blairism, Blatcherism.
Louis Auguste Blanqui, French politician and activist – Blanquism.
Louis Blériot, French aviator – Recherches Aéronautiques Louis Blériot
André Bloch, French mathematician, Bloch space
Felix Bloch, Swiss-American physician – Bloch wall, Bloch's theorem (complex variables), Bloch sphere. Bloch wave
Charles Blondin, French acrobat – Blondin (quarry equipment)
Amelia Bloomer, American activist – bloomers
Benjamin Blumenfeld, Belarussian chess player – Blumenfeld Gambit
Boann, Irish mythological character – The river Boyne
Johann Elert Bode and Johann Daniel Titius, German astronomers – Titius–Bode law
Giambattista Bodoni, Italian typographer – Bodoni
William Boeing, American aviator – Boeing Commercial Airplanes
Herman Boerhaave, Dutch physician – Boerhaave syndrome
Humphrey Bogart, American actor – Bogart–Bacall syndrome
Efim Bogoljubov, Russian-German chess player – Bogo-Indian Defence
Bogomil, Bulgarian religious leader – Bogomilism
Niels Bohr, Danish physicist – Bohr magneton, Bohr radius, bohrium
Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French chemist – gallium, chemical element. Although named after Gallia (Latin for France), Lecoq de Boisbaudran, the discoverer of the metal, subtly attached an association with his name. Lecoq (rooster) in Latin is gallus.
Bart Jan Bok, Dutch astronomer – Bok globules
Simón Bolívar, Bolivian general and president – Bolivia, Bolívar Department, Colombia, various cities and tows named Bolívar en Venezuela and Colombia, Venezuelan bolívar, Bolívar, Bolivarism.
Jean Bolland, Belgian priest – Bollandists
Lucas Bols, Dutch businessman – Bols (brand)
Ludwig Boltzmann, German mathematician – Boltzmann constant, Stefan–Boltzmann constant, Stefan–Boltzmann law
Napoleon Bonaparte, French general and emperor – Bonapartism, Napoleonic Code, Napoleon Empire, Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon complex, Napoleon Opening, Napoleon's theorem, Napoleon's problem, Napoleon snake eel, Napoleon fish, Napoleon, Napoleon points, Napoleonka.
George Alan Bond, American-Australian business man – Bonds.
George Boole, British mathematician – Boolean algebra.
Gail Borden, American business man – "Borden Condensed Milk", Borden County, Texas.
Jules Bordet, Belgian physicist – Bordetella.
Amadeo Bordiga, Italian politician – Bordigism.
Armand Borel, French mathematician – Borel–Weil–Bott theorem, Borel conjecture, Borel fixed-point theorem, Borel's theorem
Émile Borel, French mathematician – Borel algebra, Borel's lemma, Borel's law of large numbers, Borel measure, Borel–Kolmogorov paradox, Borel–Cantelli lemma, Borel–Carathéodory theorem, Heine–Borel theorem, Borel summation, Borel distribution
Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist – Borodin reaction
Karel Havlíček Borovský, Czech novelist – Havlíčkův Brod
Giuseppe Borsalino, Italian businessman – Borsalino
Bernard Bosanquet, British cricketer – bosie, the Australian term for the cricket technique googly
Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch painter - Boschian.^[16]
Robert Bosch, German business man and inventor – Robert Bosch GmbH
Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist – bosons, Bose–Einstein statistics, Bose–Einstein condensates
Amar Bose, American business man and inventor – Bose Corporation, Bose speaker packages
Jean-Marc Bosman, Belgian association football player – Bosman ruling
Elbert Dysart Botts, American engineer and inventor – Botts' dots, a street and highway lane separator
Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French navigator – the bougainvillea plant, which he discovered.
Georges Boulanger, French politician – Boulangism
Matthew Boulton and James Watt, British inventors and business people – Boulton and Watt
Habib Bourguiba, Tunesian president – Bourguibism
Thierry Boutsen, Belgian car racer – Boutsen Aviation
Thomas Bowdler, British publisher – to bowdlerize
Jim Bowie, American inventor – Bowie knife
Sir William Bowman, British anatomist – Bowman's capsule
Charles Boycott, Irish politician – boycott
Robert Boyle, Irish chemist – Boyle's law.
Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer - Tychonic system, Tycho Brahe days.
Brahma, Hindu deity – Brahmanism.
Brahmagupta, Indian mathematician and astronomer – Brahmagupta's formula, Brahmagupta's identity, Brahmagupta's trapezium, Brahmagupta's problem, Brahmagupta's polynomial
Johannes Brahms, German composer – Brahms guitar
Louis Braille, French inventor – braille writing
Matthew Bramley, British butcher – Bramley apple
Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist – "Braun tube" (in some languages the cathode ray tube is referred to as such) Karl Ferdinand Braun Prize
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Italian explorer – Brazzaville, De Brazza's monkey
Abraham-Louis Breguet, Swiss watch maker – Breguet (brand)
Louis Charles Breguet, French aviator – Breguet Aviation, Breguet 14, Breguet's range equation
Jacques Brel, Belgian singer – Brelian crescendo^[17]
Hans-Joachim Bremermann, German-American mathematician and biophysicist – Bremermann's limit
Jack Elton Bresenham, American computer scientist – Bresenham's line algorithm
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, British lexicographer – Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Leonid Brezhnev, Russian head of state – Brezhnev Doctrine
Richard Bright, British physician – Bright's disease
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French gastronomer – Brillat-Savarin cheese, Gâteau Savarin
Thomas Brisbane, British politician – Brisbane and Brisbane River
Paul Broca, French neurologist – Broca's aphasia, Broca's area.
Henry James Brooke, British crystallographer – Brookite.
Mel Brooks, American film director and actor – Brooksfilms.
Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister – Brownism.
Robert Brown, Scottish botanist – Brownian motion
John Browning, American inventor – Browning firearms, including the M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle and Browning Hi-Power
Catherine Wolfe Bruce, American humanitarian activist – Bruce Medal
R. H. Bruck, American mathematician – Bruck–Ryser–Chowla theorem
Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer – Bruckner rhythm
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter – Bruegelian (a jolly eat- and drink festivity which resembles scenes from his paintings.), Bruegel, Brueghel's syndrome, "Bruegel Ancienne" (a Belgian beer brand^[18])
Johannes Brugman, Dutch priest – "praten als Brugman" ("to talk like Brugman", indicating a powerful speech)^[19]
Marcus Junius Brutus, Italian politician – brutal, brutality, brute
Prince Brychan, British king – Brecknockshire
Bucephalus, horse of Alexander the Great – Bucephala (city), Bucephala (bird)
Bucca, Saxon landowner ("Bucca's home" + shire) – Buckinghamshire
Buddha, Nepalese religious leader – Buddhism
Semyon Budyonny, Russian general – Budyonny horse
Ettore Bugatti, Italian businessman – Bugatti.
Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian president – Buharism.
David Dunbar Buick, American businessman – Buick.
Dagwood Bumstead, American comics character - Dagwood sandwich.
Archie Bunker, American TV character – the Bunker vote (political term describing the affiliations of mainly white, lower class voters who share conservative, bigoted viewpoints like Bunker did).
Wilhelm Busch, German comics artist and illustrator – Wilhelm Busch Prize^[20]
George W. Bush, American president – Bush Doctrine, Bushism
Robert Bunsen, German inventor – Bunsen burner
Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician – Bunyakovsky conjecture
Jean Buridan, French philosopher – Buridan's ass
Robert Burns, Scottish poet – Burns stanza
Ambrose Burnside, American general – sideburns
William Burke, Irish criminal – to burke (to execute someone by suffocation)
Lord Byron, British poet – Byronic; Byronism

