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 – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I J – K – L–Z

A

• Shinzo 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
• 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 (plant), 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
• Agatha of Sicily, Italian Christian martyr – St. Agatha's Tower
• Agrippina the Younger, Roman empress – Cologne, Germany (formerly Colonia Agrippina)
• 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
• 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
• 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]
• 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 (genus), 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
• 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 – The 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 (moth), Aristotle Mountains, Aristotle's wheel paradox, Aristotle's theory of universals, Pseudo-Aristotle.
• Jacobus Arminius, Dutch theologian – Arminianism
• William George Armstrong, British inventor and business man – Armstrong breech-loading gun.
• José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan revolutionary leader - Artiguism.
• Asclepius, Greek mythological character – rod of Asclepius, therapeutae of Asclepius
• Hans Asperger, Austrian psychologist – Asperger syndrome
• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkish president – Kemalism (also known as Atatürkism).
• Robert Atkins, American nutriotinist – Atkins Diet
• Atlas, Greek mythological character – atlas, Atlas (anatomy), atlas (architecture), Atlas (crater), Atlas (moon), Atlas (star), Atlas bear, Atlas beetle, Atlas cedar, Atlas pied flycatcher, Atlas moth, Atlas turtle
• Athena, Greek goddess – The Greek city Athens, atheneum (school), Athens (typeface), Athene (owl)
• Atthis, Greek mythological character – Atthis (bird), Attica (region) ^[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 – Augeas 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 (programming language).
• 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's
• Leo Baekeland, Belgian inventor – Bakelite
• William Baffin, British explorer – Baffin Bay, Baffin Island, William Baffin Rose
• Bahá'u'lláh, Persian religious leader – Bahá'i 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 (set theory), Property of Baire
• Italo Balbo, Italian aviator and politician – Balbo, Seventh Street Balbo Drive (street in Chicago, Illinois) ^[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
• 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, Banksia genus
• 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 Productions
• 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, Wallachian king – Bessarabia
• Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer – Bartok pizzicato
• Karl Adolph von Basedow, German physician – Graves–Basedow disease
• John Baskerville, British typographer – Baskerville (typeface)
• George Bass, British explorer – Bass Strait
• Tomas Bata, 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
• Emile 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
• Francis Beaufort, French captain – Beaufort scale.
• Heinrich Beck, German businessman – Beck's beer, Beck's Futures art prize
• John Bruce Beckwith, American physician – Syndrome of Beckwith-Wiedemann
• Louis de Béchamel, a courtier of Louis XIV – Béchamel sauce
• Warren A. Bechtel, American businessman – Bechtel Corporation
• 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
• 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 (Jerusalem), 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 Grammophone
• Maximilian Berlitz, German-American businessman – Berlitz Language Schools
• Juan de Bermudez, Spanish explorer – Bermuda
• Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch mathematician – Bernoulli's principle
• Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Russian mathematician – Bernstein polynomial, Bernstein algebra, Bernstein's inequality (mathematical analysis), Bernstein inequalities in probability theory, Bernstein polynomial, Bernstein's problem, Bernstein's theorem (approximation theory), 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, Bezier 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
• Laszlo Biro, 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
• Felix Bloch, Swiss-American physician – Bloch wall, Bloch's Theorem, Bloch Function, Bloch sphere
• 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 E. 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
• Freerk Klaaseszoon Bokma, Dutch businessman – Bokma
• Simón Bolívar, Bolivian general and president – Bolivia, Bolívar Department, Colombia, various cities and tows named Bolívar en Venezuela and Colombia, Venezuelan bolívar, Bolívar (cigar brand), 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 (pastry), Napoleon points, Napoleonka.
• George Alan Bond, American-Australian business man – Bonds (clothing).
• 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 – Borodin reaction
• Karel Havlíček Borovský, Czech novelist – Havlíčkův Brod
• Giuseppe Borsalino, Italian businessman – Borsalino
• B J T Bosanquet, British cricketer – bosie, the Australian term for the cricket technique googly
• 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 – Bott's dot, 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 & 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 Cunningham Boycott, Irish politician – boycott.
• Robert Boyle, Irish chemist – Boyle's Law.
• 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 (watch)
• Louis Charles Breguet, French aviator – Breguet Aviation, Breguet 14, Breguet's range equation
• Jacques Brel, Belgian singer – Brelian crescendo ^[16]
• 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 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.),^[17] Bruegel (institution) , 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
• 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 Wilhelm Bunsen, German inventor – Bunsen burner
• Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician – Bunyakovsky conjecture
• Jean Buridan, French composer – Buridan's donkey
• 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 Caesarian section; the two are likely unrelated, however.
• 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.
• 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 (company).
• 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
• Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and diarist – casanova (a womanizer).
• 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
• Hendrik Casimir, Dutch physicist – Casimir effect.
• Cassandra, Greek mythological character - Cassandra (metaphor).
• 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, Danish 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 - Chavism.
• 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 (genus). 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 (the festivity itself was pagan in origin. Christ's name was added to it later), 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, Ohio (indirectly)
• Cinderella, European fairy tale character – Cinderella (sports), 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, Ohio
• 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 effect.
• 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 Coriolis, French mathematician – Coriolis effect
• Nicolas Cotoner, Maltese prince – Cottonera Lines
• Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist – coulomb, Coulomb's law
• Thomas George Cowling, British mathematician and astronomer - Cowling model.
• William Cowper, British anatomist - Cowper's gland.
• Michael Cowpland, British ondernemer – 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.
• Johan Cruijff, 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.
• Harvey Cushing, American physician – Cushing Disease, Cushing's Syndrome
• Saint Cuthbert, Celtic priest ("church of Cuthbert") – Kirkcudbright
• Saint Cyril, Greek missonary – 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 ^[22]
• John Dalton, British physicist and chemist – dalton, non-SI unit of atomic mass, Daltonism
• Pedro Damiano, Portuguese chess player – Damiano Defence
• Damocles, Greek mythological character – Sword of Damocles
• Daphne, Greek mythological character – Daphne (plant)
• 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 king – 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
• 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 – the 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]
• Jeremiah Dixon and Charles Mason, British astronomers – Mason–Dixon Line
• François Divisia, French economist – divisia index ^[24]
• 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 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 (crater), 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
• 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
• 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, Ëotvös number, Ëotvös number
• 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
• Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician – Erlang (unit), 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