C

John Cadbury, British businessman – Cadbury.
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, French explorer – Cadillac.
Julius Caesar, Roman consul and general – the month of July, Caesar cipher, the titles Czar, Tsar, and Kaiser, the Bloody Caesar cocktail. An urban legend also erroneously credits Julius Caesar as having given his name to the Caesarean section; the two are likely unrelated, however.
Cain, Biblical character - Cain's mark.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish physician – Cajal's cell.
Calimero, Italian cartoon character – Calimero complex (used to denote people who are staunchly convinced that their position as an underdog is due to their smaller size, either literally or symbolically, which covers up for their own shortcomings.). In some languages, like Italian and Israeli Hebrew the word "calimero" is also used to refer to biker helmets.
John Calvin, Swiss theologian – Calvinism.
Pierre Cambronne, French general – The French word "cambronniser" and the expression "le mot de Cambronne" ("The word of Cambronne"), which both refer to the vulgar expression "merde"!" ("shit!") he uttered during the Battle of Waterloo.
Gaspare Campari, Italian businessman – Campari.
Joseph A. Campbell, American businessman – Campbell Soup Company.
Myrtelle Canavan, American physician – Canavan's disease.
Candaules, Lydian king - candaulism
Georg Cantor, German mathematician – Cantor algebra, Cantor cube, Cantor function, Cantor space, Cantor's back-and-forth method, Cantor–Bernstein theorem, Heine–Cantor theorem.
Joseph Capgras, French psychologist – Capgras delusion.
Frank Capra, American film director – Capraesque.
Caran d'Ache, French cartoonist – Caran d'Ache.
Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician and physician – cardan joint, Cardan grille, Cardano's Rings
Caesar Cardini, Italian-American restaurateur – Caesar salad
Jonathan Carey, American autistic child – Jonathan's Law.
Infante Carlos, Count of Molina, Spanish king – Carlism.
Horatio Caro, British chess player – Caro–Kann Defence.
Vittore Carpaccio, Italian painter – carpaccio.
Philip Carteret, British explorer – Carteret Islands
Sam Carr, neighbour of American serial killer David Berkowitz also known as "Son of Sam" – Son of Sam law.
Enrico Caruso, Italian opera tenor – Caruso Sauce.
Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and diarist – casanova (a womanizer).
Hendrik Casimir, Dutch physicist – Casimir effect.
Cassandra, Greek mythological character – Cassandra.
Laurent Cassegrain, French inventor – Cassegrain reflecting telescope.
Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian astronomer and mathematician – Cassini Division, Cassini oval, Cassini's laws, Cassini and Catalan identities.
Paul de Casteljau, French physicist and mathematician – De Casteljau's algorithm.
Fidel Castro, Cuban president – Castroism.
Catherine I of Russia, Russian empress – Yekaterinburg, Catherine Palace, Catherine Park.
Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician – List of things named after Augustin-Louis Cauchy.
Eduard Čech, Czech mathematician – Čech cohomology, Čech complex, Čech homology, Stone–Čech compactification.
Hugh Cecil, 1st Baron Quickswood, British politician – Hughligans.
Anders Celsius, Swedish physicist and astronomer – degree Celsius (unit of temperature) Celsius (Moon crater).
Ceredig, British Celtic chieftain – Cardigan.
Clyde Cessna, American avitator and businessman – Cessna Aircraft.
Mr. Chadband, British literary character – Chadband^[21]
Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician – Chagas disease.
Carlota Joaquina of Spain, Portuguese queen – Carlotism.
Jacques François de Chambray, French governor – Fort Chambray.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Pakistanian-American astronomer and physicist – Chandrasekhar limit, Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Coco Chanel, French fashion designer – Chanel, Chanel No. 5.
Chaos, Greek mythological character – chaos.
Charlie Chaplin, British comedian, film actor and director – Chaplinesque, Chaplin moustache.
Jean-Antoine Chaptal, French chemist – chaptalization.
Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist – Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease; Maladie de Charcot, the French name for motor neurone disease.
Charles I of England, English king – North Carolina and South Carolina.
Charles III of Monaco, Monegasque king – Monte Carlo.
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor – places called Carlsbad, Karlstein Castle, Karlovy Vary, Charles University, Charles Bridge.
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor – château Karlova Koruna.
Jacques Charles and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicists – Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac (frequently called simply Charles' Law)
Carl Charlier, Swedish astronomer and physicist – Charlier polynomials
Bobby Charlton, British association football player – the "Bobby Charlton" comb over hairstyle.
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, British queen – Queen Charlotte Islands, Queen Charlotte City, Queen Charlotte Sound Fort Charlotte, Charlottesville, Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.
Michel Chasles, French mathematician – Chasles' theorem.
François-René de Chateaubriand, French writer – Chateaubriand steak.
Nicolas Chauvin, French soldier – chauvinism.
Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan president – Chavismo.
Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright – Chekhov's gun.
Vitaly Chekhover, Russian chess player – Sicilian Defence, Chekhover Variation.
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Russian physicist – Cherenkov effect.
Louis Chevrolet, French businessman – Chevrolet.
Chewbacca, American film character – Chewbacca defense.
Chimaera, Greek mythological character – Chimaera. The term "chimaera" has come to describe any mythical or fictional animal with parts taken from various animals, or to describe anything composed of very disparate parts, or perceived as wildly imaginative, implausible, or dazzling.
Thomas Chippendale, British furniture designer – Chippendale furniture.
Ernst Chladni, German physicist – Chladni patterns.
Jesus Christ, Biblical prophet – Christianity, Christmas, Christ complex (also known as Messianic complex), Jesuit. Jesus' nickname "The Saviour" also inspired the name of El Salvador.
Agatha Christie, British novelist – Agatha Christie indult.
James Christie, British auctioner – Christie's.
Saint Christopher, Christian martyr – Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Walter Chrysler, American businessman – Chrysler, DaimlerChrysler, Chrysler Building.
Alfred Chuang, Chinese-American computer scientist – The third letter of the company name BEA Systems, is taken from his first name.
Alonzo Church, American mathematician – Church–Turing thesis, Church–Turing–Deutsch principle.
Charles Churchill, American-British businessman – Churchill Machine Tool Company.
Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister – Churchill tank, Churchill cigars, Churchill (cocktail).
Cincinnatus, Roman politician – Cincinnati (indirectly)
Cinderella, European fairy tale character – Cinderella, Cinderella complex, Cinderella effect.
André Citroën, French businessman – Citroën.
Claude of France, French queen – reine claude.
Claudius, Roman emperor – the city of Kayseri, formerly Caesarea Mazaca, in Turkey.
Moses Cleaveland, American politician – Cleveland.
Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault, French psychologist – Kandinsky–Clérambault syndrome
Ruth Cleveland, daughter of American president Grover Cleveland – Baby Ruth candy bars.
Bill Clinton, American president – Clintonomics, Clintonism, Clintonian.
Henri Coandă, Romanian inventor – Coandă effect.
John Robert Cobb, American physician – Cobb angle.
Richard Cobden, British politician – Cobdenism.
Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, British politician and soldier – Cobhamite.
John Cockerill, British businessman – Cockerill-Sambre.
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody, American frontiersman and entertainer – Cody, Wyoming.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French politician – Colbertism, Colbert coat, sauce Colbert.
William T. Coleman III, American businessman – the first letter of the company name BEA Systems, is taken from his first name.
Edgard Colle, Belgian chess player – Colle System.
Samuel Colt, American gun inventor – Colt revolver.
Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer – Egg of Columbus; many places and territories, see Columbus, Colombia, Colombo, British Columbia in Canada
Arthur Compton, American physicist – Compton scattering.
Nicolas de Condorcet, French mathematician and philosopher – Condorcet method.
Confucius, Chinese philosopher – Confucianism.
Constantine I, Roman Emperor – Constantinople.
Nicolas-Jacques Conté, French inventor – Conté crayon
James Cook, British explorer – Cook Islands; Cooktown, Queensland; James Cook University (Townsville); Cook (suburb of Canberra; co-named for Sir Joseph Cook); Cooks River; Cook (Federal electorate); James Cook University Hospital (Marton, Middlesbrough, England); Aoraki/Mount Cook; Cook Strait
Kenneth C. Cooper, American physician – Cooper test.
D. B. Cooper, American criminal – Cooper vane.
Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer – Copernican heliocentrism, Copernican Revolution, Copernican principle, copernicium.
Godfrey Copley, British art collector – Copley Medal.
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, French mathematician – Coriolis effect.
Pierre Corneille, French playwright – Cornelian dilemma.
Nicolas Cotoner, Maltese prince – Cottonera Lines.
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist – coulomb, Coulomb's law.
Thomas Cowling, British mathematician and astronomer – Cowling model.
William Cowper, British anatomist – Cowper's gland.
Michael Cowpland, British businessman – Corel (the first two letters were lifted from his first name), Mitel with Terry Matthews. (Mitel stands MIke and TErry's Lawnmowers).
Richard Cox, British horticulturist – Cox's Orange Pippin.
Bettino Craxi, Italian Prime Minister – Craxism.
Seymour Cray, American computerengineer and inventor – Cray Research.
Elliott Cresson, American businessman – Elliott Cresson Medal.
Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt and Alfons Maria Jakob, German physicians – Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.
Burrill Bernard Crohn, American physician – Crohn's disease.
Jim Crow, American theatrical character - Jim Crow law.
Robinson Crusoe, British literary character - Robinsonade, Robinson Crusoe economy.
Johan Cruyff, Dutch association football player – Cruijffiaans.
Cunedda, Welsh king – Gwynedd.
Cupid, Greek-Roman mythological character – Cupid's bow.
Marie and Pierre Curie, French physicists – curie, curium
Pierre Curie, French physicist – Curie point.
Haskell Curry, American mathematician – currying, Curry's paradox, Curry–Howard correspondence.
Mary Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston, British noblewomen - Lady Curzon Soup.^[22]
Harvey Cushing, American physician – Cushing's syndrome.
Saint Cuthbert, Celtic priest ("church of Cuthbert") – Kirkcudbright.
Saint Cyril, Greek missionary – Cyrillic alphabet.