• Fabius Maximus, 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 phyician – 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 (carriage).
• 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 (genus).
• 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 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]
• Guido Fubini, Italian mathematician – Fubini's theorem
• Leonhart Fuchs, German botanist – Fuchsia
• 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 (Jerusalem), King George Street (Tel Aviv), 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 (country), 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.
• 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]
• 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).
• Rube Goldberg, American comics artist and cartoonist – Reuben Award
• 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.
• 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 characers – gorgonopsia, gorgonacea, gorgoneion.
• 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 Productions
• Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Norwegian physician – Hansen's disease
• Joseph Aloysius Hansom, British inventor – Hansom cab ^[25]
• 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
• 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 (Czech: Jan Hus), Czech priest – Hussite, 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)
• Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, French-American businessman – DuPont

J

• Andrew Jackson, American president Jacksonian democracy.
• Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor – Jacquard loom
• Jacob (also known as Israel), Biblical character – Israel
• Candido Jacuzzi, Italian inventor – jacuzzi
• 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
• Thomas James, British-Welsh explorer – James Bay
• James, Duke of York, English king – New York, New York State
• Karl Jansky, American astronomer – jansky, unit of flux density
• 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
• Jeremiah, Biblical prophet – jeremiad
• Jeroboam, -Israelian king – Jeroboam wine bottle
• Jessica Lunsford, American rape and murder victim – Jessica's Law
• John the Baptist, Biblical character – Order of Saint John, San Ġwann
• Tommy John, American baseball player – Tommy John surgery
• 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".
• Justinian I, Byzantine king – Codex Justinianus

K

• 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 – Karman line, von Kármán constant, von Kármán ogive, von 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
• 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 Edwin 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 W. 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
• Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist – Kirchhoff's Laws
• Néstor Kirchner, Argentine president - Kirchnerism.
• Lawrence Klein, American curator – Klein Award
• Diedrich Knickerbocker, American literary character – knickerbockers ^[52]
• Donald Knuth, American computer scientist – Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm
• Ed Koch, American politician – Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge
• Robert Koch, German physician – Koch's postulates
• Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer – Kodály method
• Simon bar Kokhba, Jewish resistance leader – Bar Kokhba game (Hungarian game) ^[53]
• Alexander Konstantinopolsky, Ukrainian-Russian chess player – Konstantinopolsky Opening
• Abraham Isaac Kook, Russian rabbi – Mossad Harav Kook
• Wladimir Peter 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

L–Z

See List of eponyms (L–Z)

See also

• Lists of etymologies
• List of eponymous adjectives in English
• List of eponymous laws
• List of places named after people
• List of people
• List of toponyms

Sources