D

Daedalus, Greek mythological character – Daedala
Louis Daguerre, French photographer and inventor – Daguerreotype
Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist – Dahlia
Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz, German businesspeople – DaimlerBenz (later DaimlerChrysler)
Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter – Dalí moustache, Dalíesque.
John Dalton, British physicist and chemist – dalton, non-SI unit of atomic mass, Daltonism.
Tadd Dameron, American jazz musician - Tadd Dameron turnaround.
Pedro Damiano, Portuguese chess player – Damiano Defence
Damocles, Greek mythological character – Sword of Damocles
Daphne, Greek mythological character – Daphne, daphnia.
Henry Darcy, French engineer – darcy, Darcy's law.
Charles Darwin, British biologist – Darwinism, Neural Darwinism, Social Darwinism, Darwinian Happiness, Darwin's theory of evolution, Darwinian selection, Non-darwinian evolution, Darwinian medicine, Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin Mounds, Charles Darwin University, Darwin College, Cambridge, Charles Darwin National Park, Darwin Awards, Darwin's finches, Darwin Island, another Darwin Island, Charles Darwin Research Station, Darwin Bay, Lecocarpus darwinii (a tree species), Charles Darwin Foundation, Darwin's Arch
Adi Dassler, German businessman – adidas
David, biblical character – Star of David, City of David, David's harp
Jean-Baptist David, Belgian activist – Davidsfonds
Arthur Davidson and William Harley, American businesspeople – Harley–Davidson
John Davis, British explorer – Davis quadrant
Humphry Davy, British chemist and inventor – Davy lamp
Richard Dawkins, British scientist and activist – Dawkinsia, Richard Dawkins Award
Gene Day, Canadian comics artist – Howard E. Day Prize
Deborah, biblical character - Deborah Number (dimensionless number in rheology)
Paul de Casteljau, French mathematician – de Casteljau's algorithm
Daniel De Leon, American trade union leader – De Leonism.
Manfred Deix, Austrian cartoonist – Deixfigure (Austrian term for people who look like characters in his cartoons.^[23])
Michael Dell, American businessman – founder of Dell, the computer company
John and Peter Delmonico, Swiss-American restaurant holders – Delmonico steak
Demosthenes, Greek orator – Demosthenic^[24]
Deng Xiaoping, Chinese head of state – Deng Xiaoping Theory.
Arnaud Denjoy, French mathematician – Denjoy integral, Denjoy theorems
Thomas Derrick (c. 1600), British hangman – Derrick (lifting device)
René Descartes, French philosopher – Cartesian coordinate system.
Melvil Dewey, American librarian – Dewey Decimal System
David Deutsch, Israeli-British physicist – Church–Turing–Deutsch principle
Charles Dickens, British novelist – Dickensian^[25]
Saint Didacus, Spanish priest – San Diego
Bo Diddley, American blues/rock and roll singer and guitarist – Bo Diddley beat
Rudolf Diesel, German inventor – diesel engine.
Milovan Đilas, Yugoslav politician Đilasism
Diogenes, Greek philosopher – Diogenes syndrome
Dionysus, Greek mythological character – Dionysia
Paul Dirac, French mathematician – Dirac fermion, Dirac spinor, Dirac equation, Dirac delta function, Dirac sea, Dirac Prize, Fermi–Dirac statistics
Johann Dirichlet, German mathematician – Dirichlet function, Dirichlet's theorem on arithmetic progressions
Walt Disney, American animator and film producer – The Walt Disney Company, Disneyland, Disneyfication, Disneyism^[24]
Edward Divers, British chemist – Divers's solution
François Divisia, French economist – divisia index^[24]
Jeremiah Dixon and Charles Mason, British astronomers – Mason–Dixon Line
Albert Döderlein, German physician – Döderlein's bacilli
John Francis Dodge and Horace Dodge, American businesspeople – Dodge
Dogberry, British theatrical character – dogberryism (synonym for malapropism)
Karl Gottfried Paul Döhle, German pathologist – Döhle bodies
Doily, British draper – doily
Ray Dolby, American inventor – Dolby Stereo, Dolby Surround and Dolby Pro Logic
Domhnall mac Raghnaill, Hebridean magnate – Clann Domhnaill
Don Juan, Spanish theatrical character – don juan (womanizer), Don Juanism.
Don Quixote, Spanish literary character – Don Quixote character, Don Quixote complex, Quixotism
Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist – Doppler radar, Doppler effect
Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American aviator – Douglas Aircraft Company
Charles Dow and Edward Jones, American businesspeople – Dow Jones & Company
Herbert Dow, Canadian-American businessman – Dow Chemical Company
John Langdon Down, English physician – Down syndrome
Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, American literary character – Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen^[26]^[27] and not the comic and cartoon character Popeye the Sailor.
Draco, Greek lawmaker – Draconian laws (very severe or cruel laws.^[28])
Henry Draper, American astronomer – Draper, lunar impact crater
John William Draper, English-American physician, chemist and photographer – Draper point^[29]^[30]
Willem Drees, Dutch Prime Minister – "van drees trekken" (Dutch term for receiving an old age pension financed by the government.^[31])^[32]^[33]
Fritz E. Dreifuss, American physician – Emery–Dreifuss muscular dystrophy
Donald Duck, American cartoon character – Donald Duck voice, Donaldism.
Dubgall mac Somairle, King of the Isles – Clann Dubgaill
Dulcinea, Spanish literary character – a dulcinea (synonym for mistress, sweetheart or an unrequited/platonic love.)^[34]
Dumbo, American cartoon character – Dumbo ears (derogatory term for big ears)
Robin Dunbar, British anthropologist – Dunbar's number
Guillaume Dupuytren, French physician – Dupuytren's contracture, Dupuytren's fracture
August Dvorak, American psychologist – Dvorak Simplified Keyboard
John Duns Scotus, Scottish theologist – Dunce cap

E

Jay Earley, American computer scientist – Earley parser
Echo, Greek mythological character – echo
Thomas Edison, American inventor – Edison effect, Edison Records, Edisonian approach, Edison, Georgia, Edison, New Jersey, Edisonade, Edison screw
Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (younger brother of King George IV and King William IV), commander of British forces in Halifax – Prince Edward Island
Edward VII, British king – Edwardian^[24]
Gustave Eiffel, French architect – Eiffel Tower
Egeria, Roman mythological character – Egeria (female advisor), Egeria (genus)
Albert Einstein, German mathematician and physicist – Einstein refrigerator, einsteinium, Bose–Einstein statistics, Bose–Einstein condensates, Einstein tensor
David Eisenhower, American presidential relative – Camp David
Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and president – Eisenhower Doctrine,^[24] Eisenhower jacket.
Will Eisner, American comics artist – Eisner Award
Electra, Greek mythological character – Electra complex^[24]
Elizabeth I of England, English queen, nicknamed the "Virgin Queen" and "Wingina", a Native American regional king – Virginia, West Virginia, Elizabethan sonnet, Elizabethan era, Elizabethan theatre, Elizabethan architecture, Elizabethan government^[24]
Saint Elmo, Christian martyr – St. Elmo's fire
Arpad Elo, Hungarian chess player – Elo rating system
Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist – eotvos, Lorándite, Eötvös effect, Eötvös number, Eötvös rule
Epicurus, Greek philosopher – epicureanism
Michael Anthony Epstein and Yvonne Barr, British physicians – Epstein–Barr virus
Eratosthenes, Greek mathematician – Sieve of Eratosthenes
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkish president – Erdoğanism.
Lars Magnus Ericsson, Swedish businessman – Ericsson
Ériu, Irish mythological character – Éire
Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician – Erlang, Erlang distribution, Erlang (programming language)
Emil Erlenmeyer, German chemist – Erlenmeyer flask
Eros, Greek mytholotical character – eroticism, erotomania, erotophobia
Euclid, Greek mathematician – Euclidean geometry, Euclidean algorithm, Euclidean vector
Euhemerus, Greek writer – euhemerism
Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician – Euler's formula, Eulerian path, Euler equations; see also: List of topics named after Leonhard Euler^[24]
Europa, Greek mythological character – Europe
Bartolomeo Eustachi, Italian biologist – Eustachian tube
Eutyches, Greek religious leader – eutychian^[24]
William Davies Evans, Welsh-British chess player – Evans Gambit
George Everest, Welsh explorer – Mount Everest
Ewale a Mbedi, Cameroonian king – Duala people, Douala (from a variant of his name, Dwala)
Edward Eyre, British explorer – Lake Eyre, Eyre Peninsula, Eyre Highway, Eyre Creek, Mount Eyre, Eyre Mountains (New Zealand)

F

Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, Roman general – Fabian, Fabian Society,^[24] Fabianism, Fabian strategy
Johannes Fabry, German physician – Fabry disease.
Carl Fabergé, Russian artist – Fabergé egg.
Fagin, British literary character – fagin (criminal who trains young thieves)^[24]
Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist – the Fahrenheit scale
Ernst Falkbeer, Austrian chess player – Falkbeer Countergambit
Gabriele Falloppio, Italian physician – Fallopian tube
Falstaff, British theatrical character – Fallstaffian (being fat, jolly and debauched^[35])
Michael Faraday, British physicist – farad, faraday – cgs unit of current Faraday constant, Faraday effect, Faraday's law of induction, Faraday's law of electrolysis.
Nigel Farage, British politician – Faragism.
Guido Fanconi, Swiss physician – Fanconi syndrome, Fanconi anemia, Fanconi syndrome.
Fatima, daughter of the prophet Muhammad – Fatimid^[24]
Fauna, Roman mythological character – fauna.
Faust, German folklore character – Faustian, Faustian deal (a situation in which an ambitious person surrenders moral integrity in order to achieve power and success for a delimited term^[36]^[37])
Guy Fawkes, British criminal – guy^[25]
Februus, Etruskian-Roman mythological character – February
Federico Fellini, Italian film director – Fellinesque, Fellinian^[38]
Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician – Fermat's Last Theorem, Fermat's little theorem, Fermat's principle, Fermat's factorization method.
Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist – fermions, Fermi energy, Fermilab, Fermi paradox, fermium – chemical element, Fermi–Dirac statistics. fermi (obsolete name for femtometre)
Enzo Ferrari, Italian businessman – Ferrari.
George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., American inventor – Ferris wheel
Richard Feynman, American physicist – Feynman diagram.
Fiacre, Irish missionary – Fiacre.
Fib of the Picts, one of the seven sons of Cruthin – Fife
Leonardo Fibonacci, Italian mathematician – Fibonacci Numbers.
Figaro, French theatrical character – figaro (a hairdresser and/or a cunning servant), figaro chain, Figaro.
Bill Finger, American comics writer – Bill Finger Award
Bobby Fischer, American chess player – Fischer Defense
Robert Fisk, British journalist – Fisking.
Horace Fletcher, American diet guru – Fletcher technique, Fletcherizing (masticate repeatedly before swallowing nutrition).
Matthew Flinders, British explorer – Flinders Bay, Flinders Chase National Park, Flinders Island, Flinders Park, South Australia, Flinders Ranges, Flinders River, Flinders Street Station, Flinders University, Flinders, Victoria (Australia), Flinders bar, Flindersia
Flora, Roman mythological character – flora, flower.
Pietro Paolo Floriani, Italian architect – Floriana, Floriana Lines
Vladimir Fock, Russian physicist – Fock space, Fock state, Hartree-Fock method.
Marie Angélique de Scorailles, Duchess of Fontanges, French courtesan – fontange (a type of haircut).
B.C. Forbes, Scottish-American journalist – Forbes magazine
Henry Ford, American businessman – Ford Motor Company
Matthias N. Forney, American inventor – Forney locomotive
William Forsyth, Scottish botanist – Forsythia
Charles Fort, American writer – Forteana, Fortean Society, Fortean Times.
Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician – Fortuynism.
Dick Fosbury, American athlete – Fosbury flop.
Charles Fourier, French philosopher – Fourierism.
Charles James Fox, British politician – Foxite.
William Fox, American film producer – 20th Century Fox
Francis of Assisi, French religious founder – San Francisco.
Francisco Franco, Spanish general and president – Francoism.
Frankenstein's Monster, British literary character – Frankenstein (a monstrous creation that ruins its creator^[39]), Frankensteinian, frankenfood, Frankenstrat.
Francis Joseph of Austria-Hungary, Austrian-Hungarian emperor – Franz Josef Land
Benjamin Franklin, American inventor – Franklin stove, franklin.
Célestin Freinet, French pedagogue – Freinet education, Freinet classification.
Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychologist – Freudian, Freudian slip,^[24] Freudian psychology, Freudo-Marxism, Neo-Freudianism.
William Russell Frisbie, American inventor – frisbee.
Friedrich Fröbel, German pedagogue – Fröbel school^[24]
Fu Manchu, British literary character - Fu Manchu moustache
Guido Fubini, Italian mathematician – Fubini's theorem
Leonhart Fuchs, German botanist – Fuchsia.
Elmer Fudd, American cartoon character - Elmer Fudd syndrome.
Alberto Fujimori, Peruvian president – Fujimorism.
Tetsuya "Ted" Fujita, Japanese meteorologist – Fujita scale.
J. William Fulbright, American politician – Fulbright scholarship.
Buckminster Fuller, American inventor – Fullerene.

G

Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist and geologist – gadolinite, the mineral after which the chemical element gadolinium has been named
Thomas Gage, British botanist – greengage
Gaget, French businessman – Gaget, Gauthier & Cie, gadget.
Hugh Gaitskell, British politician – Gaitskellism.
Uziel Gal, Israeli inventor – the Uzi submachine gun.
Galen, Greek physician – galenical.
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer – galileo or gal, unit of acceleration.
Rory Gallagher, Irish pop musician – Gallagher shirt.
Israel Galili, Israeli politician – the Galil assault rifle
George Gallup, American businessman – Gallup poll
Luigi Galvani, Italian physician – galvanization
James Gamble and William Procter – Procter & Gamble
Sarah Gamp, British literary character – gamp^[21]
Mahatma Gandhi, Indian activist – Gandhism, Gandhian socialism, Gandhian economics, Gandhi cap.
Henry Laurence Gantt, American engineer – Gantt chart
John Garand, Canadian-American inventor – M1 Garand rifle
Alexander Garden, Scottish botanist – after whom the gardenia was named.
Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian politician – Garibaldi biscuits, Italian aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi, Garibaldi shirt, Garibaldi fish^[25]
Gargantua, French literary character – "gargantuan" (colossal, gigantic^[40]), Gargantua (solitaire)
Gideon Gartner, American businessman – Gartner
Hermann Treschow Gartner, Danish surgeon and anatomist – Gartner's duct
Marcus Garvey, Jamaican activist – Garveyism
Martin Garzez, Maltese knight – Garzes Tower
Richard J. Gatling, American inventor – Gatling gun^[25]
Charles de Gaulle, French general and president – Charles de Gaulle Airport, Gaullism.
Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician – gauss – unit of magnetic induction, Gauss' law; see also: List of topics named after Carl Friedrich Gauss.^[25]
Enola Gay Tibbets, mother of Paul Tibbets, American pilot – Enola Gay
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Jacques Charles, French physicists and chemists – Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac
Lou Gehrig, American baseball player – Lou Gehrig's disease
Hans Geiger, German inventor – Geiger counter, Geiger–Müller tube^[25]
Genius, Greek mythological character – genius, genie.
Gentius, Illyrian king – gentian
George I, English king – Georgia (U.S. state)
George V, English king – King George Street, King George Street, King George V Dock
George VI, English king – George Cross, George Medal
Saint George, Christian saint – Order of Saint George, Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Saint George's Cross, Georgia, Saint George's, Grenada, and numerous other localities, churches and cathedrals
Sophie Germain, French mathematician – Sophie Germain prime
Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourgian-American publisher, inventor and writer – Hugo Award .^[41]^[42]
Elbridge Gerry, American politician – gerrymandering^[25]
Domingo Ghirardelli, American businessman – Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
Josiah Willard Gibbs, American chemist, mathematician and physicist – Gibbs free energy, Gibbs phenomenon.
Gideon, Biblical character – a "gideon".
The Gigantes, Greek mythological characters – giant, gigantic.
Saint Gilbert, English saint – Gilbertine^[24]
Augustin Nicolas Gilbert, French physician – Gilbert's syndrome.
Thomas Gilbert, British sea captain – Kiribati.
William S. Gilbert, British playwright – Gilbertian.
Lillian Gilbreth, American Motion Studies expert - Therblig unit of movement (surname backwards more or less)
King Camp Gillette, American inventor and businessman – Gillette
Charles William Gilpin, American businessman – Gilpin Airlines
Terry Gilliam, American animator and film director – Gilliamesque.^[43]
William Gladstone, British Prime Minister – Gladstone bag,^[25] Gladstonian liberalism.
John Glas, Scottish religious leader – Glasite^[24]
Johann Rudolf Glauber, German-Dutch chemist - Glauber's salt.
Gaston Glock, Austrian businessman and inventor – GLOCK GmbH and its best-known product, the Glock pistol
Jehan Gobelin, French tapestry weaver – gobelin.
Kurt Gödel, Austrian-American mathematician – Gödel's incompleteness theorem, Gödel's ontological proof
Godred Crovan, King of Dublin and the Isles – Crovan dynasty
Mike Godwin, American writer – Godwin's law.
Godzilla, Japanese film monster – Godzilla roar (a soundbite which originated in the movies, but has become a recognizable stock sound effect on its own).
Lamme Goedzak, Belgian literary character – "lamme goedzak" (Dutch expression to describe a "good, loveable, but naïve person, prone to being taken advantage of."^[44] The term is also used for obese, jolly people who enjoying eating and drinking.)
Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Polish physicist – Goeppert-Mayer (GM) unit for the cross section of two-photon absorption.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, playwright, writer and scientist – Goethian, Goethite.
Marcel J.E. Golay, Swiss mathematician – Binary Golay code, Savitzky-Golay filter.
Rube Goldberg, American comics artist and cartoonist – Reuben Award, Rube Goldberg machine
Samuel Goldwyn, American film producer – Goldwyn Picture Corporation, later merged into Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer Inc. (or MGM), Goldwynism^[25]
Goliath, Biblical character – "goliath",^[25] Goliath frog, Goliath birdeater, Goliath shrew.
Golliwog, American literary character – golliwog, golliwog doll.
Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologist – gomarism.
Luis de Góngora y Argote, Spanish poet – Gongorism.
Goofy, American cartoon character – Goofy holler
Gordias, Greek mythological king – Gordian knot.
Alexander Gordon, Scottish nobleman – Gordon setter.
Wilbert Gore, American businessman – Gore-Tex.
The Gorgons, Greek mythological characters – gorgonopsia, gorgonacea, gorgoneion.
Johannes Goropius Becanus, Dutch philosopher and physician - goropism
Klement Gottwald, Czechoslovak politician – Zlín, a city in Moravia, the Czech Republic, was renamed Gottwaldov during 1949–1990.
Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician – Graafian follicle.
Thomas Gradgrind, British literary character – gradgrind^[21]
Ernst Gräfenberg, German physician – Gräfenberg spot (G-spot)
Sylvester Graham, American inventor – Graham crackers, Graham flour, Graham bread.
Thomas Graham, Scottish chemist – Graham's Law.
James Granger, British writer – grangerise
Robert James Graves, Irish surgeon – Graves–Basedow disease
Louis Harold Gray, British physicist – gray, unit of absorbed dose of radiation
Gregory I, Italian pope – Gregorian music
Gregory XIII, Italian pope – Gregorian calendar^[25]
Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, British politician – Grenvillite.
Thomas Gresham, English merchant – Gresham's Law^[25]
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, German folklorists, storytellers and linguist – Grimm's law, Grimmification.
Henri Grob, Swiss chess player – Grob's Attack
Ernst Grünfeld, Austrian chess player – Grünfeld Defence
Vicente Guerrero, Mexican general – Guerrero
Ché Guevara, Argentine revolutionary leader – Guevarism.
Georges Guillain, French physician – Guillain–Barré syndrome
Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin, French inventor – guillotine^[24]
Henry C. Gunning, Canadian geologist – gunningite
Robert John Lechmere Guppy, British biologist – guppy or guppie^[25]
Louis Guttman, American psychologist and mathematician – Guttman scale.

H

Fritz Haber, German chemist – Nobel Prize for Haber process, the "most important invention of the 20th century" according to Nature,^[45] causing crop yields to support the global population increase from 1.6 billion in 1900 to today's 7 billion.^[46] Nearly 80% of the nitrogen found in human tissues today originated from the Haber process.^[47]
Hadrian, Roman emperor – Hadrian's Wall and Hadrian's Wall Path
Amber Hagerman, American kidnapping and murder victim – AMBER Alert
Otto Hahn, German physicist – hahnium, chemical element. This element name is not accepted by IUPAC. (See element naming controversy)
Edwin Hall, American physicist – Hall effect
Monty Hall, Canadian TV presenter – Monty Hall problem
Edmond Halley, British astronomer – Halley's Comet
Hugh Halligan, American police officer – Halligan bar
Alexander Hamilton, American politician – Hamiltonianism^[24]
Laurens Hammond, American inventor – Hammond organ
Hamo, a 6th-century Saxon settler and landowner – Hampshire
John Hancock, American politician– Since he signed the American Declaration of Independence his name became an eponym for "signature" in the U.S.A.
Elliot Handler and Harold "Matt" Matson, American businesspeople – Mattel
William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, American animators – Hanna-Barbera
Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Norwegian physician – Hansen's disease
Joseph Aloysius Hansom, British inventor – Hansom cab^[25]
Fletcher Harper, American publisher - Harper's Weekly.
Rodney Harrington, British literary and TV character – Harrington jacket.^[48]
Charles Henry Harrod, British businessman – Harrods
William Harley and Arthur Davidson, American businesspeople – Harley-Davidson
Alexis Hartmann, American paediatrician – Hartmann's solution
Douglas Hartree, British mathematician – Hartree energy, Hartree equation, Hartree–Fock method
Gerry Harvey and Ian Norman, Australian businesspeople – Harvey Norman
Hashimoto Hakaru, Japanese physician – Hashimoto's thyroiditis
Hassan-i-Sabah Persian religious leader – Hashshashin, assassin from hassansin (this etymology is disputed)
Victor Hasselblad, Swedish photographer – Hasselblad, medium format photographic camera system
Hawaii-loa, Polynesian chief who first led settlers to Hawaii – Hawaii
Stephen Hawking, British astronomer and mathematician – Hawking radiation
Paul Hawkins, British mathematician – Hawk-Eye tracking system used in cricket and other sports.
Sadie Hawkins, American comics character – Sadie Hawkins dance, Sadie Hawkins Day
Frank Hawthorne, Canadian mineralogist – Frankhawthorneite
Haxtur, Spanish comics character – Haxtur Award
Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist – Hayekian economics^[24]
Leonard Hayflick, American anatomist – Hayflick limit.
Will H. Hays, American film censor – Hays Code^[24]
Oliver Heaviside, British physicist, and Arthur Edwin Kennelly, American physicist– Kennelly–Heaviside layer
Henry Heimlich, American physician – Heimlich Maneuver
Gerard Adriaan Heineken, Dutch beer brewer – Heineken
Jimi Hendrix, American rock singer and guitarist – Hendrix riff
John Henry, American folkloric character – John Henryism
Joseph Henry, American physicist – henry, unit of inductance^[25]
William Henry, British chemist – Henry's law
James Curtis Hepburn, American translator – Hepburn romanization
Herblock, American newspaper cartoonist – Herblock Prize
Hercules, Greek mythological character – Herculean task^[25]
Hergé, Belgian comics artist – "Hergéan" (comics in Hergé's graphic style, usually meaning the ligne claire).
Milton S. Hershey, American businessman – Hershey Company
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist – hertz, unit of frequency
Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish astronomer, and Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer – Hertzsprung–Russell diagram
William Hewlett and David Packard, American businesspeople – Hewlett-Packard
Edward C. Heyde, American physician – Heyde's syndrome
Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican priest and activist – Hidalgo
David Hilbert, German mathematician and physicist – Hilbert's program
Eugen von Hippel, German physician, and Arvid Lindau, Swedish physician – Von Hippel–Lindau disease
Hippocrates, Greek physician – Hippocratic Oath^[25]
Harald Hirschsprung, Danish physician – Hirschsprung's disease.
Alfred Hitchcock, British film director – Hitchcockian suspense, Hitchcock cameos (often used to refer to any cameo by a creator in his own work).
Adolf Hitler, Austrian-German dictator – Hitlerite, Hitler salute, Hitler moustache, Hitlerjugend, Hitlerism
Paul von Hindenburg, German general and politician – Hindenburg airship
Thomas Hobson, British stable manager and carrier– Hobson's choice
Thomas Hodgkin, British physician – Hodgkin's disease, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
William Hogarth, British painter, illustrator and cartoonist – Hogarthian^[49]
Sherlock Holmes, British literary character – a "sherlock" (anyone who solves a mystery or a difficult problem. Sometimes also used in a sarcastic context, when something obvious has been pointed out.),^[50]^[51] Sherlockian game, a Sherlock Holmes hat (nickname for a deerstalker).
Soichiro Honda, Japanese businessman – Honda
Mark Honeywell, American businessman – Honeywell
Robin Hood, English folk hero – Robin Hood effect, Robin Hood Foundation, Robin Hood Flour, Robin Hood Hills, Robin Hood hat, Robin Hood index, Robin Hood Gardens, Robin Hood plan, Robin Hood tax, Robin Hood test, Robin Hood character (someone who steals money to give it to the poor or a criminal who becomes a folk hero)
Robert Hooke, British physicist – Hooke's law
William Henry Hoover, American business man – The Hoover Company; in British English, the verb "hoover" means "to vacuum a floor" while the noun is the vacuum cleaner. The word "hoover" has also come to mean anything that is sucked up at a great rate ("They hoovered their way through the banquet").
August Horch, German businessman – Horch and Audi carmakers (audi is Latin for I listen; horch has the same meaning in old German)
Leslie Hore-Belisha, British politician – Belisha beacon
James Horlick and William Horlick, British-American business people – Horlicks
Shemp Howard, American actor and comedian – Fake Shemp.
William Howe, American architect and engineer – Howe truss bridges
Enver Hoxha, Albanian president – Hoxhaism.
Hroc, an ancient landowner ("Hroc's fortress" + shire) – Roxburghshire
Henry Hudson, British explorer – Hudson Bay, Hudson River, Hudson Strait
Howard Hughes, American aviator and businessman – Hughes Aircraft company, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Hughes Airwest airlines, Hughes Glomar Explorer ship
Howard R. Hughes Sr., American businessman – Hughes Tool Company, Baker Hughes company
Alexander von Humboldt, German explorer – Humboldt Bay, Humboldt Current, Humboldt Falls, Humboldt Glacier, Humboldt lily, Humboldt Peak, Humboldt penguin, Humboldt Range, Humboldt River, Humboldt Sink, Humboldt squid, Pico Humboldt, Humboldt University of Berlin, Humboldt State University, Humboldtian science, Humboldt's hog-nosed skunk
Gustáv Husák, Czechoslovakian president – Husakism, Husák's Children.
John Huss (Template:Lang-cs), Czech priest – Hussites, Czechoslovak Hussite Church

I

Icarus, Greek mythological character – Icarus paradox
Ignatz Mouse – American comics character – Ignatz Award
Max Immelmann, German aviator – Immelmann turn, Immelmann loop
Iris, Greek mythological character – Iris (anatomy)
Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, French-American businessman – DuPont
Italus, Roman/Greek mythological character – Italy

J

Andrew Jackson, American president - Jacksonian democracy.
Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor – Jacquard loom.
Jacob (also known as Israel), Biblical character – Israel, Jacob's ladder (electricity), Jacob's ladder (knife), Jacob's ladder (manifold), Jacob's ladder (nautical), Jacob's Ladder (ropes course), Jacob's ladder (toy), Jacob's Ladder (piercing).
Candido Jacuzzi, Italian inventor – jacuzzi.
Gustav Jäger, German naturalist - Jaeger.
Maharajah Jai Singh, Indian maharajah – Jaipur.
Alfons Maria Jakob and Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, German physicians – Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
Saint James, Christian martyr – Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Chile, Jacobin, in several languages (like French, German and Dutch) the word scallop is referred to as a "mussel/clam/shell/cockle of St. James".
Thomas James, British-Welsh explorer – James Bay.
James, Duke of York, English king – New York City, New York State.
Cornelius Jansen, Flemish-Dutch theologian - Jansenism.
Karl Jansky, American astronomer – jansky, unit of flux density.
Janus, Roman mythological character - January.
Robert Jarvik, American inventor – Jarvik artificial heart.
Thomas Jefferson, American president – Jeffersonian, relating to Thomas Jefferson; more specifically, Jeffersonian architecture, Jeffersonian democracy; also, Jefferson Bible.
Jehovah , Biblical character - Jehovah's Witnesses.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, British literary character - a "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" personality is used to describe a split personality.^[52]
Jeremiah, Biblical prophet – jeremiad.
Jeroboam, -Israelian king – Jeroboam wine bottle.
Jessica Lunsford, American rape and murder victim – Jessica's Law.
Jiggs, American comics character - Jiggs dinner.
Job, Biblical character - Job's news (very bad news).
John of Austria, Austrian field marshal - Johannite.
John the Baptist, Biblical character – Order of Saint John, San Ġwann.
Tommy John, American baseball player – Tommy John surgery.
Jonah, Biblical character - a Jonah (a sailor who brings bad luck),^[53] the Turkish word yunus baligi (Jonas fish) is used to describe dolphins.,^[54] the Dutch verb jonassen refers to throwing somebody by his arms and legs.^[55]
The Joneses, American comics characters from Arthur R. "Pop" Momand's comic strip Keeping up with the Joneses – The idiom keeping up with the Joneses.
Barry Jones, Australian activist and politician – Barry Jones Bay, Yalkaparidon jonesi.
Edward Jones and Charles Dow, American businesspeople – Dow Jones & Company.
Joseph II, Austrian-Hungarian emperor – Josephinism.
Brian David Josephson, Welsh physicist – Josephson junction, Josephson effect.
James Prescott Joule, British physicist – joule.
Judah, Biblical character (Hebrew: יהודה, Yehuda) – Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C., Kingdom of Judah.
Judas Iscariot, Biblical character – Judas.
Julius of Caerleon, Christian martyr – St Julians, Newport.
Julian the Hospitaller, Christian martyr – St. Julian's, St. Julian's Tower, various locations named "San Julián".
Jumbo, American circus elephant - the word "jumbo" is used to describe huge things.
Juno, Roman mythological character - June.
Jupiter, Roman mythological character - jovial, jovian, Jovian system.
Justinian I, Byzantine king – Codex Justinianus.

K

János Kádár, Hungarian president - Kadarism.
Franz Kafka, Czech-German author – Kafkaesque
Meir Kahane, American-Israeli activist – Kahanism.
Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian gun inventor – the Avtomat Kalashnikova series of weapons, including the AK-47, the Kalashnikov Handheld Machine Gun or Ruchnoi Pulemet Kalashnikova obraztsa 1974 g (RPK-74)
Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish businessman – the first two letters of IKEA.
Victor Kandinsky, Russian physician – Kandinsky–Clérambault syndrome
Gaetano Kanizsa, Italian psychologist – Kanizsa triangle
Megan Kanka, American rape and murder victim – Megan's Law
Moritz Kaposi, Hungarian dermatologist – Kaposi's sarcoma
D. R. Kaprekar, Indian mathematician – Kaprekar constant, Kaprekar number
Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer – Kapteyn's Star
Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian mathematician – Kármán line, von Kármán constant, von Kármán ogive, Kármán vortex street
Anna Karenina, Russian literary character – Anna Karenina principle
Tadao Kashio, Japanese businessman – Casio
Yevgeny Kaspersky, Russian computer scienist and businessman – Kaspersky Lab, Kaspersky Anti-Virus.
Túpac Katari, Bolivian resistance leader - Katarismo
Shozo Kawasaki, Japanese businessman – Kawasaki Heavy Industries
Tomisaku Kawasaki, Japanese physician – Kawasaki disease
Grace Kelly, American actress – Kelly bag
Lord Kelvin, Irish-British phycist – kelvin (unit of thermodynamic temperature)
John F. Kennedy, American president – John F. Kennedy International Airport, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Kennedy Center Honors, John F. Kennedy University, Kennedy Doctrine
Arthur E. Kennelly, American physicist, and Oliver Heaviside, British physicist – Kennelly–Heaviside layer
Johannes Kepler, German astronomer – Kepler's laws of planetary motion, Kepler conjecture
Paul Keres, Estonian chess player – Keres Defence
Brian Kernighan, Canadian computer scientist – the third letter of the name AWK, a computer pattern/action language, is taken from his last name.
John Kerr, Scottish physicist – Kerr effect
John Maynard Keynes, British economist – Keynesian economics
Nikita Khrushchev, Russian head of state – Khrushchevism, Khrushchev dough, Khrushchyovka
Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician – Killing vector field.
Petrus Jacobus Kipp, Dutch chemist - Kipp apparatus.
Jack Kirby, American comics artist - Kirby dots.^[56]
Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist – Kirchhoff's Laws
Néstor Kirchner, Argentine president – Kirchnerism.
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, British general - Kitchener bun.
Lawrence Klein, American curator – Klein Award.
Sebastian Kneipp, German priest - Kneipp cure.
Diedrich Knickerbocker, American literary character – knickerbockers^[57]
Donald Knuth, American computer scientist – Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm
Ed Koch, American politician – Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge
Robert Koch, German physician – Koch's postulates.
Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian musicologist - Köchel catalogue, K-numbers.
Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer – Kodály method.
Simon bar Kokhba, Jewish resistance leader – Bar Kokhba game (Hungarian game)^[58]
Alexander Konstantinopolsky, Ukrainian-Russian chess player – Konstantinopolsky Opening
Abraham Isaac Kook, Russian rabbi – Mossad Harav Kook
Wladimir Köppen, Russian-German meteorologist – Köppen climate classification
Sergei Korsakoff, Russian psychologist – Korsakoff's syndrome
Aharon Kotler, Belarussian rabbi – Ramat Aharon.
Alfried Krupp, German businessman – Krupp, now ThyssenKrupp.
Gerard Kuiper, Dutch astronomer – Kuiper belt.
August Kundt, German physicist – Kundt's tube.
Harvey Kurtzman, American comics artist – Harvey Award
Kyi, Kievan legendary founder – Kiev

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